Supercomputing and Big Data Analytics: Intel Corporation unveiled innovations in HPC and announced new software tools.
According to Intel Corporation,
the final goal here
is to help propel businesses and researchers to generate greater
insights from their data and solve their most vital business and scientific
challenges.
In the same dynamic, Connectikpeople recalls that during the Supercomputing
Conference (SC’13), Intel presented how the next generation Intel Xeon Phi
product (codenamed “Knights Landing”), available as a host processor, will fit
into standard rack architectures and run applications entirely natively instead
of requiring data to be offloaded to the coprocessor.
According to Intel, this will significantly reduce programming complexity
and eliminate “offloading” of the data, thus improving performance and
decreasing latencies caused by memory, PCIe and networking.
Connectikpeople has also observed that:
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The Knights Landing will offer
developers three memory options to optimize
performance.
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Intel and Fujitsu recently announced an initiative that could potentially replace a computer’s electrical
wiring with fiber optic links to carry Ethernet or PCI Express traffic over an
Intel® Silicon Photonics link. This enables Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors to be
installed in an expansion box, separated from host Intel Xeon processors, but
function as if they were still located on the motherboard.
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the Intel® HPC
Distribution for Apache Hadoop software (Intel® HPC Distribution) combines
the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop software with Intel®
Enterprise Edition of Lustre software to deliver an enterprise-grade solution
for storing and processing large data sets.
