TD Staff Intel has announced the launch of its new commercial product from its Xeon Phi family – Knights Corner. Knights. Corner is a co–processor designed to deliver incredible performance for highly parallel applications. The processor is available in a PCIe form factor, getting an edge over the latest models of Intel’s Xeon processors and motherboards.
Intel displayed a pre-production of Phi unit last year which was capable of delivering above 1 TeraFLOP double precision floating point functioning. Using a graphical representation they also showcased the difference between the current and the TeraFLOP computer which first came in 1997.
The Xeon processor is at present functioning in 70% of the leading 500 supercomputers globally. The first generation Xeon Phi is capable of handling highly parallel supercomputing tasks. With increased usage of CPU parallel code, various software firm and IT section are out of proprietary programming models developers which is linked with accelerators. The Xeon processor has already been used in a supercomputer which ranks 149 in the world at present.
Intel Xeon Phi co-processor is capable of adjusting with x86 programming models, the processor will be viewed to applications as a different computer node that will run its own Linux-based operating system making it independent from the host Operating System. It features a minimum of 8 GB GDDR5 memory and has more than 50 cores. The processor is made from 3-D tri gate transistors technology and Intel’s innovative 22nm. It comes with a 512 bit wide SIMD to enhance the performance through multiple data elements with every single instruction.
