1. New CPU, new arch, KVM and commercial cloud Michele Michelotto 1

2. The HEP WN for CPU farm 2  Two socket  Rack mountable: 1U, 2U, dual twin, blade  Multicore  About 2GB per logical cpu  x86-64  Intel or AMD

3. AMD roadmap 3  Steamroller moved to 2014?

4. Intel roadmap 4

5. AMD 5

6. Intel 6

7. HP Moonshot 7

8. Intel S12x0 Centerton 8

9. Intel 9

10. The dual proc Xeon E5 26xx 10

11. After E5 11  E5-2600 version V2  July September 2013  Ivy Bridge core with 22nm Tri-gate fabrication process  Reduce TDP  Up to 10 ( or 12? ) cores with 25MB ( or 30? ) L3 cache  15% - 20% clock update  DD3 memory at 1866 MHz

12. Interlagos 12

13. AMD 6272 2x16core 64GB at 2.1( up to 2.6) GHz 13

14. Piledriver core 14  Substitute the “Bulldozer” core  Smarter prefetching  A perceptron branch predictor that supplements the primary BPU  Larger L1 TLB  Schedulers that free up tokens more quickly  Faster FP and integer dividers and SYSCALL/RET (kernel/System call instructions)  Faster Store-to-Load forwarding

15. Abu Dhabi Family 15

16. Configuration Software 16  Operating System: SL release 5.7 (Boron)  Compiler: gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)  HEP-SPEC06 based on SPEC CPU 1.2 (32bit)  HEP-SPEC06 64 bit (default config + remove “–m32”)  2GB per core unless explicitly stated

17. AMD 6378 2x16core 64GB at 2.4GHz vs 6272 2.1 GHz – 32bit 17

18. AMD 6378 2x16core 64GB at 2.4GHz vs 6272 2.1 GHz – 64bit 18

19. Better architecture 19

20. Intel vs AMD 20

21. Intel Xeon E5 21

22. CPU market Outlook 22  The Clock race has stopped since about several years  Essentially all improvements in throughput come from increase in the number of cores  I dumped all the results from SPEC CPU  I take Int Rate Baseline as a Proxy of HS06  Keeping only X86-64 processor, dual socket

23. Clock vs Time since Aug 2006 23

24. Core count since Aug 2006 24

25. SIRate2006 since Aug 2006 25

26. Intel 26

27. Power limitation for CPU processors 27

28. Clock limitations 28 From: The future of computing performance: Game Over or Next Level Ch4

29. Quad core ARM Cortex A9 29  Ultra compact size with full metal enclosure  Quad core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore  10/100Mbps Ethernet with RJ- 45 LAN Jack  2 x High speed USB2.0 Host port  Android 4.x & Ubuntu 12.10  89$ or for 233$ the full kit  13.14 HepSpec06  ARMv8/64 bit in 2014

30. Thanks to Peter Elmer ACAT 30

31. Elastic Cloud 31  European Project e-Fiscal  Sergio Andreozzi (EGI)  Kashif Iqbal (ICHEC, NUI Galway, Ireland)  HS06 is the main benchmark in EGI  How we compare it with Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2)  Create Virtual Machines environment on SL  Map to EC2 type of computing node

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33. Xeon E5 2600 vs EC2 33

34. Opteron 6272 vs EC2 34

35. HS06 for Medium (SBridge) SPEC score no. of VMs Virtualisation + Multi-tenancy effect on performance ~ 3.28% to 58.48% More realistic figure ~ 11.53 to 58.48 HPC/HTC vs. Cloud Benchmarking – eFiscal Workshop @ EGI TF 2012, Prague 35 HS06 Score

36. HS06 for Large (SBridge) Virtualisation + MT effect on performance ~ 9.49% to 57.47% Note the minimal effect of > no. of VMs HPC/HTC vs. Cloud Benchmarking – eFiscal Workshop @ EGI TF 2012, Prague 36 HS06 Score

37. HS06 for Xlarge (SBridge) Virtualisation + MT effect on performance ~ 8.14% to 55.84% Note the minimal effect of > no. of VMs HPC/HTC vs. Cloud Benchmarking – eFiscal Workshop @ EGI TF 2012, Prague 37 HS06 Score

38. HS06 for Medium (Opteron) Virtualisation + MT effect on performance ~ 3.77% to 47.89% HPC/HTC vs. Cloud Benchmarking – eFiscal Workshop @ EGI TF 2012, Prague 38 HS06 Score

39. HS06 for Large (Opteron) HPC/HTC vs. Cloud Benchmarking – eFiscal Workshop @ EGI TF 2012, Prague 39 Virtualisation + MT effect on performance ~ 9.04% to 48.88% HS06 Score

41. AMD 6272 2x16core 64GB at 2.1 GHz in 64bit mode 41

42. New Intel Naming starting from E5 After Several generation of Xeon 5n xx 51xx (Woodcrest /Core 2c 65nm) 53xx (Clovertown / Core 4c 65nm) 54xx (Harpertown / Penryn 4c 45nm) 55xx (Gainestown / Nehalem 4c/8t 45nm) 56xx (aka Gulftown / Nehalem 6c/12t 45) Now Xeon E5 26xx “Sandy Bridge” EP 8c/16t ( @32 nm ) 42