Intel has completed the purchase of Whamcloud, a supplier of Lustre, an open source file system, in order to increase its high-performance-computing offering.

Lustre is used by many of the fastest supercomputers in the world, an area which Intel dominates, with 74 percent of 500 of the world’s supercomputers currently employing Intel processors.

Intel is currently focusing on increasing computing power by three times as much as current supercomputing powers.

In other news Intel has reported that it expects to see lower than anticipated growth for 2012, as mobile devices drew sales away from computer and laptop sales.