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Agenda …

• HPC Technology & Trends • HPC Platforms & Roadmaps• HP Supercomputing Vision• HP Today

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HPC Trend:Faster processors• Processors inching ahead of each other• Itanium … Xeon … Opteron … Xeon …• Big leap happens this year:

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2005 Opteron over Xeon 2006 Xeon over Opteron

CAD

Visual Studio

Fin Model

O&G

DCC

CAE

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Industry Standard Processor choice & leadershipChoices at end of 2006

Woodcrest

Rev F Montecito• Price/performance

leadership with 32/64-bitco-existence

• Price/performance leadership with 32/64-bit co-existence

• Highest performance 64-bit processor core for sustained performance

• Dual-Core • 4 FLOPs/Tick• DDR2 FBD memory

• Dual-Core• 2 FLOPs/Tick• DDR2 memory

• Dual-Core• 4 FLOPs/Tick• DDR2 memory

• New higher performance chipsets

• 1GHz HyperTransport • New higher performance sx2000 and zx2 chipsets

• Highest clock speed, peak performance, large cache

• High bandwidth for sustained performance

• Highest SMP scalability (to 64p/128c)

• HP-UX for mission-critical technical computing

• Extensive 32-bit, and growing 64-bit ecosystems

• 2p/4c nodes for highly parallel Scale-out workloads

• Extensive 32-bit, and growing 64-bit ecosystems

• 2p/4c & 4p/8c nodes for moderate Scale-out workloads

• Extensive 64-bit ecosystem(and 32/64-bit on HP-UX)

• Scale-up and scale-out for complex workloads

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Relative Performance of 17 ISV Applications

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Application performance is a qualitative number based on HP benchmarking results. Results are normalized to the faster Itanium operating environment and sorted by the Opteron:Itanium ratio. ISV compiler choices and optimization levels influence results as well as raw microprocessor capabilities.

Itanium, Opteron, Xeon comparative results 1HCY06

5 HP Confidential. Contains Intel Confidential Information

EDA - Other: simulation, verification, synthesis, physical design

Application performance is a qualitative number based on HP & Intel benchmarking results. Results are normalized to the faster Itanium operating environment and sorted by the Opteron:Itanium ratio. ISV compiler choices and optimization levels influence results as well as raw microprocessor capabilities.

Itanium, Opteron, Xeon comparative results 2HCY06

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Broadest Suite of HPC platforms

HP Technical Clusters

BL2xp / BL3xpBL45p, BL60pBL460, BL680 Blade Clusters

HP Technical SMP Servers

DL360DL380DL385

DL140DL145

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rx4640rx2620

rx7620Integrity

Family

rx1620DL580DL585

HP Technical Workstations

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HP ClusterPlatform 4000

HP ClusterPlatform 3000

HP ClusterPlatform 6000

Version 2Version 2

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HP Blades for HPC• Blades are the ideal platform

for clusters−Simplified management−Designed for performance and

scalability−Reduced interconnect and

network complexity−High density−Centralized power management

• Factors for blades adoption in HPC clusters:−Performance parity with racked

systems−Price advantage shifts to blades−Interconnect choice expands to

cover range of HPC workloads

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Rear

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Agenda …

• Grid Initiative at HP • HPC Focus & Trends • HP Supercomputing Vision• HP Today

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What is “Supercomputing Utility” Vision

• Develop and offer a open standards & open systems based Supercomputing Utility – that can expand/grow over time, and truly adapt to the changing enterprise and environment.

• The utility can deliver high computational throughput, support multiple applications with different characteristics and workload.

• The fabric of this utility is a high speed network – all linked to a large scale data store .

• The environment is managed and controlled as a single system, and provides support for dispersed work force – either with direct log in or grid accessible.

