Intel has been pursuing a long-term, multi-faceted set of investments to create the processors and technologies needed to build CPU-based supercomputers that can deliver exascale levels of performance in a cost and energy efficient fashion. Slated to become operational in 2016, the Trinity and Cori supercomputers will be powered by the next-generation Intel Xeon Phi processor, code name Knights Landing (KNL), booting in self-hosted mode as a standard, single processor node.
These pre-exascale supercomputers will deliver double-digit petascale performance (for example, 1016 floating-point operations per second, or flop/s) without the use of attached accelerators or coprocessors. They will certainly …
CPU Based Exascale Supercomputing Without Accelerators was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.