Larrabee

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Details are our about Intel's Larrabee multi-core x86 processor.
> I haven't had a chance to look into it myself yet, but it definitely
> is looking like the multi-core future is right around the corner.
> 
> http://levelofdetail.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/larrabee-paper-and-articles/
> http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/08/04#larrabeeSIGGRAPH08
> 
> Here's the abstract from the paper they'll present at SIGGRAPH next week:
> 
> This paper presents a many-core visual computing architecture
> code named Larrabee, a new software rendering pipeline, a manycore
> programming model, and performance analysis for several
> applications. Larrabee uses multiple in-order x86 CPU cores


Cool that Intel was telling the truth about their newest processor 
moving to a fully ordered memory model--it looks like they've fully 
embraced the idea of scaling laterally.  More once I've had a chance to 
read the ACM paper.  Thanks for the link!


Sean