Intel Processors power Supercomputers from TOP500* global list

The 2014 worldwide edition of the Top500 Supercomputers list released revealed that 9 Supercomputers ranked in the Top500 list are housed in India and powered by Intel processors. From among these, Intel’s prominent HPC implementations are The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to name a few. Additionally, Intel’s Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors also powers the top-rated system in the world – the 35 PFLOPS “Milky Way 2” in China.
 
Released biannually by TOP500, the ranking elevates India to the global map in High Performance Computing (HPC) technology which is applied in data intensive environments like weather forecasting and seismic analysis.
 
Also important to note is the fact that Intel-based systems account for 85% of all supercomputers on the 43rd edition of the TOP500 list and 97% of all new additions. Within 18 months after the introduction of Intel’s first many-core architecture products, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor-based systems already make up 18 percent of the aggregated performance of all TOP500 supercomputers.
 
On the sidelines of the Top500 Supercomputer ranking, Intel Corporation also announced details for its next-generation Intel Xeon Phi processors, code-named Knights Landing, which promises to extend the benefits of code modernization investments being made for current generation products. These include a new high-speed fabric that will be integrated on-package and high-bandwidth, on-package memory that combined, promise to accelerate the rate of scientific discovery. Currently memory and fabrics are available as discrete components in servers limiting the performance and density of supercomputers.
 
This HPC-optimized architecture is designed to address the performance, scalability, reliability, power and density requirements of future HPC deployments. It is designed to balance price and performance for entry-level through extreme-scale deployments. The next generation Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor is scheduled to power HPC systems in the second half of 2015.