Intel at ISC 2021: Accelerating the Possibilities with HPC
Turn HPC and AI challenges into opportunities by redefining what your systems can accomplish. At ISC 2021, hear from Intel customers and partners in tech talks, fireside chats, and user stories across a wide range of topics, plus demos and a keynote address by Trish Damkroger, VP and GM of high performance computing. You’ll learn how Intel’s portfolio – including the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Xe-HPC (Ponte Vecchio), high performance interconnect and storage, and powerful software tools – can help you redefine your HPC possibilities.
Power New Discoveries with Intel® HPC Technologies
At Intel, we know that some of the world’s most important discoveries depend on high performance computing (HPC). Intel offers a comprehensive portfolio to help customers achieve outstanding performance across diverse workloads.
With deep learning acceleration built directly into the chip, Intel® hardware is designed to support the convergence of AI and HPC. And Intel® software, including a development toolkit and multi architecture programming model, plus a broad software ecosystem, helps to ensure HPC users get more value from their hardware and application investments.
Transformational Projects with Intel® HPC
Our customers use Intel® HPC products every day to power world-changing projects—from climate research to finance, cloud to AI.
Exascale Supercomputer Advances Clean Fusion Research
The Aurora system at Argonne National Laboratory helps scientists find new approaches to clean electricity using data analytics, AI, and advanced 3D modeling.
Innovative Weather Prediction with AI and HPC in the Cloud
Using big data and advanced modeling, ClimaCell delivers weather insights powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor-based instances in Google Cloud with built-in AI acceleration.
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) for Motorcycle Design
Royal Enfield uses Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors for structural analysis with finite-element models, replacing workstation-based CAE with HPC that delivers additional compute power.
TACC's Frontera: World's #1 Academic Supercomputer
Frontera1 supports research teams aiming to solve the most massive computational problems across dozens of global research institutions.
Using Deep Learning to Revolutionize Robotics
Preferred Networks, winner of the Green500 at ISC20, uses HPC systems powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processors and Intel® Optane™ persistent memory to train, control, and optimize autonomous robots.
Powering Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Designing next-generation vehicles depends on simulating and modeling complex fluid dynamics. NUMECA International uses Intel® Xeon® Platinum processors with Intel® Deep Learning Boost to accelerate CFD workloads.
Accelerating HPC Workloads with Heterogeneous Memory
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center needed more memory but faced power constraints from adding DIMMs. Now workloads are accelerated with a heterogeneous memory architecture featuring Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.
3rd Generation Xeon Scalable Processors
The latest 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors deliver outstanding performance for diverse HPC and AI applications in fields like manufacturing, finance, life sciences and more. Discover new ways to extract better performance from a wide range of workloads and ensure HPC applications perform at their best.
Empowering Academia and Higher Education
Intel is here to help universities and colleges meet the next generation of compute-intensive challenges. In partnership with qualifying OEMs, Intel is offering a program that provides discount pricing for select Xeon® processors used in HPC workloads at higher education institutions in certain geographies. Your HPC Specialist partner can help find a solution that is right for your organization.
An Unmatched Portfolio of Comprehensive HPC Capabilities
Intel delivers a broad portfolio to provide the essential building blocks of a balanced, reliable, high-performance environment—architecture, accelerators, memory, storage, software, security—to address a diverse range of workloads.
Advanced HPC Architectures
Intel accelerates every workload with XPU technologies that redefine the limits of HPC performance.
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors for HPC ›
Software and Development
Find new ways to exceed performance boundaries with our leading software tools and cross-architecture programming model.
Memory and Storage
Groundbreaking capabilities for data-centric workflows, from innovative SSDs and memory to our converged storage architecture for HPC and AI.
Intel® Optane™ persistent memory ›
High-Performance Interconnect
Ensure data flows quickly and efficiently, wherever it’s going, thanks to Intel’s high-performance connectivity and support for HPC fabrics.
