Wintel, Universities Team On Parallel Programming

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."

Comments

Re:cool

[MightyYar]

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.)

Re:1000 cores?

[Anonymous Coward]

640 Cores should be enough for anybody.