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Supermicro © 2009 Confidential
HPC Case Study & References
Supermicro © 2009 Confidential
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a leader in
application-optimized, high performance server solutions,
participated in the inaugural ceremony for the CERNs LHC
(Large Hadron Collider) Project in Geneva. Supermicro’s
SuperBlade® servers, housed at CERN, (one of the world’s
largest research labs) enabled the LHC Project with superior
computational performance, scalability, and energy efficiency.
“We are honored to have Supermicro’s industry-leading blade
server technology installed at the foundation of this monumental
scientific research project,” said Charles Liang, CEO and president
of Supermicro. “Our SuperBlade® platforms deliver unsurpassed
performance, computing density and energy efficiency, making
them ideal for HPC clusters and data centers.”
The LHC Project deploys , amongst others, Supermicro’s
award-winning SuperBlade servers. These optimized solutions
empower Supermicro customers with the most advanced green
server technology available, including 93%* peak power supply
efficiency, innovative and highly efficient thermal and cooling
system designs, and industry-leading performance-per-watt
(290+ GFLOPS/kW*).
Installation Example – CERN
100+ nodes SuperBlades®along with 2000+ rack mount servers
14-Blade 10-Blade
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CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Project
CERN: Largest Hadron Collider Research Center
14-Blade 10-Blade
Source: Dr. Helge Meinhard, CERN
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Source: Dr. Helge Meinhard, CERN
Tunnel of 27 km circumference, 4 m diameter, 50…150 m below ground; Detectors at four collision points
15 Petabytes per year for four experiments
CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Project
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Installation Example – Research LABs
Total 4000 nodes / 4-wayAMD Barcelona quad-coreWith Infiniband connection
300 nodes / 2 DP nodes per 1U1U Twin™ / Intel HapertownWith Infiniband (onboard) connection
Shanghai-ready
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LLNL Hyperion Petescale Cluster
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Supermicro A+ Server 2041M-32R+B
H8QM3-2 motherboard 2U 4-socket AMD quad-core
One with 64 GB RAM & one with 256 GB RAM
Two x16, Two x4 PCIe 1.0 slots
One Mellanox Connect-X IB DDR 2-port PCIe CX4 HCA
One LSI SAS controller 8 external ports
LLNL Hyperion Compute Node
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Speeding up science: CSIRO's CPU-GPU
CSIRO GPU supercomputer configuration: The new CSIRO
high performance computing cluster will deliver up to 200
plus Teraflops of computing performance and will consist of
the following components: Supermicro 100 Dual Xeon E5462 Compute Nodes (i.e. a total of 800
2.8GHz compute cores) with 16GB of RAM, 500GB SATA storage and
DDR InfiniBand interconnect
50 Tesla S1070 (200 GPUs with a total of 48,000 streaming processor
cores)
96 port DDR InfiniBand Switch
On TOP500 / Green500 (June, 2009): Delivered by NEC (Hybrid Cluster): Supermicro Twin + NVIDIA GPUs
(50TFLOPS)
TOP500: ranking 77
Green500: ranking 20: the most efficient cluster system in
the X86 space
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Oil & Gas Application
Oil & Gas Exploration - Seismic Data Analysis Supermicro 2U Twin² System – 512 nodes
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HPC Implementation with PRACE
Challenge
Customer: Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, jointly with the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
Need: A general purpose HPC cluster for assessment of energy efficiency and compute density achievable using standard components
Buying Criteria: Superior performance/watt/sq.ft. Ability to control energy consumption based on workload End-to-End Non-blocking, high throughput IO connectivity Latest server chipset supporting PCI-E Gen2 Non-proprietary x86 architecture
Solution
Collaborative effort between Supermicro and AMD
Infrastructure (SuperBlade®): 18 7U SuperBlade® enclosures 10 4-way blades with 240 processor cores per 7U QDR InfiniBand switch (40Gb/s quad data rate) High efficiency, N+1 redundant power supplies (93%
efficiency) Blade enclosure management solution including KVM/IP on
each node
Processor: Six-Core AMD Opteron™ HE processor
Chipset: AMD SR5670 chipset supporting HyperTransport™ 3
interface, PCI-E Gen2 IO connectivity, APML power
management
Computing Capacity:
180 4-way systems with total 720 processors – 4320 cores
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References
LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dr. Mark Seager Director of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program V-925-423-3141 P-800-265-8691 POBOX 808, L-554, East Ave., Livermore, CA 94551 [email protected]
CERN: European Organization for Nuclear Research Dr. Helge Meinhard Server & Storage IT in charge 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Tel. + 41 22 767 60 31 [email protected]
PRACE Prof. Lennart Johnsson PDC Director, Teknikringen 14, Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 64 Stockholm, Sweden [email protected]
