Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2013

High Performance MPI Hybrid Cluster Development Suite to Scale Forward & Scale Faster

Intel® Cluster Studio XE
Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2013 Supports Shared, Distributed
and Hybrid Memory Applications

  • Scale Performance
    • Industry Leading Low Latency MPI Library
    • High Performance C++ and Fortran Compilers
    • Native Profiling and Tuning of MPI Applications Now Includes Node Level Analysis
  • Scale Forward
    • Scale Up To 120K MPI Processes
    • High Performance Advanced Parallel Programming Models For Multicore & Many-core Architectures
  • Scale Efficiently
    • Rapid Performance Profiling for Identification of Application Hotspots
    • Threading and Memory Correctness Analysis at Every Node
    • Innovative Threading Assistant Analyzes and Identifies Areas of Code for Parallelization

Integrated Tool Suite for HPC Development
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Integrated Tool Suite for HPC Development

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.

Industry Leading MPI Library
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Industry Leading MPI Library
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Industry Leading MPI Library

Intel® MPI Library 4.1 provides levels of performance, scalability and flexibility for applications that execute on clusters of Intel® platforms.

  • Scaling Up To 120K Processes
  • High Performance Low Latency
  • Interconnect Independence
  • Runtime Fabric Selection
  • Application and Cluster Tuning Capability
    • Select the most optimal Intel® MPI Library settings for your cluster configuration
  • Multirail InfiniBand Support
    • Utilize multiple networking ports simultaneously
    • Berkeley Labs Checkpoint Restart (BLCR) Support

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mpi-library/

MPI Communications Profiling and Analysis
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MPI Communications Profiling and Analysis

Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector is a powerful tool for understanding MPI application correctness and behavior.

  • Visualize and understand parallel applications behavior
  • Evaluate profiling statistics and load balancing
  • Analyze performance of subroutines or code blocks
  • Decrease time to workload

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-trace-analyzer/

High Performance C/C++, Fortran Compilers & Libraries
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High Performance C, C++ and Fortran Compilers & Libraries

Intel® C, C++ and Fortran compilers have built-in optimization technologies and multithreading support that help create code that runs best on the latest Intel® multicore and many-core architectures.

  • Multicore and Many-core Optimizations
  • Support for distributed memory CAF (Co-Array Fortran)
  • Advanced optimization, multithreading, and processor support
  • Support for hybrid models of parallelism with MPI and threading models like OpenMP*, Intel® Cilk™ Plus, and Intel TBB methods to boost application performance on clusters
  • Industry-leading Intel® MKL and Intel® IPP include a wealth of routines to improve performance and cut development time.

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-composer-xe/

Correctness Analysis & Profiling Tools
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Quickly locate code taking a lot of CPU time

Correctness Analysis & Profiling Tools
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See the results on your source

Correctness Analysis & Profiling Tools

Use the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector for MPI communications and correctness analysis. For shared and hybrid application analysis: Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 and Intel® Inspector XE 2013.

  • Visualize and understand MPI communications behavior for hotspots and workload balance
  • Identify hotspots to quickly find, and provide greater insights into, multicore and many-core performance bottlenecks. Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 is MPI enabled on every node of the cluster
  • Static and dynamic code analysis with threading and memory correctness checker and Intel® Inspector XE 2013 is MPI enabled on every node of the cluster
  • Detect deadlocks, data corruption, and errors in your MPI code (including MPI data types, buffers, communicators, point-to-point messages, and collective operations)

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-inspector-xe/
http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-vtune-amplifier-xe/
http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-trace-analyzer/

Innovative Threading Assistant for Linux and Windows
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Innovative Threading Assistant for Linux and Windows

Intel® Advisor XE 2013 is a threading assistant for C, C++, C# and Fortran development on the master node of a cluster. It finds regions with the greatest performance potential from parallelism and identifies critical synchronization issues.

  • Evaluate alternatives before investing in implementation.
  • Estimate the speed-up.
  • Identify correctness issues.
  • Select the options with the best return on investment.

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-advisor-xe/

Integrated Tool Suite for HPC Development
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Integrated Tool Suite for HPC Development

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.

Industry Leading MPI Library
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Industry Leading MPI Library
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Industry Leading MPI Library

Intel® MPI Library 4.1 provides levels of performance, scalability and flexibility for applications that execute on clusters of Intel® platforms.

