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“The knight makes his play for the crown”Phi & Omni-Path

Glenn RosenbergComputer Insights UK 2016

15 Minutes

• Two Swim Lanes

• Intel® Phi Roadmap & SKUs

• Phi in the TOP500

• Use Cases

• Supermicro® and Phi

• Omni-Path

GPU or Many Core – The Two Swim LanesNot that Simple

Headlines like “Intel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border” and “Intel Details AI Hardware Strategy for Post-GPU Age” ignore the benefit that this behemoth tussle has for users of High Performance compute and industry in general.

Performing complex algorithmic compute, AI and deep learning is no longer the preserve of those with big budgets. Access to small and midsize clusters utilising many core and GPU will enable small business & individuals to drive innovation.

At SC16 there were few ground-breaking announcements but what we have seen over the year is the general availability of some of the key new technologies and the GREEN500 has already seen 4 of the TOP 5 systems running NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 or Intel® Xeon Phi™.

Intel Xeon Phi Product Roadmap

An Overview of the Intel Xeon Phi x200

The Top-Bin 7290, 72 Core, delivers 3.46 Peak DP TFLOPS • 14 nm, over 8 billion transistors and is the largest Intel Chip ever made• There are 36 tiles on the chip that are interconnected by a 2D Mesh• Each Tile has 2 Cores + 2 VPU/core & 1MB L2 Cache• Each processor has 16 GB MCDRAM (Near Memory) at >400 GB/sec • Up to 384GB DDR4 at approx. 90 GB/sec

Intel Xeon Phi x200 Processor SKU Stack

November 2016 – Top500

Use CasesBerkley Cori – From climate change to material science. Looking for new energy sources. Working on energy efficiency. Studying realistic interfaces in organic photovoltaics. Allowing calculation of 2-5 times larger problems than has been possible prior.

Rutgers Caliburn – Enabling research in computational and data-enabled science, engineering and medicine, as well social science and humanities projects.

Machine Learning, allowing vast amounts of data to be ingested so that the accuracy of the result is improved. The ability to run OpenMPI, MPI and TBB to reduce the timeframes to implement. Common programming model & S/W tools with Xeon processors, enabling efficient app readiness and performance tuning.

Wider Use Cases

Public Sector Seismic ProcessingClimate & Weather

Life Sciences Financial Services Manufacturing

Supermicro – Top500

Model Name SYS-5028TK-HTRPROCESSORSingle Socket Xeon Phi x200 Processor

CHIPSET Intel C612 chipset

MEMORY6x DIMM slots with up to 384 GB DDR4 at 2400 MHz

EXPANSION2x PCIe 3.0 x16 LP slots (unavailable with KNL-F)

LAN2x Intel i350 Gigabit Ethernet

DRIVE BAYS3x 3.5” hot-swap SATA3 drive bays per node2x SuperDOM support

POWER SUPPLY2x Redundant 2000 W Titanium power supplies

CHASSISCSE-827HQ Chassis

Density: Uses popular Twin architecture to achieve 4 hot-pluggable nodes in 2U Processor support: Full range of KNL and KNL-F SKUs supported Flexible I/O support: Integrated dual-port Omni-Path or two low profile PCIe 3.0 x16 slots

Key features

Xeon Phi 2U Twin2

Xeon Phi Tower

Model Name SYS-5038K-iPROCESSORSingle Socket Xeon Phi x200 Processor (no fabric SKUs)

CHIPSET Intel C612 chipset

MEMORY6x DIMM slots with up to 384 GB DDR4 at 2400 MHz

EXPANSION2x PCIe 3.0 x16 LP slots1x PCIe 3.0 x4 (in a x8 mechanical slot)

LAN2x Intel i350 Gigabit Ethernet

DRIVE BAYS6x 3.5” SATA3 drive bays4x 2.5” SATA3 drive bays2x SuperDOM support

POWER SUPPLY1x 750 W 80 Plus Gold power supply

CHASSISS5 ATX Chassis with blue bezel

Form Factor: ATX Mid Tower chassis Processor support: Full range of non-fabric KNL SKUs supported Quiet Operation: 30 dBA for early ship SKUs (215 W) at full load

Key features

Supermicro Omni-Path Portfolio

System Availability Information

Systems in production and available now!

Supermicro is participating in the early ship program No minimum requirement for 7210 and have immediate availability

Twin system: SYS-5028TK-HTR-ES1 (Pricing available via CQ)

Tower system: SYS-5038K-i-ES1 (Pricing available via CQ)

8-node minimum for other early ship SKUs (7230 and 7250) Meet comp based in collaboration with Intel

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