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reply "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter gmail.com> writes:
Details are our about Intel's Larrabee multi-core x86 processor.
I haven't had a chance to look into it myself yet, but it definitely
is looking like the multi-core future is right around the corner.

http://levelofdetail.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/larrabee-paper-and-articles/
http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/08/04#larrabeeSIGGRAPH08

Here's the abstract from the paper they'll present at SIGGRAPH next week:

This paper presents a many-core visual computing architecture
code named Larrabee, a new software rendering pipeline, a manycore
programming model, and performance analysis for several
applications. Larrabee uses multiple in-order x86 CPU cores that
are augmented by a wide vector processor unit, as well as some
fixed function logic blocks. This provides dramatically higher
performance per watt and per unit of area than out-of-order CPUs
on highly parallel workloads. It also greatly increases the
flexibility and programmability of the architecture as compared to
standard GPUs. A coherent on-die 2nd level cache allows efficient
inter-processor communication and high-bandwidth local data
access by CPU cores. Task scheduling is performed entirely with
software in Larrabee, rather than in fixed function logic. The
customizable software graphics rendering pipeline for this
architecture uses binning in order to reduce required memory
bandwidth, minimize lock contention, and increase opportunities
for parallelism relative to standard GPUs. The Larrabee native
programming model supports a variety of highly parallel
applications that use irregular data structures. Performance
analysis on those applications demonstrates Larrabee's potential
for a broad range of parallel computation.

Looks like you have to have have access to the ACM digital library for
now to get your hands on the paper.
For those who do, here's the link:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1360612.1360617



--bb
Aug 04 2008
next sibling parent reply Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:

 Details are our about Intel's Larrabee multi-core x86 processor.
 I haven't had a chance to look into it myself yet, but it definitely
 is looking like the multi-core future is right around the corner.
 
 http://levelofdetail.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/larrabee-paper-and-articles/
 http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/08/04#larrabeeSIGGRAPH08
 
 Here's the abstract from the paper they'll present at SIGGRAPH next week:
 
 This paper presents a many-core visual computing architecture
 code named Larrabee, a new software rendering pipeline, a manycore
 programming model, and performance analysis for several
 applications. Larrabee uses multiple in-order x86 CPU cores



Cool that Intel was telling the truth about their newest processor 
moving to a fully ordered memory model--it looks like they've fully 
embraced the idea of scaling laterally.  More once I've had a chance to 
read the ACM paper.  Thanks for the link!


Sean
Aug 04 2008
parent Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> writes:
Sean Kelly wrote:

 Bill Baxter wrote:

 Details are our about Intel's Larrabee multi-core x86 processor.
 I haven't had a chance to look into it myself yet, but it definitely
 is looking like the multi-core future is right around the corner.

 http://levelofdetail.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/larrabee-paper-and-articles/ 

 http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/08/04#larrabeeSIGGRAPH08

 Here's the abstract from the paper they'll present at SIGGRAPH next week:

 This paper presents a many-core visual computing architecture
 code named Larrabee, a new software rendering pipeline, a manycore
 programming model, and performance analysis for several
 applications. Larrabee uses multiple in-order x86 CPU cores


 
 
 Cool that Intel was telling the truth about their newest processor 
 moving to a fully ordered memory model--it looks like they've fully 
 embraced the idea of scaling laterally.  More once I've had a chance to 
 read the ACM paper.  Thanks for the link!


I skimmed the paper for stuff relevant for general-purpose programming, 
and it's even better than I'd hoped.  Erlang will be perfect for this 
new architecture, and this dovetails reasonably well with our goal of 
building on a message-passing model for Tango as well.  The integration 
with TBB and OpenMP is a nice touch too.  I suppose that means we really 
need support for at least the scheduling aspects of these in a D library 
as well.  Hm...


Sean
Aug 05 2008
prev sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:

 Looks like you have to have have access to the ACM digital library for
 now to get your hands on the paper.
 For those who do, here's the link:
 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1360612.1360617


Freely-accessible link:

http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/UserFiles/en-us/File/larrabee_manycore.pdf


Andrei
Aug 04 2008