Friday, September 14, 2012

Intel opens up about its 'Knights Corner' supercomputer co-processor

Intel opens up about its 'Knights Corner' supercomputer co-processor

HotChips is the show where chip makers come to show off their latest slices of silicon, and Knights Corner architect George Chrysos spilled the beans on Santa Clara's Xeon Phi co-processor. The unit's designed to bolt onto Xeon chips to help supercomputers crunch the numbers faster, by handling the "highly parallel" grunt work necessary for genetic and climate modeling, among other things.

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