Penguin Computing today announced with Intel that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will install Penguin Computing’s Tundra™ Extreme Scale (ES) series, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, to bolster computing for the NNSA’s mission of ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear stockpile. The systems are being procured under NNSA’s tri-laboratory Commodity Technology Systems program, or CTS-1, as part of the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program and will serve Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.
Read MoreIntel today introduced the Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v5 product family for entry-level workstations – a powerful processing and graphics platform for designers, engineers, scientists and animators to develop more quickly their complex product designs and research. Based on Intel’s 14nm Skylake architecture, the product family delivers up to 27 percent higher compute and graphics performance compared to the previous generation Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family. The processors feature 4 cores, ranging in frequency from 2.0 GHz to 3.7 GHz, and have an integrated Intel® HD Graphics P530 graphics solution with certification from the leading workstation software vendors.
Read MoreToday at re:Invent , Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new Amazon EC2 X1 instances , which will feature up to 2 TB of memory, a full order of magnitude larger than the current generation of AWS high-memory instances. Demonstrating the importance of obtaining the highest performance available, AWS selected the 4 socket Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 (Haswell) to power the new instances.
Read MoreContent editors, designers and engineers take note – Intel is bringing the power of Intel® Xeon® processors to notebook PCs in a perfect balance between power and mobility. Designed from the ground up for mobile workstations, the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1500M v5 product family , based on architecture code-named Skylake, brings high precision computing horsepower to a notebook and supports key features like error-correcting code memory for enhanced reliability while running critical workstation applications.
Read MoreToday, Amazon Web Services announced it is using another customized Intel® Xeon® server processor to deliver M4 instances. M4 instances are a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) instance designed for small and mid-size databases and memory-intensive data processing tasks. The custom Intel Xeon processor E5-2676 v3 builds on the Amazon and Intel collaboration to develop and deliver optimal experiences for customers of Amazon EC2, a web service providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud
Read MoreToday at Computex 2015, Intel introduced the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v4 product family , now integrated with Intel’s most powerful data center graphics, Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics P6300.
Read MoreFirst 14nm Intel® Xeon® Product Family Delivers Server-Class Capabilities in a Dense, Low- Power System-on-Chip Optimized for Cloud, Telco Service Providers and Web Hosters Intel® Xeon® processor D product family SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 9, 2015 – Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Xeon® processor D product family, the company’s first Intel Xeon processor-based system-on-chip (SoC). Built on Intel’s industry-leading 14nm process technology, the Intel Xeon processor D product family combines the performance and advanced intelligence of Intel Xeon processors with the size and power savings of an SoC. The rapid proliferation of connected devices is driving exponential growth in data traffic, increasing the demands on the data center and network infrastructure for cloud and telecommunication service providers.
Read MoreFirst 14nm Intel® Xeon® Product Family Delivers Server-Class Capabilities in a Dense, Low- Power System-on-Chip Optimized for Cloud, Telco Service Providers and Web Hosters Intel® Xeon® processor D product family SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 9, 2015 – Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Xeon® processor D product family, the company’s first Intel Xeon processor-based system-on-chip (SoC).
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