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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

#CHIPS: "DoE Aims Xeon Phi at Top Supercomputer Slots"

One of the fastest supercomputers in the world will power the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), which has chosen the Intel many-integrated core (MIC) architecture with Xeon Phi coprocessors for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The Lab's current AMD-powered supercomputer using quad-core Opteron processors will make way for Intel's MIC with 60+ cores per Xeon Phi coprocessor chip, thereby boosting its performance into one of the Top20 supercomputer slots worldwide: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


Atipa provides end-to-end solutions using Intel Xeon processors and Xeon Phi coprocessors (center) to extract extreme performance from highly parallel applications. SOURCE: Atipa

Atipa and Super Micro will be assembling the DoE's supercomputer in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory by the end of 2013.
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