Daily Readings

• If they mated: Intel and Cray to conceive x86 Linux monster: “With the first Intel-Cray products appearing in the 2010-2011 timeframe, it’s clear that three Intel technologies have caught Cray’s eye: the native 32nm Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) scheme, and the forthcoming discrete, x86-based graphics product, codenamed Larrabee. Cray will plug all of these components into its SeaStar interconnect fabric, and when combined with Cray Linux they’ll make for an HPC and floating-point monster.”

Additional readings: write-ups from HPC Wire and TG Daily; a paper on SeaStar interconnection; a presentation from Cray on programming model called Casacade