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Intel 50-core chips headed to Texas supercomputer
A University of Texas of supercomputer will tap a future Intel chip that contains more than 50 processor cores--the first instance of Intel supplying this novel technology to a commercial computer.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and University of Texas announced today that they will deploy a 10-Petaflop (or 10,000 trillion operations per second) supercomputer dubbed "Stampede."
When it arrives in early 2013, the supercomputer is expected to be among the world's most powerful computers for scientific and financial applications.
Inside will be an Intel chip design codenamed "Knights Corner," which will house … Read more
