SGI, Intel Plan to Speed up Supercomputers 500x by 2018

SGI hopes by 2018 to build supercomputers 500 times faster than the most powerful today, using specially designed accelerator chips made by Intel. SGI hopes to bring a massive performance boost to its supercomputers through highly parallel processors based on Intel’s MIC (many integrated cores) architecture.

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