Products Intel Xeon 5500 Series Nehalem is called regular or sweet in demand. Processors that many computer users are a community because of the high performance or high performance computing (HPC) system. Eventually, the Xeon 5500 was ranked successful achievement in the TOP500 list of the latest edition to-33. Vice president and general manager Kirk Skaugen Intel group in Hamburg, Germany, if the HPC can be spelled out into the field with the fastest growth in the server business. "Intel strive for improving the performance of supercomputer," added Skaugen.Actual output product is a new Intel released three weeks back. Intel Xeon 5500 be regarded reliable because using four core processor to work or quad-core processors, making it possible to work better and faster and can be classified to the super computer. Fair, the Intel Xeon 5500 has a speed of up to 3.2 Giga Hertz (GHz). Dipatok price in the market per unit ranges between 1000 U.S. $ 188 to U.S. $ 1,600, or about Rp 1.8 million to Rp 16 million. "We are delighted to see again increased supercomputer using Intel Xeon processors," said Skaugen.
TOP500 list is a ranking system in the world and updated twice a year. TOP500 cooperation is the result of the computer science professor from the University of Mannheim, Germany, Hans Meuer. So there are also experts alogaritma, parallel machines, programmers from the University of Tennessee, Jack Donggara, and the Department of Energy's National Scientific Research of the National Computer United States of America, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon. Of the TOP500 list, recorded 399 of the top 500 systems in the world that use Intel processors in it, even occupying the rank of 10.
Super computer with the Intel base has been widely used in various fields. Starting from the research field of research space, predict conditions due to global warming, financial services, to health.
Not only the hardware, Intel also provides software support HPC performance with Intel processors: Intel Cluster Tools. Software is equipped complier and library. Intel also send software Complier Intel 11.1 Professional Edition for Linux operating system, Windows, and Machintos
