nVidia’s Fermi is a real revolution, and franckly much more interesting then Intel’s Larrabee from an OpenCL perspective.
A massive 16 TFlop computing power on a PC, that you may use in C, Fortran or C++, with a computing-model that enable you to port flawlessly current code, and then optimize it for the cGPU architecture to unleash it’s incredible power.
I have to recall that the most powerfull PC workstations of these day may reach 0.3 TFlops with their Intel CPUS and we are talking 50X more, available transparently in current languages, with code that will automagically run on any available CPU or cGPU on the system on Mac OS X or Windows.
OpenCL is a revolution in itself, that needed Fermi to reveal it’s potential. Welcome to a new world!!!
“nVidia’s Fermi is a real revolution, and franckly much more interesting then Intel’s Larrabee from an OpenCL perspective.”
Are you speaking from an hardware perspective ? Because on the software side Larrabee will support OpenCL too, according to Intel.
Fermi will be there in 2009, Larrabee will not.
Fermi will provide up to 2 Teraflops processing power with -relatively- inexpensive GPU cards, Larrabee price tag is unknown at this time, as well as it’s real potential.
Fermi is compatible with CUDA and with OpenCL, supported TODAY by current drivers.
Larrabee is just vaporware at this time.