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Intel® Cloud Computing

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With a hybrid cloud built on a trusted Intel platform, your business can get the strength, agility, and scalability needed for high-demand workloads and applications.

This Is Your Data on Intel: Hybrid Cloud

This Is Your Data on Intel: Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid clouds deliver the agility and security your business needs to innovate rapidly. Need help determining optimal placement for your workloads across private and public clouds?

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Deliver the powerful performance per dollar you need on Intel® technology. Critical data-heavy workloads such as database, high performance computing (HPC), and web perform better at a lower total cost of ownership on Intel® architecture-based clouds.1 2 3 4 5

2.84x Higher Performance

Up to 2.84x higher performance/$ on database workloads, including HammerDB PostgreSQL*, and MongoDB*.1

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4.15x Higher Performance

Up to 4.15x higher performance/$ on High Performance LINPACK* and LAMMPS*.2

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1.74x Better Performance

Better performance/$ on Server-Side Java and 1.74x better performance /$ on WordPress PHP/HHVM.3

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Up to 2.25x higher performance/$ for memory bandwidth applications.4

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Drive Application Innovation with Hybrid Cloud

Learn how to drive application innovation with hybrid cloud and how to grow your IT and developer capabilities.

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Enable Developers with Hybrid Cloud

Get Forrester Consulting insights on how enterprises are evolving IT capabilities and enabling developers with hybrid cloud.

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Hybrid Cloud Workload Optimization

Building the right cloud solution for your business is not easy. Read on to learn more about IT infrastructure decisions.

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Hybrid Cloud Benefits for Advanced Analytics

Learn how to achieve hybrid cloud benefits for advanced analytics with this range of content from Intel and Forrester.

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Intel shares their hybrid cloud journey as business models shift towards embracing hybrid cloud as an integral IT strategy.

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The Intel One Minute Misconceptions video series debunks common misconceptions around Hybrid Cloud.

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Bill Giard of Intel and Bryant Eadon of StrongArm discuss the drivers and barriers for hybrid cloud adoption in One-Minute Misconceptions, A Few Minutes More.

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Learn about the road to hybrid cloud success for hybrid cloud environments and how the four most common “barriers” can be turned into success drivers.

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Innovate faster and bring powerful services with Intel® Select Solutions for Hybrid Cloud.

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Innovate faster and bring powerful services on-premises with Microsoft Azure Stack* Hybrid Cloud on Intel® Xeon® processors.

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VMware vSAN* technology combined with Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Optane™ technology produces 13x performance gains.

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In a mixed CPU environment, VM migration equals downtime. To avoid the hassle, choose Intel® processor-based servers.

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Fuel your highest-value workloads with a breakthrough combination of data persistence, performance, capacity, and affordability.

 

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GoDaddy has shifted its IT infrastructure strategy to hybrid cloud to reduce infrastructure TCO and enable faster innovation.

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Product and Performance Information

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Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 R5 and R5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.

Workload: HammerDB* PostgreSQL*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.85X (higher is better)
Database: HammerDB – PostgreSQL (higher is better):
AWS R5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, HammerDB 3.0 PostgreSQL 10.2, Memory: 768GB, Hypervisor: KVM; Storage Type: EBS io1, Disk Volume 200GB, Total Storage 200GB, Docker version: 18.06.1-ce, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.6, 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64, 6400MB shared_buffer, 256 warehouses, 96 users. Score “NOPM” 439931, measured by Intel on 12/11/18-12/14/18.
AWS R5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, HammerDB 3.0 PostgreSQL 10.2, Memory: 768GB, Hypervisor: KVM; Storage Type: EBS io1, Disk Volume 200GB, Total Storage 200GB, Docker version: 18.06.1-ce, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.6, 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64, 6400MB shared_buffer, 256 warehouses, 96 users. Score “NOPM” 212903, measured by Intel on 12/20/18.

Workload: MongoDB*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 2.84X (higher is better)
Database: MongoDB (higher is better):
AWS R5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, MongoDB v4.0, journal disabled, sync to filesystem disabled, wiredTigeCache=27GB, maxPoolSize = 256; 7 MongoDB instances, 14 client VMs, 1 YCSB client per VM, 96 threads per YCSB client, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 1229288 ops/sec, measured by Intel on 12/10/18.
AWS R5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, MongoDB v4.0, journal disabled, sync to filesystem disabled, wiredTigeCache=27GB, maxPoolSize = 256; 7 MongoDB instances, 14 client VMs, 1 YCSB client per VM, 96 threads per YCSB client, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 388596 ops/sec, measured by Intel on 12/10/18.
For more details visit www.intel.sg/benchmarks.

