Ponte Vecchio Across the Atlantic: Single-Node Benchmarking of Two Intel GPU Systems

Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550, known as Ponte Vecchio (PVC), is a new Intel GPU architecture for high-performance computing. It is the basis of two systems on the June 2024 Top 500 list, Dawn (#51) and Aurora (#2).This work provides micro-benchmarking data on PVCs from which application developers...

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Published in:SC24-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis pp. 1430 - 1442
Main Authors: Applencourt, Thomas, Sadawarte, Aditya, Muralidharan, Servesh, Bertoni, Colleen, Kwack, JaeHyuk, Luo, Ye, Rangel, Esteban, Tramm, John, Ghadar, Yasaman, Tamerus, Arjen, Edsall, Chris, Deakin, Tom
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 17.11.2024
Subjects:
Benchmark testing
Computer architecture
Conferences
Data centers
Graphics processing units
High performance computing
Ion radiation effects
Magnetosphere
pvc
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Summary:Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550, known as Ponte Vecchio (PVC), is a new Intel GPU architecture for high-performance computing. It is the basis of two systems on the June 2024 Top 500 list, Dawn (#51) and Aurora (#2).This work provides micro-benchmarking data on PVCs from which application developers may benefit, shows how the micro-benchmarking results are indicative of mini-app performance on PVC, and demonstrates real applications on large-scale Intel GPU systems.We quantify the obtainable performance from PVC systems through micro-benchmarking fundamental architectural properties. We evaluate the performance of four mini-apps with known performance characteristics, and two full applications, comparing performance on a node of Aurora and Dawn with a node of NVIDIA H100 GPUs and a node of AMD MI250 GPUs. We show the figure-of-merit of the mini-apps on a single PVC ranges from 0.6-1.8X the performance of an H100, and 0.8-7.5X of a MI250.
DOI:10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00184