Intel’s Key SC20 News Highlights:
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17, 2020?– At Supercomputing 2020 (SC20), Intel highlighted how the company’s hardware and software technologies are enabling the future of high performance computing (HPC). Companies around the world are selecting Intel® XPUs (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and accelerators) and oneAPI programming environment to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced computing systems.
3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (code-named “Ice Lake”)
In her keynote presentation to kickoff SC20, Trish Damkroger, vice president and general manager of High Performance Computing at Intel, highlighted Intel’s upcoming Ice Lake server processors that deliver performance-optimized features for a range of HPC workloads. Increased memory bandwidth, a new high-performance Sunny Cove core architecture, increased processor core count and support for PCIe Gen4 will help customers solve scientific challenges across different disciplines, including life sciences, material science and weather modeling.
Early testing demonstrates that two socket systems using 32-core Ice Lake processors can deliver higher performance on specified workloads at half the core count when compared to competitive x86 systems with 64-core processors. Customers running life sciences and financial services applications can expect to see higher performance on workloads such as NAMD molecular dynamics simulation (up to 1.2 times)1, Monte Carlo simulations (up to 1.3 times)2, and LAMMPS molecular modeling simulation (up to 1.2 times)3 compared to competitive x86 systems featuring twice as many cores as a 32-core Ice Lake processor-based system.
Several customers are adopting Ice Lake to address their next-generation HPC needs, including:
Damkroger also highlighted some of the recent supercomputing projects that target Intel’s latest Xeon processors, future Xeon processors, memory and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to advance science and research:
Intel Xe-HP GPUs Provide Argonne a Path to Exascale
At SC20, Intel and Argonne National Laboratory also announced their collaboration?on the?co-design and?validation?of?exascale-class applications using GPUs based on Intel’s Xe-HP microarchitecture and Intel oneAPI toolkits. Developers at Argonne are tapping into Intel’s latest programming environments for heterogeneous computing to ensure scientific applications are ready for the scale and architecture of the Aurora supercomputer at the time of deployment.
The?Xe-HP GPUs?offer Argonne a development vehicle for Intel?Xe-HPC GPUs (“Ponte Vecchio”) that will be used in the Aurora system.
More information can be found at “Intel and Argonne?Developers?Carve Path Toward?Exascale?.”
For more information about Intel’s participation at SC20, visit Intel.com.
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1 NAMD STMV: 2S 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake): 1-node, 2x pre-production 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake – 2.2GHz, 32cores per socket), Intel reference platform, 256GB, 16x16GB 3200MHz DDR4, HT=on, TURBO=on, SNC=disabled, SSDSC2KG96 960GB, BIOS SE5C6200.86B.0017.D92.2007150417, microcode 0x8c000140, CentOS Linux 7.8, 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.crt1.x86_64, compiled with Intel C Compiler 2020u2, Intel MKL, NAMD: 2_15-Alpha1, tested by Intel on 9-17-2020. 2S AMD EPYC 7742: 1-node 2x AMD EPYC 7742 (2.25GHz, 64cores per socket), Supermicro platform, 16x16GB 3200MHz DDR4, SMT on, Boost on, NPS=4, SSDSC2KG96 960GB, BIOS2.0b dt 11/15/2019, microcode 0x8301025, CentOS Linux 7.7.1908, 3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.crt1.x86_64, compiled with AOCC 2.2, Intel MKL, NAMD: 2_15-Alpha1, tested by Intel on 9-10-2020.
2 Monte Carlo: 2S 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake): 1-node, 2x pre-production 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake – 2.2GHz, 32cores per socket), Intel reference platform, 256GB, 16x16GB 3200MHz DDR4, HT=on, TURBO=on, SNC=disabled, SSDSC2KG96 960GB, BIOS SE5C6200.86B.0017.D92.2007150417, microcode 0x8c000140, CentOS Linux 7.8, 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.crt1.x86_64, compiled with Intel C Compiler 2020u2, Intel MKL 2020u2, Monte Carlo FSI Kernel workload developed by Intel, tested by Intel on 10-9-2020. 2S AMD EPYC 7742: 1-node 2x AMD EPYC 7742 (2.25GHz, 64cores per socket), Supermicro platform, 16x16GB 3200MHz DDR4, SMT on, Boost on, NPS=4, SSDSC2KG96 960GB, BIOS2.0b dt 11/15/2019, microcode 0x8301025, CentOS Linux 7.7.1908, 3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.crt1.x86_64, compiled with Intel C Compiler 2020u2, Intel MKL 2020u2, Monte Carlo FSI Kernel workload developed by Intel, tested by Intel on 7-17-2020.
3 LAMMPS (Geomean of Atomic Fluid, Copper, Liquid Crystal, Polyethylene, Protein, Stillinger-Weber, Tersoff, and Water): 2S 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake): 1-node, 2x pre-production 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake – 2.2GHz, 32cores per socket), Intel reference platform, 256GB, 16x16GB 3200MHz DDR4, HT=on, TURBO=on, SNC=disabled, SSDSC2KG96 960GB, BIOS SE5C6200.86B.0017.D92.2007150417, microcode 0x8c000140, CentOS Linux 7.8, 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.crt1.x86_64, compiled with Intel C Compiler 2020u2, Intel MKL 2020u2, LAMMPS 03/03/2020, tested by Intel on 10-9-2020. 2S AMD EPYC 7742: 1-node 2x AMD EPYC 7742 (2.25GHz, 64cores per socket), Supermicro platform, 16x16GB 3200MHz DDR4, SMT on, Boost on, NPS=4, SSDSC2KG96 960GB, BIOS2.0b dt 11/15/2019, microcode 0x8301025, CentOS Linux 7.7.1908, 3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.crt1.x86_64, compiled with AOCC 2.2, LAMMPS 07/21/2020, tested by Intel on 8-19-2020.
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