Intel Delivers New Architecture for Discovery With Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors

Combination of Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors Promises to Drive High Performance Computing Innovation NEWS HIGHLIGHTS * Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors, when combined with the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family, will deliver unprecedented parallel performance, increasing the productivity and efficiency of high-performance computing. * Efficient performance and a familiar programming model foster a thriving development community and extensive industry support from key OEMs, making high-performance computing easier to access for content creators, developers and scientists. * Optimizing applications with tools such as Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 helps achieve industry's best performance per watt for high degrees of parallelism on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors as well as a significant increase in productivity on Intel Xeon processors E5 product family. * Ninety-one percent of all newly listed systems on the recently announced Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers are powered by Intel processors. Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors are already featured in 7 systems including the most power-efficient supercomputer on the list –“Beacon” delivering 2.44 GFlops/Watt.