Intel at ISC 2013 in Germany its product line coprocessors the Xeon Phi series expanded. The company has three new products in the Xeon Phi coprocessorfamilie announced, that in different hpc environments should be applied.
During the previous edition of the International Supercomputing Conference announced Intel’s first generation Xeon Phi products. The coprocessors include Knights Corner cores that are compatible with x86 code. Competing gpgpu products have specially written code is required to access the parallel processing power to use. The first series of Xeon Phi coprocessors consisted of the 5110P with 60 cores on 1053MHz clocked. At that time, it announced that Intel to in the course of 2013 with the expansion of the Xeon Phi products to come: enhancements to the 3100-series, more products in the 5100 series and a new high-end 7100 series.
In the 3100-series, Intel the 3120P and 3120A announced, respectively, passively and actively cooled. The computing power should be above the 1Tflops true and the Xeon Phi’s to get 6GB of gddr5 memory with a bandwidth of 240GB/s. In the 5100-series is the 5120D a new package was introduced. This coprocessor is intended for systems in which no space for pci expresscards. The 5120D gets more than 1Tflops in double precision calculations and has 8GB of gddr5 memory with a bandwidth of over 300GB/s.
The new series of Xeon Phi’s consists of the 7100 series, with the 7120P and 7120X. The 7120P is passively cooled, while the 7120X a bare pcb. The 7100-series is the top end control and is equipped with 16GB of gddr5 memory with a total bandwidth of 352GB/s. The coprocessors should be 1.2 tflops of computing power can deliver. All of the current Xeon Phi coprocessors on the Knights Corner architecture based on 22nm produced.
Xeon Phi is the fastest supercomputer in the world. This Milky Way 2 system, with to 32,768 cores of 22nm, Ivy Bridge Xeon processors E5-2600 V2 series 48,000 Xeon Phi coprocessors, provides eur 54.9 Pflops piekrekenkracht and 33,86 Pflops Linpack power. The 4096 processors, to 1PB ram and 12.4 PB storage associated with it. The system requires 17,8 MW of energy and is in 162 serverbehuizingen to be found.
A new generation of Xeon Phi coprocessors was also announced, but is not yet available. The Knight’s Landing generation will be on 14nm are produced and the performance of supercomputers further up screws, while the power consumption should decrease. Other than the coprocessors of the Knights Corner the Knights Landing as a stand-alone cpu can be used. Knights Landing, as well as some products from the recently introduced Haswell processors, memory on the same chipverpakking. The integrated memory is not in the same that, but in the package.