Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012
Introduction
Intel® Cluster Studio XE is the first HPC development suite that unites Intel's leading analysis tools for MPI use with Intel's leading MPI libraries, compilers, libraries, and programming models.
As the relentless pursuit of compute capacity of HPC systems have shifted to multicore systems, and soon to mixed multicore and many-core systems, the compute power of the hardware is scaling at faster than 2x Moore’s Law. Software development solutions and tools need to scale to meet the developers needs to utilize these systems.
Intel Cluster Studio XE meets the challenges facing HPC developers by providing, for the first time, a comprehensive suite of tools that enables developers to boost HPC application performance and reliability. It combines Intel’s proven cluster tools with Intel’s advanced threading/memory correctness analysis and performance profiling tools to enable scaling application development for today’s and tomorrow’s HPC cluster systems.
Highlights of Intel Cluster Studio XE
Intel Cluster Studio XE contains:
• Intel® C / C++ Compiler
• Intel® Fortran Compiler
• Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives
• Intel® Math Kernel Library
• Intel® Click™ Plus
• Intel®Threading Building Blocks
• Intel® Inspector XE
• Intel® VTune Amplifier XE
• Intel® Static Security Analysis
• Intel® MPI Library
• Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector
Scale Performance
Superior shared, distributed, or hybrid application performance through industry leading Intel compilers, parallel models and libraries with advanced performance optimizations for today’s multicore and tomorrow’s many-core processors in HPC clusters.
• MPI Latency - Intel® MPI Library is up to 6.5X as fast as alternative MPI libraries
• Compiler Performance –Industry leading Intel C, C++ & Fortran compilers
• Thread Profiling & Tuning – Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE now MPI enabled for every node
Scale Forward
Intel Cluster Studio XE provides the tools, programming models, and performance libraries that enable developers to develop code that scales on Intel® Xeon® Processors today while easily extending to the Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC) architecture.
• MPI Capacity – Intel MPI Library scales beyond 90k processes
• Parallel Programming Models – Commercially supported Intel versions of open source Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) and Intel® Cilk™ Plus for threading parallelism
Scale Efficiency
The impact of budget and schedule pressure makes it crucial to have the right tools and programming models to rapidly develop and deploy reliable HPC applications. Intel Cluster Studio XE delivers powerful threading and correctness tools for hybrid applications development and parallel programming models that are simple to adopt.
• Thread & Memory Correctness– Intel® Inspector XE now MPI enabled for every node
• MPI Correctness– Increased productivity in finding MPI errors.
• Rapid Performance Profiling – Intel VTune Amplifier finds hotspots faster
• Parallel Programming Models – Parallelize code using three keywords with Intel® Cilk™ Plus and Intel TBB templates for simple and robust scalable task based parallelism