Cray Sees Strong Adoption of Latest Intel Xeon Phi
Knights Landing-based HPC systems increasing in demand
Supercomputer maker Cray is seeing a strong demand for systems based on the new Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) processor, according to this brief by Slashdot Media Contributing Editor Wylie Wong
Supercomputer maker Cray is seeing strong interest in the second-generation Intel Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” processor, a sign that the new processor will do well in the high-performance computing market, according to a recent story in The Motley Fool.
During its Q1 2016 earnings call in May, Cray CEO Peter Ungaro told financial analysts that the company has “a substantial amount of business” that relies on both Intel’s Knights Landing processor and Nvidia’s competing Tesla P100 processor, the first chip in its new Pascal family of GPUs.
But Ungaro said orders for high-performance computing systems based on Intel’s Knights Landing are currently surpassing orders for systems that use the Nvidia processor.
“We do have orders for Pascal, but it’s (a) smaller number, so the biggest one for us really is Knights Landing right now,” he said during the conference call.
Ungaro added that Cray is building several large systems that will run on Knights Landing, including the Trinity supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the new Cori supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and another system at Argonne.
Intel began shipping Knights Landing in June.
“We are upgrading our entire software stack, including our Chapel programming language, to support Knights Landing, and we have a number of large systems already planned to ship this year,” he said on the earnings call.
August 9, 2016 Wylie Wong, Slashdot Media Contributing Editor
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