#CHIPS: "Stephen Hawkings 'Big Brain' Powered by MIC"

Stephen Hawkings Cosmos, based on SGI's ‘Big Brain’ platform, is the world's first shared memory supercomputer, according to Intel, powered by its new many-integrated-core (MIC) architecture: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog

Stephen Hawking’s Miracle Consortia’s Cosmos supercomputer uses SGI’s Big Brain chassis to house 32 Xeon Phi coprocessors in the world’s first MIC-powered shared memory supercomputer. Source: SGI

Here is what GoParallel says about Hawking's Cosmos supercomputer: The world’s first shared memory supercomputer is powered by Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. Used in the latest incarnation of Stephen Hawking’s pioneering Cosmos supercomputer for the Miracle Consortia, SGI’s “Big Brain” houses 32 Xeon Phi co-processors utilizing over 1,800 cores in a shared-memory of nearly 15 terabytes (TB)...
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