[linuxkernelnewbies] Larrabee: Next-Generation Visual Computing Microarchitecture

[Peter Teoh]

http://www.intel.com/technology/visual/microarch.htm Larrabee Microarchitecture Intel has developed a new Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Larrabee, to meet the increasing compute and memory intensive demands of the latest PC games and high-performance computing applications, such as image processing, physical simulation, and medical and financial analytics. The new flexible standard As parallelism and advances in multi-core processing bring new levels of performance and application capabilities, Larrabee architecture's programmability creates new opportunities for developers to innovate in the visual computing realm. Designed to provide unprecedented freedom for developers, the Larrabee microarchitecture features a number of hardware advances, including a many-core throughput design for a wide range of highly parallel visual computing applications, including graphics, media, and medical imaging and financial services. The enabling factor for each of these core elements is programmability. Platforms built around the Larrabee microarchitecture will operate across a unified infrastructure that includes other components based on Intel® architecture programmable cores. Unlocking visual computing with the Larrabee microarchitecture Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing File Type/Size:  PDF 2.10MB Read this paper to discover the performance analysis performed on the Larrabee microarchitecture, demonstrating its potential for a broad range of parallel computation. Game Physics Performance on the Larrabee Architecture File Type/Size:  PDF 517KB Examine several simulation models used to compute various types of physical simulation in modern games using the Larrabee microarchitecture to achieve increased game physics workloads and more efficient processing.