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Intel announced the creation of Intel Labs Europe, with the goal of expanding the scope of its European R&D activities. Intel Labs Europe aims to drive even closer collaboration with European researchers and policy makers, EU initiatives including exploratory research, methods of using ICT to improve the efficiency of industries and increasing the quality and productivity of ICT overall.
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The microprocessor architecture transition from multi-core to many-core will drive increased chip-to-chip I/O bandwidth demands at processor/memory interfaces and in multi-processor systems. Future architectures will require bandwidths of 200GB/s to 1.0TB/s and will bring about the era of tera-scale computing. To meet these bandwidth demands, traditional electrical interconnect techniques require increases in circuit complexity and costlier materials. Ian Young et al, Intel
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Achieving application performance on Multi-Core processors relies on the synchronization of algorithms and data structures all working together effortlessly. It also demands a shift in thinking about how to approach the solution. Get a perspective from three veteran Intel engineers, Henry Gabb, Tim Mattson and Clay Breshears, in Thinking in Parallel.
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Read about the next generation micro architecture's performance and power management innovations. Get the documents and read about enabling software to take advenage of the capabilities of the Intel Core i7.
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Smoke is a tech demo that showcases a framework to support n-way threading of game technologies. By properly threading a game it can have more accurate physics, smarter AI, more particles, and/or a faster frame-rate. Smoke demonstrates one way to achieve better games. (Links from VC, MC and What If)
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See the News Release and further links to a White Paper and related publications
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the world’s largest physics laboratory
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What if you could experiment with Intel's advanced research and technology implementations that are still under development? And then see your feedback addressed in a future product? Find out by downloading one of the offerings listed below. Test drive these tools, collaborate with your peers and send us your feedback through our software engineering blogs and support forums. The offerings listed below augment Intel product and open source offerings you'll find elsewhere.
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John Miner, Intel IT engineer, takes you on a personal tour of the Encanto Super computer – the third fastest super computer in the world, based on the November 2007 list by Top500.org. The computer is projected to operate at 172 teraflops per second or one trillion calculations a second. It is powered by 14,336 Intel Xeon processor cores and has enough memory for 28,000 office computers. With the $11 million supercomputer, students, researchers, businesses and government can tackle some of the difficult problems facing the country, from economic forecasting to water conservation.
AVX is an extension to the SSE instruction set, introduced in the Sandy Bridge micro-architecture. AVX, when used by software programmers, will increase performance in floating point, media, and processor intensive software. AVX can also increase energy efficiency, and is backwards compatible to existing Intel processors. Key features include wider vectors, increasing from 128 bit to 256 bit wide, resulting in up to 2x peak FLOPs output. Enhanced data rearrangement, resulting in allowing data to be pulled more efficiently, and three operand, non-destructive syntax for a range of benefits.
For more complete information about compiler optimizations, see our Optimization Notice.
