ICL Research Profile

Overview

The HPL-MxP benchmark seeks to highlight the emerging convergence of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence workloads. While traditional HPC focused on simulation runs for modeling phenomena in physics, chemistry, biology, and so on, the mathematical models that drive these computations require, for the most part, 64-bit accuracy. On the other hand, the machine learning methods that fuel advances in AI achieve desired results at 32-bit and even lower floating-point precision formats. This lesser demand for accuracy fueled a resurgence of interest in new hardware platforms that deliver a mix of unprecedented performance levels and energy savings to achieve the classification and recognition fidelity afforded by higher-accuracy formats HPL-MxP strives to unite these two realms by delivering a blend of modern algorithms and contemporary hardware while simultaneously connecting to the solver formulation of the decades-old HPL framework of benchmarking the largest supercomputing installations in the world.