The Intel Xeon Phi, which was just branded and officially launched back in November 2012, is already behind some leading research at one of the U.S.’s premier scientific computing centers. According to leaders at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the coprocessor has made significant bounds into a wider array of applications over the last year. The Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was the first large-scale system to deploy the Phi at massive scale. We spoke with Dan Stanzione, acting director at TACC (replacing Jay Boisseau, who retired from the center in January) about the Dell-integrated system, which has around 100,000 processors and 2.2 petaflops of performance within the base Xeon system alone. In addition to this, Stampede has a number of specialized subsystems, including a large shared memory system, GPUs to support on-system visualization as well as GPU computing. The approximately 7,000 Xeon Phi cards added another 7.5 petaflops of performance, bringing the system to #7 on the most recent Top 500 list at around 10 petaflops. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/02/03/one-year-7000-xeon-phi-cards-tacc-experience/.