Intel Max Series product family debuted two leading-edge products for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), while IBM unveiled 400 qubit-plus quantum processors this past week.
The world of high-performance computing and the cutting-edge next computing paradigm had a couple of key milestone announcements this past week from Intel and IBM, respectively.
Intel Max Series product family debuted two leading-edge products for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) at Supercomputing ‘22 event in Dallas, Texas, while IBM unveiled its 400 qubit-plus quantum processor at the annual global IBM Quantum Summit 2022 in New York, NY.
Let’s take a closer look at both Intel and IBM’s chip announcements.
The Intel Xeon CPU Max Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (code-named Ponte Vecchio) will power the upcoming Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory starting next year (2023).
The Intel Xeon Max CPU offers up to 56 performance cores constructed of four tiles and connected using Intel’s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) technology, in a 350-watt envelope. They contain 64GB of high bandwidth in-package memory and will provide more than 1GB of high bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity per core, enough to fit most common HPC workloads.
