From Mobile Phones to Supercomputers
April 5, 2012 at 8:21 pm Leave a comment
By Robert Gelber
While almost every system on the Top500 list makes use of multicore CPUs, one supercomputing research team looks to buck that trend. Next month, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will begin building the second prototype of their Mont-Blanc supercomputer, using NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processors, the same chips found on mobile devices. In a Wired article published this week, Mont-Blanc project-lead Alex Ramirez talks about the work and what to expect from the from the new prototype system
Entry filed under: Computer Architecture, News. Tags: mobile phone, Multicore, supercomputer.
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed