Wired News: Supercomputing's Next Revolution

[Owen Densmore]

This was referred to in a MISP (New Mexico's Media Industries  
Strategy Project) posting by Eric Whitmore:
   http://www.wired.com/news/technology/computers/0,72090-0.html?
tw=rss.index
Seems like GPU's are not only as powerful for computation as  
mentioned on Friam in the past, but now tools are becoming available  
for programming them.

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net

[Marcus G. Daniels-3]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> Seems like GPU's are not only as powerful for computation as  
> mentioned on Friam in the past, but now tools are becoming available  
> for programming them.
>  
Here is _the_ hardware for massive agent models stalled on memory latency.
Put it on your supercomputing holiday wish list!

   http://www.cray.com/products/xmt/index.html

The XMT is built upon the Sandia Red Storm architecture, but using
proprietary Cray Threadstorm processors which are pin-compatible with
Opterons.   Auto-parallelizing compilers implementing a fancy kind of
OpenMP, and hardware blocking memory.