Microsoft and Intel Fund Parallel Computing Research
Category: Operating Systems, Manufacturers, SoftwarePosted: March 20, 2008 04:13AM
Author: jammin
The CPU market is now a well and truly multi-core domain and only looks to go further in that direction. But what good are all those cores if you don't have the programming support to back it up? MS and Intel must be thinking the same thing, and have recently awarded two universities grants of $10m to set up Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers. The grants are going to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley and are backed up with further money sourced by the two institutions. Intel are saying that the centers should advance operating systems, parallel processing and architecture. Let's hope the research goes some way to ensuring our extra cores are kept busy.
