Intel Launches Max Series for HPC and AI

Intel has launched the Intel Max Series product family with two leading-edge products for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI): Intel Xeon CPU Max Series and Intel Data Center GPU Max Series. The new products will power the upcoming Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory.

The 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. The Max Series CPU provides up to 4.8x better performance compared to competition on real-world HPC workloads. It offers 68 percent less power usage than an AMD Milan-X cluster for the same HPCG performance.

On the other hand, Max Series GPUs deliver up to 128 X^e-HPC cores, the new foundational architecture targeted at the most demanding computing workloads. Additionally, the Max Series GPU features 408MB of L2 cache – the highest in the industry – and 64MB of L1 cache to increase throughput and performance.