Intel and Cray started building a 180 Petaflops supercomputer

Intel processors and technologies have long been firmly settled inside the world's most productive computing devices - it’s not by chance that four of the top 10 supercomputers work on Intel today. The next step will further strengthen the company's position in the field of mega computing. Together with the well-known company Cray, Intel began the creation of two supercomputers for the US Department of Energy; one of them will be several times superior to the most powerful one currently available.



The launch of the main supercomputer is planned for 2018; its performance will be 180 Petaflops (for comparison, the current # 1 , by the way, also running on Intel processors, has 45 Petaflops). Intel will design stuffing devices "from and to", many details have not been disclosed, but it is known that to achieve the maximum result will be used:

• New Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (codenamed Knights Hill),
• Interconnect Intel Omni-Path Fabric technology of the second generation
• Data storage based on non-volatile memory
• HPC file system using Intel® Luster software.

The second supercomputer with more modest parameters will be launched in 2016.



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