Encanto: World's Third Fastest Super Computer
John Miner, Intel IT engineer, takes you on a personal tour of the Encanto Super computer – the third fastest super computer in the world, based on the November 2007 list by Top500.org. The computer is projected to operate at 172 teraflops per second or one trillion calculations a second. It is powered by 14,336 Intel Xeon processor cores and has enough memory for 28,000 office computers. With the $11 million supercomputer, students, researchers, businesses and government can tackle some of the difficult problems facing the country, from economic forecasting to water conservation.
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Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
AVX is an extension to the SSE instruction set, introduced in the Sandy Bridge micro-architecture. AVX, when used by software programmers, will increase performance in floating point, media, and processor intensive software. AVX can also increase energy efficiency, and is backwards compatible to existing Intel processors. Key features include wider vectors, increasing from 128 bit to 256 bit wide, resulting in up to 2x peak FLOPs output. Enhanced data rearrangement, resulting in allowing data to be pulled more efficiently, and three operand, non-destructive syntax for a range of benefits.
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John Miner, Intel IT engineer, takes you on a personal tour of the Encanto Super computer – the third fastest super computer in the world, based on the November 2007 list by Top500.org. The computer is projected to operate at 172 teraflops per second or one trillion calculations a second. It is powered by 14,336 Intel Xeon processor cores and has enough memory for 28,000 office computers. With the $11 million supercomputer, students, researchers, businesses and government can tackle some of the difficult problems facing the country, from economic forecasting to water conservation.
View the Take Five Video >>
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
AVX is an extension to the SSE instruction set, introduced in the Sandy Bridge micro-architecture. AVX, when used by software programmers, will increase performance in floating point, media, and processor intensive software. AVX can also increase energy efficiency, and is backwards compatible to existing Intel processors. Key features include wider vectors, increasing from 128 bit to 256 bit wide, resulting in up to 2x peak FLOPs output. Enhanced data rearrangement, resulting in allowing data to be pulled more efficiently, and three operand, non-destructive syntax for a range of benefits.
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