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		khandekars on June 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe True. At the same time, we keep expecting more from our machines, fuelling feature growth and consequential demand for faster processing mechanisms.

wmf on June 16, 2009 [–]

Yes, so future apps may prefer to run on the Larrabee cores, but the fat cores that old apps depend on cannot be removed.

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