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Intel comes up with new technology for boffins

by on17 November 2009


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Speed up your science project


Intel has
announced new technologies that it says will better equip scientists, researchers and engineers with the computing power to speed up science and engineering projects such as the development of new drugs and climate change research.

Next year Intel will launch a new high performance computing (HPC) optimised version of its forthcoming processor codenamed Nehalem-EX. It's six-core chip will run at higher frequencies than eight-core versions of the Nehalem-EX processors and will offer advantages on some HPC workloads.

According to Intel boffins can use greater memory bandwidth and capacity and will be able to build supercomputers with up to 256 such chips; a supercomputer cluster may contain many such machines. Of course the announcement is nothing to do with the fact that Intel failed to get any supercomputers into the top three this year, losing out to IBM and AMD.

Intel also announced that a beta program for Intel's Ct technology will be available by the end of 2009. Intel Ct technology makes parallel programming in the C and C++ languages easier by automatically parallelizing code across multi-core and many-core processors, Intel detailed.
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