With the annual ISC High Performance supercomputing conference kicking off this week, Intel is one of several vendors making announcements timed with the show. As the crown jewels of the company’s HPC product portfolio have launched in the last several months, the company doesn’t have any major new silicon announcements to make alongside this year’s show – and unfortunately Aurora isn’t yet up and running to take a shot at the Top 500 list. So, following a tumultuous year thus far that has seen significant shifts in Intel’s GPU roadmap in particular, the company is using ISC to recompose itself and use the backdrop of the show to lay out a fresh roadmap for HPC customers.
Most notably, Intel is using this opportunity to better explain some of the hardware development decisions the company has made this year. That includes Intel’s pivot on Falcon Shores, transforming it from XPU into a pure GPU design, as well to a few more high-level details of what will eventually become Intel’s next HPC-class GPU. Although Intel would clearly be perfectly happy to keep selling CPUs, the company has (and continues to) realign for a diversified market where their high-performance customers need more than just CPUs.