Intel Awarded Tarek El-Ghazawi a Gift of $250,000 in Addition to Software and Hardware to Establish an Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) at GW

Intel awarded Prof. Tarek El-Ghazawi a gift of $250,000 in addition to software and hardware to establish an Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) at GW.  The GW-IPCC will focus on advancing parallel programming for many-core chips, including locality-aware optimizations and new programming paradigms such as PGAS for many-core chips.   Many-core chips include the Xeon Phi or MIC (Many Integrated Core Architecture).  The Knights Landing version of this many-core chip is built with 14nm process technology, has up to 72 processor cores, and can reach 3 TFLOPS (3 trillion calculations per second).  They are used to build some of top supercomputers in the world as well as powerful servers.