Texas recieved a 27 million dollar grant from the national science foundation. Called Stampede, it is supposed to come online in 2013.If it were running today, it would be the worlds fastest supercomputer.
At the heart of Stampede will be two kinds of Intel processors. More than 12,000 eight-core Xeon E5 processors will combine to produce 2 petaflops, a measure of a computer's processing speed. But the bulk of the raw processing power, an astounding 8 petaflops, will come from Intel¹s newest MIC (many integrated core) chips, which have more than 50 processing cores per unit.This is one fast computer!
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-texas-stampede-extreme-digital-xd.html
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