Intel is leading the development of solutions, which is called superchip, and is intended for use in high performance computing systems. According to (Diane Bryant), head of the department in charge of developing solutions for data centers and communications systems, superchip with other components of the system will be implemented through an interface InfiniBand, which is characterized by low latency and is often used to build links within the computer equipment .
At the moment in the segment of HPC Intel offer x86-compatible Xeon processors and accelerators parallel computing Knights Corner, which is based on the architecture of Many Integrated Core (MIC). The combination of these solutions is expected to provide peak performance of 10 petaflops supercomputer Stampede, which will be built at the University of Texas.
Recall that in January, Intel announced the acquisition of QLogic, which designs and develops interface InfiniBand. Even then, the world's largest processors reported about their intentions to use technology to increase the capacity of internal connections in computer system.