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 20060926 Tuesday September 26, 2006

New Processor Options for HPC

At the HPC User Forum in Denver last week, a panel on processor options was led by Richard Walsh, technical specialist at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center/Network Computing Services, Inc. HPCwire, a co-sponsor of the HPC User Forum meetings, talked with Walsh:

"So, looking ahead at the next ten years, the new, more power-efficient, multi-core, general purpose processors that are now forming the backbone of large, parallel HPC systems will retain an important role, but they will be increasingly supported in mixed-architecture environments by special-purpose commodity and custom processors targeting, by design or coincidence, the special requirements of HPC." Full Story Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( September 26, 2006 05:00 AM ) Permalink

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