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Wasn't Intel's commercial compiler also dominated HPC space around that time period? I remember back then people would use cuda and icc for hpc stuff.
by neurostimulant 2y ago
Wasn't Intel's commercial compiler also dominated HPC space around that time period? I remember back then people would use cuda and icc for hpc stuff.
- rbanffy 2y agoI believe their compilers still dominate in CPU-bound workloads.
- knappe 2y agoI can't speak to modern hpc, since I've been out of the game for a few years but icc was absolutely the preferred compiler for almost any workload and Intel procs were the desired hardware to run on. AMD was joked about as the only reason Intel wasn't considered a monopoly at the time and that Intel would happily take wheelbarrows of cash over to AMD to prop them up, just to ensure they didn't even appear like a monopoly. But no one in the field was buying AMD procs for their workloads.
- BobbyJo 2y agoMost super computers were still Intel/IBM, but around that time is when the shift to GPU clusters started. #1 super computer spot was taken by an Nvidia cluster in 2012, but I remember other big projects were done before as well.