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Simplified Path to Performance
Getting started with HPC infrastructure can be daunting, with high barriers to entry in terms of time, energy, and budget. Intel offers the guides and reference architectures to help you install, configure, and maintain your HPC infrastructure so that you can drive the most value from preferred applications.
Unique AI and HPC Acceleration
Optimize performance for AI and HPC applications on a single unified platform with built-in acceleration from Intel® AVX-512. Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost) on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors delivers up to 11x better inferencing performance with ResNet50 compared to previous-generation processors.1
Industry and Community Leader
Intel expertise in HPC goes beyond the processor. As an industry and community leader in HPC with partnerships across the ecosystem, Intel helps drive open standards and contributes to an inclusive worldwide community.
Featured Solutions
Intel HPC Benchmarks
Intel-enabled and optimized HPC architecture drives performance and efficiency gains in key software solutions across FSI, HLS, CAE, and more.
Up to 53% performance improvement with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors generation over generation for HPC.2
Up to 1.7x performance gain in leading HPC workloads with Intel® AVX-512 on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.3
Highest available memory bandwidth of any HPC CPU (9,200) with 12 DDR4 channels.4
Up to 1.60x higher life and material science performance on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform vs. prior gen.5
Up to 1.61x higher RELION Plasmodium Ribosome performance on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform vs. prior gen.6
Up to 1.64x higher GROMACS performance on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform vs. prior gen.7
Up to 1.60x higher LAMMPS performance on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform vs. prior gen.8
Up to 1.57x higher NAMD performance on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform vs. prior gen.9
Intel HPC Advantage
Flexible Hardware with AI Acceleration
Intel® Xeon® processors deliver outstanding results for HPC and AI applications and offer exclusive capabilities like Intel® Speed Select Technology, which enables users to map CPU configurations to the needs of each workload.
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A Unified Software Platform
With Intel® oneAPI, we’re catalyzing the industry around a single open source environment for developing across multiple HPC architectures, with a well-known set of software and hardware tools.
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Powerful Performance in the Cloud
Intel® technologies such as Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) and exceptional memory bandwidth in Intel® architecture help simplify optimization and scaling on cloud clusters with minimal rearchitectural effort. CSPs like Oracle see 42 percent better performance with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.10
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HPC Solutions by Industry
HPC for Health and Life Sciences
Genomics, molecular modeling, cryo-EM and other key HLS workloads become more cost-effective to process with Intel advantages like exceptional per-core performance. Intel also offers optimizations for common applications like GATK, RELION, and NAMD, accelerating time to results.
HPC for Financial Services
Intel® AVX-512 accelerates HPC AI workloads while Intel expertise in FSI workloads enables exceptional performance for leading software stacks. As a result, financial institutions can run code efficiently, reach insights faster, and reduce risk.
HPC for Manufacturing
Intel has decades of engineering expertise in optimizing commercial and open source CAE code. Most CAE applications run with accelerated performance out of the box on Intel® architecture.
HPC for Energy
Drive exceptional value from seismic data and accelerate the pace of discovery with high-fidelity visualizations. Intel-enabled HPC platforms for oil and gas and energy help capitalize on new opportunities while enhancing the economic viability of current assets for high output and efficiency and easier maintenance.
Intel® Select Solutions for HPC
Intel® Select Solutions are built on the Intel® HPC Platform Specification. This offers an easy and quick-to-deploy infrastructure optimized for analytics clusters and HPC applications to help accelerate time to breakthrough, actionable insights, and new product design.
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Continue Your HPC Journey
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HPC Processor Tuning Guides
Tune performance for 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Intel® HPC Platform Specification
Baseline requirements for HPC configurations and workloads.
HPC-Verified Compatible Applications
Vetted apps that meet HPC platform specification criteria.
Where to Buy Intel® Select Solutions
A comprehensive catalog of HPC solution partners.
Global HPC Solution Specialists
These technology providers have demonstrated deep experience in delivering HPC solutions.