New Phase For Exaflop

04 December 2005 - 19:32

Exaflop.org has been online since 1998 hosting docs about game development and computing in general. At one time it was on a dedicated server that cost a fortune (far more than it would now). When we scaled back to the current hosting provider the site got broken in several ways. Recently I've been trying to get things back working so that people can read all the old docs and to make it easier to post new docs (something that's badly needed!). At the same time I've wanted to implement a blog system with RSS feeds in order to keep pace with the way web sites are managed these days. This is the first post to the new Exaflop front page and will hopefully be the first of many.

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BMW gets Intel sponsorship (ironically)

15 December 2005 - 17:51

The BMW F1 team today anounced that they have signed chip giant Intel as their title sponsor. There had been rumours that Intel was in discussions with several teams about a big-money sponsorship deal for some time. Bitter rival AMD have sponsored Ferrari for a few years now and it seemed about time such a large company as Intel would get involved. What makes this news ironic? Well... BMW is of course the new name for the Sauber Formula 1 team and with some fanfare they anounced in December 2004 that it had invested in a super-computer to run CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) simulations. The computer, named Albert (for Albert Einstein) is powered by, you guess it, AMD chips. 530 Opterons to be precise. There is no news as yet on whether this machine will be replaced by Intel hardware at the earliest opportunity.

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