Comment Re:A boon for altivec? (Score 1) 108
Almost all supercomputer type apps need double or extended precision floating point arithmetic, especially computational chemistry codes.
You should consider Itanium, which will do up to 8 DP instructions/clock cycle.
At 800Mhz, it will peak at 6.4 GFlops DP.
This is one of the reasons Intel bought Kuck & Associates, to provide vectorization capability to their own compilers.
You should consider Itanium, which will do up to 8 DP instructions/clock cycle.
At 800Mhz, it will peak at 6.4 GFlops DP.
This is one of the reasons Intel bought Kuck & Associates, to provide vectorization capability to their own compilers.
