Comments on: Intel and Microsoft announce parallel computing research centers http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/intel-and-microsoft-announce-parallel-computing-research-centers/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Tom’s Trends and Highlights | insideHPC http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/intel-and-microsoft-announce-parallel-computing-research-centers/#comment-67021 Tom’s Trends and Highlights | insideHPC Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:49:36 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/intel-and-microsoft-announce-parallel-computing-research-centers/#comment-67021 [...] attention paid by the industry to programming multi-core architectures was noted, including the major investments by Microsoft and Intel among [...] [...] attention paid by the industry to programming multi-core architectures was noted, including the major investments by Microsoft and Intel among [...]

]]> By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/intel-and-microsoft-announce-parallel-computing-research-centers/#comment-44812 John West Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:14:20 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/intel-and-microsoft-announce-parallel-computing-research-centers/#comment-44812 Tyler: given that point of view, you might enjoy the angle I took in my article in HPCwire; http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2246496.html. Tyler: given that point of view, you might enjoy the angle I took in my article in HPCwire; http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2246496.html.

]]> By: Tyler http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/intel-and-microsoft-announce-parallel-computing-research-centers/#comment-44687 Tyler Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:10:13 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/intel-and-microsoft-announce-parallel-computing-research-centers/#comment-44687 This announcement from Intel and Microsoft is typical. Neither of them have any interest in making scientific HPC any better, only in the HPC market and potential technology transfer from HPC to the Personal Computing market. That's great, The HPC community gets some "spillover" from their paultry $20M 5 year investment to as Tony Hey put it: "develop parallel computing software that works from the laptop to the desktop" I mean it's better than nothing, but considering that "we are in the midst of a revolution in the computing industry" this seems a bit disingenuous. This announcement from Intel and Microsoft is typical. Neither of them have any interest in making scientific HPC any better, only in the HPC market and potential technology transfer from HPC to the Personal Computing market. That’s great, The HPC community gets some “spillover” from their paultry $20M 5 year investment to as Tony Hey put it:

“develop parallel computing software that works from the laptop to the desktop”

I mean it’s better than nothing, but considering that “we are in the midst of a revolution in the computing industry” this seems a bit disingenuous.

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