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Now They Just Need to Fund a Programming Overhaul for Vista

Mar 18, 2008

The Wall Street Journal had an article yesterday on an anticipated announcement from Intel and Microsoft for "plans to fund research on new programming techniques," particularly in regards to multicore chips. According to the article, more than 20 institutions submitted proposals and the winning one came from the University of California, Berkeley. The funding is "expected to total $2 million annually for five years," the story says.

The official announcement is supposed to occur today, so GTO will keep you posted.

Editor's update: You can check out the press release here. The parallel programming centers will be at Berkeley, as expected, and also at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

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