The fastest supercomputer in the world with 14,000 Intel Xeon 5600

Intel unveiled the fastest supercomputer in the world with 14,396 Intel processors accompanied by accelerator cards named the  Tianhe-1A supercomputer bellow the press release from Intel:

HIGHLIGHTS

- Tianhe-1A supercomputer, featuring more than 14,000 Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, is No. 1 supercomputer on 36th edition of Top500 list.

- Intel powers nearly 80 percent of systems on latest Top500 list, including four of the top six.

- Intel powers more than 90 percent of new systems on the Top500 list.

- Intel demonstrates applications powered by Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 14, 2010 – Intel Corporation today announced that its Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, announced earlier this year, are at the heart of the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A. Located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, Tianhe-1A contains 14,396 Intel processors accompanied by accelerator cards, and has demonstrated groundbreaking performance of 2.57 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second).

In partnership with Inspur, a computer manufacturer in China, Intel worked closely with the National Supercomputing Center and its technology partners to achieve this groundbreaking performance.