Intel Software Conference 2014 Werner Krotz-Vogel werner.krotz-vogel@intel.com

1. Intel tools to optimize HPC
systems
May 2014

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Agenda
Intel® Developer Products Overview
Intel® Parallel Studio XE and Cluster Studio XE 2013 Overview
What’s new with XE 2015 Beta ?
Where to get ?
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Web App Performance Client System Technical Computing
Deploy apps on
multiple platforms
using one codebase
Native cross-platform
C++ development for
multimedia apps and
more
Create fast, efficient
embedded & mobile
devices/systems in
less time
Improve application
performance,
scalability and
reliability
Intel®
Developer Products
Intel® XDK
Intel® Quark
Intel® INDE
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• Industry-leading performance
from advanced compilers
• Comprehensive libraries
• Parallel programming models
• Insightful analysis tools
More Cores. Wider Vectors. Performance Delivered.
Intel® Parallel Studio XE and Intel® Cluster Studio XE
Serial
Performance
Scaling
Performance
Efficiently
Multicore Many-core
128 Bits
256 Bits
512 Bits
50+ cores
More Cores
Wider Vectors
Task & Data
Parallel
Performance
Distributed
Performance
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Phase Product Feature Benefit
Build
Intel® Composer XE
Compilers, Performance and
Threading Libraries
Out of the box performance
Intel® MPI Library† High Performance Message
Passing (MPI) Library
Interconnect independence
Intel® Advisor XE
Threading Prototyping Tool
(Studio XE products only)
Simplifies parallel application design
Verify
& Tune
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier
XE
Performance Profiler Find performance bottlenecks
Intel® Inspector XE
Memory & Threading
Dynamic and Static Analysis
Code quality, improved security
Intel® Trace Analyzer &
Collector† MPI Performance Profiler
Find performance bottlenecks in
cluster-based applications
Efficiently Produce Fast, Scalable and Reliable Applications
Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2013
Service Pack 1
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Support for Latest Intel
Processors and Coprocessors
† Hardware events for new processors added as new processors ship.
†† Analysis runs on multicore processors, provides analysis for multicore and many-core processors.
New Product Announcements
Embargoed until September 4,
8am Pacific Time
Intel® Haswell
microarchitecture
Intel® Broadwell
microarchitecture
Intel® Xeon Phi™
coprocessor
Intel® C++ and Fortran
Compiler
✔ ✔ ✔
Intel® TBB library ✔ ✔ ✔
Intel® MKL library ✔ ✔ ✔
Intel® MPI library ✔ ✔ ✔
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier
XE†
✔ ✔ ✔
Intel® Inspector XE†† ✔ ✔ ✔
Now with
Windows*
support
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Intel® C++ and Fortran Compiler

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Intel® C++, Intel® Fortran,
with Performance Libraries
Intel® Composer XE
Industry leading application performance, serial and parallel
 Intel compilers: Intel Fortran and
Intel C++ with Intel® Cilk Plus
 Intel Performance Libraries
 Intel® Threading Building Blocks
 Intel® Math Kernel Library
 Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives
 Architecture support: IA 32, Intel 64,
Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family, Intel
compatible processors
 Compatibility
 Windows: Visual* C++ and Visual Studio* 2008, 2010, 2012
 Linux, Mac OS X, including Mountain Lion: gcc and, for C++ Eclipse & Xcode for Mac
Performance Compatibility Support
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Leadership Application Performance
 More Performance for your C++ applications
 Just recompile
 Uses Intel® AVX and Intel® AVX2 instructions
 Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family support (Linux)
 Intel® Cilk™ Plus: Tasking and vectorization
 More Performance for your Fortran applications
 Just recompile
 Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family: Linux compiler, debugger support
 Access to Intel® AVX and Intel® AVX2 instructions (-xa or /Qxa)
 Auto-parallelizer & directives to access SIMD instructions
 Coarrays & synchronization constructs support parallel programming
 Loop optimization directives: VECTOR, PARALLEL, SIMD
 More control over array data alignment (align arrayNbytes)
 New in 2013 XE SP1 release: more Fortran 2008 support
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Up to 4x Faster Performance
with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) Support
SSE /
SSE2
AVX-512
AVX / AVX2
Enables higher performance for the most demanding
computational tasks
Intel® Compilers and Intel® Math
Kernel Library will be updated in Q4
with AVX-512 support
- Significant leap to 512-bit SIMD support
- Increased compatibility with AVX
- One byte longer EVEX prefix, enabling additional
functionality
- First implemented in the future Intel® Xeon Phi™
coprocessor, code named Knights Landing
4x
up to
faster
2x
up to
faster
Peak single precision floating point performance
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 Support for offload to Intel® Graphics Technology
 Redesign of optimization reports including vectorization report
 New icl/icl++ compilers on OS X*
 Full C++11 language support:
 virtual overrides
 inheriting constructors,
 deprecation of exception specifications
 user defined literals
 thread_local
 Full Fortran 2003 support (Parameterized Derived Types added)
 Fortran 2008 Blocks support
 Almost all OpenMP* 4.0 (only missing user-defined reductions)
 Keyword versions of SIMD pragmas added
 _Simd, _Safelen, _Reduction
 Use arithmetical and logical operators with SIMD data types (like __m128)
What’s New in Intel Composer XE 2015 Beta
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 -ansi-alias enabled by default at –O2 and above on Linux C++
 -fast/-Ofast enables –fp-model fast=2
 gcc-compatible function multiversioning
 aligned_new header
 Fortran option –init=snan to initialize all uninitialized SAVEd scalar and
array variables of type REAL and COMPLEX to signaling NaNs
 __intel_simd_lane() intrinsic to represent simd lane number in a SIMD
vector function
 Compiler option –no-opt-dynamic-align to disable generation of multiple
code paths depending on alignment of data
 Improved lambda function debugging
 Permit non-contiguous data transfers on #pragma offload
 gdb* debugger supports Fortran (Intel® Debugger removed)
 Ability to create custom install packages from online install
New Features Overview
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Released Linux* operating systems supported:
 Fedora* 20
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 6
 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server* 11
 Ubuntu* 12.04 LTS (64-bit only), 13.10
 Debian* 6.0, 7.0
Also intending to support these operating systems†:
 Fedora 21
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12
 Ubuntu* 14.04 LTS
Note the following are now not supported in this release:
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10
Supported Platforms in 2015 Beta
† These operating systems are not released as of the date of this presentation.
Intel Composer XE does not support operating systems until after they are officially released.
Refer to product release notes for support details.
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 Every report (-opt-report, -vec-report, -par-report, -openmp-report) now put
under single –opt-report interface
 Other report options will still work, but report information generated and the
way it’s generated will map to new model
 Output now defaults to a one report file per generated object model. Can be
changed using –opt-report-file=<filename|stderr|stdout>.
 Report information designed to be more readable and actionable
Redesigned Optimization Reports
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Intel® Math Kernel Library

