Stony Brook University upgraded its Seawulf supercomputer with a new partition using Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series featuring High-bandwidth Memory (HBM), boosting performance to 1.86 petaFLOPS. Building on lessons from their Ookami cluster, researchers selected Intel Xeon Max for its superior memory bandwidth and application performance. The system, comprising 94 HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen11 nodes, showed up to 9x performance gains over previous CPUs. Benchmarks demonstrated major improvements in memory bandwidth, thread scaling, deep learning (oneDNN), and scientific applications like Gromacs and astrophysics simulations, paving the way for advanced 3D modeling and research.

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