Indian supercomputers among top nine in global list

LEIPZIG, GERMANY: The 2014 worldwide edition of the Top500 Supercomputers list released revealed that nine Supercomputers ranked in the Top500 list are housed in India and powered by Intel processors, as the company shared in a note.

From among these, Intel's prominent HPC implementations are The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to name a few. Additionally, Intel's Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors also powers the top-rated system in the world - the 35 PFLOPS "Milky Way 2" in China.

Released biannually by TOP500, the ranking elevates India to the global map in High Performance Computing (HPC) technology which is applied in data intensive environments like weather forecasting and seismic analysis. 

The company also highlighted that Intel-based systems account for 85 per cent of all supercomputers on the 43rd edition of the TOP500 list and 97 per cent of all new additions. Within 18 months after the introduction of Intel's first many-core architecture products, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor-based systems already make up 18 per cent of the aggregated performance of all TOP500 supercomputers. 

On the sidelines of the Top500 Supercomputer ranking, Intel Corporation also announced details for its next-generation Intel Xeon Phi^T processors, code-named Knights Landing, which promises to extend the benefits of code modernization investments being made for current generation products. These, as claimed, include a new high-speed fabric that will be integrated on-package and high-bandwidth, on-package memory that combined, promise to accelerate the rate of scientific discovery. Currently memory and fabrics are available as discrete components in servers limiting the performance and density of supercomputers.