Its architecture consists of cray xk7, opteron 6274 16c 2. Since the mid80s, the role of software has begun to increase, and the costs of its design have grown significantly. Cray shasta sparks new ai research program at indiana. It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. Comparison of three aerodynamic analysis software packages against the army navy finner projectile to determine fidelity level, henry d. It places the cooling medium in direct contact with the components to be cooled, thus efficiently reducing and stabilizing the operating temperature and increasing system reliability. The xk7 simply uses the amd opteron 6200 16core cpu nothing magic about that. Cray chases clusters with appro acquisition network world.
When combined with the cray linux environment, the result is a hybrid supercomputer that blends scalable hardware, software and network. Cray xk7 customers will be able to utilize the capabilities of. Recent scaling results out to 80,000 cores on the cray xk7 system at oak ridge national lab. It contains both advanced 16core amd opteron central processing units cpus and nvidia kepler graphics processing units gpus. Cray today announced that indiana university has selected a cray. Titan, a cray xk7 system installed at the department of energys oak ridge national laboratory remains the number two system. The cray xc40 system offers the combined advantages of the aries interconnect and dragonfly network topology, intel xeon scalable processors, delivering up to 100 pf sustained system performance. See chapters 1 and 2 in the amd document software optimization guide for. Crays jaguar supercomputer upgraded with nvidia tesla. Supercomputer operating systems, cray xc series cray. Arm performance reports has been tested with cray xk7 and xc30 systems. Keeping the blue waters supercomputer busy for three years. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the multiregion functionality, we have used the worlds second fastest at the time of writing openaccess supercomputer, titan.
We performed hpcg and hpgmg benchmark tests on a cray xe6 xk7 hybrid supercomputer, blue waters at national center for supercomputing applications ncsa. Impact on theory and experiment, or incite, program. Details emerge on knights hill based aurora supercomputer. R peak values are calculated using the advertised clock rate of the cpu. Ill appreciate any support for it, and i deeply hope that it will prove to be of good use to you. Training content and videos of each session have been posted. The cray xk7 includes nvidia gpus for acceleration of computing workloads, but the standard xk7 system software inhibits the gpus from accelerating opengl and related graphicsspecific functions. Arm performance reports requires arms sampling libraries to be linked with the application before running on this platform. Leadership computing april 27, 2015 by rich brueckner the innovative and novel computational impact on theory and experiment incite program is now accepting proposals for highimpact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. Nov 23, 2017 it covers many of the important factors involved in each ecosystem. Regional heritability advanced complex trait analysis for gpu. Xc30, cray cs300, cray xk7, cray xe6, cray linux environment, cray xe6m, cray xe6m200, cray. Several grid sizes shown, with grid element counts in parenthesis.
An xk7 compute node with 1 interlagos processors has 2 numa memory domains, each with 4 bulldozer modules. Xc30, cray cs300, cray xk7, cray xe6, cray linux environment, cray xe6m, cray. Cray xk7 kepler gpu plus amd 16core opteron cpu cray xe6. Located in the oak ridge national laboratory in oak ridge, tennessee, it is the second supercomputer operated for the american doe sc, and the most powerful supercomputer built by cray inc. Hpc solutions, high performance cluster computing cray. The interlagos architecture employs the amd bulldozer core design in which two.
Timelapse video of big red 200 cray supercomputer at. The search for the lost cray supercomputer os gigaom. Incite seeking proposals to advance science and engineering. National strategic computing initiative july, 2015. The codes exceptional performance on the olcfs 27petaflop, hybrid cpugpu cray xk7 supercomputer, titan, located at oak ridge national laboratory, as well as on the ibm blue geneq machines sequoia at lawrence livermore national laboratory and mira at anl, earned the project a finalist nomination for acms gordon bell prize. These systems are industry standardsbased, highly customizable, and designed to handle the broadest range of medium to largescale workloads.
This cray xk7 machine is based at oak ridge national laboratory in the usa and comprises 18 688 nodes, each with a single nvidia k20x gpu augmenting an amd opteron 6274 16core cpu, where the nodes are connected via the cray gemini network. Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate web site, if any, every interactive data file required to be submitted and p. March 1, 2012 1 about the speaker cray xexk system overview cray gemini nic hardware architecture. Thus, we are proud to say that in reality, we sacrificed speed for utility in the k computer design. Ibm, doe working toward datacentric supercomputing. Cray hpc solutions, including the cray xc supercomputer and cray cs cluster series. Contemporary high performance computing from petascale. Gpuaccelerated molecular visualization on petascale supercomputing platforms. After years of planning and delays after a massive architectural change, the blue waters supercomputer at the national center for supercomputing applications at the university of illinois finally went into production in 20, giving scientists, engineers and researchers across the country a powerful tool to run and solve the most complex and challenging applications in a broad range of. Cray cluster software stack and ace management software. So the development of software for cray 2 was the same amount of as on its hardware. For the efficiency of the systems you should take into account the turbo cpu clock rate where it applies. Blue waters is a cray xe6xk7 system consisting of more than 22,500 xe6.
