Supercomputers
Supercomputers based on Xeon processors that have been in the top ten of the Top500 fastest supercomputers in the world:
- An Intel Xeon system at SGI in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Machine: SGI Altix ICE 8200 system with 3584 Quad-Core Clovertown processors at 3.0 GHz and InfiniBand interconnect. This supercomputer was listed in third place in November 2007, ahead of the fastest Itanium and Opteron-based supercomputers but behind two PowerPC-based Blue Gene systems built in Rochester, Minnesota.
- A Chinese Tianhe-IA used a mixed Xeon-nVIDIA GPGPU configuration and reached 1st place on the TOP500 until being overtaken by the Japanese K computer
Xeon processor-based systems in the top 20 fastest systems by memory bandwidth as measured by STREAM benchmark:
- An Intel Xeon virtual SMP system leveraging ScaleMP's Versatile SMP (vSMP) architecture with 128 cores and 1TB RAM. This system aggregates 16 Stoakley platform (Seaburg chipset) systems with total of 32 Harpertown processors.
Systems with Xeon processors plus Xeon Phi coprocessors in the Top500 fastest supercomputers in the world:
- The first listing which included a Xeon Phi coprocessors was number 150 on the June 2012 list. It was an Intel cluster named Discovery, using eight core Xeon E5-2670 2.600 GHz processors, Infiniband FDR, and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, for a total of 9800 cores.
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