Nowadays, HPC has begun to step down from the altar and serve more and more ordinary users. More and more people use HPC for new workloads such as big data analysis, which has brought subversive changes to more and more industries. Traditional fields, including medical and financial services, have also begun to demand supercomputing capabilities in order to gain real-time insights from ever-increasing and increasingly complex data.
We are entering a brand-new era, an era of transforming HPC from a tool for solving specific problems to a universal tool suitable for a wide range of fields.
However, it is found that with the development of processors, the factors that affect the performance improvement of HPC are not processors, but scalability and network. Recently, Intel has launched two products, an extensible system framework and a full path framework, to solve the bottleneck problem in the development of HPC industry.
Intel Full Path Rack is an advanced architecture and interconnection technology, which can support more scalable, flexible and balanced high-performance computing systems. Intel SSF will help simplify the procurement, deployment and management of HPC systems, so that HPC can be applied to more industries and a wider range of workloads, including data-driven analysis, visualization and machine learning.
Intel Scalable System Framework helps to run distributed workloads-these workloads put pressure on different components of the system, such as computing, memory and I/O-and it can optimize the performance of these workloads through innovation and manage them consistently. In addition, Intel? SSF also provides a consistent platform for deploying HPC systems in the cloud environment.
Intel's system-level innovations include processor, memory, software and interconnection technologies, which enable the overall system functions to be designed and optimized around various uses-from traditional HPC to emerging big data analysis and all the uses in between. We firmly believe that Intel SSF will pave the way for the design and construction of the next generation of high-performance computing systems and welcome the arrival of the era of "ubiquitous high-performance computing". "