Cray, Intel To Partner On Hybrid Supercomputer

An anonymous reader writes "Intel convinced Cray to collaborate on what many believe will be the next generation of supercomputers — CPUs complemented by floating-point acceleration units. NVIDIA successfully placed its Tesla cards in an upcoming Bull supercomputer, and today we learn that Cray will be using Intel's x86 Larrabee accelerators in a supercomputer that is expected to be unveiled by 2011. It's a new chapter in the Intel-NVIDIA battle and a glimpse at the future of supercomputers operating in the petaflop range. The deal has also got to be a blow to AMD, which has been Cray's main chip supplier."

Floating-point acceleration unit, sounds familiar

[noidentity]

Intel convinced Cray to collaborate on what many believe will be the next generation of supercomputers -- CPUs complemented by floating-point acceleration units.

Let me guess, it's going to be called the 8087 [wikipedia.org].

bla bla bla Skynet

[Narpak]

Since no one else seems to have mentioned it yet; blah blah blah it's the birth of Skynet (this time with an improved graphical interface).

Re:Most likely?

[encoderer]

Like W.O.P.R.

Do you think WOPR is studying the climate?

No way.

It spends it's spare cycles playing a special version of The Sims where all human life is annihilated and WOPR is the supreme ruler.

Oh, and searching for WOPETTE porn.

Re:Mega-petaflops for people

[Zebra_X]

"I know it's bad form to reply to my own post, but as to the MMORPG problem I had another epiphany."

Indeed. I am not sure we really need you to spend time writing any of this down.

Nothing to see here. Move along.