14 years ago, in 1997, Intel demonstrated the first supercomputer capable of achieving 1 TeraFlops by combining 9,680 Intel Pentium Pro CPUs.
Today, Intel unveiled the first chip based on its MIC (Many Integrated Cores) architecture: "Knight's Corner".
It is a single CPU with 50 computing cores, reaching over 1 TeraFlops in one chip. According to Intel, "the result is a fundamentally new architecture that uses the same tools, compilers, and libraries as the Intel® Xeon processors.
Today, Intel unveiled the first chip based on its MIC (Many Integrated Cores) architecture: "Knight's Corner".
It is a single CPU with 50 computing cores, reaching over 1 TeraFlops in one chip. According to Intel, "the result is a fundamentally new architecture that uses the same tools, compilers, and libraries as the Intel® Xeon processors.
Intel already foresees a combination of many Intel® MIC processors surpassing the next big milestone: the exaflop barrier."
As a frame of reference, a six-core Intel i7 CPU peaks at 109 GigaFlops.
1 GFlop = 109
1 TeraFlop = 1012
1 ExaFlop = 1018 (that number would be read as "10 followed by 18 zeros", or "one quintillion" calculations per second)
More at INTEL.
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