1. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel Delivering Leadership HPC Technology – today and tomorrow – …for Grids …for Grids Sept 22th, 2008 EGEE 08 Conference Istanbul Stephan Gillich Director HPC EMEA Enterprise Marketing Intel GmbH

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4. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Agenda   Intel HPC and Grid activities   Leading technology today   …. And tomorrow   Enabling Grid and beyond

5. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel in the Grid   Intel is driving HPC technology and Network technology   Intel Volume - HPC technology enables Clusters   Clusters and Networks enable Grids   Intel has direct involvement in the Grid area

6. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel in High Performance Computing A Long Term Commitment to HPC Solutions Dedicated, renowned expertise Large scale clusters for test and optimization Broad SW tools portfolio Teraflops research Leading performance, performance/watt Defined HPC application platform Platform building blocks

7. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel’s Grid Activities Develop prototype Grid components – –Simplify creation of portable Grid applications – –Grid Programming Environment (GPE) – –GridBeans encapsulate application user interfaces – –Enables management and use of virtualized Grid resources (CERN cooperation) – –Further development by the Unicore family of projects (FZ Juelich) Engage with Grid experts and users – –European–union funded R&D projects (UniGrids, NextGRID, SimDAT) Interact with ecosystem, standards bodies – –Open Grid Forum (technical influence, board membership)

8. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel Architecture Core New Materials and Designs Single Core Enhancements Platform Enhancements Scaling technology forward Multi to Many-Core

9. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel Architecture Core Tri-Gate, Nanotubes  MMX  SSE  AVX  PCIe, IMC, QPI, SOC  Scaling technology forward Dual  Quad  …

10. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. 2007 PenrynNehalem Sandy Bridge Westmere NEW Microarchitecture 45nm NEW Microarchitecture 32nm Compaction/ Derivative45nm Compaction/ Derivative32nm Tick/Tock: Our Model for Sustained Microprocessor Leadership 2006 Intel ® Core™ NEW Microarchitecture 65nm Forecast Future options subject to change without notice. 2008

11. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Scaling Performance Forward  Achieving Moore’s Law Through The Foreseeable Future  Write traditional software (FTN, C, C++) Intel software tools : Compile once, generating optimized, native IA code  Balanced Computing: –Processor Capacity, Memory Capacity, Bandwidth Capacity 11 Scale Performance Forward To Multi & Many Core Solutions 11 ……

12. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.  Larrabee is Intel’s first many core processor  First Larrabee product targets enthusiast graphics  Each core is a complete Intel processor  Efficient inter-block communication Throughput Computing: A Many Processor Architecture. LARRABEE VECTOR IA CORE INTERPROCESSOR NETWORK FIXED FUNCTION LOGIC MEMORY and I/O INTERFACES VECTOR IA CORE COHERENT CACHE … … … … COHERENT CACHE COHERENT CACHE COHERENT CACHE COHERENT CACHE COHERENT CACHE COHERENT CACHE COHERENT CACHE 12

13. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. The Challenge Parallel Programming ? Irregular Patterns, Data Structures and Serial Algorithms Increasing Cores Vector Instructions Cache and Interconnect Latency Scale to Multi-Core Today → Hard Scale to Many-Core Tomorrow → Harder 13

14. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Today: Intel ® Software Tools for Parallelism Introduce Parallelism Confidence / Correctness Optimize / Tune Architectural Analysis *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

15. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Research: Ct: A Throughput Programming Language 1100010101000011 1100010101000011 + Thread 4 0011 0011 + Thread 3 0100 0100 + Thread 2 0001 0001 + Thread 1 1101 1101 + Ct JIT Compiler: Auto-vectorization, SSE, AVX, Larrabee Core 1 SIMD Unit Core 2 SIMD Unit Core 3 SIMD Unit Core 4 SIMD Unit Programmer Thinks Serially; Ct Exploits Parallelism Ct Parallel Runtime: Auto-Scale to Increasing Cores User Writes Serial-Like Core Independent C++ Code TVEC a(src1), b(src2); TVEC c = a + b; c.copyOt(dest); TVEC a(src1), b(src2); TVEC c = a + b; c.copyOt(dest); Primary Data Abstraction is the Nested Vector Supports Dense, Sparse, and Irregular Data

16. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. A practical case: CERN – Chasing The Intractable   Ventures into the subatomic world – latest experiment: LHC   Data Analysis Grid for LHC – Revolutionizes the way scientists share and analyze data   Openlab collaboration essential for building the IT infrastructure Intel contributes in a unique technology collaboration since 2003 Science At The Edge Meets Technology At The Edge

17. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Beyond: Cloud computing Intel, HP, Yahoo create cloud-computing labs 29 Jul 2008 17:22 A global cloud infrastructure for researchers will help advance the technology, according to the companies HP, Intel and Yahoo, in conjunction with academic and other institutions around the world, have announced the creation of a global, experimental environment for cloud computing. The Cloud Computing Test Bed will initially comprise of six 'Centers of Excellence', with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore joining in with the three companies.   The next step – – Grid “grown up” in the academic / research community (also because of EGEE) – –In the commercial areas “Cloud Computing” is one of the big areas of development – –Intel is again engaged in this Area

18. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Summary  Cluster of COTS HW important for Grids Moore’s Law Continues To Double Transistors Every 18 MonthsMoore’s Law Continues To Double Transistors Every 18 Months More Core’s, More Cache, More Memory, More Bandwidth Delivers PerformanceMore Core’s, More Cache, More Memory, More Bandwidth Delivers Performance Intel Software Tools Enable You To scale Performance ForwardIntel Software Tools Enable You To scale Performance Forward Intel’s leading technology enables Grids and we are actively contributingIntel’s leading technology enables Grids and we are actively contributing

19. Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. HPC @ Intel Putting it all together Have a successful conference