Intel Plans for Exascale Computing
Linked by David Adams on Wed 16th Nov 2011 18:54 UTC, submitted by rohan_p
Intel Intel is drumming up support for its latest 50-core Knights Corner and Xeon E5 server chips, which are key elements in the company's plans to scale performance while reducing power consumption moving toward an exascale supercomputer by 2018.
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RE: trail gpu's
by Lennie on Thu 17th Nov 2011 13:37 UTC in reply to "trail gpu's"
Lennie
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From the article:

"The Knights Corner chip mixes standard x86 CPU cores with specialized cores and works as an accelerator alongside the CPU to boost parallel application performance."

So maybe these are GPU(-like) or even more specialized.

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