SiCortex Update IDC HPC User Forum April 14, 2008
The Company Founded by computer system designers Single Focus: High Performance Computing
More delivered performance per square foot, per dollar, and per watt. What we Offer Complete computer systems System on a chip silicon Reduce power Maximize memory performance Integrate high performance interconnect High Reliability Software Open Source: Linux, GNU, and MPI Licensed: Fortran and debugger More delivered performance per square foot, per dollar, and per watt.
SiCortex Product Family 648 Gflops 864 Gbytes 30 GB/S I/O 2KW 1.5 Teraflops 1.8 Terabytes 68 GB/S I/O 4KW 5.8 Teraflops 7.8 Terabytes 216 GB/S I/O 18KW 72 Gflops 48 Gbytes 6.5 GB/S I/O 200 Watts
What’s Inside PCI Express I/O Memory Everything Else Compute: 162 GF/sec Memory b/w: 345 GB/sec Fabric b/w: 78 GB/sec I/O b/w: 7.5 GB/sec Power: 500 Watts Fabric Interconnect
Integrated HPC Linux Environment Operating System Linux kernel and utilities (2.6.18+) Cluster file system (Lustre) Development Environment GNU C, C++ Pathscale C, C++, Fortran Math libraries Performance tools Debugger (TotalView) MPI libraries (MPICH2) System Management Scheduler (SLURM) Partitioning Monitoring Console, boot, diagnostics Maintenance and Support Factory-installed software Regular updates Open source build environment Linux gentoo GNU MPI Libraries
Hardware Update SC072 Catapult - $15000, shipping Expandable configurations of SC648, SC1458, SC5832 Engineering work on multicabinet systems
Software Update SiCortex Release 2.2 shipping Support for all system types Linux 2.6.18, Lustre 1.6 Expanded I/O device support Infiniband, 10G Compiler and library performance improvements Open Source
Performance Update MPI Latency - 1.4 µsec MPI BW - 1.5 GB/s HPC Challenge work underway SC5832, on 5772 cpus: DGEMM 72% HPL 3.6 TF PTRANS 210 GB/s STREAM 345 MB/s (1.9 TB/s aggregate) FFT 174 GF RandomRing 4 usec, 50 MB/s RandomAccess 0.74 GUPS (2.25 optimized)