Intel’s Xeon processor E5-2600 product family has become the fastest adopted new processing technology to power 44 systems, including 3 Petascale-class supercomputers, on the 39th edition of the Top500 list.
“The Intel Xeon processor E5 family is powering exponential performance gains in high performance computing and we’re proud that it is having such a profound impact on the industry as demonstrated by its presence inside 44 of the Top500 supercomputers,” said Mr Raj Hazra, Intel Corporation Vice-President and General Manager of the Technical Computing at Data Centre and Connected Systems Group.
The company in a release said that the SuperMUC supercomputer in Germany, which ranked fourth on the list, delivers 2.9 PetaFLOPs, making it the most powerful in Europe, as well as the largest installation based on the new Intel Xeon processors E5 family.