Intel has been working on a new HPC design philosophy for HPC systems called Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF), an approach designed to enable sustained, balanced performance in HPC as the community pushes towards the Exascale computing era. Central to Intel SSF performance is the Lustre* scalable, parallel file system (PFS). Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre software (Intel® EE for Lustre software) is the Intel distribution of the well-known PFS, which is used by the majority of the fastest supercomputers around the world.
Application Performance & Power Consumption on Intel Xeon Phi
April 7, 2016 by
“While new technology will be developed that reduces the power per operation needed, in today’s environments it is important to understand how an application affects power usage. For modern applications that have been optimized to take advantage of both the Intel Xeon CPU and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, the hardware mentioned does include various power states, which can minimize the power consumption when idle.”
Why New Intel® Xeon Processors Make Sense for HPC Applications
April 5, 2016 by
Through the microarchitecture improvements, increased core counts, and faster memory speeds of the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family based on the “Broadwell” microarchitecture, you can increase your HPC application performance. You will see significantly improved per-core performance with these just announced Intel® Xeon® processors that can then be multiplied by parallel programs that utilize the number of cores available inside these processors. Improvements to the memory and virtual memory capabilities – including the ability to utilize faster DDR4-2400 memory – means that these processors can speed all aspects of your application from IO DMA operations, to processing serial sections of code, as well as delivering increased performance on both task- and data-parallel applications.
High-Performance Lustre* Storage Solution Helps Enable the Intel® Scalable System Framework
February 16, 2016 by
“Intel has incorporated Intel Solutions for Lustre Software as part of the Intel SSF because it provides the performance to move data and minimize storage bottlenecks. Lustre is also open source based, and already enjoys a wide foundation of deployments in research around the world, while gaining significant traction in enterprise HPC. Intel’s version of Lustre delivers a high-performance storage solution in the Intel SSF that next-generation HPC needs to move toward the era of Exascale.”
