[FRIAM] Wired News: Supercomputing's Next Revolution

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> Seems like GPU's are not only as powerful for computation as  
> mentioned on Friam in the past, but now tools are becoming available  
> for programming them.
>   
Here is _the_ hardware for massive agent models stalled on memory latency. 
Put it on your supercomputing holiday wish list!

   http://www.cray.com/products/xmt/index.html

The XMT is built upon the Sandia Red Storm architecture, but using 
proprietary Cray Threadstorm processors which are pin-compatible with 
Opterons.   Auto-parallelizing compilers implementing a fancy kind of 
OpenMP, and hardware blocking memory.