Last week, the Supercomputing 2010 conference took place and Intel took to the stage to announce that it already has the capability to build 1,000 core processors. Back in March, Intel demonstrated a 48-core chip at Cebit, as you might remember. Last week, Intel researcher Timothy Mattson told the Supercomputing 2010 conference that this architecture [...]
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Ever been to a trade show where they have a million pounds in a safe and it’s yours if you guess the correct combination? The way these promotions work is that the company staging them buys insurance to cover the highly unlikely possibility that someone might guess the combination. The company staging the stunt typically [...]
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Last week I had the opportunity of speaking to James Reinders, Intel’s evangelist software director. I asked him about the just released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2011 Advanced Performance and Intel Cluster Studio 2011 Distributed Performance. He offered some very interesting insight, useful for developers, and here’s what he said: Q: How does Parallel Studio [...]
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