Is Larrabee For the Rest of Us?

[Stefan]

Can non-numerical application developers take advantage from the new LRBni instructions?

Larrabee, the new multicore processor that Intel will release in the next months, is going to catch most programmers unprepared. For once, it is difficult to estimate its potential on the basis of the very few details available. And programmers of non-numerical developers, traditionally secondary audience for GPGPU architects, are going to face an even steeper programming challenge.

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