Silicon-Enabled Security
HPC users rely on Intel security innovations as the trusted foundation for high performance computing, protecting your applications and data.
The Convergence of AI and HPC
AI on the Intel-Based HPC Infrastructure You Know
AI has the potential to change our lives. It’s powerful and far reaching, yet does not require separate highly specialized hardware and software systems to run. Your familiar Intel®-based HPC infrastructure handles AI along with your big-data analytical workloads and more, for more insight, discovery, and competitive advantage.
Watch “AI and HPC Workload Convergence” ›
Running AI and Analytics on a Single Cluster
This solution brief introduces the challenges and opportunities around running AI and analytics workloads on existing HPC clusters.
AI on HPC Infrastructure in Three Steps
There are a number of steps to successfully integrating AI workloads into your existing HPC environment — our visual guide will help you get started.
Supporting HPC, AI, Analytics on a Common Platform
Learn about capabilities for running TensorFlow* and Apache Spark* on existing HPC systems using standard batch schedulers.
HPC Developer Community: Unleash Innovation
oneAPI: Multi-Architecture Programming Environment
Unified programming with Intel® oneAPI means developers can easily optimize for multiple architectures.
Leading Development Tools
With Intel’s leading compilers and libraries, developers have the tools they need to build faster code, quickly and efficiently.
Optimized Commercial and Open Source Applications
Most codes are engineered for Intel® architecture, ensuring optimal performance and a better developer experience.
White paper: Accelerating Ansys Fluent simulations ›
Solution brief: Optimizing GATK analysis with the Broad Institute ›
Delivering HPC Solutions Across Industries and Disciplines
Intel optimizes performance and accelerates deployment across a range of practice areas, with solutions designed to drive faster insights and discoveries.
HPC for Manufacturing
Accelerate CAE workloads to improve design scope and speed product delivery.
Blog: Ansys hardware tips to accelerate simulation ›
Video: Powering Altair Radioss crash simulations in Microsoft Azure ›
Application brief: OpenFOAM® on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors ›
HPC for Financial Services
Get insights faster with optimal performance and an efficient, growth-ready infrastructure.
Solution brief: FSI workloads consistently win with Intel HPC Systems ›
HPC for Life Sciences
Speed time to discovery and expand scope of research in genomics, cryo-EM, and more.
Application Brief: NAMD on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors ›
Speeding COVID-19 research with TACC and UCSD ›
Case study: HPC-Based COVID-19 Single-Cell RNA Sequencing ›
Video: Unleashing a New Era of Structural Biology with RELION ›
HPC in the Cloud
Intel® Xeon® processor-based instances are driving cloud-based research for companies of all types.
Descartes Labs attains new record on Top500 with the Amazon EC2 team ›
Case study: Global Parametrics migrates numerical weather model to AWS ›
Video: Solving for Flexible Infrastructure with Oracle ›
Video: CFD-Focused Simulation with Oracle® HPC Cloud and Intel® Xeon® Technology ›
Intel® Select Solutions for HPC
With Intel® Select Solutions for HPC, get quick-to-deploy infrastructure optimized for analytics clusters and HPC applications.
Solution brief: AWS ParallelCluster verified as Intel Select Solution ›
Solution brief: Intel® Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling ›
More Industry Solutions
Find out how industry solutions featuring Intel® technologies are powering HPC applications in manufacturing, life sciences, oil and gas, and more.
Trusted Global Hardware and Software Ecosystem
Decades of ecosystem engagement means better performance for Intel®-based systems.
Commercial Software Companies
We work with top vendors to optimize their applications for Intel® architecture.
Global HPC Solution Specialists
These technology providers have demonstrated deep experience in delivering HPC solutions.
HPC Data Center Partner Guide
We help partners plan, develop, and implement their HPC solutions.
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)
Intel’s close relationships with top manufacturers ensure more-efficient systems for customers.