{"id":4011,"date":"2009-11-17T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2009-11-17T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T07:29:11","slug":"intel-architecture-driving-future-of-supercomputing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"Intel Architecture Driving Future of Supercomputing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\">Intel Architecture Driving Future of Supercomputing<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\"><strong>NEWS HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">402 systems on Top500 list feature Intel processors, including three in top 10<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Intel announces that new HPC-optimised Nehalem-EX processor will be available in 2010<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Beta program for Intel\u2019s Ct technology will be available by end of 2009<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\"><strong>SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 Nov. 16, 2009<\/strong> \u2013 More than four out of every five supercomputers on the TOP500 list are powered by Intel\u00ae processors. Intel Corporation today announced new technologies that will better equip scientists, researchers and engineers with the computing power to speed up science and engineering projects such as the development of new drugs and climate change research.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of 2010 Intel Corporation will launch a new High Performance Computing (HPC) optimised version of its forthcoming processor codenamed \u201cNehalem-EX.\u201d The 6-core chip will run at higher frequencies than 8-core versions of the Nehalem-EX processors and will offer advantages on some HPC workloads. Customers will benefit from greater memory bandwidth and capacity compared to today\u2019s solutions, and will be able to build supercomputers with up to 256 such chips; a supercomputer cluster may contain many such machines.<\/p>\n<p>Intel also announced that a beta program for Intel\u2019s Ct technology will be available by the end of 2009. Intel Ct technology makes parallel programming in the C and C++ languages easier by automatically parallelising code across multi-core and many-core processors. Additional information is available at <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000167\/!x-usc:http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18166936,23197715,129488,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.intel.com%2Fsoftware%2Fdata-parallel\">www.intel.com\/software\/data-parallel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 34th edition of the TOP500 list shows that a record-breaking 402 of the world\u2019s top 500 systems have Intel processors inside, with increased adoption in computers designed for geophysics, financial calculations and scientific research. According to the list, Intel chips power 20 of the top 50 systems. Systems using Intel\u00ae Xeon\u00ae quad-core processors lead the list, holding 379 spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only months after its arrival, the <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000167\/!x-usc:http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18166936,23197715,129489,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.intel.com%2Fpressroom%2Farchive%2Freleases%2F20090330corp_sm.htm\">Intel\u00ae Xeon\u00ae 5500 series processor<\/a>, previously codenamed \u201cNehalem-EP,\u201d is already significantly impacting the HPC community, powering 21 systems in the top 100.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the industry\u2019s rapid adoption of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series processor, Intel has more systems than ever on the Linpack benchmark-based Top500 list,\u201d said Richard Dracott, general manager of Intel\u2019s High Performance Computing Group. \u201cWe\u2019re even more elated that customers are choosing our Xeon processor products not only for Linpack scores, but also because of the exceptional application performance delivered across a wide range of real-world workloads found in energy exploration, science research and 3-D Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Xeon processor 5500 series is playing a pivotal role in supercomputers used for scientific research and discovery.\u00a0 NASA and SGI have added servers containing 2,304 energy-efficient Xeon 5500 series processors increasing the \u201cbrainpower\u201d of the Pleiades supercomputer by 35 per cent to handle NASA\u2019s commitment to advance global climate change research. Pleiades now boasts a total of 14,080 Intel Xeon processors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At No. 10 on the list is the Sandia National Laboratories and Sun Microsystems supercomputer called \u201cRed Sky.\u201d Red Sky features more than 10,000 Intel Xeon 5500 series processors.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee. The complete report is available at <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000167\/!x-usc:http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18166936,23197715,129490,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.top500.org\">www.top500.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Intel<\/strong><br \/>\nIntel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000167\/!x-usc:http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18166936,23197715,105992,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.intel.com%2Fpressroom\">www.intel.com\/pressroom<\/a> and <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000167\/!x-usc:http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18166936,23197715,105993,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.intel.com\">blogs.intel.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel Architecture Driving Future of Supercomputing NEWS HIGHLIGHTS 402 systems on Top500 list feature Intel processors, including three in top 10 Intel announces that new HPC-optimised Nehalem-EX processor will be available in 2010 Beta program for Intel\u2019s Ct technology will be available by end of 2009 SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 Nov. 16, 2009 \u2013 More than<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=4011\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}