Intel (INTC) outlines plans for its "Knights Corner" 50-core processors, SGI unveils its Petaflop in a Cabinet offering, French atomic agency powers up its Tera 100 supercomputer, Cray receives order for XT6m system.
What the new Top 500 tells us about trends in supercomputing: Growing adoption of Infiniband, ubiquity for quad-core processor systems, continued dominance by the U.S. but serious gains by China.