I'm at UMBC, where I'm giving at talk at a conference on the Frontiers
of Multicore Computing http://www.mc2.umbc.edu/frontiers.html on how we've been using new multicore CPU's from IBM and Intel in the creation of The Scalable City http://scalablecity.net/ project. Multicore computing has allowed this project to come to fruition, in a way that I counted on at the outset, but didn't actually realize the solution would come from this manner of complying with Moore's Law.

Other interesting talks here include discussions of the new Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos, made with 1000's of Cell processors and Opteron's - the first Petaflop computer and what is in the way of making ...

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