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T-PLATFORMS THE COMPANY, STRATEGY AND PRODUCT UPDATE

T-PLATFORMS THE COMPANY, STRATEGY AND PRODUCT UPDATE. ELENA CHURAKOVA VP STRATEGIC PROJECTS. THE COMPANY. Originated in Russia, expanding worldwide System architecture, design & development Top-to-bottom HPC portfolio Over 300 HPC projects since 2002 (~75% - high education and science)

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  1. T-PLATFORMS THE COMPANY, STRATEGY AND PRODUCT UPDATE ELENA CHURAKOVA VP STRATEGIC PROJECTS

  2. THE COMPANY • Originated in Russia, expanding worldwide • System architecture, design & development • Top-to-bottom HPC portfolio • Over 300 HPC projects since 2002 (~75% - high education and science) • Top 10 WW HPC vendor, 22nd in TOP500 • A member of PROSPECT (Promotion of Supercomputing Partnership for European Competitiveness and Technology), EOFS (European Open File System); PRACE cooperation • Collaboration with Moscow State University, HOPSA (HOListic Performance System Analysis) consortium, ForschungszentrumJülich, CSC (IT Center for Science Ltd, Finland) • Educating market and building HPC community • Backed by a 25% stake of a state bank Take problem solving to a whole new level through accelerated HPC adoption ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  3. T-PLATFORMS GROUP of COMPANIES T-PLAFORMS Group of Companies» T-PLATFORMS HPC solutions – Custom HW, SW; System integration; Consulting and Support Russia, Germany, Taiwan T-SERVICES Professional HPC services, modeling and simulations, SW optimization; HPC resources outsourcing, Trainings and Consulting Russia, Germany Т-DESIGN Design and development of HW platforms and electronic components Russia, Taiwan

  4. COMPANY OFFICES & LOCACTIONS

  5. 2012’ PORTFOLIO Professional HPC Services Custom Compute Products High end: T-Blade2, New model TBA Scale out: V-Class Blade system All-in-one: T-Mini P-Class Modeling and simulations HPC Center management Compute capacity lease CUDA apps parallelization Software optimization Benchmarking Custom System SW 360oHPC ClustrX Family (OS, Cluster management, Infrastructure management) 3rd party infrastructure 3rd-party SW Server platforms, Cabinets,Networking, Parallel storage & backup, Power and Cooling, Cabling, fire protection, Access control OS, Cluster management,Debugging and Optimisation Tools, HPC Applications ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  6. T-platforms Research & Development organizational structure • HW R&D • 50+ qualified engineers / 5-6 teams • Full development cycle (PCB, mechanical & thermal design) • Variety of test and measurement equipment • Full set of EDA tools • Quality Assurance / Project Management • Firmware development • SW R&D • 25+ software development engineers • OS, cluster & infrastructure management • Advanced SW Research Lab • 5 software engineers • Research in cluster topology / interconnect scalability • In depth OS optimization ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  7. T-Platforms Hardware R&D Projects • T-Blade 1.0/1.1 (2007-2010) • First blade system dedicated to HPC • Integrates industry-standard half-width boards with redundant cooling and power and custom chassis