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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:1000 cores? by BadHaggis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Finally! A vista capable system.

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  2. Almost by SnarfQuest · · Score: -1, Troll

    Almost enough processing power to be able to run Windows Vista. Add some more cores and you should be able to run a few applications.

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