As of December 4th (yesterday), the first Larrabee chip’s retail release has been canceled. This means that Intel will not be releasing a Larrabee video card or a Larrabee HPC/GPGPU compute part.
The Larrabee project itself has not been canceled however, and Intel is still hard at work developing their first entirely in-house discrete GPU. The [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
At AMD’s Financial Analyst Day on November 11, the company laid out its 2010-2011 product roadmap across all its markets. This year the company focused a lot more on its client-side products, with quite a bit of emphasis devoted to its CPU-GPU “Fusion” chip strategy (which I’ll get to in a [...]

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IBM has confirmed the end of the road for its Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor, the hybrid multicore processor used in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console — and little else. David Turek, IBM’s vice president of deep computing, said in an interview with the German site Heise Online that the current PowerXCell-8i processor will be the [...]

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Imagination Technologies Group plc has announced a forthcoming series of embedded processors under the name “Meta Connected Processor” intended to support Internet-connectivity in low-cost consumer products.
The family of cores will combine versions of Imagination’s 32-bit Meta multithreaded processor and Ensigma programmable communications technologies. The combination is already used in consumer broadcast applications, thereby combining the [...]

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Intel’s six-core Gulftown processors got delayed to second quarter of 2010 and was tested by Polish site PC Lab. This six-core Intel Gulftown processor is from the 32nm Westmere family flagship with 12MB shared L3 cache and compatible with Intel Socket LGA1366 based motherboards. As per the tests, this multi-core Gulftown chip showed 50 percent [...]

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The latest processor from “i” family, has been tested and seems to have a huge processing power. In a comparison with Intel i7, Intel i9 has 6 cores instead of 4. This provides almost a linear increase of power, and i9 is 50% faster than i7 at the same internal CPU frequency. Despite all [...]

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Graphics core licensor Imagination Technologies Group PLC (Kings Langley, England) is preparing compilers that will be able to assign tasks across both graphics and general-purpose processing units. Imagination has had its own 32-bit Meta processor core on its books for most of this decade but it best known as a licensor of application-specific digital audio [...]

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Modern Intel Architecture processor board design spans a wide range of processor performance and power. From Atom to Multicore Processors, Orchid Technologies can design a custom Intel Architecture solution to meet your specific requirements. Orchid’s Core2 Quad Processor board is feature packed. Designed for ruggedized operation in a small air-cooled package, our Core2 Quad Processor [...]

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By James Reinders (Intel)
Available today: a way to test scaling using cloud-computing, Intel has released this web-based tool to help with parallel programming. The Intel® Parallel Universe Portal will take your Windows (32 bit) application, run it through the scaling analysis engine in Intel Parallel Studio, and give back a report about the performance running [...]

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Today AMD shared more details of its upcoming Fusion processors for the first time. Chekib Akrout, general manager of AMD’s Technology group, said the company is creating two very different new x86 cores: Bulldozer, designed for servers and mainstream desktop and notebook clients, and Bobcat, a very small design for low-power applications
Akrout said Bobcat has [...]

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by Daniele Paolo Scarpazza
Larrabee, the new multicore processor that Intel will release in the next months, is going to catch most programmers unprepared. For once, it is difficult to estimate its potential on the basis of the very few details available. And programmers of non-numerical developers, traditionally secondary audience for GPGPU architects, are going to [...]

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by Greg Pfister
Multicore is the wave of the future. Cloud Computing is the wave of the future. Do they get along? My take: Eh. Sorta. There are the usual problems with parallel programming support, despite hubbub about parallel languages and runtimes and ever bigger multicores.
Multicore announcements in particular have been rampant recently. Not just the [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
Everybody is looking to shake up the server business this days, it seems. But everyone had better get in line behind 3Leaf Systems, which is launching its much awaited “Aqua” system pooling and virtualization chipset and an intriguing x64 system to match.
A little more than two years ago, 3Leaf Systems came out [...]

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The rumors have once again surfaced that Nvidia Corp. may enter the x86-based microprocessor market.
For some time, there have been reports that Nvidia would enter the x86-based fray to protect its bread-and-butter graphics chip business. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. are separately developing processors with graphics capabilities.
”We believe Nvidia could enter the x86 [...]

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Bit by bit, we’re starting to see more practical applications on parallel programming models. What’s getting everybody interested in the concept of parallel programming today more so than any time in the last 10 years is that we have huge amounts of raw horsepower available in all these inexpensive multicore processors.
As the cores continue to [...]

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by Michael Wolfe, Compiler Engineer, The Portland Group, Inc.
The buzz and excitement around Intel’s Larrabee processor continues to build. Intel has been careful to present Larrabee as a graphics processor that can also be used for highly parallel tasks such as game physics, avoiding the claim that it will be appropriate for HPC. The [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
With all the recent hoopla about GPGPU acceleration in high performance computing, it’s easy to forget that Roadrunner, the most powerful supercomputer in the world, is based on a different brand of accelerator. The machine at Los Alamos National Laboratory uses 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs hooked up to 6,480 AMD [...]

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ARM today announced the launch of the ARM® Cortex™-A5 MPCore™ processor – the smallest, lowest power ARM multicore processor capable of delivering the Internet to the widest possible range of devices, from ultra low cost handsets, feature phones and smart mobile devices to pervasive embedded, consumer and industrial devices. Available as an extremely area- and [...]

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AMD has formally announced its new range of AMD Athlon II processors, dropping power consumption for its more affordable range, without cutting down on performance.
The AMD II range now includes two more quad cores – the AMD Athlon X4, 605e and X4 600e - four triple cores - X3 435, X3 425, X3 405e and [...]

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Over the past few years multi-core processors have been coming into our computer systems more and more aggressively. AMD’s and Intel’s marketing efforts were not in vain: they managed to convince the consumers and software developers that increasing the number of computational cores is one of the most optimal ways of increasing the performance of [...]

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