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No. 7: Stampede

New to this top 10 is Dell's Stampede, which rode its new Intel Xeon Phi processors -- a total of 204,900 cores' worth -- to a 2.66 petaflop benchmark. Installed at the University of Texas in Austin, Stampede also packs 112,500 accelerator cores as part of the Xeon Phi platform.

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