Pages: [1]
Sid2
 
Forum moderator - BOINCstats SOFA member
BAM!ID: 28578
Joined: 2007-06-13
Posts: 7336
Credits: 593,058,630
World-rank: 3,055

2012-06-18 16:49:14
last modified: 2012-06-18 16:52:30

Intel has launched its new brand for Many Integrated Core Architecture chips, Intel Xeon Phi, with the coprocessors headed to workstations, data centers and even supercomputers. The MIC chips, which are expected to go on sale by the end of the year and were developed under the Knights Corner codename, will build on Intel’s existing Xeon E5-2600/4600 chip range but be designed to support highly-parallel processing.

Xeon Phi uses the same 22nm, 3-D tri-gate transistors as Ivy Bridge, and comes as a PCIe card with more than 50 cores and at least 8GB of GDDR5 memory. It has 512b wide SIMD support – allowing for multiple elements to be worked on in a single instruction – and Intel claims it’s good for more than 1 TeraFLOPs per node.

As well as working with x86 programming models, the Xeon Phi coprocessor will also show up as an HPC-optimized, highly-parallel, separate compute node that runs its own Linux-based operating system independent of the host OS. Intel says that in doing so it will support more flexible cluster-solution, such as those that might be incompatible with existing GPU-accelerated systems.

Xeon Phi will first show up in Stampede, a 10 Petaflop HPC Linux cluster expected to be operational by the start of 2013. Stampede, a project by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) with the University of Texas at Austin, will pair Xeon E5 CPUs – contributing around two Teraflops – with the remaining eight Teraflops delivered by Xeon Phi coprocessors.


More. . .


Intel's Larrabee: Architecture Evolution on a Collision Course

Sid2
 
Forum moderator - BOINCstats SOFA member
BAM!ID: 28578
Joined: 2007-06-13
Posts: 7336
Credits: 593,058,630
World-rank: 3,055

2012-06-18 16:57:56


Intel has been waxing lyrical about how many vendors support its Xeon Phi products, with names such as Cray and SGI all coming out in favour of the soon to be released accelerator. Even though IBM is one of the firms that officially support Xeon Phi, the IBM HPC person we spoke with, who wanted to remain anonymous, said Bluegene customers' workloads are unlikely to be suitable for Intel's accelerator.

IBM's Bluegene has become the cluster of choice for many HPC sites and Intel must have been pleased to get Big Blue's initial support. However if IBM knows that many of its HPC customers won't be interested in Xeon Phi then it is somewhat of a hollow victory for Intel.

Being fair to Intel, its Xeon Phi isn't in production yet and the firm could well work its magic with developers drumming up support for its accelerator. Intel's Xeon Phi has a number of advantages over other accelerators, namely the ability to run native x86 code without any major modifications.


More. . .

Sid2
 
Forum moderator - BOINCstats SOFA member
BAM!ID: 28578
Joined: 2007-06-13
Posts: 7336
Credits: 593,058,630
World-rank: 3,055

2012-06-18 17:17:27
last modified: 2012-06-18 17:17:56

Intel Xeon Phi is the new brand name for all future Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture based products targeted at HPC, enterprise, datacenters and workstations.

While the first generation primarily targets high performance computing (HPC), future generations of Intel Xeon Phi products will also address enterprise datacenters and workstations.

The Intel Xeon processor E5 family is powering exponential performance gains in high performance computing and we're proud that it is having such a profound impact on the industry as demonstrated by its presence inside 44 of the Top500 supercomputers, said Raj Hazra, Intel Corporation VP and general manager of the Technical Computing at Data Center and Connected Systems Group.

As we add Intel Xeon Phi products to our portfolio, scientists, engineers and IT professionals will experience breakthrough levels of performance to effectively address challenges ranging from climate change to risk management. This is the next step of Intel's commitment to achieve exascale-level computation by 2018, and create a unique technology category that delivers unprecedented performance for today's highly parallel applications.


More. . .

Sid2
 
Forum moderator - BOINCstats SOFA member
BAM!ID: 28578
Joined: 2007-06-13
Posts: 7336
Credits: 593,058,630
World-rank: 3,055

2012-06-20 09:36:33


Intel Reveals New Details Of Exascale Supercomputing Chip


Intel’s first generation Xeon microprocessors are currently the most popular calculating engines for conventional servers and supercomputers.

As we add Intel Xeon Phi products to our portfolio, scientists, engineers and IT professionals will experience breakthrough levels of performance to effectively address challenges ranging from climate change to risk management, said Raj Hazra, Intel Corporation VP and general manager of the Technical Computing at Data Center and Connected Systems Group.

This is the next step of Intel’s commitment to achieve exascale-level computation by 2018, and create a unique technology category that delivers unprecedented performance for today’s highly parallel applications.


The new Xeon Phi processors are expected to be available by the end of the year.

In addition to their compatibility with x86 programming models, the chips will be visible to applications as an HPC-optimized, highly-parallel, separate compute node that runs its own Linux-based operating system independent of the host OS, Intel said. In other words, the chips will work to speed up the fastest clusters by working as a co-processor in conjunction with a server CPU to accelerate workloads.

The Xeon Phi uses Intel’s 22nm, 3-D tri-gate transistors, and contains more than 50 cores and a minimum of 8GB of GDDR5 memory, Intel said.

Last year Intel demonstrated the single Knights Corner coprocessor delivering over 1 TeraFLOPs (1 trillion floating point operations per second) of double precision real life performance. By comparison, in 1997, it took more than 9000 Intel Pentium processors inside the ASCII RED supercomputer to break the 1 TeraFLOPs milestone.


More. . .

Sid2
 
Forum moderator - BOINCstats SOFA member
BAM!ID: 28578
Joined: 2007-06-13
Posts: 7336
Credits: 593,058,630
World-rank: 3,055

2012-07-12 12:11:55


In this video, ScaleMP CEO Shai Fultheim describes the company's recent announcement of vSMP Foundation support for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.

"vSMP Foundation for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor based platform will virtualize both the Intel Xeon processor and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor based platform cores as well as host and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor memory to act like a single Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) system. Users will have easy access to all of the computing and memory resources, greatly simplifying their development and production environments," stated Shai Fultheim, founder and CEO of ScaleMP.

Recorded at ISC'12 in Hamburg.

Learn more at: http://www.scalemp.com/scalemp-vsmp-foundation-to-support-intel-xeon-phi


Pages: [1]

Index :: Gadgets, Games and Gizmos :: Remember Larrabee? Intel Xeon Phi: a Teraflop supercomputer in a PCIe card
Reason: