Intel Knights Ferry (Larrabee) caught on photo

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German tech site ComputerBase got their hands on an engineering sample of Intel's Knights Ferry, an Larrabee-based software development platform for the high-performance computing (HPC) market, the research that went into this project is not entirely lost: The company announced that it will be releasing many core processors (“many integrated core”, or short mic) based on Larrabee x86 technology. The first device, code-named Knights Ferry, has reached prototype status and is shipping to “select developers.”

Knights Ferry will have 32 cores, each running at 1.2 GHz. The device will have 8 MB coherent cache 1 or 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and run 128 threads (4 threads per core).

Further down the road, Intel plans a 50+ core product code-named Knights Corner, which will use a 22 nm manufacturing process. Since 22 nm products will not be available until very late 2011, it is reasonable to assume that Knights Corner will be a 2012 or later product.

In effect, Intel’s announcement is not an entirely new strategy, but a change of communication as Larrabee was always intended to become a floating point accelerator as well. The targets, however, are not Nvidia’s and AMD’s graphics cards anymore, but Nvidia’s Tesla, AMD’s ATI FireSteam GPU accelerators as well as Clearspeed’s accelerator boards.

Izvor: Guru3D

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Biće lijep dan za CERN ako ovako nastave i AMD i nVidia.