Pre-configured, fully-optimized, and validated systems accelerate workload deployment

High performance computing (HPC) clusters are essential tools, supporting the simulation & modeling efforts that drive engineering innovation and scientific discovery. They are also are significant and often complex investments in hardware, software, and personnel.

Specifying the right hardware configurations can often be daunting, given the wide range of CPUs, memory configurations, and networking fabric options. Once the hardware is selected, choosing a software environment can be equally challenging. Given the wide range of users and applications that must be supported, creating a productive, high-performance, and compatible HPC environment entails much more than simply installing a standard Linux* distribution.

The largest HPC sites – including government, academic, and large enterprises – typically meet these challenges by employing dedicated staff, who research, select, procure and deploy systems. While the value of adoption HPC is well documented, it remains out of reach for many smaller enterprises who lack access to such experts.

Recognizing these challenges, Intel has partnered with application vendors, industry OEMs, and systems integrators to reduce the complexity of HPC selection & deployment. Today, the process is much easier with the help of Intel® Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling.

Ready when you are

Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling feature pre-configured, tested, and validated systems that offer a turnkey path to HPC implementation. Partner systems integrators are able to simplify system development and delivery, easing the process of system selection and deployment for customers. With simplification comes speed: because integrators start with pre-validated, compatible configurations, systems can be deployed very quickly than before. Further, customizations also proceed quickly when they start from a known good configuration. The result is a faster path to deploy and use the latest HPC technologies.

Broad application compatibility

Most HPC systems don’t run a single application; instead, they run multiple applications, often as part of complex workflows. To achieve the broadest application compatibility, Intel works with major independent software vendors (ISVs) to identify the system requirements of a wide range of popular simulation and modeling applications. By combining industry standards with the common needs of ISV applications, we were able to create a base HPC platform definition that enables system vendors to build solutions that achieve broad application compatibility. All Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling meet these requirements. This makes it easy to select a solution with confidence, knowing it will run a wide range of applications now and over time.

Beyond compatibility, Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling are workload optimized, featuring the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, memory, and storage, along with Intel’s highly optimized performance libraries and parallel runtime libraries.

Empowering converged workflows

While simulation and modeling are the familiar workhorses of HPC, the field is rapidly changing. Organizations are beginning to combine simulation and modeling workloads with other workloads like artificial intelligence, and they are increasingly turning to data analytics and high-fidelity visualization to gain insights from large, complex data sets. These new workloads are becoming part of an increasingly complex workflow, demanding that simulation and modeling, analytics, AI, and visualization all co-exist on a common, high-performance system.

Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling provides the base platform on which a whole family of Select Solutions for HPC is built. This family includes Intel® Select Solutions for Professional Visualization, Intel® Select Solutions for HPC & AI Converged Clusters [Magpie*], Intel® Select Solutions for HPC & AI Converged Clusters [Univa*], Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics, and more. This common architecture makes it possible to start with a simulation and modeling solution but easily its capabilities over time to handle increasingly-complex workflows.

Find more information about ways Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling can jumpstart your organization.