Webinar: STAC-A2 on Ivy Bridge / Monte Carlo optimization

September 27 - Results revealed, and Intel presents four steps to improve Monte Carlo performance.

11 September 2013 - New York

Yesterday Intel announced the availability of the 22nm Ivy Bridge EP processor family for servers. STAC recently tested an Ivy Bridge–based system using STAC-A2. (STAC-A2 is a compute-intensive analytic workload with non-trivial parallelization requirements typical of many pricing and risk calculations.)

This project used the same benchmark implementation code as the Sandy Bridge tests we ran in June. The 2-socket Ivy Bridge system had 24 cores compared to the 16 cores of the 2-socket Sandy Bridge server, but at a somewhat lower clockspeed. We were very interested in the results.

Those results are now in the available, and we revealed them publicly in a half-hour webinar held September 27. Also in this webinar, Intel engineers reviewed specific code optimizations from their experience with STAC-A2 and explained four steps you can take to improve your Monte Carlo performance today.

Click here for the slides and recorded webinar.

Qualified members of the STAC Benchmark Council can access the report here.