Intel Corporation, the world’s leading chipmaker, has this week pooled its resources with supercomputing specialist Cray Inc. and announced a multi-year partnership that will see the two technology companies working together to advance high-performance computing (HPC) on Intel’s chips while also delivering joint technologies to Cray’s future server systems.
Intel and Cray join forces to create new multi-core and supercomputer technology. Image: Tom Purves/Flickr.
Intel and Cray are also planning to use their partnership to explore future supercomputer component designs including multi-core processing and advanced interconnects technology.
In further outlining the deal, California-based Intel Corp. offered that the partnership will lead to the development of HPC systems capable of directly contributing to the solving of some of the world’s most complex scientific, engineering and humanitarian challenges.
“This collaboration provides the HPC market segment with access to the best microprocessors the industry has to offer at any point in time, in the most advanced supercomputers in the world,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Seattle-based Cray Inc. “This further strengthens Cray’s industry-leading adaptive supercomputing vision as we move into the Cascade timeframe [which will include Intel-based computers] and beyond.”
Similarly, Intel has said that the deal with Cray is “a testament of our commitment to HPC” along with the strength of the chipmaker’s hardware and software roadmap and its multi-core research.
“Throughout Cray’s history, it has been an innovator in high-end HPC while Intel has pushed the boundaries of processor technology,” said Patrick Gelsinger, senior VP and GM of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “The combination of this industry leadership and technical strength will allow HPC users to take advantage of future Xeon and other Intel processor technologies… Together we will enable fundamental and historical problems of science and industry to be solved.”
The Cascade program, which is sponsored by DARPA, the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been put into action to successfully develop inexpensive supercomputer technology by 2011.
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