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"Exascale" Computing->  Submitted by MojoKid writes "At the
International Supercomputing Conference today, Intel announced
that Knights corner, the company's first commercial Many
Integrated Core (MIC) product will ship commercially in 2012.
The descendent of the processor formerly known as Larrabee also
gets a new brand name--Xeon Phi. The idea behind Intel's new
push is that the highly efficient Xeon E5 architecture (eight-
core, 32nm Sandy Bridge) fuels the basic x86 cluster, while the
Many Integrated Core CPUs that grew out of the failed Larrabee
GPU offer unparalleled performance scaling and break new ground.
The challenges Intel is trying to surmount are considerable.
We've successfully pushed from teraflops to petaflops, but
exaflops (or exascale computing) currently demands more
processors and power than it's feasible to provide in the next
5-7 years. Intel's MIC is targeted at hammering away at that
barrier and create new opportunities for sup