The gpu project, Larrabee, which Intel the competition with video card manufacturers wanted to take, but that at the end of 2009 had to be abandoned, make a new start. The gpus can be deployed as a coprocessor for supercomputers.
Intel announced Larrabee, a few years ago as a gpgpu, which is the middle would be between the gpu and cpu. At the end of 2009, it was clear, however, that the Larrabee architecture is not as gpu for consumers would appear, and in may 2010 reported Intel that Larrabee for supercomputers would be used. On the x86 instruction set-based architecture would be used for hpc or high-performance computing applications.
Meanwhile, Intel has announced the Larrabee architecture on a commercial basis, in the form of a coprocessor with fifty cores. This first Larrabee-a spin-off, by Intel Knights Corner, is a so-called mic, or many integrated core architecture. Knights Corner should from next year be available. The 50-core mic will, according to a 22nm process, with Intel’s 3d transistors, are produced.
The Knight-mic must be in hpc systems are used for parallel workloads, taking care of, such as Nvidia’s Tesla architecture. Other than Nvidia’s Tesla gpgpu’s makes Intel’s architecture, however, no use of cuda, but of the x86 instruction set. That would be the simple have to make in order for the many-headed-processor programming. The programming must be made possible with an sdk, Knights Ferry. Some research institutes have that sdk, in combination with a same hardware platform, already used.
