Where Will Future Xeon Phi Chips Land?
Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. It has many more cores and vector units, and much more memory...
View ArticleFuture Intel Chips Shine in 180 Petaflops Argonne Supercomputer
Update: 5:08 p.m. Eastern – We have been able to dig into more details about the system architecture and confirm Knights Hill architecture and other interconnect/system details. Update detail page can...
View ArticleTall Stepping Stones for One of Next Top U.S. Supercomputers
Although the Top 500 list of supercomputers has come to something of a standstill in the last few incarnations of the bi-annual benchmark, the next few years will provide plenty of the way of...
View ArticleIntel Stacks Knights Landing Chips Next To Xeons
The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant...
View ArticleThe Knights Landing Xeon Phi Rollout Begins
The natural place for Intel to launch the next iteration of its “Knights” family of parallel X86 processors is at one of the two major supercomputer conferences that are hosted each year, which is the...
View ArticleInside Future “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi Systems
Without any new plain vanilla processors from Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, AMD, or the relative handful of ARM server chip makers, and with Nvidia launching its Tesla M4 and M40 accelerators aimed at...
View ArticleCPU Based Exascale Supercomputing Without Accelerators
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...
View ArticleUniversity Gears Up to Receive One of the First Omni-Path Machines
One of the first Knights Landing, Omni-Path supercomputers will be hitting the floor in Colorado in the coming months, and while one of the lead decision-makers for the system says they are expecting...
View ArticleKnights Landing Upgrade Will Push TACC Supercomputer to 18PF
During a trip to Dell in Austin, Texas this week, little did The Next Platform know that the hardware giant and nearby Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) had major news to share on the...
View ArticleIntel Knights Landing Yields Big Bang For The Buck Jump
The long wait for volume shipments of Intel’s “Knights Landing” parallel X86 processors is over, and at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany is unveiling the official...
View ArticleKnights Landing Proves Solid Ground for Intel’s Stake in Deep Learning
Intel has finally opened the first public discussions of its investment in the future of machine learning and deep learning and while some might argue it is a bit late in the game with its rivals...
View ArticleOptimization Tests Confirm Knights Landing Performance Projections
Close to a year ago when more information was becoming available about the Knights Landing processor, Intel released projections for its relative performance against two-socket Haswell machines. As one...
View ArticleKnights Landing Will Waterfall Down From On High
With the general availability of the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi many core processors from Intel last month, some of the largest supercomputing labs on the planet are getting their first taste of what...
View ArticleA Corner to Landing Leap: Xeon Phi Generations Put to Test
A first wave of benchmarks and real-world application runs on Intel’s Knights Landing has hit the shores and while not all the codes will be familiar or widely used, the takeaway of significant...
View ArticleWhy Intel Is Tweaking Xeon Phi For Deep Learning
If there is anything that chip giant Intel has learned over the past two decades as it has gradually climbed to dominance in processing in the datacenter, it is ironically that one size most definitely...
View ArticleInside Future “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi Systems
Without any new plain vanilla processors from Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, AMD, or the relative handful of ARM server chip makers, and with Nvidia launching its Tesla M4 and M40 accelerators aimed at...
View ArticleCPU Based Exascale Supercomputing Without Accelerators
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...
View ArticleUniversity Gears Up to Receive One of the First Omni-Path Machines
One of the first Knights Landing, Omni-Path supercomputers will be hitting the floor in Colorado in the coming months, and while one of the lead decision-makers for the system says they are expecting...
View ArticleKnights Landing Upgrade Will Push TACC Supercomputer to 18PF
During a trip to Dell in Austin, Texas this week, little did The Next Platform know that the hardware giant and nearby Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) had major news to share on the...
View ArticleIntel Knights Landing Yields Big Bang For The Buck Jump
The long wait for volume shipments of Intel’s “Knights Landing” parallel X86 processors is over, and at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany is unveiling the official...
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