Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for HPC
With a storied 20–year engagement in the HPC community, Intel® CPUs provide the foundation for powerful and efficient systems that accelerate a wide range of HPC applications.
3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum and Gold processors are architected and performance-tuned for HPC, with an array of features that enable optimal performance per core for real-world HPC workloads in industries including manufacturing, financial services, energy, climate science, and life sciences.
With 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, users get higher core counts1 and memory bandwidth2 than the previous generation. The new core architecture with built-in acceleration ensures that Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can meet a wide range of heterogeneous workload demands.
Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors: Animation
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HPC Performance Infographic
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3rd Gen Product Discovery Infographic
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Optimizing Performance for HPC Workloads
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Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors: Product Brief
Learn about unique features such as Intel® Speed Select Technology, Intel® AVX-512, and Intel® Deep Learning Boost.
HPC Performance Snapshot for Health and Life Sciences
Accelerate your rate of scientific discovery and time to results with high performance to support compute-intensive research.
HPC Performance Snapshot for Manufacturing
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors help product designers overcome key HPC challenges including performance per core, scale, and flexibility.
HPC Performance Snapshot for Financial Services
Get high memory bandwidth and I/O to handle the rising demand for faster transactions and support advanced AI use cases like fraud detection.
HPC Select Solutions Reference Architecture
Simplify deployment for simulation and modeling environments based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors using validated approaches.
HPC Tuning Guides for Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
Access Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor tuning guides to run HPC benchmarks, including: HPCG, LinPack, and Stream.
Technology Advantages
3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors provide a number of advantages to help businesses simplify deployments and get the most out of their HPC investments.
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Innovative Core Architecture
Enhanced performance with the new Sunny Cove processor architecture boosts a wide range of HPC applications.
Increased Memory Bandwidth and I/O
8 DDR4 channels fuel memory-bound workloads, and PCIe 4.0 delivers fast I/O.
Increased Core Count
Up to 40 cores deliver increased performance for compute-hungry applications.
Q SKU for HPC
Engineered for liquid-cooled systems with more cores and higher frequencies for top-level HPC performance.
Powerful Optimization Capabilities
oneAPI toolkits simplify development, and ISV-optimized applications perform better out of the box.
Flexible Performance Tuning and Power Management
Intel® Speed Select Technology (Intel® SST) allows system administrators to meet multiple workload demands, for example by configuring Intel® Turbo Boost Technology on specific cores.
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Built-in Acceleration for HPC and AI Workloads
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) increases the efficiency of vectorized calculations for workloads such as molecular modeling, financial services, and manufacturing simulation as well as AI.
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Fast AI Inference with Fewer Calculations
Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost) is built into every Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor to accelerate AI workloads by reducing the number of operations and memory required for AI inference.
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XPU: A Heterogenous Approach
The Intel XPU vision strategy is an initiative designed to help HPC deployments reach new levels of performance and efficiency by combining high-performance Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators into a heterogeneous configuration.
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Other Intel® HPC Solutions
System architects can turn to Intel for leadership and guidance on HPC infrastructure, whether on premises or in the cloud. Intel provides a number of resources and product offerings to augment performance, TCO, and time to deployment.
Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory
Get high-capacity memory modules with improved TCO over standard DRAM solutions.3
Intel® Optane™ SSDs
Help increase storage reliability, availability, and I/O speed with options for PCIe interfaces that position data closer to the processor.
Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS)
Built on Intel® Optane™ memory and Intel® Optane™ SSDs, this methodology delivers exascale storage with high bandwidth and I/O for HPC applications.
Intel® Select Solutions for HPC
Get help building and deploying HPC infrastructure fast with configuration references that are optimized for specific use cases such as genomics or simulation.
Resources
Discover more key offerings, solutions, and guidance on HPC.
HPC Architecture
HPC requires many different components to achieve the highest levels of performance.
HPC Solutions Overview
Explore key Intel® solutions for HPC hardware and software challenges with this simplified overview.
HPC Software
Heterogeneous HPC architectures pose unique challenges to software development and performance optimization.
Intel® Select Solutions for HPC
These reference configurations can help system builders design and deploy workload-specific HPC solutions, fast.