Intel unveils Max-series GPUs for high-performance computing and AI

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Intel has unveiled its Intel Max Series graphics processing units (GPUs) for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications.

The company made the announcement ahead of the Supercomputing 22 (SC22) event in Dallas this week. It also unveiled the Intel Xeon CPU Max series (codenamed Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the IntelData Center GPU Max series (codenamed Ponte Vecchio).

The new products will power the next Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, with updates on its deployment shared today. The Xeon Max processor is the first and only x86-based processor with high-bandwidth memory, accelerating many HPC workloads without the need to modify code.

The Max-series GPU is Intel's highest-density processor, packing more than 100 billion transistors into a 47-tile package with up to 128 gigabytes (GB) of high-bandwidth memory . The oneAPI open software ecosystem provides a single programming environment for the two new processors.

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Intel's oneAPI and AI 2023 tools will provide functionality to enable advanced features of Intel Max Series products.

“To ensure that no HPC workload is left behind, we need a solution that maximizes bandwidth, maximizes compute, maximizes developer productivity, and ultimately maximizes impact,” said Jeff McVeigh, vice president of the Super Compute Group at Intel, in a statement. "The Intel Max Series product family brings high-bandwidth memory to a wider market, along with a single API, which makes it easier to share code between CPUs and GPUs and solve larger problems faster. challenges of the world."

High-performance computing (HPC) represents the forefront of technology, employing the most advanced innovations at scale to solve the toughest challenges in science and from mitigating the impacts of climate change to fighting the world's deadliest diseases, according to Intel.

Max Series products target this community with scalable and balanced CPUs and GPUs, incorporating breakthroughs in memory bandwidth and united by oneAPI, an open, standards-based, multi-architecture programming framework . Researchers and businesses will solve problems faster and more sustainably using Max Series products.

Max-series products are expected to launch in January 2023. Intel is shipping blades with Max-series GPUs to Argonne National Laboratory to power the Aurora supercomputer and will supply Xeon Max processors to Los Alamos National Laboratory , Kyoto University and other supercomputing sites.

The Xeon Max processor offers up to 56 performance cores made up of four tiles and connected using i...