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SGI Production Supercomputing HPC User Forum Welcome
April 11, 2016
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Focus and Interest Areas WorkflowAccelera-on:Workflowaccelera,onthroughhigh-performanceHPC,UV/HPDAintegra,onwithLustre-baseddatapools
ConvergedStorageandCompute:Flash-based“TierZeroTM”high-performancestoragewithac,vedatamanagement
SystemUp-meandResilience:Automatedcapabili,esfordiscoveringandisola,ngcomponentfaultstominimizedown,meandcosts
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• As HPC workflows expand to include computation, large data set analysis and visualization – optimizing the movement of data becomes critical
• SGI’s architecture includes both near term and long term acceleration
Workflow Acceleration
CurrentDataPoints:• HPCandHPDAConvergenceasKeySolu,onRequirements• Consistentcustomerinterestintheuseofcommon‘datalakes’fordata
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• UV optimized client for high-performance Lustre integration
• Multiple IB or OmniPath connections for massive throughput
• Technical details announced last week at Lustre User Group (LUG) 2016
SGI UV Multi-Rail Lustre In-Process Co-Development Project with Intel
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System Uptime and Resilience
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HPCPerformanceMeasurement
GB/sec TB/sec
High-PerformanceStorageTier
Disk Flash&3DXPoint
CapacityStorageTier
Tape Disk(TapeforResiliencyTier)
Convergence of Compute & Storage
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TierZero™ Storage UV Scalable Converged Compute & Storage Platform
• Single scale-up SMP system delivers – Compute:
• Up to 480 Intel Xeon™ cores (32 sockets) – Memory:
• Up to 24TB DRAM – Non-volatile Memory:
• Up to 128TB FLASH • Up to 30 Million IOPs • Up to 200GB/s
• All in one rack • No switches, no arrays, no problems • Generic servers (e.g. Arcadia) can
work as well by scaling out IntelP3700400KIOPS2.4GB/s
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