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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. Why not just *run* Solaris? by h8sg8s · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Solaris 10 goes to at least 256 cores,Nevada much higher. Why not just run it rather than simulate?

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