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| Imperial News Bounty Hunter
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| Affilliated Review:Intel IDF Spring 2007 Beijing - Penryn, Skulltrail and Larrabee Intel IDF Spring 2007 Beijing - Penryn, Skulltrail and Larrabee  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by pcper |  | | | | | | | | |
Intel is calling it a "highly parallel, IA-based programmable
architecture" that will have the ability to "scale to trillions of floating
point operations per second". Intel says the Larrabee design can be
utilized in applications like scientific, recognition, visualization,
financial analytics and health applications. I don't know if anyone
notices, but those example applications are pretty similar to what AMD and
NVIDIA claim to be able to do with their general purpose GPU initiatives
(GPGPU). Full Story at pcper | |  | |  | | |
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