Posts Tagged ‘Parallel Computing’

Intel’s Upcoming Larrabee Project

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Intel announced on Monday about their forthcoming Larrabee architecture which is going to be the foundation for their future Intel “many-core” graphics processors. This will be a major shift from their Pentium Pro based architecture model. They will present the model at the upcomg SIGGRAPH 2008 conference.

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A Close Look at IBM’s New Supercomputer, Roadrunner

Monday, June 9th, 2008

A Supercomputer, Roadrunner built specifically to crunch military data has been unveiled by IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory boffins. It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said the new computer will also be used to help solve global energy problems and “open new windows of knowledge” in basic research.

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