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Intel Plans to Own the World; Google laughs and laughs
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:00:09 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com> Date: April 6, 2006 1:08:27 AM EDTTo: Dave <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, JMG <johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com>
Subject: Intel Plans to Own the World; Google laughs and laughs http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=297906 Monday, April 03, 2006 at 12:01 AM EDT Intel plans tera-scale computing TONY WALTHAMSan Francisco - Understanding a new generation of future workloads that
can take advantage of processing capabilities well beyond those of today's computers is a critical part of Intel's "Tera-scale Computing Research Programme", which the company announced last week on the eve of the Spring Intel Developer Forum. This research programme is a broad effort within Intel's research community to develop future platforms that will deliver capabilities well beyond those of today's computers. "Once in a generation an opportunity like this comes along to bring dramatically improved computing benefits to millions of people," said Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer. "The program's potential is really for entirely new kinds of applications and, in particular, applications that exhibit human-like characteristics." Analysis of future software tasks, or "workloads," would play a critical, driving role in the direction of the research, Rattner said, and he highlighted the areas of Recognition, Mining and Synthesis, for which Intel uses the acronym "RMS" as being key applications for tera-scale processor power.RMS was a broad class of applications, Rattner said, citing the case of
computer vision, where "we like to point a camera or pair of cameras at an object and recognise ... Then, once we can recognise it, we want to compare this with a database of tens of thousands of images." That was the mining part, he said, adding that then we would need to visualize this and to translate it to an object in space and time or to evolve this object. Another example would be in financial analysis, to recognise a certain financial behaviour, such as the way a certain stock was being traded, or the behaviour of exchange rates or to mine thousands of transactions for behaviour, he said.RMS categorised a huge family of applications, the Intel CTO explained,
also citing an example that had emerged in a dinner discussion last Fall that had brought a number of technology leaders together in San Francisco. He noted that Google had spent a lot of time talking about language translations so as to make a document in any language available in any other, relying heavily on statistical techniques, which was another example of a recognition task - being able to relate a piece of text in one language to a piece of text in another. "Turning language translation approaches is to match patterns in language... I took note of what he was saying," said Rattner, noting that this had been a perfect "Era of Tera" computing example. Intel conducts directed research and exploratory or "off-roadmap" research in conjunction with three universities in the United States and one in Cambridge, England. http://bangkokpost.com/290306_Database/29Mar2006_data006.php -- GREATER POOP: Is Eris true? MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER: Everything is true. GP: Even false things? M2: Even false things are true. GP: How can that be? M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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