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HP Vision for Supercomputing facility

Computation

DataManagementVisualization

Integration is the Key !Industry Standard

Servers

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HP Unified Cluster Portfolio strategy

Advancing the power of clusters with• Integrated solutions spanning computation, storage and visualization• Choice of industry standard platforms, operating systems, interconnects,

etc• HP engineered and supported solutions that are easy to manage and use• Scalable application performance on complex workloads• Extensive use of open source software• Extensive portfolio of qualified development tools and applications

Scalable Visualization

ArrayHP Integrity & ProLiant Servers

HP Cluster Platforms

HP StorageWorks

Scalable File Share

Storage GridComputation

Visualization

DataManagement

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HP XC software for LinuxLeveraged Open SourceFunction Technology Features and Benefits

Distribution and Kernel

RHEL 3.0 compatible

Red Hat compatible shipping product, Posix enhancements, support for Opteron, ISV support

Batch Scheduler LSF 6.0 Platform LSF HPC Premier scheduler, policy driven, allocation controls, MAUI support. Provides migration for AlphaserverSC customers

Resource Management

SLURM Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management Fault tolerant, highly scalable, uses standard kernel

MPI HP-MPI 2.1 HP’s Message Passing Interface Provides standard interface for multiple interconnects, MPICH compatible, support for MPI-2 functionality

Inbound Network / Cluster Alias

LVS Linux Virtual Server High availability virtual server project for managing incoming requests, with load balancing

System Files

Management

SystemImagerConfiguration toolsCluster database

SystemImager Automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment. Supports complete, bootable image; can use multicast; used at PNNL and Sandia

Console Telnet based console commands

Power control Adaptable for HP integrated management processors – no need for terminal servers, reduced wiring

Monitoring Nagios

SuperMON

Nagios Browser based, robust host, service and network monitor from open source. SuperMon supports high speed, high sample rates, low perturbation monitoring for clusters.

High Perf I/O LustreTM 1.2.x LustreTM Parallel File System High performance parallel

file system – efficient, robust, scalable

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High performance interconnects

• Infiniband− Emerging industry standard− IB 4x – speeds 1.8GB/s, <5μSec MPI latency− 24 port, 288 port switches− Scalable topologies with federation of switches

• Myrinet− Speeds up to 800MB/s, <6μSec MPI latency− 16 port, 128 port, 256 port switches− Scalable topologies with federation of switches

• Quadrics− Elan 4 – 800MB/s, <3μSec MPI latency− 8 port, 32 port, 64 port, 128 port switches− Scalable topologies with federation of switches

• GigE− 60-80MB/s, >40 μSec MPI latency

top-level switches

node-level switches (128 ports)

Connects to 64 nodes

top-level switches (288 ports)

node-level switches (24 ports)

Connects to 12 nodes

top-level switches (264 ports)

node-level switches (128 ports)

Connects to 64 nodes

PCI-e

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HP Cluster Platforms

• Factory pre-assembled hardware solution with optional software installation− Includes nodes, interconnects, network, racks, etc.

integrated & tested• Configure to order from 5 node to 512 nodes (more

by request)− Uniform, worldwide specification and product menus− Fully integrated, with HP warranty and support

Compute Nodes

Operating Systems

Interconnects

HP Cluster

Platform 3000

ProLiant DL140 G2 ProLiant DL360 G4 server

Linux

Windows

GigE, IB, Myrinet

HP Cluster

Platform 4000

ProLiant DL145 G2

ProLiant DL585

Linux

Windows

GigE, IB, Myrinet, Quadrics

HP Cluster

Platform 6000

Integrity rx1620

Integrity rx2620

Linux

HP-UX

GigE, IB, Quadrics

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Data ManagementHP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS)

Customer challenge• I/O performance limitations

HP SFS provides• Scalable performance

− Aggregate parallel read or write bandwidth from > 1 GB/s to “tens of GB/s”

− 100-fold increase over NFS• Scalable access

− Shared, coherent, parallel access across a huge number of clients, 1000’s today “10’s of thousands” future

• Scalable capacity

− multiple terabytes to multiple petabytes • Based on breakthrough Lustre technology

− Open source, industry standards based

Scalable Storage Grid (Smart Cells)

