Many Instruction Core architecture isn't free just because it's x86, says NVIDIA

[caveman-jim]

The recent news and industry reaction regarding Intel’s forthcoming “Many Integrated Core” (MIC) accelerator has been interesting to watch. It appears Intel, like NVIDIA and AMD, has now concluded that hybrid architectures are the proper response to the growing power constraints of high performance computing.

While I agree with this, some of the discussions around programming the upcoming MIC chips leave me scratching my head – particularly the notion that, because MIC runs the x86 instruction set, there’s no need to change your existing code, and your port will come for free.

Read more at NVIDIA's blog.

[Dr. Zhivago]

Seeing as how I feel about nvidia as a company, I just can't bother to read the article. I'm sure there's no sour grapes in that piece...