CNet News has an article up about the upcoming fight between Intel & Nvidia about multi-core processors, and the different directions that the two firms are going. Intel is betting on Larrabee, which puts a few generic-X86 cores on a chip, while NVidia has it’s CUDA and GPGPU solutions with hundreds of very specialized chips. What which solution does industry want?
Keith Gray manager high performance and technical computing at oil giant BP spelled out why he has hesitated to use GPUs to date while expressing interest in adopting them in the future. “Our business is about accelerating our development of new seismic imaging research algorithms. At this point we actually believe the level of programming difficulty and lack of standardization of application development tools make the move to accelerated computing a bit risky ” he said.
via Needs of big firms foretell Intel, Nvidia battle | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News.
