New HPC technologies

Arunas Birmontas, BGM

BalticGrid II Kick-off meeting, VilniusMay 13, 2008

Company Profile 2008 Company Profile 2008

• BGM®, established in 1991, is a Systems BGM®, established in 1991, is a Systems Integrator which focuses exclusively on Integrator which focuses exclusively on Multiprocessor Servers and HPC solutions. BGM Multiprocessor Servers and HPC solutions. BGM manufactures and services high-performance manufactures and services high-performance technical computing products such as industry technical computing products such as industry standard and enterprise Elitas® Servers, Blade standard and enterprise Elitas® Servers, Blade Servers and High Performance Computing Servers and High Performance Computing clusters. It specializes in a wide range of custom clusters. It specializes in a wide range of custom Linux and Windows computing solutions for the Linux and Windows computing solutions for the most demanding applications, with a focus on most demanding applications, with a focus on leading-edge supercomputing technologyleading-edge supercomputing technology. .

Our Partners Our Partners

• Intel Channel Partner Premier Member, Intel Software Channel Partner, Intel Intel Channel Partner Premier Member, Intel Software Channel Partner, Intel Enterprise Server Acceleration Alliance (ESAA), Itanium Solutions AllianceEnterprise Server Acceleration Alliance (ESAA), Itanium Solutions Alliance

• - Sun Microsystems - Sun Microsystems PartnePartnerr

• - SGI (Silicon Graphics) Distributor and Sales - SGI (Silicon Graphics) Distributor and Sales PartnePartnerr

• - Microsoft Certified Partner- Microsoft Certified Partner

• - HP Preferred Partner- HP Preferred Partner

• - EMC - EMC Velocity2 PartneVelocity2 Partnerr

• - VMware Enterprise Partner- VMware Enterprise Partner

• - - Cisco Cisco Systems Systems PartnePartnerr

• - Oracle PartnerNetwork- Oracle PartnerNetwork

Manufacturing and salesManufacturing and sales

• During 2007 our Company has During 2007 our Company has manufactured and sold over 300 manufactured and sold over 300 server/storage/SAN, a number server/storage/SAN, a number which made us one of the major which made us one of the major Lithuanian System Integrator.Lithuanian System Integrator.

What is High Performance Computing?• Computing that pushes the limits of available performance

• Computing that requires more than can be delivered from a single processor, desktop, workstation or server

• Computing that demands specialized program optimizations to get the most from a system in terms I/O, computation, and data movement

Supercomputing is not the same as HPC.

HPC includes a broad range of systems, not just big-iron supercomputers.

Supercomputing is not the same as HPC.

HPC includes a broad range of systems, not just big-iron supercomputers.

HPC and Moore’s law

The number of transistors that can be placed on a single die will

double every 24 months

How did we do so far ?Moore´s Law applied to the travel industry• A flight from New York to Paris

90 nm90 nm20032003

180 nm180 nm19991999 130 nm130 nm

2001200165 nm65 nm20052005 45 nm45 nm

20072007

Intel processor technology 2 years cycle

Top500 Top500 top10 top10 1 BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM

2 JUGENE - Blue Gene/P Solution, IBM

3 SGI Altix ICE 8200, Xeon quad core 3.0 GHz, SGI

4 Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 3GHz, Infiniband, Hewlett-Packard

5 Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 2.66GHz, Infiniband, Hewlett-Packard

6 Red Storm - Sandia/ Cray Red Storm, Opteron 2.4 GHz dual core, Cray Inc.

7 Jaguar - Cray XT4/XT3, Cray Inc.

8 BGW - eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM

9 Franklin - Cray XT4, 2.6 GHz, Cray Inc.

10 New York Blue - eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM

All dates, product features and plans are subject to change without notice.

Higher Higher PerformancePerformance

Better RASBetter RAS

Lower TCOLower TCO

Strong Itanium® Roadmap Strong Itanium® Roadmap Drives GrowthDrives Growth

Increasing value for the Mission-critical segmentIncreasing value for the Mission-critical segment

IntelIntel®® Itanium Itanium®® Processor Family Processor Family RoadmapRoadmap

Targeted Segments

Availability

Highlights

Processor Generation

Dual-Core Itanium

Processor 9000 series

(Montecito)

2006

Dual-core, On-die 24MB cache, 104W

Montvale

2007

Dual-core, 667MHz bus,

DBS

Tukwila

2008-09

Quad-core

Poulson

2010-11

Multi-core

Kittson

Future

Enhanced multi-core

architecture

• Dual-core

• Hyper-Threading Technology

• Intel® Virtualization Technology

• Intel® Cache Safe Technology

(enhanced cache reliability)

Enterprise

Business Analytics

• Multi-core

• High speed system interconnects

• Common platform architecture with Intel® Xeon® processor MP

• Enhanced RAS

• Enhanced virtualization

• Enhanced I/O & memory

Deep Commitment to Itanium® Processor Deep Commitment to Itanium® Processor RoadmapRoadmap

