Intel, Microsoft to Set Up Parallel Computing Centers

Microsoft and Intel plan to establish two centers, at the University of California and the University of Illinois, to study parallel computing and its applications.

 

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.

Read the full article at Baseline.