  • Scaling Up To 120K Processes
  • High Performance Low Latency
  • Interconnect Independence
  • Runtime Fabric Selection
  • Application and Cluster Tuning Capability
    • Select the most optimal Intel® MPI Library settings for your cluster configuration
  • Multirail InfiniBand Support
    • Utilize multiple networking ports simultaneously
    • Berkeley Labs Checkpoint Restart (BLCR) Support

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mpi-library/

MPI Communications Profiling and Analysis
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MPI Communications Profiling and Analysis

Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector is a powerful tool for understanding MPI application correctness and behavior.

  • Visualize and understand parallel applications behavior
  • Evaluate profiling statistics and load balancing
  • Analyze performance of subroutines or code blocks
  • Decrease time to workload

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-trace-analyzer

High Performance C/C++, Fortran Compilers & Libraries
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High Performance C, C++ and Fortran Compilers & Libraries

Intel® C, C++ and Fortran compilers have built-in optimization technologies and multithreading support that help create code that runs best on the latest Intel® multicore and many-core architectures.

  • Multicore and Many-core Optimizations
  • Support for distributed memory CAF (Co-Array Fortran)
  • Advanced optimization, multithreading, and processor support
  • Support for hybrid models of parallelism with MPI and threading models like OpenMP*, Intel® Cilk™ Plus, and Intel TBB methods to boost application performance on clusters
  • Industry-leading Intel® MKL and Intel® IPP include a wealth of routines to improve performance and cut development time.

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-composer-xe/

Correctness Analysis & Profiling Tools
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Quickly locate code taking a lot of CPU time

Correctness Analysis & Profiling Tools
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See the results on your source

Correctness Analysis & Profiling Tools

Use the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector for MPI communications and correctness analysis. For shared and hybrid application analysis: Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 and Intel® Inspector XE 2013.

  • Visualize and understand MPI communications behavior for hotspots and workload balance
  • Identify hotspots to quickly find, and provide greater insights into, multicore and many-core performance bottlenecks. Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 is MPI enabled on every node of the cluster
  • Static and dynamic code analysis with threading and memory correctness checker and Intel® Inspector XE 2013 is MPI enabled on every node of the cluster
  • Detect deadlocks, data corruption, and errors in your MPI code (including MPI data types, buffers, communicators, point-to-point messages, and collective operations)

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-inspector-xe/
http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-vtune-amplifier-xe/
http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-trace-analyzer/

Innovative Threading Assistant for Linux and Windows
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Innovative Threading Assistant for Linux and Windows

Intel® Advisor XE 2013 is a threading assistant for C, C++, C# and Fortran development on the master node of a cluster. It finds regions with the greatest performance potential from parallelism and identifies critical synchronization issues.

  • Evaluate alternatives before investing in implementation.
  • Estimate the speed-up.
  • Identify correctness issues.
  • Select the options with the best return on investment.

Additional information: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-advisor-xe/

Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 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.

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 4.1 is up to X as fast as alternative MPI libraries
  • Compiler Performance –Industry leading Intel C, C++ & Fortran compilers
  • Profiling & Tuning – In addition to native MPI profiling using the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector, Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 is now MPI enabled for every node

Scale Forward

Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 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 120k processes
  • Parallel Programming Models – Commercially supported Intel versions of open source Intel® Threading Building Blocks 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 2013 is MPI enabled for every node
  • MPI Correctness– Increased productivity in finding MPI errors
  • Rapid Performance Profiling – Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 can identify hotspots 10x faster*
  • Parallel Programming Models – Parallelize code using three keywords with Intel® Cilk™ Plus
  • Innovative Threading Assistant – Intel® Advisor XE 2013 analyses code to identifies regions for parallelization potential to improve performance on shared memory code.

What’s New

FeatureBenefit
Increased MPI Scalability

Intel® MPI Library 4.1 now scales up to 120K processes and Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector now scales up to 6K processes to support application development and deployment for continued capacity growth of HPC systems

MPI Standards Support & Reliability

Intel® MPI Library 4.1 now supports the MPI standard version 2.2. Berkeley Labs Checkpoint Restart (BLCR) support has been implemented to improve reliability of long running cluster based applications in case of failure recovery, scheduling, and process migration.

Latest Processor Support
Ivy Bridge, and Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors

Intel consistently offers the first set of tools to take advantage of the latest performance enhancements in the newest Intel product, while preserving compatibility with older Intel and compatible processors. New support includes AVX2, TSX, IMCI and FMA3.

