1. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Working Differently with Parallel Workflows Frank Jensen SPEC* Workshop 2008 27 January 2008

2. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Workstations – Accelerating Decisions The Essential Technology Tool for Professional Creators

3. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Benchmarks A good benchmark P.R.R.S.S. – Portable – Relevant – Recognized – Simple – Scalable Every benchmark degrades in value over T.I.M.E.: – Technology (# of cranks to start a car) – Indicators no longer scalable (flops became GFlops) – Methodology may no longer be comprehensive (multitasking OS vs. UNIX) – Environment changes usage models (Virus scans anyone?) Front-End Application Background Application(s) Separate Test Cases

4. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. 2000 2008+ Performance Parallelism 2004 MULTI-CORE FORECAST SINGLE-CORE Throughput Scalability An Industry Inflection Point YOU ARE HERE

5. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Accelerating the Time to Decision by Working Differently <2006Today Serial WorkflowsSimultaneous Workflows Single TaskMega Task Simple AnalysisComplex Analysis Meet The DeadlineWhat if I try this? Iterate Faster Innovate More Design Simulate Design Simulate Design Simulate Parallel Design Freedom DesignSimulateDesignSimulateDesignSimulate Serial Design Gridlock Compute Create Create, modify, and simulate Simulate Render Design/ Iterate New Ways To Work

6. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. DCC Performance Example Working Differently with Autodesk 3ds Max* interactive and Mental Ray* rendering iteration Lower Is Better ~ 4.4x increase in innovation 8-core workstation ~19 designs per day~ 4 designs per day 2-core workstation Autodesk ® New Ways To Work

7. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Enabling Analysis-Based Design New Ways To Work Engineers can now: create designs generate meshes run analyses review results on one system

8. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Better Insight New Ways To Work 130 2x Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160 (3.00 GHz, 1333 FSB, 4 MB) 2x Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 (2.66 GHz, 1333 FSB, 8 MB) 226 43 2x Intel® Xeon® Processor 3.60GHz with 2 MB L2 cache 40 225 Average Sims / Min Higher is better 100% 202% 425% SunGard* Adaptiv Credit Analysis* & X_Trader* AutoTrader* demo software running simultaneously Normalized to 100% 5.3x sims/min Assess company credit risk while trading commodities on the US market Get better market insight while continuing to trade actively on the market Trade Trade Assess risks

9. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. User experience Primary concern is impact to user experience. Negligible results seen today with proof-of-concept

10. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Working Differently to compress the time between an idea and a product – Manufacturing – Simultaneous Design + Simulation = Design Optimization > Users can iterate through over 4X as many designs in the same time period – Digital Media – Simultaneous Create + Render = Imagination Takes Form > Users can imaginer 4X faster. Be more daring while meeting demanding schedules – Energy – Simultaneous Design + Attribute Modeling = Reservoir Exploitation > Users compress months of interpretation and modeling into a matter of hours. Doug Meikle Vice President Landmark Graphics – Financial Services – Simultaneous Market Updates + Financial Modeling > Users observe trends and model financial valuations to mitigate risk at new performance levels 8 Cores, ~78Gflops Hardware evaluations Whats in next decade? New Ways To Work

11. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Project-based benchmarking Worst-case performance scenario makes best-case benchmark opportunity Authors of application benchmarks should consider the bigger picture – front to back IT evaluators – micro-benchmarks for only quick tech eval – relying less-and-less on single-application – want real environment testing Blended application testing highlights opportunity – Todays multitasking has negligible user experience impact – How to design real-life benchmarks for tomorrow

12. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. What can you do? Status quo isnt going to be relevant next decade Industry inflection point Windows* porting continues – multitasking happens Game has changed – benchmarking industry must adapt Big picture when designing benchmark requirements People will work differently with parallel workflows Are you up to the challenge?

13. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Copyright © 2007, Intel Corporation. SPEC logo is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Thank You!