http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/37.aspxIntel Processor DiscussionsenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/thread/440465.aspxFri, 16 Nov 2012 10:08:07 GMTba4e517a-01ef-48a6-b096-821b95afe388:440465mhenriday0http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/thread/440465.aspxhttp://hothardware.com/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=37&PostID=440465<p>Here a <a title="link" href="http://www.green500.org/lists/green201211"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>link</b></span></a> to a list of the top ten....</p> <p>Henri</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/thread/440369.aspxThu, 15 Nov 2012 17:16:46 GMTba4e517a-01ef-48a6-b096-821b95afe388:440369News0http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/thread/440369.aspxhttp://hothardware.com/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=37&PostID=440369<div class="newsText" id="dvPreComment"><img alt="" style="float: right;" src="http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item23351/intel-xeon-phi-thumb.jpg" />The Green500 ranks the most energy-efficient <a href="http://hothardware.com/Tags/supercomputers.aspx">supercomputers</a> in the world, and the latest list has an <a href="http://hothardware.com/Tags/intel.aspx">Intel</a>-powered system at the top: “Beacon”, a supercomputer located at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), is the world’s most efficient supercomputer.<br /> <br /> Notably, Beacon uses Intel’s new <a href="http://hothardware.com/Tags/xeon-phi.aspx">Xeon Phi</a> 5110p coprocessors(running its MIC architecture) along with Intel Xeon E5-2670 chips to drink just 44.89kW of power while offering almost two-and-a-half billion floating-point operations per second per watt (2.49 GFlops/Watt) and hits 112,200 gigaflops at peak performance.<br /> <br /> <table align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MrIuS5yXCrM"></iframe> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br /> <br /> Intel has to be feeling pretty good about that ranking, because it firmly believes that its Xeon Phi coprocessors using parallel processing are the key to achieving exascale computing, and finding a way to keep energy consumption in check is a huge obstacle to overcome.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Xeon Phi Stampede" src="http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item23351/tacc-stampede-xeon-phi.JPG" /><br /> </div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Stampede construction" src="http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item23351/tacc-stampede-construction.JPG" /><br /> <em>Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors going into TACC&#39;s Stampede</em><br /> </div> <br /> It also bodes well for the prospects of one of the next major supercomputers to come online, the Texas Advanced Computer Center’s “Stampede”, which is currently under construction and makes use of the Xeon Phi coprocessors, as well.</div><div class="newsTextBody" id="dvBody"></div><div class="newsText" id="dvComment"></div>