Get Reproducible Results

Gain the confidence of more reproducible results. Increase reliability of application results across different platforms with Intel® Math Kernel Library 11.0, special Intel support for OpenMP and Intel® Threading Building Blocks 4.1.

New Threading Assistant, Intel® Advisor XE 2013

Add parallelism to a threaded or a non-threaded application on the master node of a cluster. Evaluate alternatives before investing in implementation. Intel® Advisor XE 2013 can assist developers in producing scalable, maintainable C, C++, C# and Fortran code.

C++ Performance Guide

If you’re not a performance expert, you will love the new C++ Performance Guide. Easy, quick 5 step process for more performance.

Fortran and C++ Standards Support

Intel Fortran supports widely used features of the F2003 standard and key parts of the 2008 standard, including co-arrays. Intel demonstrates its commitment C++11 standard support in this release.

Find and Eliminate More Errors with Intel® Inspector XE 2013

Intel® Inspector XE 2013 is an efficient way to increase your application reliability to ensure performance in C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java and MPI applications. The new heap growth analysis feature is another way to look for memory leaks.

Additional Profiling Data while Easier to Use

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 is now easier to use and provides additional profiling data. Its powerful bandwidth and memory access analysis means spending less time puzzling over cryptic performance data and more time developing.

Software Checked Pointers

This new, compiler-based diagnostic tool helps you find code that accesses memory addresses beyond the allocated addresses. This helps with ‘security hardening’ and finding difficult memory corruption type bugs.

What’s New

FeatureBenefit
Increased MPI Scalability

Intel® MPI Library 4.1 now scales up to 120K processes and Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector now scales up to 6K processes to support application development and deployment for continued capacity growth of HPC systems

MPI Standards Support & Reliability

Intel® MPI Library 4.1 now supports the MPI standard version 2.2. Berkeley Labs Checkpoint Restart (BLCR) support has been implemented to improve reliability of long running cluster based applications in case of failure recovery, scheduling, and process migration.

Latest Processor Support
Ivy Bridge, and Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors

Intel consistently offers the first set of tools to take advantage of the latest performance enhancements in the newest Intel product, while preserving compatibility with older Intel and compatible processors. New support includes AVX2, TSX, IMCI and FMA3.

Get Reproducible Results

Gain the confidence of more reproducible results. Increase reliability of application results across different platforms with Intel® Math Kernel Library 11.0, special Intel support for OpenMP and Intel® Threading Building Blocks 4.1.

New Threading Assistant, Intel® Advisor XE 2013

Add parallelism to a threaded or a non-threaded application on the master node of a cluster. Evaluate alternatives before investing in implementation. Intel® Advisor XE 2013 can assist developers in producing scalable, maintainable C, C++, C# and Fortran code.

C++ Performance Guide

If you’re not a performance expert, you will love the new C++ Performance Guide. Easy, quick 5 step process for more performance.

Fortran and C++ Standards Support

Intel Fortran supports widely used features of the F2003 standard and key parts of the 2008 standard, including co-arrays. Intel demonstrates its commitment C++11 standard support in this release.

Find and Eliminate More Errors with Intel® Inspector XE 2013

Intel® Inspector XE 2013 is an efficient way to increase your application reliability to ensure performance in C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java and MPI applications. The new heap growth analysis feature is another way to look for memory leaks.

Additional Profiling Data while Easier to Use

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 is now easier to use and provides additional profiling data. Its powerful bandwidth and memory access analysis means spending less time puzzling over cryptic performance data and more time developing.

Software Checked Pointers

This new, compiler-based diagnostic tool helps you find code that accesses memory addresses beyond the allocated addresses. This helps with ‘security hardening’ and finding difficult memory corruption type bugs.

Review the resources below to learn how to use the Intel cluster suite. Be sure to go to the Intel® Learning Lab Portal for a complete offering of videos, whitepapers, and other resources to learn how to take advantage of this product.

  • Pleasure of parallelism without much of the pain using Intel® Advisor XE

  • Expressing Parallelism and Vector Operations for Optimal Performance using Intel® Composer XE

  • Measuring system performance, workload balance, and code efficiency

  • Intel® Software Correctness – Dynamic & Static Analysis

  • Live demonstration showing programming techniques for Intel® Xeon Phi Coprocessor

  • Identify MPI Bottlenecks
  • Flexible MPI Analysis with Intel® Trace Analyzer Event Timeline

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