management • Targeted for high price/performance ratio • T-Blade 2 (2009-2011) • High-end HPC blade system • Full custom design, including motherboards, switches, backplane, management, etc. • X86 and hybrid compute nodes (TB2-XN, TB2-TL) • Very high compute and power density (192 nodes, >60KW per rack with air cooling) • Custom networks: global barriers, global interrupts • T-Blade 2.5 (2010-2011) • Experimental hot-water cooled system based on T-Blade 2 infrastructure (>40oC, minimum number of water connectors) ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  8. T-Platforms Hardware R&D Projects (2) • V-Class blade solution (from 2011) • Deep redesign of T-Blade 1.0/1.1 concept • Full custom design • Targeted for flexibility: Intel/AMD, GPU, MIC, etc. • Long lifetime (till 2016) • P-Class minicluster (from 2011) • Personal supercomputing • Low power, low noise • All-in-one design (including head node and storage) • A-Class (T-Rex) (in development) • Rack-based solution • Extremely high density (256 nodes per rack) • Hot-water cooling (44o C) • MIC and GPU options • A testbed for exascale development ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  9. COMPUTE PRODUCT SEGMENTATION • A-CLASS (FUTURE): • 52U cabinet • Hot water–based cooling • Integrated PSU blades • Integrated blade switches • Selection of compute blades Shared T-Platforms system boards Shared system boards • V-CLASS (PRODUCTION): • 5U air-cooled chassis • 10 DP compute modules • 5 accelerated DP modules • INTEL/AMD/NVIDIA • Centralized management • T-MINI P & NEXXUS C (2012): • Minicluster/WS systems • 4-8 DP compute trays • 1 fixed head (T-Mini P only) • INTEL/AMD/NVIDIA • Ample integrated storage • Integrated networking • Air & water-cooled (Nexxus) • Scalable beyond 1 system (T-Mini P) • E-CLASS (H2’12): • ‘Twin’ (skinless) servers • 2-4 DP compute trays • INTEL/AMD • HS disks • Basic features Supercomputer Workgroup Workgroup, Departmental and Divisional ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  10. NEW PRODUCTSV-CLASS FAMILY • Scalable 5U system • A ground-up development of T-Platforms • A choice of 4 DP nodes • Up to 10 standard nodes • Up to 5 double nodes with NVIDIA Tesla M • 2 Modules on Intel Xeon E5 2600 • 2 Modules on AMD Opteron 6200 • Energy efficiency – ‘80Plus Platinum’ • ‘Smart’ chassis • Centralized node management • Integrated web-interface • 4 year+ platform life cycle Find more at T-PLATFORMS.COM/V-CLASS ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  11. NEW PRODUCTST-MINI P FAMILY (P-CLASS) • Mini-cluster and integrated WS • Desk-bound or Rack cabinet • Fixed DP head/WS • 16-disk RAID with BBU • Up to 2 Professional GPUs • A choice of 4 DP nodes • Up to 8 standard nodes • Up to 4 double nodes with NVIDIA Tesla M GPU Find more at T-PLATFORMS.COM/T-MINI • Integrated QDR IB/GbE networks • Innovative system management via touch-screen • Scales beyond one system ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  12. HARDWARE PARTNERS AND SUPPLIERS OEM Partner Premier Partner Platinum Partner OEM Partner (E-Series) Elite Partner Partner Knurr, Liebert partner OEM, Platinum Partner Partner OEM Partner System boards and chassis Memory modules Power supplies Electronic components

