November 18, 2009

Intel Powers 80 Percent of Top500 Supercomputers

INTEL

When AMD is still cheering up for its recent win in supercomputer race, Intel has just fired up a statement claiming that 402 systems on Top500 list are backed by their microprocessors, including three in top 10.

The chip giant also says in the first half of 2010 they will launch a new High Performance Computing (HPC) optimized version of its forthcoming processor codenamed “Nehalem-EX”. 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.

Intel has also announced that a beta program for Intel’s 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 parallelizing code across multi-core and many-core processors.

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