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Wintel, Universities Team On Parallel Programming

Posted by kdawson on from the gator-rays dept.

kamlapati writes in with a followup from the news last month that Microsoft and Intel are funding a laboratory for research into parallel computing at UC Berkeley. The new development is the imminent delivery of the FPGA-based Berkeley Emulation Engine version 3 (BEE3) that will allow researchers to emulate systems with up to 1,000 cores in order to explore approaches to parallel programming. A Microsoft researcher called BEE3 "a Swiss Army knife of computer research tools."

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  1. Re:cool by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are actually trying to model hell on earth. Microsoft provides the evil and Intel the heat.

    (Okay, the joke would have worked better in the P4 days.)

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  2. Re:1000 cores? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    640 Cores should be enough for anybody.

  3. Re:Almost by kramulous · · Score: 2, Funny

    for a old priest, a young priest and a couple of virgins Oohh, Oohh. I know this one! First you take the virgins and the old priest across, and then ... dammit! Young priest masturbates.

    First you take the ... dammit!

    I wish I had more than one boat. Taking all across concurrently would be easier.
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