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SiCortex Update IDC HPC User Forum

SiCortex Update IDC HPC User Forum. April 14, 2008. The Company. Founded by computer system designers Single Focus: High Performance Computing. What we Offer. Complete computer systems System on a chip silicon Reduce power Maximize memory performance

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SiCortex Update IDC HPC User Forum

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  1. SiCortex UpdateIDC HPC User Forum April 14, 2008

  2. The Company • Founded by computer system designers • Single Focus: High Performance Computing

  3. What we Offer • Complete computer systems • System on a chip silicon • Reduce power • Maximize memory performance • Integrate high performance interconnect • High Reliability • Software • Open Source: Linux, GNU, and MPI • Licensed: Fortran and debugger More delivered performance per square foot, per dollar, and per watt.

  4. SiCortex Product Family 648 Gflops 864 Gbytes 30 GB/S I/O 2KW 1.5 Teraflops 1.8 Terabytes 68 GB/S I/O 4KW 5.8 Teraflops 7.8 Terabytes 216 GB/S I/O 18KW 72 Gflops 48 Gbytes 6.5 GB/S I/O 200 Watts

  5. What’s Inside PCI Express I/O Memory Everything Else Compute: 162 GF/sec Memory b/w: 345 GB/sec Fabric b/w: 78 GB/sec I/O b/w: 7.5 GB/sec Power: 500 Watts Fabric Interconnect

  6. Linux GNU MPI Libraries Integrated HPC Linux Environment Operating System • Linux kernel and utilities (2.6.18+) • Cluster file system (Lustre) Development Environment • GNU C, C++ • Pathscale C, C++, Fortran • Math libraries • Performance tools • Debugger (TotalView) • MPI libraries (MPICH2) System Management • Scheduler (SLURM) • Partitioning • Monitoring • Console, boot, diagnostics Maintenance and Support • Factory-installed software • Regular updates • Open source build environment gentoo

  7. Hardware Update • SC072 Catapult - $15000, shipping • Expandable configurations of SC648, SC1458, SC5832 • Engineering work on multicabinet systems

  8. Software Update • SiCortex Release 2.2 shipping • Support for all system types • Linux 2.6.18, Lustre 1.6 • Expanded I/O device support • Infiniband, 10G • Compiler and library performance improvements • Open Source

  9. Performance Update • MPI Latency - 1.4 µsec • MPI BW - 1.5 GB/s • HPC Challenge work underway • SC5832, on 5772 cpus: • DGEMM 72% • HPL 3.6 TF • PTRANS 210 GB/s • STREAM 345 MB/s (1.9 TB/s aggregate) • FFT 174 GF • RandomRing 4 usec, 50 MB/s • RandomAccess 0.74 GUPS (2.25 optimized)

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