Intel Xe Graphics Being Part Of The First US Exascale Supercomputer Is Great For Linux

[nils_]

Who is anticipating any Intel graphics *ever*? I think the word you're looking for is 'dread'.

I quite like them, it's the only reason I currently still buy Intel CPUs since it's just a hassle-free Linux experience even on new hardware.

[schmidtbag]

Also will we see ARM or RISC-V on the TOP500?

For ARM, no, not unless it is used strictly as a medium for something else like ASICs or GPUs. ARM was never built with supercomputers in mind, so although there's nothing stopping you from buying millions of ARM cores to build a supercomputer, it isn't worth the effort. RISC-V has potential to reach the top 500 but its adoption is pretty slow. I think RISC-V will probably become the most popular architecture for university supercomputers, because it can be tweaked to fit very specific scientific needs.

[Setif]

TOP500 list is POWER9, POWER9, Sunway, then Xeon, Xeon, Xon, Xeon...

So POWER9 seems to the king on top, but Xeon seems to be more popular. China seems to be betting on their own Sunway processors.
How long can x86-based Xeon stay relevant on HPC when there is POWER9?
Also will we see ARM or RISC-V on the TOP500?

Summit and Sierra (1st and 2nd) get their big performance from the accelerators (Nvidia GPUs) not from the processors.

[Masush5]

Who is anticipating any Intel graphics *ever*? I think the word you're looking for is 'dread'.

If those card are able to compete with midrange AMD/nvidia offerings, I'm certainly interested. The intel linux drivers are high quality.

[willmore]

Who is anticipating any Intel graphics *ever*? I think the word you're looking for is 'dread'.

[uid313]

TOP500 list is POWER9, POWER9, Sunway, then Xeon, Xeon, Xon, Xeon...

So POWER9 seems to the king on top, but Xeon seems to be more popular. China seems to be betting on their own Sunway processors.
How long can x86-based Xeon stay relevant on HPC when there is POWER9?
Also will we see ARM or RISC-V on the TOP500?

[tildearrow]

AMD, Navi please... Even Intel is pushing their GPU out. And your Vega, even though is 7nm, is old now. And you haven't push any Navi driver out. I hope Navi has the exact same control as Vega/Polaris does.

I want the following for Navi:

- Vega feature set, plus:
- VCN, but with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling support for encode/decode (to be on par with NVIDIA)
- Double precision having at least half speed of single

[Setif]

Intel will never support OpenACC.

[rtobar]

SUMMIT (also by DoE) already achieves exascale computation, although only when considering the V100's tensor cores:

https://www.top500.org/news/summit-up-and-running-at-oak-ridge-claims-first-exascale-application/

[marty1885]

AMD, Navi please... Even Intel is pushing their GPU out. And your Vega, even though is 7nm, is old now. And you haven't push any Navi driver out. I hope Navi has the exact same control as Vega/Polaris does.