Intel returned to its developer roots at the Intel Innovation inaugural event, stressing its renewed commitment to the community and its approach to prioritizing the developer in software and hardware.
The disclosures, which include new products, tools and technologies for developers, underscore Intel’s focus on strengthening an open ecosystem, offering developers the tools and environments they prefer, and building trust and partnerships among cloud service providers, open source communities, start-ups, and others.
As the creator of the original Intel Developer Forum, we are once again very honored to bring people together across the ecosystem to explore the future of technology, said Intel CEO Pat Gelseger.
Developers are superheroes of the digitalized world, whose basis is semiconductors. We will work breathlessly until we consume the periodic table to unleash the magical powers of silicon and empower developers to uslaps together to us us in an era of innovation.
Details of all key investments for developers, such as an updated, consolidated and more comprehensive Developer Area, oneAPI 2022 toolkits, and new oneAPI Centres of Excellence, have been announced by Intel. All of this aims to improve access to resources and simplify development across centralized compute unit (CPU) and accelerator architectures:
• Developer Zone: This new resource; it aims to improve easy access to reference designs, toolkits and other amenities in AI, client, cloud, 5G/tip and game. Intel’s Intel® DevCloud development environment, developed to test and run workloads on various new intel hardware (CPUs, graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable door arrays (FPGAs) and accelerators), and software tools, gives developers access to the Intel® Developer Catalog, which includes core Intel software products.
• oneAPI 2022: Intel is set to launch its oneAPI 2022 toolkit with 900 new features added to last year’s release. This latest release provides cross-architecture software development for CPUs and GPUs with the first unified C++/SYCL/Fortran compiler and Data Parallel Python; Advisor is expanding accelerator performance modeling, including VTune Flame Graph, to visualize performance hotspots, and is increasing productivity with expanded Microsoft Visual Studio Code integration and Micrsoft WSL2 support.
• OneAPI Centres of Excellence: Eleven new university partners; OneAPI will provide strategic code points, additional hardware support, new technologies and services, and curriculum development to drive greater adoption in the ecosystem. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of California Berkeley, the University of Durham and the University of Tennessee, as well as the sprawling Intel Xellence Institutes for GraphicAl Visualization, which will become oneAPI Centers of Excellence, are some of these partners.
More Information: Intel Innovation Developer/oneAPI News
Intel not only implements the product and process roadmap; Accelerates innovation across superpowers – accessible computing, cloud-to-the-bottom infrastructure, widespread connectivity, and artificial intelligence – and advances developers with disruption, discovery, and impact.
Accessible Computing: Human-Technology Interaction Point
Computing capabilities penetrate every aspect of our existence, acting as a point of human-technology interaction across existing devices and emerging form factors. Pretty soon, you’re all going to have thousands of devices at your disposal. By the end of this decade, there will be potential for every person to have 1 petaflop computing power and 1 petabyte of data in less than 1 millim second.
By demolishing walled gardens and replacing them with an open environment, Intel is guiding PC’s future – new CPUs, GPUs, and platform enhancements – creating great opportunities for developers to create incredible experiences.
• 12. Next-generation Intel Core Processors: This new family’s performance represents the architectural transition possible thanks to hybrid architecture, close co-engineering in software and hardware. These processors will deliver new levels of leadership performance for generations to pass. The 12th Generation Intel Core family will include 60 processors tuned to power more than 500 designs, from high-performance desktops to ultra-thin and lightweight laptops. The company is currently sending 28 SKU to its OEM partners and today launching its first six desktop processors, most notably the world’s best gaming processor, the Intel Core i9-12900K.
• Data Science Solution: Powered by Intel® CoreTM and Intel® Xeon® architectures, data scientists can now replicate, visualize, and analyze large-scale complex data with the highest memory configuration of similar products. Combining workstation hardware and the Intel oneAPI Analytics toolkit to enable fully original AI development, this solution is currently available on Linux-based workstation computers from Dell, HP, and Lenovo. In addition, Microsoft and Intel have partnered to bring a complete data science tool chain to Windows 11e, which will first be available in the new Surface Laptop Studio.
• Intel® ArcTM Family of Alchemist Graphics SoCs: Intel Arch, the primary use of gaming, will introduce Xe Super Sampling (XeSS), a new scale-up technology that game developers have integrated into their games, the first generation of high-performance discrete GPU (codenamed Alchemist). XeSS leverages machine learning and Alchemist’s built-in XMX AI accelerators to deliver high performance and high-quality visuals. XeSS is implemented using open standards to ensure widespread availability in many games and a wide range of hardware. In addition, Alchemist; It will support Deep Link technology on Intel platforms with new computing capabilities, including Hyper Encode, which enables simultaneous acceleration of single video file passcode across integrated and discrete graphics infrastructures.
Detailed Information: 12. Next Generation Intel Core/Intel Innovation Accessible Computing News
Cloud-to-End Infrastructure: Unlimited Scale and Capacity in the Cloud Combines With Unlimited Access through the Smart Edge.
Computing; It is spread across CPUlar, GPUlar, application accelerators, connection bus processors, edge computing devices, and heterogeneous structures of FPGAs. All of this requires persistent memory and software to combine these elements into a complete solution. The race towards zetta scale continues to create, store and analyze large-scale data. The transition from tera-scale computing to exa scale took more than 12 years. Intel has planned to move to zeta in five years: Target, Zetta 2027. Below this goal lies Intel’s work with the open ecosystem, where developers enable them to optimize tools and software environments to accelerate their deployment:
• Ponte Vecchio and oneAPI support SiPearl’s MicroProcessors: SiPearl designs a microprocessor to be used in exa-scale supercomputers in Europe and has selected Intelin Ponte Vecchio GPUs as the system’s high-performance computing (HPC) accelerator within the HPC node. SiPearl, which wants to connect computing environments, is adopting oneAPI as open software to improve developer productivity and workload performance.
