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Intel Xe-HP GPU deployed for Aurora exascale development

At SC20, Intel announced that it is making its Xe-HP high performance discrete GPUs available to early access developers. Notably, the new chips have been deployed at Argonne National Laboratory, and will serve as a transitional development vehicle for the future Aurora supercomputer, subbing in for the delayed Intel  Xe-HPC (“Ponte Vecchio”) GPUs that are the computational backbone of the system. The schedule and exact design of the Xe-HPC GPUs is still unclear, but after announcing a one-year delay due to a defect mode in the 7nm process, Intel has now committed to deploying Aurora in 2022. A previous incarnation of Aurora was originally to be deployed in 2018, but that project was recast in 2017 as the nation’s first exascale machine with a 2021 target. At Intel Architecture Day in August, the company said the Xe-HPC GPU would be manufactured using 10nm SuperFin for the base tile, with 10nm Enhanced SuperFin for the Rambo Cache tile, but the company has not disclosed the process node for the compute tile, which will use either an Intel Next Gen process or go through an external fab.

Izvor: HPCwire