HPC SKU Guidance: Manufacturing

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Workload characterization
Manufacturing Computational Fluid Dynamics Finite Element Analysis Mechanical Engineering
Discipline (CFD) Structural Analysis (FEA/Crash) Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH)
Simulate fluid flow and impact on products Simulate acoustics to analyze issues including squeak
Simulate impact (e.g., crash & drop testing, ballistics)
What It Is (e.g., aerodynamics, heat transfer, combustion & rattle, vibration, and noise levels heard within
for product & component design
engine design) a vehicle
Typical • Complex, unstructured meshes • Non-linear • Static and dynamic solver approach
Workload • Tens of millions of cells • Large, high-fi models (1-15M) • Models w/ millions of elements (1-40M)
• Requirements vary (2–384 nodes)
• Large clusters
Usage • Medium–large clusters • Jobs often run on single node
• Cores vary by customer; typically fixed # cores
Scenarios • Typically 16–512 nodes • Poor scalability; scalable parallel solvers being
per job
developed (MUMPS)
Altair AcuSolve, Ansys Fluent, AutoDesk CFD, Altair OptiStruct, Ansys Mechanical, CDH/AMLS,
Top Ansys/LST LS-DYNA Explicit, Altair RADIOSS, Dassault
Converge, OpenFOAM, Siemens Simcenter STAR- Dassault ABAQUS Standard, MSC Nastran, Siemens
Applications ABAQUS Explicit, PAM-CRASH
CCM+, SIMULIA PowerFLOW Simcenter Nastran
High memory bandwidth, low memory capacity Medium memory bandwidth and medium memory Medium–high memory bandwidth, high memory
Performance
(2–4GB per core), moderate CPU frequency and core capacity (256GB–512GB), high CPU frequency and core capacity (512GB–2048GB), high CPU frequency and
Requirements
count, high fabric bandwidth count, high fabric bandwidth medium core count, high I/O performance
Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y CPU Intel Xeon Gold 6334 CPU
• Good choice for general-purpose CAE cluster or • Tuned for general-purpose CAE cluster • Great entry CAE SKU for performance per core
power-constrained environments • Balanced configuration & low TDP
Intel Xeon Gold 6342 CPU
• Balanced configuration & low TDP
Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 CPU • For latest, more demanding applications
• Strong core density, performance
• Strong performance for Crash (e.g., Ansys Mechanical, AMLS, Abaqus Standard)
Intel Xeon Gold 6346 CPU
Intel Xeon Platinum 8360Y CPU Intel Xeon Gold 6346 CPU
Recommended • Strong core density, performance
• Tuned for general-purpose CAE cluster, with three • Strong core density and performance
SKU by • Great entry-level CAE SKU for performance per core
performance profiles • Good for AMLS, Abaqus Standard)
Discipline Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 CPU • Balanced configuration and reasonable TDP
• Increased performance per core
Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 CPU
• Good for codes that benefit from higher core counts
• Strong performance for Crash
(e.g., Abaqus, Fluent)
Intel Xeon Platinum 8360Y CPU
• Good for general-purpose CAE cluster
• Addresses needs for more compute-hungry codes

Did you know…

Manufacturing is one of the leading verticals with cloud affinity for HPC. Companies like TotalCAE & Rescale both provide the ability to easily deploy clusters
and applications with cloud providers (Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform).
Breakthrough performance
Up to Up to

40 cores & 8 DDR4

channels per processor
20% increased instructions
per clock vs. prior gen2

Built-in AI & HPC Acceleration

with Intel Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost) &
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512)
1.45x higher INT8 real-time inference
throughput vs. prior gen³

1.52x
Up to
higher manufacturing performance
1.53x higher geomean HPC performance
vs. prior gen¹
vs. prior gen⁴
(geomean Altair RADIOSS, Ansys Fluent, Ansys LS-DYNA, Converge,
Numeca, OpenFOAM)

SKU specifications
Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon
Gold 6326 Gold 6330 Gold 6334 Gold Gold 6338 Gold 6342 Gold 6346 Gold 6354 Platinum Platinum Platinum Platinum Platinum
CPU CPU CPU 6336Y CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU 8352Y CPU 8358 CPU 8360Y CPU 8362 CPU 8380 CPU
24 32 36
Cores 16 28 8 12 32 24 16 18 24 32 32 32 40
8 16 24
2.4/3.6 2.2/3.4 2.4/3.5
Frequency
2.9/3.5 2.0/3.1 3.6/3.7 3.0/3.6 2.0/3.2 2.8/3.5 3.1/3.6 3.0/3.6 2.3/3.4 2.6/3.4 2.5/3.5 2.8/3.6 2.3/3.4
Base/Max (GHz)
3.1/3.6 2.6/3.4 2.6/3.5
185 205 250
TDP (W) 185 205 165 150 205 230 205 205 185 250 250 265 270
140 185 220
Max System Memory 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB 6TB
Max Memory
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Channels
Top Choice for CFD • • • •
Top Choice for FEA • • • • •
Top Choice for NVH • • •

Performance Results:
1. See [108] at intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
2. 20% IPC improvement: 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processor: 1-node, 2x 28-core 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor, Wilson City platform,
512GB (16 slots / 32GB / 3200) total DDR4 memory, HT on, ucode=x270, RHEL 8.0, Kernel Version4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64, test by Intel on
3/30/2021. 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor: 1-node, 2x 28-core 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor, Neon City platform, 384GB
(12 slots / 32GB / 2933) total DDR4 memory, HT on, ucode=x2f00, RHEL 8.0, Kernel Version4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64, test by Intel on 3/30/2021.
SPECrate2017_int_base (est). Tests at equal core frequency, equal uncore frequency, equal compiler.
3. See [123] at intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
4. See [105] at intel.com/3gen-xeon-config. Results may vary.
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