Intel: Exascale Computing Arrives In 2018

Intel has big supercomputing plans and claims that exascale supercomputers, which are more than 120 times faster than today’s fastest supercomputer, will arrive within 7 years and 2 years earlier than previously predicted.

Japan surprised us this morning with a stunning 8.2 Petaflop per second (PFlop/s) supercomputer with more than half a million processing cores, but Intel believes that the K Computer will lose its position soon. Kirk Skaugen, vice president of Intel’s Data Center Group, today said that supercomputers will integrate more than 1 million cores by 2013 and break through the 100 PFlop/s barrier by 2015. 1 Exaflop per second (Eflop/s) should be possible by 2018 while we should be working with systems that are capable of 4 Eflop/s by 2020.