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Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group during his keynote at the international Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Skaugen announced plans to deliver new products based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while also retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., USA and HAMBURG, Germany - May 31, 2010
During the
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Intel Corporation announced plans to deliver new products based on the
Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while also retaining the benefits of standard
Intel processors.
Targeting high-performance computing segments such as exploration, scientific research and financial or climate simulation, the first product, codenamed "
Knights Corner," will be made on
Intel's 22-nanometer manufacturing (nm) process using transistor structures as small as
22 billionths of a meter and will use
Moore's Law to scale to more than
50 Intel processing cores on a single chip.
While the vast majority of workloads will still run best on
award-winning Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® MIC architecture will help accelerate select highly parallel applications.
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Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group holds a 22nm SRAM test wafer during his keynote at the international Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Skaugen announced plans to deliver new products based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while also retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.
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Industry design and development kits codenamed "
Knights Ferry" are currently shipping to select developers, and beginning in the second half of 2010,
Intel will expand the program to deliver an extensive range of developer tools for
Intel MIC architecture.
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Die shot of Aubrey Isle silicon. Aubrey isle is the codename of the silicon chip included the 'Knights Ferry' Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture development platform.
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Common
Intel software tools and optimization techniques between Intel MIC architecture and Intel Xeon processors will support diverse programming models that will place unprecedented performance in the hands of scientists, researchers and engineers, allowing them to increase their pace of discovery and preserve their existing software investments.
The Intel® MIC architecture is derived from several Intel projects, including "
Larrabee" and such
Intel Labs research projects as the
Single-chip Cloud Computer.
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Sverre Jarp, CTO of CERN openlab.
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"The CERN openlab team was able to migrate a complex C++ parallel benchmark to the Intel MIC software development platform in just a few days," said
Sverre Jarp, CTO of CERN openlab.
"The familiar hardware programming model allowed us to get the software running much faster than expected."
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Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group holding the 'Knights Ferry' Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture-based development card during his keynote at the international Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Skaugen announced plans to deliver new products based on the Intel MIC architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while also retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.
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"Intel's Xeon processors, and now our new Intel® Many Integrated Core architecture products, will further push the boundaries of science and discovery as Intel accelerates solutions to some of humanity's most challenging problems," said
Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group.
"The Intel® MIC architecture will extend Intel's leading HPC products and solutions that are already in nearly 82 percent of the world's top supercomputers. Today's investments are indicative of Intel's growing commitment to the global HPC community."
TOP500
The 35th edition of the TOP500 list, which was announced at
ISC, shows that Intel continues to be the platform of choice in high-performance computing, with
408 systems, or nearly 82 percent, powered by Intel processors.
More than 90 percent of quad-core-based systems use
Intel processors, with the Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processor nearly doubling its presence with
186 systems.
Intel chips also power three systems in the top 10, and four out of five new entrants in the top 30.
Seven systems contain the recently announced
Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processor, codenamed "
Westmere-EP," and two systems are powered by the new
Intel® Xeon® 7500 series processor, codenamed "
Nehalem-EX."
The Intel Xeon processor 5600 series is playing the vital role in the highest-ranked system from
China in the history of the
Top500.
The No. 2 system, located at the National Supercomputing Center (NSCS) in Shenzhen, reached
1.2 petaflops on the
Linpack benchmark with a Dawning TC3600.
NSCS is a hub for research and innovation in China.
The semi-annual
TOP500 list of supercomputers is the work of
Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Erich Strohmaier and
Horst Simon of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee.
The complete report is available at
www.top500.org
New Exascale Lab
To meet the growing challenge of running large-scale simulations in the multi petaflops and exaflops range of computing, Intel,
Forschungszentrum Julich (FZJ) and
ParTec will announce a multi-year commitment to create the
ExaCluster Laboratory (ECL) at Julich.
The lab will develop key technologies, tools and methods to power multi petaflops and exaflops machines, focusing on the scalability and resilience of those systems.
ECL will become the latest member of
Intel Labs Europe, a network of research and innovation centers spanning
Europe.
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