HPC Innovation Lab Update

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Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab charter

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New Investment:

more SMEs, huge innovation

eco-system

Design, develop and integrate HPC systems• Flexible reference architectures• Systems tuned for research

computing, manufacturing, life sciences, oil and gas, etc

Act as the focal point for joint R&D activities• Technology collaboration with

partners for joint innovation• Research coordination with DSC,

COEs and customers

HPC Innovation

Lab Prototype and evaluate advanced technologies• HPC+Cloud, HPC+Big Data• Processors, Accelerators, File

systems, software, etc.

Conduct application performance studies and develop best practices• White papers, blogs,

presentations• www.hpcatdell.com

Technical briefings,

tours, remote access

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Focus areas

HPC software stack

Bright Cluster Manager, OpenHPC

Integration of all software components

Compute performance and tuning

Application focus: BIOS, Memory, Interconnect

Accelerators and co-processors

Interconnect performance and tuning

Storage solutions

NSS , IEEL

Vertical solutions

Genomics research

CFD/Manufacturing

Proof of Concept studies

OpenStack for HPC, Hadoop on Lustre, etc.

Collateral at: https://esg.one.dell.com/sites/solutions/esc/hpc/whiteblogs/SitePages/Home.aspx

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World-class infrastructure13K sqft facility with 1300+ servers and ~10PB storage dedicated to HPC research,

development and innovation in collaboration with Dell HPC community

Zenith• Top500 system based on Intel Scalable Systems

Framework (OPA, KNL, Xeon, OpenHPC)

• 384-nodes with dual E5-2697v4 processors, non-

blocking OPA fabric and 451 TFlops sustained

performance

• +160 Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) servers. 538 TF combined

performance. (#374 on Jun 2017 Top500)

• Updating to Skylake with C6420

Rattler• Research/development system in collaboration with

Mellanox, nVidia

• 84 nodes with IB EDR and E5-2697v4 processors

• C4130 with P100 and V100 GPUs

Example Studies

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Memory Bandwidth with Stream

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HPL Performance

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BWA - Throughput

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Throughput Core Count Increment

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Ansys FLUENT

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1.231.32

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E5-2697 v2, 2.7GHz, 12c, 130W,

1866 MT/s

E5-2697 v3, 2.6GHz, 14c, 145W,

2133 MT/s

E5-2697A v4, 2.6GHz, 16c, 145W,

2400 MT/s

Gold 6130,2.1GHz, 16c,

125W, 2666 MT/s

Gold 6142,2.6GHz, 16c,

150W, 2666 MT/s

Gold 6148,2.4GHz, 20c,

150W, 2666 MT/s

Gold 6150,2.7GHz, 18c,

165W, 2666 MT/s

Platinum 8168,2.7GHz, 24c,

205W, 2666 MT/s

12G - IVB 13G - HSW 13G - BDW 14G - SKL

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Dell EMC Isilon

• Isilon X410

– The results came from

a 3-node configuration

(3 – 144 nodes, up to

20.7 PB capacity)

– SmartConnect:

maximizing

performance by

keeping client

connections balanced

across the entire

storage cluster

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Key takeaways

• Comprehensive offering that includes compute, storage , networking, unified management, monitoring and services

• Choice & flexibility at every level

HPC networking offerings

Bright Cluster Manager

Dell Pro Support, Pro Support Plus, Deployment Services

ISV Applications

Explicit Solver Building Blocks

HPC storage offerings

Implicit Solver Building Blocks

Remote Visualization Building Blocks

Management Building Blocks

Dell EMC HPC System for Manufacturing

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Intel Caffe SKL scalability

• Results shown are best performance numbers after hyper parameter sweep for each node count.

• MKL-DNN used for optimal performance.

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SKL Scalability Intel Caffe Resnet 50

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Team publications

• Blogs

www.hpcatdell.com

• White papers

www.dell.com