Intel forms new subsidiary; Plans to build a new type of ultra fast supercomputer in collaboration w
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[quote]SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 – [B]Intel Corporation today announced the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Intel Federal LLC, to provide strategic focus in order to better address new opportunities in working with the U.S. government.[/B] Initially Intel Federal will focus on the High Performance Computing segment, [B]including work on exascale computing[/B] with the U.S. Department of Energy and other agencies. In time, the subsidiary will be open to working with all branches of the government.
“[B]Reaching supercomputer performance levels of a hundred times more powerful than today by 2018[/B] will require the combined efforts of both industry and government. [B]An ExaFlop supercomputer’s performance is the equivalent of every person on Earth making about 150 million calculations per second.[/B] We look forward to collaborating more closely with the U.S. government on future supercomputing challenges,” said Kirk Skaugen vice president and general manager of Intel’s Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. “The creation of Intel Federal demonstrates the strategic importance of these programs and will give us the ability to establish and maintain the unique processes, procedures and controls needed to develop and manage programs with the government.”
Intel also announced that Dave Patterson has been appointed as president of Intel Federal LLC. Patterson brings an extensive array of experience to this role, most recently as president and CEO of Optelecom-NKF Inc., and prior to that as president and CEO of Siemens Government Services Inc. (SGS). Patterson will report directly to Skaugen.
Initially Intel Federal will have offices in Oregon, California and the Washington, D.C. area. Over time Intel Federal will expand its focus to a wide variety of other programs within the government.[/quote]
Wonder where they'll build it.
Sauce: [url]http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/08/30/intel-forms-new-subsidiary-intel-federal-llc[/url]
Fuck where it's going to be, Will it run Crysis?
My theory that Intel reverse-engineers alien technology still stands.
[QUOTE=Bishop869;32044704]My theory that Intel reverse-engineers alien technology still stands.[/QUOTE]
According to your theory, what does AMD do?
I hope it's a new architecture. It's not as cool when you hear they just stick 1 million regular CPUs together.
Even though the topic combined with the OP's avatar brings to mind a certain AI, the thought of such a powerful supercomputer and the possibility of it being very large brings to mind another.
Guess which ones I speak of.
[QUOTE=Mikeyspike;32044632]Fuck where it's going to be, Will it run Crysis?[/QUOTE]
Haha!
Fat chance.
Sometimes I wish I had been more of a programming nerd and gotten into shit like this.
Oh well maybe they'll need me as an advisor when they clone dinosaurs.
[QUOTE=ironman17;32044824]Even though the topic combined with the OP's avatar brings to mind a certain AI, the thought of such a powerful supercomputer and the possibility of it being very large brings to mind another.
Guess which ones I speak of.[/QUOTE]The first one sure is SkyNET. I hope the IBM guys don't bring their brain chip stuff into this :v:
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;32044747]According to your theory, what does AMD do?[/QUOTE]
Reverse-engineer Intel technology?
[SP]If you're getting your panties in a twist about this post, then you gotta realize I was joking[/SP]
[QUOTE=MR-X;32047352][img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100618204951/deusex/en/images/8/8a/Eliza.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Inducing spoiler is bad :v:
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32044817]I hope it's a new architecture. It's not as cool when you hear they just stick 1 million regular CPUs together.[/QUOTE]
I completely agree!
Every time there is a news article about a petaFLOP supercomputer, or a terahertz processor, or a hard drive that is 2 exabytes in size, or whatever, it's always so disappointing when you open it and "Oh we bought a million individual ones and strung them all together".
I positively demanded this.
[QUOTE=ironman17;32044824]Even though the topic combined with the OP's avatar brings to mind a certain AI, the thought of such a powerful supercomputer and the possibility of it being very large brings to mind another.
Guess which ones I speak of.[/QUOTE]
Whats with the fat joke? GLaDOS is quite petite. Especially when she is stuck to a potato.
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