Intel and Microsoft are setting aside $20 million to establish a pair of
academic centers that will study and develop new methods to increase the use of
parallel
computing, the two companies announced March 18.
The UPCRC (Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers) are being
established at the University of California
at Berkeley and the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In
addition to the $20 million donation, both universities are slated to donate
several million dollars to the two centers through academic grants.
The two centers will focus on accelerating the adoption of parallel
computing in both the development of applications and the next generation of
hardware that will be built using multicore microprocessors.
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