The Max Series GPUs, on the other hand, are Intel’s first data center GPUs focused on workloads at the convergence of HPC and AI. This gives a dual-socket server such as an individual Aurora compute blade a total of 128 GB of HBM2e to handle large data sets close to the CPU. The Max Series CPUs use the same Sapphire Rapids microarchitecture as Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon Scalable processors, but the biggest difference is that the Max chips each come with up to 64 GB of high-bandwidth HBM2e memory.
Intel launched the Max Series CPUs and Max Series GPUs earlier this year in its latest effort to fight back against the growing influence of rivals AMD and Nvidia in the HPC space. Intel said it ran its own tests and found that, on average, the Max Series CPUs provides a 40 percent performance boost over AMD’s fourth-generation EPYC processors, previously code-named Genoa, across “many real-world workloads, such as earth systems modeling, energy and manufacturing.” What Are Intel’s Max Series Chips? If verified by Top500, it would make the supercomputer the fastest in the world, surpassing the horsepower of the first publicly verified exascale system, AMD-powered Frontier at the DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.īased on recent testing on Argonne’s Sunspot testbed system for Aurora, the lab found that Intel’s Max Series GPUs demonstrated up to two times the performance of AMD’s Instinct MI250X GPUs on the OpenMC Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code, according to the chipmaker. Intel said it expects Aurora to hit this milestone later this year when Argonne submits performance data for Aurora to Top500, the organization that ranks the world’s fastest supercomputers. The chipmaker said Aurora, originally unveiled in 2015 before suffering a series of delays and a major architectural shift from Intel, is “expected to be the world’s first supercomputer to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops.” That amounts to more than 2 quintillion, or more than 2 billion billion, floating point operations per second. “We’re proud to be part of this historic system and excited for the ground-breaking AI, science and engineering Aurora will enable.” Aurora’s Performance Expectations “Aurora is the first deployment of Intel’s Max Series GPU, the biggest Xeon Max CPU-based system, and the largest GPU cluster in the world,” said Jeff McVeigh, head of Intel’s Super Computer Group, in a statement.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company views Aurora as an important accomplishment in part because it’s the first to use its Max Series GPU, a product previously code-named Ponte Vecchio that Intel spent years developing to compete with GPU powerhouse Nvidia in high-performance computing and AI workloads.
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This amounts to a total of 21,248 Intel Xeon CPUs and 63,744 Intel data center GPUs installed in a space that is equivalent to two professional basketball courts, according to Intel. Intel announced the milestone Thursday, saying that Aurora’s 166 racks at the DOE’s Argonne National Lab are now loaded with 10,624 server blades, each of which weigh 70 pounds and contain two Intel Xeon CPU Max Series and six Intel Data Center GPU Max Series processors. Department of Energy’s long-delayed Aurora supercomputer is one step closer to going online and potentially becoming the world’s fastest after Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise finished installing more than 10,000 compute blades packed with the chipmaker’s latest data center CPUs and GPUs.
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