Intel and Cray supercomputer began creating capacity of 180 petaflop Bashny.Net

Processors and Intel technology has long been firmly settled in the most productive computing devices of the world - not by accident to date from top 10 supercomputers based on Intel There are four. Next step further strengthen the company's position in the field of mega calculations. Together with the well-known company Cray Intel start the creation of two supercomputers commissioned by the Department of Energy; one of them will be several times greater than the most powerful available now.

Running the main supercomputer is planned for 2018; its performance will be 180 petaflop (for comparison, the current # 1 , incidentally, is also working on processors Intel, has a 45 petaflop). Intel will design stuffing devices "to and from" many of the details have not been disclosed, but we know that in order to achieve maximum results will be applied:

• New coprocessors Intel Xeon Phi (codenamed Knights Hill),
• Technology interconnect Intel Omni-Path Fabric second generation,
• The data warehouse based on non-volatile memory < /
• HPC file system using software Intel® Lustre.
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  Source: geektimes.ru/company/intel/blog/249162/