  13. TURN-KEY DATA CENTER PROJECTS • Audit and Analysis of Customer requirements • Data Center concept development • Project documentation • Facilities preparation • Delivery of equipment • HW and SW installation and customization • Training and production • Expert support • Further development of Data Center

  14. ENGAGING EU HPC COMMUNITYCOLLABORATION TOWARDS EXAFLOP • Holistic Performance System Analysis (HOPSA) • An international project to boost supercomputer performance • Financed by EU and Russia • T-Platformsin collaboration with European and 3 Russian SC centers • Aimed at developing a unified infrastructure for performance analysis, including system-level and application-level monitoring • The Russian HOPSA collaborators will focus on the computing systems’ hardware performance and settings • EU partners will tackle optimization of parallel applications with the benefit of the combined data from system-level monitoring and application monitoring • More at http://www.vi-hps.org/projects/hopsa ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  15. ENGAGING EU HPC COMMUNITY (2)ACCELERATING THE PACE OF COOPERATION • April 2012 • T-Platforms to cooperate with Juelich Supercomputing Center (ForschungszentrumJuelich) in the field of scalable system software development • T-Platforms' original software frameworks, such as DISLIB parallel programming library, will be applied and evaluated to increase sustained performance of HPC applications June 2012 • CSC, CSCS, SARA and T-Platforms to Deliver Scalable Hybrid Prototype for PRACE • The T-Platforms is developing the system with CSC based on hot water cooling • Will be included into the pan-European HPCinfrastructure PRACE RI • Will be used to evaluate power efficiency, manageability and novel programming environments • Will combine the latest innovations in packaging, cooling, interconnect, accelerator technology and OS/systems management ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  16. ACCELERATING HPC ADOPTION: LATVIA To establish close collaboration in scientific simulations and modelling, on-demand access to supercomputers and other HPC services with academic institutions of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia • 2012: • T-Blade TB2-XN (16 nodes) is delivered to RTU in collaboration with ATEA Baltic and ELKO GrupaAS • Fluid Dynamics modeling workshops organized • Collaboration with RTU: PetaFlops system development • nVidia CUDA adaptation for applications used by RTU • Partnership with Baltic system integrators ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  17. ACCELERATING HPC ADOPTION (2): LATVIA JOINING EUROPEAN FORCES • The first in Latvia specialized training center for supercomputer simulations and HPC technologies: • In close collaboration with Riga Technical University, ELKO Grupa AS and NVIDIA Corporation • T-Platforms delivers a series of master classes on the practical use of a broad range of software applications for supercomputer simulation • In addition, the company will provide training, guidelines and certification of Riga Technical University's teaching staff on CUDA applications development ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  18. ACCELERATING HPC ADOPTION RUSNANO & T-SERVICES PROGRAM • A multi-million dollar HPC enablement program (2010) • Funded by RUSNANO (75%), managed and ‘computed’ by T-Services, a T-Platforms company • Experts selected the best applicationsto solve 20 nanotech- and 20 industrial computation problems, in the fields of oil exploration, mechanical engineering, utilities, transport and human science • Customers included: • NEFTEMASH—SAPKON • Russian Water Technologies • Sarov Engineering Center • Socrates Research and Engineering Center • Urals Turbine Works • Volga Shipping Company • AVTOVAZ • Baranov Central Institute of Aircraft Engine Building • Genoanalytics • Hydroapparat • Nanospectrum • Nanoindustry NP ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  19. ACCELERATING HPC ADOPTION (2) HPC TRAININGS • Dedicated courses at T-Platforms Cluster Solution Center to cover: • Balanced HPC cluster architecture principles • Key optimization routines for the hybrid computer clusters • Principles of theoretical and applied science modeling • Administration and configuration of supercomputers for different tasks • An additional CUDA API programming course at MSU: • A focused CUDA programming training course • Organized in cooperation with Moscow State University and NVIDIA corporation ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  20. ACCELERATING HPC ADOPTION (3) ENGAGING MASSES • ‘Efficient Use of Accelerators to Solve Large Problems’ (2011) • The contest winners were individuals from largest Russian research and educational centers and a number of young scientists • Each had received ~$15K to continue their research studies • The most interesting works will be published in "Supercomputer Technologies in Science, Education and Industry” book, 3rd edition • Annual Russian Supercomputing Conference • Brings together the largest global HPC players and vendors, including AMD, Cray, DELL, SGI, HP, Intel, NVIDIA, NetApp, Panasas and many others • A unique opportunity for networking and expertise exchange • More at: http://www.rsc2012.ru/en.html ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  21. SUCCESS STORIESLOMONOSOV (MOSCOW STATE UNVIVERSITY) Number 22 in TOP500 list (June’12) and the largest in EE Last performance upgrade in 2011 Designed with a turn-key class 3computational center Compute floor footprint of only 252 m2 24 x 7 multi-discipline use by faculties and other customers • 1,7PFlopsofpeakperformance • TB2-XN & TB2-TL-based • QDR InfiniBand Interconnect • 3-level parallelfilestorage • ClustrXmanagementstack ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  22. LOMONOSOV SUPERCOMPUTERFACILITIES Turn-key Data Center and Supercomputer project: Design, Delivery, Installation, Support, Expansion

  23. SUCCESS STORIES(2)SKIF CYBERIA (TOMSK STATE UNVIVERSITY) One of our latest entries to the TOP500 list and a number 10 in the TOP50 list of supercomputers in the countries of FSU Used primarily for the development of next-gen drug design, utilizing dynamic thermal and fluid models, based on PC GAMESS package, to target protein cells • 640 compute nodes • 62 Tflops of peak performance • 70 TB data storage • QDR InfiniBand 40Gb/s ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  24. SUMMARYDIFFERENTIATION VIA 360o HPC APPROACH • In-house HW and custom system HW/SW R&D for larger projects • Tight vertical integration – from HW & SW through applications to problem solving • HPC modeling and simulations (CFD, Structural analysis, ...) • On-demand services and capacity • Consolidated expertise and HPC-specific business process • Project documentation • Project requirements • Audit and analysis • HPC Consulting • HW/SW Integration • Turn key installation • DC stress tests • Infrastructure • DC construction • HPC competence creation and sharing • Managed services • End user education • Staff Enablement • Software parallelization • Expansion scenarios • Expert application and simulation support Deployment Operation Optimization INITIALIZATION ONE STOP SOURCE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTING

  25. THANK YOU! ec@t-platforms.com

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