The titan supercomputer is an incredibly powerful cray xk7 system combining innovative technologies from companies such as amd and nvidia, surrounded by a tightlyintegrated cray hardware and software infrastructure, said peter ungaro, president and ceo of cray. Cray, inc developed it based on the contracted architectural specifications provided by sandia national laboratories. Unlocking the full potential of the cray xk7 accelerator. Supercomputer big red 200 will be the first cray shasta system in academia. Xk7 is a supercomputing platform, produced by cray, launched on october 29, 2012. This was not one of the most easy lists to put together, i have to admit. Rules for hpl and top500 algorithm is gaussian elimination with partial pivoting. Cray cluster supercomputers cray user group cray user. The cray xc30 combines the new aries interconnect, intel xeon processors, cray s powerful and fullyintegrated software environment, and innovative power and cooling technologies to create a production supercomputer that is designed to scale high performance computing hpc workloads of more than 100 petaflops. The architecture was later commercially produced as the cray xt3.
Seattle, june 07, 2019 globe newswire global supercomputer leader cray inc. Basic architecture and failure analysis forest godfrey principal engineer, cray inc. Red storm is a supercomputer architecture designed for the us department of energys national nuclear security administration advanced simulation and computing program. The first part of the book examines significant trends in hpc systems, including computer architectures, applications, performance, and software. Crays new supercomputer architecture, codenamed shasta, is an entirely new. For the first time in over two decades the us has lost its ranking among the worlds top three supercomputers. For more details about other fields, check the top500 description. With new highperformance computing capabilities, including 2nd generation amd epyc processors, the new cray. Hpc systems includes a suite of highly advanced systems, including the cray xc30, cray xe6, cray xe6m, cray xk7, cray xk6m, and cray cluster solutions products, including the cray cs300, which are used by single users all the way up through large research centers. May 24, 2011 when combined with the cray linux environment, the result is a fully integrated cray supercomputer that blends scalable hardware, software and a network. Aug 07, 2015 summit will replace the titan cray xk7 that has been chugging along at peak speeds of 27 petaflops since 2012. Department of energy oak ridge national laboratorys newly installed titan system, a cray xk7, has been anointed as the worlds fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of.
The x1 is often described as the unification of the cray t90, cray sv1, and cray t3e architectures into a single machine. Inside each cabinets are cray xk7 boards, each of which has four amd g34 sockets and four pcie slots. Comparison of software stack for cray xe6, cray xk7 and cray xc30 platforms. Gpu acceleration of molecular modeling applications.
In 2016, the winning proposals will receive awards of time on titan, the 27petaflop cray xk7 at oak ridge, and mira, the 10petaflop ibm blue geneq at argonne. Titan is a hybridarchitecture cray xk7 system with a theoretical peak. Cray xe6 and cray xc30 are homogenous multicore platforms with distinct hardware and software stack. Mainframes and supercomputers, from the beginning till today. Titan is a hybridarchitecture cray xk7 system with a theoretical peak performance exceeding 27,000 trillion calculations per second 27 petaflops.
The cray x1 is a nonuniform memory access, vector processor supercomputer manufactured and sold by cray inc. Big red 200, named to celebrate the universitys bicentennial, will replace its predecessor, the big red ii a cray xk7 supercomputer. Titan features 560,640 processors, including 261,632 nvidia. Jan 14, 2014 tantos took over working with the disk. Mar 21, 2019 xk7 is a supercomputing platform, produced by cray, launched on october 29, 2012. R peak values are calculated using the advertised clock rate of the. Pdf unlocking the full potential of the cray xk7 accelerator. Cray chases clusters with appro acquisition computerworld. Regional heritability advanced complex trait analysis for. The xk7 is a hybrid design, so it also uses the nvidia tesla k20.
Arm performance reports user guide mpi distribution notes. It is an extensive upgrade to the former topranked jaguar supercomputer, a process that started in 2011 and was complete in 2012. Nov 30, 2012 all these features high bandwidth, standard software environment, and high reliability require extra hardware and software costs, which decrease the peak performance possible for a given cost. Cray cs cluster supercomputers get you to the solution faster with reliable highperformance computing tailored to your specific need. The system will replace the big red ii supercomputer, a cray xk7. Its designed for production supercomputing and user productivity.
