The Explosion of Petascale in the Race to Exascale
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The document discusses Intel's advancements in high-performance computing (HPC), particularly highlighting the growth of petascale systems and the introduction of the Intel Xeon processor E5 family, which has seen rapid adoption. It emphasizes the importance of HPC for national security and industry challenges while projecting trends in the HPC market. Additionally, it outlines potential risks and uncertainties regarding future demand and product performance in the competitive landscape.
The Explosion of Petascale in the Race to Exascale
- 1. The Explosion of Petascale in the Race to Exascale Rajeeb Hazra VP, Intel Architecture Group, GM, Technical Computing Intel Corporation @IntelITS
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- 3. HPC: Driving Data Center Growth 2X Volume Growth* Cloud * Growth >25% HPC Growth* >20% Network Growth* >30% Doubling Volume and Revenue Source: Intel * Forecast , CAGR
- 4. Race for HPC Competency • Industrial challenges Performance of Countries – Renewable energy – Genomics/ Biosciences – Design and Simulation – Media and Entertainment • National security challenges – Threat monitoring and cyber security Source: Top500.org – Nuclear safety To Compete, You Must Compute
- 5. The Road to Petascale Everywhere 1997 2012 2018 Teraflop Ecosystem Petaflop Ecosystem Exaflop Ecosystem ASCI RED SEQUOIA Top Machine 1 TF 16 PF 1 EF Typical Workgroup .5 GF 5TF 0.5-1.0 PF 20kw Rack X X X # of Workgroup 140,000 160,000 170,000 Machines 70 TFLOPs 800 PFLOPs 170 ExaFLOPs *- Compute Capacity - All PC, Embedded and Server Combined
- 6. Helping to Drive the Petascale Explosion 25 1 →10 Petaflop Systems: 20 4 Years 15 10 5 10 → 20 Petaflop Systems: <1 Year - 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Intel Petaflop Systems Overall Petaflop Systems Source: Top500.org
- 7. Top500: Rapid Expansion in Total FLOPs Top500 FLOPs Growth Largest all Intel® Xeon® Processor 140,000,000 Cluster Ever 120,000,000 100,000,000 80,000,000 60,000,000 40,000,000 20,000,000 - 2.9 PetaFLOPs 2005 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Source: Top500.org Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 8. What’s Intel Doing in 2012 in HPC… Intel® Xeon® Processor: E5-2600/4600 Product Families Fabric Technology: Cray’s Aries Interconnect Qlogic’s TrueScale Product Family Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture
- 9. Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family: Foundation of HPC • Intel® Xeon® processor remains Architecture Presence in Top 500 #1 architecture 100% 90% – 78% of new Top500 systems 80% • Rapid Adoption of Intel® Xeon® 70% 60% Processor E5 Family 50% – 45 systems just 3 months post-launch 40% 30% 20% University of Genci LRZ LLNL LANL Frankfurt 10% 0% Jun Nov Jun Nov Jun Nov Jun Nov Jun Nov Jun Nov Jun '06 '06 '07 '07 '08 '08 '09 '09 '10 '10 '11 '11 '12 Intel IBM Power AMD Other Source: Top500.org Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 10. Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family: Architecture for Discovery Example: Cellular Imaging Cellular Imaging Execution Time (Lower is Better) 467 447 • Drug discovery is one of the 239 most CPU intensive workloads • Processing of image data to Xeon 5660 Xeon 5680 Xeon E5- 2680 support discovery of new drugs “The new Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family-based • Real-time cell segmentation platform(s) doubles the speed and classification at 2X speed of cellular image analysis.” See the Live Demo at Booth #540 Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 11. Next Front of System Innovation: Fabrics HPC Expertise Intellectual Property World-class Interconnects Intel’s HPC Expertise Fabric Management & Software Comprehensive Highest Performance, Scalable IB Products Connectivity and Low-latency Ethernet Switching Fabric Data Center Ethernet Expertise Portfolio High Radix & Low Radix Switch Products Market Leading Compute & Ethernet Products Platform Expertise Unprecedented Rate of Innovation in HPC Fabric Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 12. Driving from Petascale to Exascale Workhorse for Petascale Systems: Flexible, Powerful for a Broad Range of Workloads Path to Exascale: + Efficient for Highly Parallel Applications
- 13. Transformational Performance From Workstations to Supercomputers Example: Next Generation Manufacturing • RADIOSS*: complete finite element solver • Programming continuity a major advantage • SGI UV2 system will support “… we were able to take advantage of Intel® MIC Architecture the many core architecture to drastically reduce time to solution.” See the Live Demo at Booth #540 Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 14. Announcing Brand for Intel® MIC Architecture Based Products Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Product Family
- 15. Why Did We Create the Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Brand? • Intel® Xeon® Brand – Industrial strength processing – Enterprise, cloud, mission critical, & technical compute • Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Brand – Part of the Intel® Xeon® brand family – Parallel performance to power breakthrough innovation – Evokes many concepts in science & nature
- 16. Game Changer for HPC Performance & Programmability Single Source Compilers and Runtimes 15 “Unparalleled productivity… most of this software does not run on a GPU” Dr. Robert Harrison, NICS, ORNL “R. Harrison, “Opportunities and Challenges Posed by Exascale Computing - ORNL's Plans and Perspectives”, National Institute of Computational Sciences, Nov 2011” Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 17. Announcing Breakthrough Performance on Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Coprocessor (Codenamed Knights Corner) >1 118 TFLOP TFLOPs Linpack (HPL) in a node #150 on the Top500 In Production In 2012, Enabled by 22nm 3-D TriGate Transistors Source: Intel Discovery Cluster Linpack benchmark run, June 2012
- 18. Broad Ecosystem Support Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 19. Barry Bolding Vice President, Corporate Marketing Cray Inc. Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 20. Intel in High Performance Computing Leading Terascale Manufacturing Performance, Research Process Performance/ Watt Defined Platform Broad SW HPC Building Tools Application Blocks Portfolio Platform Large Scale Dedicated, Interconnect Clusters Renowned Technology for Test and Expertise Optimization Strategic Commitment to High Performance Computing Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
- 21. Summary • HPC market: Growing and seen as a national + industrial imperative • Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family: Rapid adoption, Leading the Industry • New Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Product Family: Brand covers all Intel® MIC Architecture based products Provides additional boost for highly parallel applications Ecosystem aligned and supportive • Intel in HPC: Building block alignment provides customers leading HPC technology
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