IDF Fall 2007: Terascale Computing Updates and more

PC Perspective ^ | Sep 21, 2007 | Ryan Shrout

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Terascale still moving forward

With our time at IDF quickly drawing to a close, we are in the final stretch of content from the show.  While I didn’t get to the keynotes on the morning on mobility, we have the general basis of their contents here as well as some other interesting topics like terascale processors and Intel’s upcoming Extreme .

Terascale Computing Update

Last year at IDF Intel first started to demonstrate and discuss their terascale computing research project that featured a that was a dramatic shift from anything Intel had done in the past.  The was built out of 80 separate very small and simple processing cores all with some basic communications and local .

The project created a lot excitement with claims of teraflop computing and higher all with a very minimal power footprint.  At PC Perspective we covered the project in great detail with a pair of articles spanned over the previous 18 months or so.  The terascale processor is still alive and well at Intel and was on display at the IDF technology showcase.

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Mention made in the article of Intel's Extreme Memory and that it was a major inhibitor of progress.....but found this:

OCZ Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP) memory unveiled

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Just like NVIDIA's EPP the Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP) is a set of SPD settings to automatically run memory at its advertised speeds - kinda like "plug and play" overclocking.

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