Intel and NEC work together to develop future high-performance computing

"Sadie Network" November 16, 2009, Santa Clara, California, USA-Today, Intel (blog) and the Japanese Electric Company (NEC) agreed to work together to develop future-oriented high-performance computing system (or "http://www.aliyun.com/ Zixun/aggregation/13840.html "> supercomputer" technology to help the performance of high-performance computing systems get a further boost.

According to the agreement, NEC will bring them to market by introducing the technologies developed by both sides in the future of the intel® xeon® processor based supercomputing system. NEC's accumulated expertise in the field of High-performance computing with the excellent performance of the intel® xeon® processor and the future vector computing acceleration that the processor will use, such as the AVX instruction set, will help develop high-performance computing systems with higher performance to meet customer performance requirements for High-performance computing products for the intel® architecture.

While working with Intel, NEC will continue to sell its existing high-performance computing products with SX vector, whose vector can perform mathematical operations on multiple data at the same time.

"Intel continues to invest in the development of the intel® architecture, including the evolution of the processor, chipset, software compiler and other related products based on the architecture, to significantly extend the intel® xeon®," said Richard Dracott, Intel Corporation's High-performance Computing division, on both sides of this collaborative innovation program Processors in bulk and high-end high-performance computing market applications. Today, thanks to the further innovation of NEC on the xeon® processor-based system, Intel will be better able to develop the potential of the Xeon® processor platform for more High-performance computing users. ”

Wenyangyu Fumihiko Hisamitsu, general manager of NEC's High-performance Computing department, said: "NEC has a wealth of experience in the development of vector-processing systems, including vector pipeline management, memory subsystems and high-speed interconnect technology, and is helping Intel to Architecture to the ideal partner for the new market. Through close collaboration with Intel, NEC will further enrich the portfolio of High-performance computing products and continue to improve the performance of vector supercomputers. ”

At the beginning of the Intel and NEC collaboration, the two sides will focus on the development of hardware and software solutions to maximize memory bandwidth and scalability for the intel® xeon® processor platform. Both sides hope that this will not only improve high-performance computing systems for high-end scientific computing markets, but also benefit smaller, high-performance computing systems.

High performance computing systems the current stage of users, mainly scientists, doctors, non-profit organizations and a variety of commercial customers (such as oil and gas exploration companies), its main purpose is to speed up the research and testing of these users. Today, about four-fifths of the world's 500 high-performance computing systems are powered by Intel's processors.

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