[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Cray has laid out its plans to develop supercomputers that will
take the concept of heterogeneous computing to an entirely new
level by integrating a range of processing technologies in a single
platform. These ‘adaptive supercomputing’ systems will be able to
solve scientific and engineering problems more quickly–and make
programmers and end users more productive–by adapting processing
to the requirements of each application.“Over the next few years, Cray supercomputers will combine
standard microprocessors (scalar processing), vector processing,
multithreading and hardware accelerators in one high-performance
computing (HPC) platform that uses the industry-standard Linux
operating system. Powerful compilers and other software will
automatically match an application to the processor blade that is
best suited for it…”