• Next Generation Intel® Xeon® Optimization of Scalable Processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids): Intel works with an open software community and a large pool of ecosystem partners to make it easier for developers to work with the next generation processor. It will integrate a variety of new acceleration engines designed to handle the overhead of data center-scale deployment models while providing better processor core utilization and reducing power and space costs.
Intel is the latest 3rd largest cloud service provider for cloud developers such as Alibaba, AWS, Baidu, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Tencent. He also underlined that the next generation of Intel® Xeon® has access to Scalable processors.
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Common Connection: Everyone and Everything on The Link
The future; Thanks to top-down and end-to-end programmable networks, it lies in a truly open and fully programmable network where developers have the freedom to move at the same speed as the software. Intel is the only company that offers a comprehensive set of software and hardware to create an end-to-end programmable network. Xeon Scalable processors, next-generation Xeon-D, the new P4-programmable infrastructure processing unit (IPUs), and switches are among these hardware intel offers.
• Intel® Smart Structure is an end-to-end programmable platform that uses Intel’s unique hardware and software products to increase business opportunities and leave control to developers.
o ASIC-based IPU (codenamed Mount Evans): Intel and Google Cloud announced deep collaboration in the design and development of this first-of-its-kind open solution, supported by industry-standard programming language and the open source Infrastructure Programmer Development Kit (IPDK) to simplify developers’ access to technology in Google Cloud data centers.
o Intel® Tofino™ 3 Intel build processors (IFP) add intelligence to P4 programmability and accelerate AI workloads. In addition, IFP is fully P4 programmable, giving power back to the network programmer, laying the groundwork for a safer and more self-healing cloud structure.
• Backed by a well-established ecosystem of solution providers, AT&T will leverage Intel as a silicon partner for the deployment of its upcoming visualized radio access network (vRAN). With this network, it will gain the flexibility to incorporate automation and cloud-like capabilities into its network, along with optimizations for performance, cost, and operational efficiency.
• DEKA Research & Development Corporation; Designed for reliable, autonomous delivery to the customer® door® FedEx is collaborating with FedEx to develop Roxo™. Roxo, 11. It is tested with next-generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processors and Intel® Real Sense™ cameras and uses OpenVINOTM as the AI inference engine. Intel is the 11th company. With next-generation Intel® Core™ i7 processors, it helps THE DEKA build a power-efficient and high-performance computing platform.
Read More: Intel Innovation News of Widespread Connectivity
AI: Making AI More Accessible and Scalable for Developers
Intel’s major investments in developer ecosystems, tools, technology and open platform are laying the groundwork for scaling AI everywhere. Intel’s role is to scale this technology responsively. Intel has made AI more accessible and scalable for developers through comprehensive optimization of popular libraries and frameworks on Intel Xeon Scalable processors. With Intel’s investment in multiple AI architectures to meet different customer requirements using an open standards-based programming model, it’s now easier for developers to run more AI workloads in more use. Most of the world’s leading organizations use Intel AI to solve complex tasks. Today’s announcements prove this:
• Aurora Supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory Will Exceed Two Exaflops Of Highest Performance: Designed with a joint effort and featuring next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) and next-generation Intel GPU (codenamed Ponte Vecchio), the Aurora supercomputer will exceed the highest dual-sensitivity computing performance of 2 exaflops. Aurora is designed to handle high-performance computing, AI/ML, and big data analytics workloads. Argonne National Laboratory, a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, is at the forefront of the country’s efforts to provide exa-scale computing capabilities in the future.
• Intel AI Powers Alibaba Recommendation Engine: Alibaba and Intel create an end-to-end toolkit to facilitate deep learning training and deployment of recommendation systems. This toolkit will enable a workload that consumes a significant portion of the entire data center and cloud AI cycles and has a variety of computing, memory, bandwidth, and network needs. DeepRec developers will be able to easily install and update their models, process embedded layers, leverage existing models, and deploy extremely large-scale, recommendation-based services with trillions of samples.
• AI Toolkits Optimized for Intel Xeon Scalable Processors: Intel-optimized AI toolkits deliver higher performance and exceptional productivity to data scientists. Intel; Pandas has partnered with the open source community and Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, Google and Microsoft to ensure that the most popular data science software, such as scikit-learn, MXNet, PaddlePaddle, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and ONNX Runtime, are optimized to work on Intel hardware.
• Accelerated AI Performance in Next Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors: Intel aims to deliver up to 30x AI performance gain over the previous generation with its next generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids). Achieved through both comprehensive software optimizations and the built-in AMX structure of the upcoming processor, these performance gains will provide even more AI utilization without the need for discrete GPUs.
Read More: Intel News of Artificial Intelligence from Innovation
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President/General Manager of Software and Advanced Technology Group Greg Lavender, Innovation; progresses in open environments where developers connect and communicate and collaborate freely, he said.
Technology is created by man and builds what is possible. Technology is inherently neutral. It is everyone’s duty to use it in a more responsible, inclusive, sustainable and ethical way. Intel has doubled its rich legacy on open platforms and huge inventory of core software technologies to enable software innovation.
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