ScalableBandwidth

Linux Cluster

HP Scalable File Share

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Scalable Visualization

Customer challenge• Visualization solutions too

expensive, proprietary, not scalable

HP Scalable Visualization Array (SVA)

• Open, scalable, affordable, high-end, visualization solution based on industry standard Sepia technology

• Innovative approach combining

− standard graphics adapters

− accelerated compositing• Yields a system that scales to

clusters capable of displaying 100 million pixels or more

HP Scalable Visualization Array

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Pixel Network

Visualization Nodes

xcxccompute compute clustercluster

Delivering the Vision

Object Storage Servers

HP SFSServers

Meta Data Servers

Scalable HA Storage Farm

Scalable HA Storage Farm

OST

OST

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MDS

MDSSVA SVA Rendering Rendering & & CompositinCompositingg

sfs / sfs / lustrelustreScalable File Scalable File

ShareShare

High Speed Interconnect

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TIFR – Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchComputational Mathematics Laboratory (CML)Industry: Scientific Research - Pune• Challenges

−Current AlphaServer based• Increase computational power

−Explosive grow in new research• Massive increase in performance

−Partnership for support services

• HP Solution−1 teraflop peak HP XC based on:

• CP6000 (77) 2CPU/4GB Integrity rx1620 1.6GHz compute nodes, Integrity rx2620 service node

• 288 Port Infiniband switch

−HP Math Libraries for Linux on Itanium−New CCN for collaboration on Algorithms

• Results−First step to massive Supercomputer−Improve ability to solve computationally

demanding algorithms

We need partners who complement our core competency in areas like complex hardware system design, microelectronics, nanotechnology and system software. This is where HP steps in, as it has been investigating HPC concepts for more than a decade and this has led to the creation of Itanium processors jointly with Intel.There is a need to build a giant hardware accelerator to address fundamental questions in computer science, which could not be answered until now, either by theory or experiment, to influence future development of the subject, facilitate scientific discoveries and solve grand challenges in various disciplines. This supercomputer, which will help us understand how to structure our algorithms for a larger system, is only a first step in that direction.

Professor Naren KarmarkarHead CML, TIFR(Dr Karmarkar is a Bell Labs Fellow)

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TI – Texas InstrumentsIndustry: Semiconductor Engineering / EDA - Bangalore

• Challenges− 5,000 processors already installed, additional

Cluster computing required− Reduce design cycle time by 10X.− Datacenter now full will turn to industry for

Utility Computing

• HP Solution−5.6 teraflop peak Beowulf Clusters based

on:• Cluster Platform 4000

− 500 Compute nodes − ProLiant DL145 G2 2.8GHz 2P/2GB− GigaBit Ethernet Interconnect

−Support Services−Adding to 100/+ existing DL585 Servers

• Result−Additional 1,000 processor Cluster for

development requirements

www.ti.com/asia/docs/india/index.html

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IGIB – Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology Industry: BioTechnology / LMS - Delhi• Challenges

−Current AlphaServer based• Increase computational power

−Explosive grow in new research• Massive increase in performance

−Partnership for support−Improve cost efficiencies

• HP Solution−4½ teraflop peak HP XC based on:

• CP3000 (288) 2CPU/4GB ProLiant DL140 G2 3.6GHz nodes using Infiniband

• CP3000 (24) 2CPU/4GB ProLiant DL140 G2 test cluster

• Superdome, 12 TB StorageWorks EVA SAN

−Single point support service−IGIB research staff collaboration

• Results−HP India’s largest Supercomputer−One of the world’s most powerful research systems

dedicated to Life Sciences

HP’s Cluster Platform provides a scalable architecture that allows us to complete large, complex simulation experiments such as molecular interactions and dynamics, virtual drug screening, protein folding, etc much more quickly.This technology combined with HP’s experience and expertise in life sciences helps IGIB speed access to information, knowledge, and new levels of efficiency, which wehope will ultimately culminate in the discovery of new drug targets and predictive medicine for complex disorders with minimum side effects.

Dr. Samir BrahmachariDirector, IGIB