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Intel to deliver new products

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CIOL Bureau
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NEW DELHI: During the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Intel announced plans to deliver new products, which are based on Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. This will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.

Targeting high-performance computing segments such as exploration, scientific research and financial or climate simulation, the first product codenamed 'Knights Corner' will target Intel's 22-nanometer manufacturing (nm) process and will use Moore’s Law to scale to more than 50 Intel processing cores on a single chip. MIC architecture will help to accelerate and select highly parallel applications.

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Industry design and development kits codenamed “Knights Ferry” are currently shipping to select developers. Beginning in the second half of the current year, Intel will expand the program to deliver an extensive range of developer tools for Intel MIC architecture. Common Intel software tools and optimization techniques between Intel MIC architecture and Intel Xeon processors will support programming models that will place unprecedented performance in the hands of scientists, researchers and engineers, allowing them to increase their pace of discovery and preserve their existing software investments. The Intel MIC architecture is derived from several Intel projects, including “Larrabee” and such Intel Labs research projects as the Single-chip Cloud Computer.

“The CERN openlab team was able to migrate a complex C++ parallel benchmark to the Intel MIC software development platform in just a few days,” said Sverre Jarp, CTO, CERN openlab. "The familiar hardware programming model allowed us to get the software running much faster than expected.”

“Intel’s Xeon processors and our new Intel MIC architecture products will push the boundaries of science and discovery as Intel accelerates solutions to some of humanity’s most challenging problems,” said Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Intel’s Data Centre Group. “The Intel MIC architecture will extend Intel’s HPC products and solutions that are already amongst 82 per cent of the world’s top supercomputers.”

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