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NCCS Hardware

NCCS Hardware. Julia C. White, Ph.D. User Assistance and Outreach National Center for Computational Sciences. Many Storage Devices Supported. NCCS resources. October 2006 Summary. Control Network. 1 GigE. Network Routers. 7 Systems. 10 GigE. UltraScience. Supercomputers

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NCCS Hardware

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  1. NCCS Hardware Julia C. White, Ph.D. User Assistance and Outreach National Center for Computational Sciences

  2. Many Storage Devices Supported NCCS resources October 2006 Summary Control Network 1 GigE Network Routers 7 Systems 10 GigE UltraScience Supercomputers 13,834 CPUs 26TB Memory 74 TFlops (10,506) 2.6GHz 21TB Memory (128) 2.2GHz 128GB Memory (256) 1.5GHz 2TB Memory (864) 1.3GHz 1.1TB Memory (56) 3GHz 76GB Memory (1,024) 0.5GHz 2 TB Memory Total Shared Disk 250.5 TB 120 TB 44 TB 36 TB 32 TB 4.5 TB 5 TB 9 TB Scientific Visualization Lab Backup Storage Test Systems Evaluation Platforms 5 PB Data Storage • 96-processor Cray XT3 • 32-processor Cray X1E* • 16-processor SGI Altix • 144-processor Cray XD1 with FPGAs • SRC Mapstation • Clearspeed • BlueGene (at ANL) 35 megapixels Power Wall 5PB

  3. Hardware Roadmap As it looks to the future, the NCCS expects to lead the accelerating field of high-performance computing. Upgrades will boost Jaguar’s performance fivefold—to 250 teraflops—by the end of 2007, followed by installation of a petascale system in 2008.

  4. Computer system specifications

  5. Phoenix – Cray X1E CRAY X1E 1,024 processors, 18.5 TF/s • Ultra-high bandwidth • Globally addressable memory • Addresses large-scale problems that cannot be done on any other computer

  6. Jaguar – Cray XT3 Today: • 54 TF/s Cray XT3 • 2.6 GHz dual-core AMD Opteron processors • 5,212 compute nodes • 120-TB Disk • 56 cabinets

  7. Jaguar – Cray XT3 Architecture Cray XT3 Scalable Architecture • Designed to scale to 10,000s of processors • Measured MPI bandwidth of 1.8 GB/s • 3-D torus topology

  8. Hood 2006: • 100+ TF/s • Dual-core AMD Opteron processors • 120 cabinets, 22,456 compute nodes • 424 service and I/O nodes • 480-TB disk

  9. 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Phoenix – Cray X1E Phoenix Utilization by Discipline Other Nuclear Materials HENP Fusion EES Climate Chemistry Biology Astro % of Utilization May July April June March August October January February December November September Fiscal Year 2006

  10. 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Jaguar – Cray XT3 Jaguar Utilization by Discipline Other Nuclear Materials HENP Fusion EES Climate Chemistry Biology Astro % of Utilization May July April June March August October January February December November September Fiscal Year 2006

  11. Contact • Julia C. White, Ph.D. • User Assistance and Outreach • National Center for Computational Sciences • (865) 241-8796 • whitejc@ornl.gov 11 White_NCCS_Hardware_0611

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