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Supercomputer maker Cray has finally jumped on the GPU coprocessor bandwagon, and it looks like someone is going to have to hitch Belgian draft horses to that wagon and reinforce its axles once the XK6 hybrid super starts shipping in the fall. Cray made a name for itself as a provider of vector processors back in the 1970s and …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Well, it certainly looks pretty frikkin' cool inside and out

    and from my standpoint, that's important

    1. Anomalous Cowturd
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      Yeah but...

      Will it run Crysis?

      1. tpm (Written by Reg staff)

        Re: Yeah but...

        Yes, but only Crysis 2.

  2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    But how do you program these things?

    Message-passing between Vectorprocessors? What kind of problems fit that?

    1. Ian Bush

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      Well according to

      http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-05-24/cray_unveils_its_first_gpu_supercomputer.html

      one way is just as god intended - Fortran, message passing and OpenMP,

      Ian

    2. E 2

      How to program

      MPI and your favorite MPI language binding perhaps?

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