posted by Guest Blogger on December 27, 2007
This post comes from Antonio Gonzalez, director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center in Spain. His lab conducts a variety of research aimed at improving the performance and energy efficiency of future multi-core and tera-scale microprocessors. His post relates to a paper presented this month at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture on the topic of resilient microarchitectures.
Moore’s Law will continue to provide architects with smaller, faster and less energy consuming transistors to design future microprocessors. This will allow architects to keep increasing the performance of future microprocessors to enable new applications that otherwise would not be possible.
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tagged: microprocessor, resilient architectures, Spain, terascale, variability
posted by Jeffrey Howard on December 21, 2007
Recent acquisitions in the PC industry suggest that major players are aiming to bring high end Hollywood special effects into the mainstream. What does this mean for the future of computing?
posted by Timothy Mattson on December 17, 2007
In a schoolyard playground somewhere in Silicon Valley … two programmers meet on the swing-set.
P1: My programming language is easy to use and delivers high performance with only minimal programmer effort.
P2: Well my language is better and is safer to use than yours.
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tagged: languages, parallel computing, parallel programming
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on December 06, 2007
One of the things my group does while developing parallel programming models is to try to comprehend the application programming models and patterns that our tools will be used to implement. We believe this is essential to any work on programming tools, especially with the resurgence of parallel computing because domain knowledge helps enormously in deciding appropriate parallelization strategies.
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tagged: finance, options pricing, parallel programming, programming models
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