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Moore’s Law is maxing out. This is an oft-made prediction in the computer industry. The latest to chime in is an IBM fellow, according to a report. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double approximately every two years–a prediction that has proved to be remarkably [...]
An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain’s ability to learn more closely than any other machine.
Although the chip has a fraction of the number of [...]
Intel is back, pitching its processors for gaming graphics. The chipmaker will attempt to promote its silicon for sophisticated game effects at the upcoming Game Developers Conference in March, as it strives to make a case for quad-core processors in lieu of graphics chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
The pitch goes like this: “Learn [...]
As part of their research efforts aimed at building real-time human-level artificial vision systems inspired by the brain, MIT graduate student Nicolas Pinto and principal investigators David Cox (Rowland Institute at Harvard) and James DiCarlo (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) recently assembled an impressive 16-GPU ‘monster’ composed of 8×9800gx2s donated by NVIDIA.
The high-throughput [...]
IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip.
The IBM documents have the eight-core Power7 being arranged in dual-chip modules. So, that’s 16-cores per module. As [...]
Nvidia today announced its second generation of Tesla floating point accelerators based on the GT200 series of graphics processors. It is the first big upgrade for the company’s supercomputing product portfolio – streamlining the offering and introducing double precision support as well as much more performance than the original 8-series, which was introduced one year [...]
A new paper from a group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “The Potential of the Cell Processor Scientific Computing,” explores the performance of IBM’s Cell processor on some specific types of code commonly found in high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The programs used in the study are essentially smallish code blocks called kernels (see this older [...]
During the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this past September, Intel started to unveil information on its terascale processing projects. Terascale is basically defined as processing on terabytes of data on single machine requiring teraflops of power. Intel initially told us that the research being done by the terascale team was not intended [...]
During the Intel Developer Forum taking place in San Francisco, Intel presented a prototype CPU with 80 cores operating at 3.1GHz promising 1 TeraFLOP of performance in our near future. In addition to the large number of cores, Intel will be using some recently announced RAM technologies to allow massive transfers of data among the [...]
