TG Daily - Analysis: Has Intel found the key to unlock supercomputing powers on the desktop?
Hong Wang, senior principal engineer with Intel’s Microarchitecture Research Lab told us that the Exoskeleton employs technology which allows it to operate primarily outside of the OS. The Exoskeleton operates via opcodes inserted directly into the binary executable. In this way, coordinating between external accelerator resources and the main software program is handled directly by the CPU in its own native language - binary code.
Intel CPUs with this new ability will directly recognize those new opcodes. It will immediately instruct the accelerator to handle whatever is required. It does this via something called an Accelerator Exoskeleton software layer, which runs transparently to the OS, yet is visible to the application and communicates with the external resources.
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