Terascale Computing
In computing, terascale may refer to * Intel Tera-Scale * AMD TeraScale (microarchitecture) See also petascale computing Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least 1015 floating point operations per second (1 petaFLOPS). Petascale computing allowed faster processing of traditional supercomputer applications. The first system to ...

Intel Tera-Scale
Intel Tera-Scale is a research program by Intel that focuses on development in Intel processors and platforms that utilize the inherent parallelism of emerging visual-computing applications. Such applications require teraFLOPS of parallel computing performance to process terabytes of data quickly. Parallelism is the concept of performing multiple tasks simultaneously. Utilizing parallelism will not only increase the efficiency of computer processing units (CPUs), but also increase the bytes of data analyzed each second. In order to appropriately apply parallelism, the CPU must be able to handle multiple threads and to do so the CPU must consist of multiple cores. The conventional amount of cores in consumer grade computers are 2–8 cores while workstation grade computers can have even greater amounts. However, even the current amount of cores aren't great enough to perform at teraFLOPS performance leading to an even greater amount of cores that must be added. As a result of the pro ...
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TeraScale (microarchitecture)
TeraScale is the codename for a family of graphics processing unit microarchitectures developed by ATI Technologies/Advanced Micro Devices, AMD and their second microarchitecture implementing the unified shader model following ''Xenos (graphics chip), Xenos''. TeraScale replaced the old Pipeline (computing), fixed-pipeline microarchitectures and competed directly with Nvidia's first unified shader microarchitecture named Tesla (microarchitecture), Tesla. TeraScale was used in Radeon HD 2000 series, HD 2000 manufactured in 80 nm and 65 nm process, 65 nm, Radeon HD 3000 series, HD 3000 manufactured in 65 nm and 55 nm, Radeon HD 4000 series, HD 4000 manufactured in 55 nm and 40 nm, Radeon HD 5000 series, HD 5000 and Radeon HD 6000 series, HD 6000 manufactured in 40 nm. TeraScale was also used in the AMD Accelerated Processing Units code-named "Brazos", "Llano", "Trinity" and "Richland". TeraScale is even found in some of the succeeding graphics card ...
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