The need for supercomputing power is becoming insatiable even on college campuses, and Intel’s Xeon Phi coprocessor has again helped set a fastest supercomputer record.
The University of Purdue has unveiled its new supercomputer Conte, which gives it bragging rights for having the nation’s fastest university-owned supercomputer for the third year in a row. Conte clocked a maximum speed of 961.9 teraflops and a peak performance of 1.341 petaflops, according to the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
(Read my complete blog on the topic at GoParallel)
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