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This story is from the category Computing Power
Date posted: 29/04/2008 Intel has struck a new agreement with Cray that the two companies say they hope will lead to technological breakthroughs in the field of supercomputers and high-performance computing. Intel and Cray announced what they called a "multiyear" agreement on April 28. While Intel will supply x86 microprocessors to Cray, the two companies also hope to develop new system and chip technologies that will push the HPC envelope in the future. With the new Nehalem microarchitecture due out later in 2008, Kirk Skaugen, vice president of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, said Cray and other vendors can take advantage of new technologies such as an integrated memory controller and what Intel called the "QuickPath Interconnect," which replaces the front side bus and creates a high-speed, low-latency way to connect chips together. The result, Skaugen said, is supercomputers that should easily pass a petaflop in performance?1 quadrillion calculations per second?to deliver an exaflop, which is 1,000 times greater than a petaflop. See the full Story via external site: www.eweek.com Most recent stories in this category (Computing Power): 22/05/2013: Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results |
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