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Intel Announces New Processors and a New Project
Chip giant rolls out new Xeon Phi coprocessors and joins with HP to announce a new HPC center. Intel and HP recently announced new plans to expand their high-performance-computing activities. Intel's Vice President of Datacenter & Connected Systems Group, Rajeeb Hazra, presented three new families of Xeon Phi coprocessors as part of his keynote address at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'13). The new 7100 family has the highest performance and the most memory. The 3100 family is lower-priced but not so powerful. The 5100 Family has been optimized for very high packing density. A predecessor of the newly released Xeon Phi models just made the news as part of China's Tianhe-2, the worlds fastest supercomputer.
Intel has also joined with HP to establish a Joint Open Centre of Excellence for High Performance computing in Grenoble, which will help customers, developers, and manufacturers with benchmarks and proof-of-concept projects in the field of energy efficiency research.
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