Top500 list november 2012 r max and r peak values are in tflops. The system leverages the supercomputing architecture of the aircooled cray cs300 system, and includes the cray advanced cluster engine cluster management software, the complete cray programming environment on cs, and nvidia tesla k40 gpu accelerators. Strategic objectives 1accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing system that integrates hardware and software capability to deliver approximately 100 times the performance of current 10 petaflop systems across a range of applications representing government needs. Shasta incorporates nextgeneration cray system software to enable. I think thats probably an artifact of the test method and what % of the load was on the crays cpus vs gpus. For the greater part of the last year, he arduously reverse engineered the os from the image. Cray cs series cluster supercomputers leverage the best in open source and commercial software for a complete hpc and artificial intelligence ai environment. Olcf experts lead and learn at cray user group meeting oak. But the contract with cray and its value and the specific performance estimate of more than 1. Rhea a conduit for largescale scientific discovery by pre and postprocessing and analysis of simulation data. Access to memory located in a remote numa domain is slower than access to local. List rank system vendor total cores rmax tflops rpeak tflops power kw 062019. A 2day fun3d training workshop was held december 1112 onsite at nasa langley. Just so you have some idea of how dedicated fenton is, he even put in some freedom of.
Leveraging 40 years of experience in developing the worlds most advanced supercomputers, cray. Oak ridge today has previously reported that frontier would be built at ornl. Architecture overview by nathan wikmann cray get up to speed with cray xc30 piz daint, 1114 march 20 course organized. Ornl debut of cray xk7 titan system marks launch of cray. The cray xk7 system occupies 200 cabinets titan has 710 terabytes of memory a supercomputer at the governments oak ridge national laboratory in tennessee has been named the. Six years ago, titans resourceful gpucpu architecture was conceived by the olcf and cray as the. Quarkgluon chromodynamics simulation by titan cray xk7. Xk7 is the second platform from cray to use a combination of central processing units cpus and graphical processing units gpus for computing. Crays titan system takes supercomputer crown zdnet. In 2017, multiyear awardees may also have access to theta, a nextgeneration 8. Cray s titan supercomputer is the fastest in the world the titan supercomputer at the oak ridge national laboratory is the new champion of the top500 list of the fastest supercomputers. Despite a few remaining bugs, the cray os now works. Olcfs supercomputer titan is a cray xk7 computer system, the united.
Accelerating research and development using the titan. Hpcg and hpgmg benchmark tests on multiple program. Beware the 9 warning signs of bad it architecture and see why these 10 oldschool it. View manjunath gorentla venkatas profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community.
Excludes the use of a fast matrix multiply algorithm like strassens method excludes algorithms which compute a solution in a precision lower. Crays titan supercomputer has enabled scientific discovery at the. Compute node linux wikimili, the free encyclopedia. He rewrote the recovery tools, plus a simulator for the software and supporting equipment like printers, monitors, keyboards and more. Cray hardware and software products may contain design defects or errors known as errata, which may.
The us department of energys does oak ridge national laboratory ornl and the oak ridge leadership computing facility olcf, a doe office of science user facility located at ornl, once again took leadership roles at the annual cray user group cug meeting, which took place this year from may 8 to 12 in london, england. Cray researchs mission is to lead in the development and. Indiana university to deploy cray shasta supercomputer dcd. Cray s jaguar or xk7 supercomputer at oak ridge national laboratory has been loaded up with the first shipping nvidia tesla k20 gpus and renamed titan. The system is characterized by exascale performance capability, new datacentric workloads, and an explosion of processor and accelerator architectures.
Several cray supercomputer systems are listed in the top500, which ranks the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Due to logistical issues with the centralized nasa software catalog, requests for fun3d should be made here via the fun3d website. Project director buddy bland stands by titan, the hybridarchitecture cray. None of my teachers knew how to use it, so i taught myself to program. This cray xk7 machine is based at oak ridge national laboratory in the usa and comprises 18 688 nodes, each with a single nvidia k20x gpu augmenting an amd opteron 6274 16core cpu, where the nodes are connected via the cray. Incite seeks research enterprises for capability computing. Software advances architectural schemes to extend dig. Cray cluster supercomputers john lee vp of advanced technology solutions cug 20. Top500 list november 2012 top500 supercomputer sites. Cray s new supercomputer architecture, codenamed shasta, is an entirely new design that will underpin the next era of supercomputing. Additionally, the cs series includes support for the legendary cray programming environment compilers, optimized debuggers, performance measurement and analysis tools, and. Cray earlier this week announced the new xc30 supercomputer, which is based on a new server architecture and interconnect.
Apr 17, 2014 free books for learning software architecture. The connection was made through a dedicated network with a capacity of 1. I mentioned earlier that titan is built from 200 cabinets. The cray xk7 supercomputer combines the proven gemini interconnect, amds multicore scalar processors and nvidias manycore gpus to create a true, productive hybrid. Compute systems oak ridge leadership computing facility. The physical architecture of titan is just as interesting as the high level core and transistor counts. Something for everyone at gpu technology conference.
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