Friday, 10 November 2006

Intel Debuts Super-Computing Products

The chipmaker, Intel has unveiled Cluster Toolkit 3.0 and Cluster OpenMP for Intel compilers. Both products are aimed at helping developers write parallel applications that can be spread across the server clusters that dominate the High Performance Computing (HPC) arena, the company said.

The Cluster Toolkit bundle ships with new releases of Intel's MPI Library, Math Kernel Library Cluster Edition and Trace Analyser and Collector. Meanwhile, the brand new Cluster OpenMP brings OpenMP to distributed memory clusters, the company said.

Speaking of multi-core chips, Intel plans to release its four-core 'Clovertown' version of Xeon. The company has also crafted the S3000PT compact server for HPC customers. The box runs on the four-core Kentsfield chips, which is aimed more at workstation customers, the company added.

"The small 5.9 inch x13 Inch form factor is well suited for personal clusters for individuals and workgroups as well as high- density datacenters such as ISPs and Web hosting," Intel said.

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