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| Andrew Reilly... |
 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:15 am |
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I was just wading through the HPCWire RSS feeds and came across this
article (date 17 November):
"Intel Corp. and NEC Corp. today have agreed to jointly develop high
performance computing (HPC) system technologies that will push the
boundaries of supercomputing performance."
but the "Read more..." link is broken and the Processors section of the
HPCWire website doesn't seem to go past the 12th.
However intel.com has a press release:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2009/20091116comp_b.htm?
iid=pr1_releasepri_20091116mb
which says:
"The initial focus of the companies' collaboration will be the
development of hardware and software solutions to enhance the memory
bandwidth and scalability of Intel Xeon processor-based platforms. Such
enhancements are intended to benefit systems targeting not only the very
high end of the scientific computing market segment, but also to benefit
smaller HPC installations."
Could it be that NEC and intel are planning to build a "heroic" memory
system, vector-super-style, around a Xeon core, rather than chain
together more NUMA COTS-clusters?
Could it work? Would it compete with SX vector machines on those sorts
of vector problems?
Cheers,
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| Robert Myers... |
| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:14 am |
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On Nov 19, 11:49 pm, Andrew Reilly <areilly... at (no spam) bigpond.net.au> wrote:
Quote: Could it be that NEC and intel are planning to build a "heroic" memory
system, vector-super-style, around a Xeon core, rather than chain
together more NUMA COTS-clusters?
Could it work? Would it compete with SX vector machines on those sorts
of vector problems?
My first thought has little to do with technology. This is a really
good time for Intel to be looking for ways to wash mud off its
escutcheon, and Japan would be a symbolically significant place to
start, since that's where the dam first broke on Intel's most recent
round of embarrassments. To be honest, I secretly suspect something
along those lines when any of the big players says it's going to make
a push in HPC.
Robert. |
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