According to recent reports, the updated twice a year, the most efficient supercomputer is now considered the Chinese Tianhe-2 system, the defaultspeed of which is 33.86 petaflops. To restore justice, US Department of Energy has ordered Intel's super-assembly capacity of 180 petaflops. However, the Chinese are certainly planning to asymmetric response.
Create a new set named Aurora, Intel will be in collaboration with the company Cray. We are talking about a new generation of supercomputers Cray, although Intel has also become the direct perpetrator of the contract, which has not been here for 20 years. The cost of works is estimated at $ 200 million. It is reported that the base of Aurora will be put not only the processors Xeon, and processors Xeon Phi, which in the new generation of accelerators really turned into the processor.
In operation Aurora system will be put in 2018. But next year the partners will create a new generation of system-level junior - performance of 8.5 petaflops.. Both of the new system will be transferred to the Argonne National Laboratory. In addition to basic tasks - military and scientific computing - the new supercomputer will be used to work with the genome involved in design of turbines and other civilian tasks solution. Related Products :
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