Sun Constellation System Sun Constellation System 6048 6048

• World’s first open petascale computing architecture, with ultra-World’s first open petascale computing architecture, with ultra-dense blade computing and InfiniBand switching, and high-dense blade computing and InfiniBand switching, and high-performance storageperformance storage

• First customer install of Sun Constellation System is the 500 + First customer install of Sun Constellation System is the 500 + TeraFLOP TACC Ranger cluster at University of Texas at TeraFLOP TACC Ranger cluster at University of Texas at Austin/Texas Advanced Computing Center Austin/Texas Advanced Computing Center

• BasedBased on the Sun Blade™ 6000 technologyon the Sun Blade™ 6000 technology

• OOffers a choice offfers a choice of UltraSPARC® T2 processors with CoolThreads™UltraSPARC® T2 processors with CoolThreads™

technology, AMD Opteron™, and Intel® Xeon®technology, AMD Opteron™, and Intel® Xeon® processors. processors.

New ScaleMP x86 SMP New ScaleMP x86 SMP system f1200 system f1200

• – – Shared memoryShared memory

• – – 8-48 Intel® Xeon® (Core® microarchitecture) 8-48 Intel® Xeon® (Core® microarchitecture) processors: • Dual-Core (f1220) and Quad-Core (f1240)processors: • Dual-Core (f1220) and Quad-Core (f1240)

• Targett end-user challenges:Targett end-user challenges:

– – Applications can benefit from SMP and currently run on Applications can benefit from SMP and currently run on x86x86

– – Customer needing x86 and large shared memoryCustomer needing x86 and large shared memory

– – x86 cluster customers tired of clustering complexitiesx86 cluster customers tired of clustering complexities

Designed specifically for compute bound HPC applications,Designed specifically for compute bound HPC applications,

requiring large memory footprint and high memory bandwidthrequiring large memory footprint and high memory bandwidth

MODEL f1200MODEL f1200

• Processors 8-12 x Dual/Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5x00 Processors 8-12 x Dual/Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5x00 (Woodcrest/Clovertown) processors(Woodcrest/Clovertown) processors & future & future Xeon®Xeon® processors processors

• Memory 48-192 GB FBDIMM DDR2 (48 DIMMs) at 667 MHzMemory 48-192 GB FBDIMM DDR2 (48 DIMMs) at 667 MHz

• Architecture ScaleMP® Versatile SMP (vSMP)Architecture ScaleMP® Versatile SMP (vSMP)

• Network Gigabit Ethernet: 7 portsNetwork Gigabit Ethernet: 7 ports

• Storage Up to 4.5 TB internal storage (6 x 750GB SATA drives)Storage Up to 4.5 TB internal storage (6 x 750GB SATA drives)

• I/OI/O ExpansionExpansion: : - eSATA: 2 ports- eSATA: 2 ports, , - No PCI expansion- No PCI expansion

• OperatingOperating SystemSystem: : - Red Hat: RHEL 4, Fedora Core 4- Red Hat: RHEL 4, Fedora Core 4, , - SUSE: SLES 10, - SUSE: SLES 10, open SUSE 10open SUSE 10

• Form-FactorForm-Factor: : Desk-side Desk-side, , Rack-mount: 6U standard-depth Rack-mount: 6U standard-depth

• ExpansionExpansion : : Up to 4 chassis, max. configuration:Up to 4 chassis, max. configuration:

- 48 x Dual/Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5x00 (Woodcrest/Clovertown) - 48 x Dual/Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5x00 (Woodcrest/Clovertown) processorsprocessors

- 768GB FBDIMM DDR2 (192 DIMMs) at 667 MHz- 768GB FBDIMM DDR2 (192 DIMMs) at 667 MHz

04/21/2304/21/23

SGISGI®® Altix Altix®® 4700 and 450 4700 and 450Performance for Large Data and Scalable AppsPerformance for Large Data and Scalable Apps

Altix 4700 / 450:• Scales to 1024 cores, memory address to over 100TB• Scale compute, memory-only, I/O as needed• Unmatched MPI efficiency

Customer Profile – Identifying Altix Candidates:• Customers focused on developing new algorithms & doing new science• Any target segment (HPC, Government, Enterprise) with workload profiles that include:

• Large datasets (>32GB)• A wide range of application types and sizes, especially jobs that require more than 16-32

core• Applications that must scale beyond 8 core and have not been tuned to run well on clusters

(not using message passing to scale).• Performance sweet spots in implicit CAE, chemistry, IMDB, Oracle

• Any project with very demanding data-handling capability, IO or memory-bound applications• Upgrading or migrating an Origin system • RC-100 (FPGA/RASC) opportunities • Low-cost standards based RISC replacement, considering Linux as strategic platform for

future

Thank you !Thank you !