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Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL)
• Vectorized and threaded for highest performance on all Intel
and compatible processors
• De facto standard APIs for simple code integration
• Compatible with all C, C++ and Fortran compilers
• Royalty-free, per developer licensing for low cost deployment
#1 used math library
in the world
Source: Evans Data 2011-
2013 WW Developer
Surveys
Just Link to the Next Intel® MKL Version to Realize New Processor Performance
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Cluster PARDISO
 Intel® Direct Sparse Solver for Cluster (Intel® CPardiso) is a powerful tool set for solving
system of linear equations with sparse matrix of millions rows/columns size. Intel®
CPardiso provides an advanced implementation of the modern algorithms and could
be considerate an expansion of Intel MKL Pardiso on cluster computations
Atom optimizations (for Airmont)
 For the BLAS and FFT Domains
S/C/Z/DGEMM improvements on small matrix sizes
What’s New in Intel MKL 11.2 Beta
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Intel MKL Cookbook recipes
 New document with recipes for assembling Intel MKL routines for solving complex
problems
Verbose mode for BLAS and LAPACK
 MKL Verbose mode provides information about usage of MKL routines called by
customers (set environment variable MKL_VERBOSE=1)
What’s New in Intel MKL 11.2 Beta
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Intel® Inspector XE

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Static Analysis
Code&SecurityErrors
Dynamic Analysis
Memory Errors
Intel® Inspector XE - Deliver More Reliable Applications
Intel® Inspector XE and Intel® Parallel Studio XE family of suites
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Threading Errors
Static Analysis & Pointer Checker are only available in the Parallel Studio XE family of suites. Not sold separately.
Pointer Checker
Pointer Errors
Intel®
Inspector XE
alone
Added bonus features in
Intel®
Parallel Studio XE and
Intel® Cluster Studio
XE suites
Intel Inspector XE dynamically instruments & runs the application and watches for
errors. Use any build, any compiler (debug build is best).
Intel compiler inspects source. Use any
compiler for production.
Intel compiler run time checks. Use any
compiler for production.

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What’s New in Intel Inspector XE 2015 Beta
 Improved On-Demand
Leak Reporting and
Memory Growth Control!
 New Memory usage graph
– Get real-time
information about
memory in use on your
system!
 Thread Checking
performance improved by
3X – with a reduction in
memory footprint as well!
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Intel® Advisor XE

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1) Analyze it.
3) Tune it.
4) Check it.
5) Do it!
2) Design it.
(Compiler ignores
these annotations.)
Design Then Implement
Intel® Advisor XE – Threading Prototyping Tool
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Less Effort, Less Risk, More Impact
Design Parallelism
• No disruption to regular
development
• All test cases continue to
work
• Tune and debug the design
before you implement it
Implement Parallelism

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What’s New in Intel Advisor XE 2015 Beta
 Improved Viewing and Advanced
Modeling of Suitability
information!
 New Target Platforms option –
See modeling based on Xeon or
Xeon Phi!
 New Iteration Space Modeling
section – Run a smaller sample
and see what happens when you
scale up!
 New Task details option -
Information about differences
between iterations moved to its
own view for additional clarity!
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Where to get?

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Intel® Parallel Studio XE Suites
Leading development suites for application performance
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Create fast, reliable code
Intel®
Cluster
Studio XE
Intel®
Parallel
Studio XE
Analysis
● ● Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE - Performance Profiler
● ● Intel® Inspector XE - Memory & Thread Analyzer
● ● Static Analysis & Pointer Checker - Find Coding & Security Errors
● ● Intel® Advisor XE - Threading Prototyping Tool
● Intel® Trace Analyzer & Collector - MPI Optimizing Tool
Compilers
&
Libraries
● ● Intel® Compiler - Optimizing Compiler for C, C++ and Fortran
● ● Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives† - Media and Data Optimizations
● ● Intel® Threading Building Blocks† - Parallelize Applications for Performance
● ● Intel® Math Kernel Library - High Performance Math
● Intel® MPI Library - Flexible, Efficient and Scalable Messaging
† Available for C, C++ only
C, C++ only and Fortran only versions of Parallel Studio XE are also available.

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Pricing and Availability
Includes Intel® C++
Composer XE
Intel® Fortran
Composer
XE
Intel®
Inspector XE
Intel® VTune™
Amplifier XE
Intel®
MPI
Library
Intel® Trace
Analyzer and
Collector
Price
Intel® Parallel
Studio XE • • • • $2,299
Intel® Cluster
Studio XE • • • • • • $2,949
Additional configurations including, floating and academic, are available at:
http://intel.com/software/products

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