Larrabee New Instruction set gives developers first glimpse of new GPU

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Intel was promoting Larrabee quite heavily at GDC in San Francisco this week

even though there is still no hardware to be found. For the GDC audience,

Intel decided to share a Larrabee instruction emulation layer so that

developers can now start to see how the new x86-based GPU design can be

efficiently utilized.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=683

 

Quote: "It is important to note that this does NOT mean Larrabee hardware is

also going to find its way to these developers hands yet; the software is

essentially a Larrabee emulator that compiles and "runs" the code on the

primary system CPU. The current setup will allow developers to start

playing with as much as a 16-wide SIMD and to see how the programming model

for Larrabee is similar to, and differs, from traditional x86 programming."

 

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