1. Modern supercomputers, Georgian supercomputer project and usage areas
Authors: Bekar Oikashvili
Archil Prangishvili
Zurab Modebadze

2. Areas of usage for supercomputer
Aeronautics
Auto Industry
Space Technologies
Military
Seismology
Weather Forecast
Several visualizations (global warming, analysis, other)
Development of nuclear technologies
other

3. Supercomputer usage in different countries

4. First supercomputer: cdc 6600
Was created in 1960s and was used by CERN and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory;
Performance: 3 MegaFLOPS;
For comparison today’s desktop computer has average peak performance of 50+ GigaFLOPS;

5. Modern supercomputers

6. Vendor systems share on market

7. The most powerful supercomputer today: sunway taihulight
The compute system is composed of 40 Cabinets

8. The most powerful supercomputer today: sunway taihulight

9. sunway taihulight specifications:
Physical location: National Supercomputer Center, China
CPU: Shenway-64 (Sunway SW26010)
RAM: PB
Total Nodes:
Total Cores:
Performance: PetaFLOPS
Operating System: Sunway RaiseOS (Linux based)
Power consumption: MW
Price: Million US Dollars
Active from: June 2016
Purpose: Oil prospecting, life science, weather forecast, Industrial
design, drug research, …

10. sunway taihulight specifications:
Developer: NRCPC, China
Processor: Sunway SW26010 (4th generation Sunway)
Architecture: Shenway-64 Instruction Set
Core count: Cores (Many core 64 bit RISC)
Process Technology: N/A
Performance: TeraFLOPS

11. Modern supercomputer processor types:
Homogeneous model includes in itself only one type of processor:
Heterogeneous model includes in itself two or more different types of processors: + =

12. Difference in performance between processor types:

13. From heterogeneous back to homogeneous ?

14. Georgian supercomputer project
Name: GeoGrid System (working name)
Phisical location: Niko Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics, Tbilisi, Georgia
Architecture: Intel Xeon (Skylake)
Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (gen 2)
RAM: TB (DDR 4)
Storage: PB
Interconnect: Intel Omni-Path (100 Gb/s)
Performance: TerraFLOPS
Operating System: Scientific Linux

15. Intel xeon phi (knights landing)
The newest and one of the most advanced processors for parallel calculations;
Two forms: Co-processor or Host processor;
Self boot processor;
Binary Compatibility with Xeon: Runs all legacy software. No recompilation;
14nm HPC Intel Xeon Phi;
8 billion transistors;
72 Silvermont (Atom) cores on single physical crystal;
6 DDR4 channels with 384GB Capacity;
4 threads per core;
16 GB Memory built-in crystal. 3 modes: Memory, Cache, Hybrid;
3+ TeraFLOPS (double-precision floating point performance) per socket;

16. Intel xeon phi blade (knights landing)

17. Intel xeon phi blade chassis (knights landing)

18. Intel xeon (skylake) The next generation Xeon;
CPU form: Host processor;
Cores: up to 28 cores with Intel HT Technology;
14nm HPC Intel Xeon;
6 DDR4 channels with 1.5 TB Capacity;
Scalability: S2, S4, S8;
Omni-Path support;
1 TeraFLOPS (double-precision floating point performance) per socket;

19. Geogrid usage areas Connect to CERN Tier 3 network;
Deploy weather forecast system (WRF);
Deploy HPC platform for scientists, students and researchers for different tests and modellings;
Platform for scientific research applications;

20. Thank you
Questions ???