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Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.

Workload: LAMMPS*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Materials Science – LAMMPS (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 137.5 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 55.8 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.
Changes for AMD to support AVX2 (AMD only supports AVX2, so these changes were necessary):
sed -i 's/-xHost/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi
sed -i 's/-qopt-zmm-usage=high/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi

Workload: High-performance Linpack*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Linpack (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2 (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-benchmarks-suite Directory: benchmarks_2018.3.222/linux/mkl/benchmarks/mp_linpack/bin_intel/intel64), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX512, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=24, 2 MPI processes, Score 3152 GB/s, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2, (HPL Source: http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/hpl-2.2.tar.gz; Version 2.2; icc (ICC) 18.0.2 20180210 used to compile and link to BLIS library version 0.4.0; https://github.com/flame/blis; Addt’l Compiler flags: -O3 -funroll-loops -W -Wall –qopenmp; make arch=zen OMP_NUM_THREADS=8; 6 MPI processes.), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX2, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=8, 6 MPI processes, Score 677.7 GB/s, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.

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Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.

Workload: Server Side Java* 1 JVM
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.74X (higher is better)
Server Side Java (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 101767 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 52068 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.

Workload: Wordpress* PHP/HHVM*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.75X (higher is better)
Web Front End Wordpress (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 3626.11 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 1838.48 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
For more details visit www.intel.sg/benchmarks.

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AWS M5.4xlarge (Intel) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX512, -qopt-zmm-usage=high, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728 -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 –qopenmp, -qoptstreaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY: proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread, explicit, Score 81216.7 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
AWS M5a.4xlarge (AMD) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX2, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728, -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 -qopenmp -qopt-streaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY : proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread,explicit, Score 32154.4 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
OpenFOAM Disclaimer: This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com, and owner of the OpenFOAM* and OpenCFD* trademark.
AWS pricing as of 12th January 2019 Standard 1-Year term Reserved Instance Pricing (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/) On Demand Linux/Unix Usage Pricing per hour (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/).

5

Up to 30x Inference Throughput Improvement on Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9282 processor with Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost): Tested by Intel as of 2/26/2019. Platform: Dragon rock 2 socket Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9282 processor (56 cores per socket), HT ON, turbo ON, Total Memory 768 GB (24 slots/ 32 GB/ 2933 MHz), BIOS:SE5C620.86B.0D.01.0241.112020180249, CentOS 7 Kernel 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64, Deep Learning Framework: Intel® Optimization for Caffe* version: https://github.com/intel/caffe d554cbf1, ICC 2019.2.187, MKL DNN version: v0.17 (commit hash: 830a10059a018cd2634d94195140cf2d8790a75a), model: https://github.com/intel/caffe/blob/master/models/intel_optimized_models/int8/resnet50_int8_full_conv.prototxt, BS=64, No datalayer syntheticData:3x224x224, 56 instance/2 socket, Datatype: INT8 vs Tested by Intel as of July 11th 2017: 2S Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180 processor CPU @ 2.50GHz (28 cores), HT disabled, turbo disabled, scaling governor set to "performance" via intel_pstate driver, 384GB DDR4-2666 ECC RAM. CentOS Linux* release 7.3.1611 (Core), Linux* kernel 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64. SSD: Intel® SSD Data Center S3700 Series (800GB, 2.5in SATA 6Gb/s, 25nm, MLC). Performance measured with: Environment variables: KMP_AFFINITY='granularity=fine, compact‘, OMP_NUM_THREADS=56, CPU freq set with CPU Power frequency-set -d 2.5G -u 3.8G -g performance. Caffe: (http://github.com/intel/caffe/), revision f96b759f71b2281835f690af267158b82b150b5c. Inference measured with “caffe time --forward_only” command, training measured with "caffe time" command. For "ConvNet" topologies, synthetic dataset was used. For other topologies, data was stored on local storage and cached in memory before training. Topology specs from https://github.com/intel/caffe/tree/master/models/intel_optimized_models(ResNet-50). Intel® C++ Compiler ver. 17.0.2 20170213, Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) small libraries version 2018.0.20170425. Caffe run with "numactl -l".

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