Wired News: Supercomputing's Next Revolution

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels-3 on Nov 14, 2006; 3:32am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Wired-News-Supercomputing-s-Next-Revolution-tp522976p522984.html

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.