Coming soon supercomputer?

Recently, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has won a human resource cooperation agreement with Microsoft to study the interaction between processors and software over a 10-year period. This 'handshake' is expected to create momentum for the birth of supercomputers .

Computer architecture experts from Microsoft 's BSC and Cambridge research center will work together to find out the challenges and opportunities that parallel processing technology is currently in place.

The researchers explained that the growth of a multi-core processor structure has led to the ability to incorporate more computing power for a single chip. However, to realize the design and resolution of the interoperability between hardware and software architecture in order to take advantage of these new strengths, close coordination between many components in the industry is required. computer industry.

Director of BSC Mateo Valero said: " In order to realize new designs and clarify the correlation between multiple microprocessors multiplied by software, we need to get the coordination. And the most important thing to face these new challenges is the combination of computer architecture experts with programming language experts together . '
Newly established research center BSC-Microsoft hopes to change the traditional model in software design, in which the development of a software will be determined by the conditions of the hardware, and forward. a model where software requirements will be the determining factor for hardware development.

Tony Hey, vice president of Microsoft's extensive research committee, said: " Collaboration like this allows us to achieve our goal of supporting the international research community and enabling researchers, Scientists find solutions for one of the biggest social and technological challenges like this . '

Microsoft also hopes this newly formed joint venture will combine the intelligence and knowledge of experts from two sides to thoroughly address the challenges of releasing reliable software, making full use of it. for multi-core processors - one of the leaps in technology over the years.