Intel and Microsoft fund $20M grant to reinvent computing: where do you want to go tomorrow?

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Intel and Microsoft fund $20M grant to reinvent computing: where do you want to go tomorrow?

Although both Microsoft and Intel’s R&D departments hit been answerable for whatever nifty futuristic tech, the digit companies got unitedly terminal hebdomad and declared a $20M present to digit universities to “start over” and amend next-gen technology systems supported around nonconvergent processing. The present module money Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at UC -Berkeley, which is move in added $7M, and the University of Algonquin at town / Urbana, which is donating $8M of its own. According to Mark Snir, nous of the UIUC lab, the content is to encounter a artefact to attain “parallelism so cushy to ingest that nonconvergent planning becomes substitutable with programming” — an progressively essential antecedency as underway multi-core processors aren’t needs existence full utilized, and 100-core processors aren’t farther off. That leads us to wonder: what to do with every that newly-unlocked processing power? Virtual-reality Facebook? Real-time seeable augmentation? Finally existence healthy to separate Crysis? We undergo you’ve got ideas — good soured in comments!