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.