Xeon Phi

Enterprises Get On The Xeon Phi Roadmap

The Xeon family of processors have been around so long and are so vital to the fortunes of Intel that no one questions that there is a long-term roadmap ...Full Article

Xeon Phi To Get 3X Speed Bump, Omni Scale Fabric

Intel is showing off a few more of the feeds and speeds of its forthcoming "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi chips and talking a bit about the future network fabric ...Full Article

Intel Mates FPGA With Future Xeon Server Chip

Intel is taking field programmable gate arrays seriously as a means of accelerating applications and has crafted a hybrid chip that marries an FPGA to a Xeon E5 processor ...Full Article

Fat Xeons Best Accelerated Systems For Option Pricing

Sometimes you can throw hardware at a problem and speed up an application, and other times, if you delve into the software stack and make changes, that works. Sometimes, ...Full Article

Intel to Pull Networking Into Xeon and Xeon Phi Chips

Among other things, Moore's Law allows for the successive integration of system components onto processors. Various levels of cache memory as well as main memory controllers and peripheral controllers ...Full Article

3M and Allied Control Cool Clusters with Novec Bubble Bath

One of the more interesting demonstrations at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week in Denver was a Xeon E5 server dunked in a tank of Novec fire suppressant fluid. ...Full Article

Xeon Phi Coprocessors Accelerate Platform Symphony Grids

Financial services institutions running risk analytics, Monte Carlo simulations, or pricing algorithms using IBM's Platform Symphony grid software on their clusters are getting a computational boost now that Symphony ...Full Article