Intel® Xeon Processors and Xeon Phi™ Co-Processors Promise to Power World's Most Efficient HPC Data Center
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory announces new petascale HPC system dedicated to researching renewable energy and energy efficiency, scheduled for power-on in summer 2013.
- The newly designed system will be powered by the combination of current 32nm and future 22nm generation Intel® Xeon® processors and the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ co-processors.
- The leading energy efficiency of Intel Xeon processors and co-processors combined with innovative data center design and revolutionary warm water cooling system designed by HP* are expected to make the installation at NREL the world's most energy efficient data center.
- Participating in the software development for Intel® MIC architecture, NREL took only days to port a half-million lines of code of the Weather Research and Forecasting application to demonstrate the potential forenergy efficiency and performance of Intel Xeon Phi cores.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 – Signaling its commitment to energy-efficient high- performance computing, Intel Corporation today announced that it will work with HP to help design and provide the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with a supercomputing system that will drive research across a number of energy-related initiatives, including renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies. The new High Performance Computer (HPC) data center promises to become one of the world's most efficient installations.
Released Sep 5, 2012 • 12:00 AM EDT