Intel Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition 3.2 for Windows

Introduction
Intel Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition provides an extensive software package containing Intel C++ and Intel Fortran Compilers for Intel IA-32, IA-64, and Intel 64 architectures, PLUS it includes all the Intel Cluster Tools that help you develop, analyse and optimise performance of parallel applications on Linux or Windows Compute Cluster Server. As an added feature for IA-64 and Intel 64 architectures running the Linux operating system, Cluster OpenMP libraries are available.
Bundling Compilers and Cluster Tools for IntelIA-32, IA-64, and Intel 64 architectures, the Intel Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition provides Windows or Linux versions of the Intel Compilers for C++ and Fortran, Cluster Open MP libraries (Linux only) in addition to the Intel Cluster Tools for a software package unrivaled by any other offerings.
The Intel Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition license provides access and support for the following programs on either Windows CCS or Linux:
Intel C++ Compiler
Intel Fortran Compiler
Intel MPI Library
Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector
Intel Math Kernel Library
Intel MPI Benchmarks
Intel Debugger (except with Windows Intel MPI Library applications)
Intel Cluster OpenMP for Intel Compilers for Linux (Linux except IA-32 architecture)
The latest releases of all the Cluster Tools have increased performance and ease-of use while improving interoperability, scalability and the number of user options.
Intel Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition integrates your compiler of choice with the Cluster Tools, provides easy installation and comes with extensive documentation.
With the purchase of any Intel Software Development Product, you will receive one year of technical support and product updates from Intel Premier Support, Intel's interactive issue management and communication web site. This premium support service allows you to submit questions, download product updates, and access technical notes, application notes, and other documentation. Extended support agreements are also available.

Intel unveils Tukwila Itanium processor

The first version of Tukwila is expected to arrive in the second half of this year, and will replace Intel's previous dual-core server chip, the 9100 series codenamed Montvale. The Montvale was based on Intel's 90nm process, while the Tukwila is based on a 65nm process.
Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, described the new Itanium processor commenting on the advantages of moving to the quad-core system.
"By so doing we double the performance [compared to the 9100 Montvale] when measured on an enterprise standard benchmarks ... but with only a 25 percent increase in power."
The Tukwila Itanium processor is expected to run at 2GHz with a power consumption of 130W.
The Tukwila processor is also expected to have 30MB of cache, along with Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) features including a circuit design that has been hardened to resist soft errors -- which reduces the probability of a system crash.
Although the chip has had no instruction-level changes since Montvale, Tukwila will also include dual integrated memory controllers and QuickPath interconnect, Intel's future competitor to AMD's HyperTransport technology.
Like its predecessor, the new Tukwila Itanium processor will be aimed at the enterprise and server space.
Intel's successor from the Tukwila, the Poulson is expected sometime between 2010 and 2011.
Other technologies will be unveiled along with the Itanium processor including a low power process for mobile devices codenamed Silverthorne, and a new type of multi-level phase change memory.

Intel unleashes low cost chips for subnotebooks

Intel has released two chips: the N270 and N230, processors designed for what Intel calls "netbooks" and "nettops" — cheap notebook alternatives that are smaller and have fewer functions than standard laptops but also lighter and use far less power.
The new chips are basically the same chips as the earlier Atom processors released for mobile internet devices, but they have been tweaked slightly for use with bigger internet access devices, said Erik Reid, director of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, on a conference call.
Asia Pacific VP and general manager Navin Shenoy, unveiling the new chip at Computex in Taiwan, said that the Atom breaks with the Intel tradition of making faster and faster chips, which have an inherently high cost.
By contrast, he said, the low-power Atom chip is relatively cheap to produce and exceptionally small, with 2,500 units — each containing 47 million transistors — fitting on one 12-inch wafer.
That's the equivalent of squeezing 11 of the devices onto one US penny.
"Intel has always been about faster, faster and faster chips," Shenoy said. "But we want to innovate in a new direction this time, very low power, very small size, and, yes, very low cost."
Intel estimates that a netbook using the Atom N270 processor running at 1.6GHz, a 7-inch to 10-inch screen, 512MBs of RAM, and 2GBs to 4GBs of flash storage should cost around US$250. The N270 processor for netbooks costs US$44 in quantities of 1,000 units, while the N230 processor for nettops costs US$29.

Intel's Dunnington gets Aussie launch

Intel's previous CPUs have contained up to four cores, however the company is increasing the amount of processing power it contains on a single die to keep up with processing demands and software that is increasingly being built to take advantage of multiple cores. The Dunnington line will be marketed under the Xeon 7400 series moniker.
The design will be the last of Intel's Penryn-class processors, and will feature 16MB of level 3 cache memory. In an email to journalists announcing the launch, Intel said the chips would support more virtual machines per server, enabling better performance within the same space and power envelope for administrators.
Later on this year, Intel is reported to be planning to release a markedly new architecture known as Nehalem, which will aim to further increase the number of cores per chip to 16 or more and end provide other features.
An Intel Australia spokesperson could not clarify what date the chips would actually go on sale in Australia.

Intel prepares six-core Xeon

Quad-core and Octo-core might be the current next-gen craze for desktops and servers, but Intel seems wants to pitch a line of CPUs in-between as well. Intel will be adding on to their Xeon lineup with the “Dunnington” core later this year, a CPU that will have a total of six cores under the hood. Dunnington, which was announced three years ago, is intended to be an enterprise-class chip and will feature 3MB of shared L2 cache per pair of cores, and shared 16MB L3 cache. According to the leaked slides, it'll use the 'somewhat dated' 1066MHz FSB, and is probably aimed at preventing the Opteron from regaining any ground once AMD gets back on their feet.

Intel Planning Low-Power Lynnfield Processors

Earlier this month, Intel released a series of its Core 2 Quad processors with low power ratings, rated TDPs at 65W. This move served two purposes: to bring down the energy footprints of the CPUs, and to propagate quad-core chips to even those platforms whose electrical components are built for CPUs in that 65W power range. An example of that would be small form-factor PCs, mini-ITX motherboards with LGA-775 sockets, and some variants that might make it to notebooks. Intel now has plans to bring in a low-power Lynnfield processor sometime in Q1 2010. Given the amount of machinery the Lynnfield processors hold: four x86 processing cores, a dual-channel IMC, internal QPI and PCI-Express root complexes, in some cases even an IGP, a low-power variant sounds like a great engineering feat. We don't exactly know as to what low-power in context of Lynnfield is, at this point, but we can tell it will bring down platform power consumptions, given that the processor could end up being the single largest power consumer on a motherboard, and its power consumption affects that of the entire platform significantly.

Intel Readies R0 Revision of Core 2 Quad Q8200

TC Magazine reports that Intel is preparing a little upgrade on its modest 2.33GHz 45nm Core 2 Quad Q8200 processors. The Q8200 CPUs will pass from M1 to R0 stepping next month. The revised R0 processors will begin to be supplied from February 23rd through April 20, 2009. As reported Q8200 R0 will feature a halide free package, new S-spec and MM numbers, a CPUID changed from 10677 to 1067A, and Power State Indicator (PSI) support with Intel 4 series chipsets. To decrease energy consumption and update monitoring functions, the R0 quad-core processors will bring in three new low power states (Extended Stop Grant State, Deep Sleep State and Deeper Sleep State) and new XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions. A BIOS update for your motherboard will likely be needed if you happen to own a R0 quad-core.