1. SiCortex Update IDC HPC User Forum
April 14, 2008

2. The Company Founded by computer system designers
Single Focus: High Performance Computing

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Integrated HPC Linux Environment
Operating System
Linux kernel and utilities ( )
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

7. Hardware Update SC072 Catapult - $15000, shipping
Expandable configurations of SC648, SC1458, SC5832
Engineering work on multicabinet systems

8. Software Update SiCortex Release 2.2 shipping
Support for all system types
Linux , Lustre 1.6
Expanded I/O device support
Infiniband, 10G
Compiler and library performance improvements
Open Source

9. Performance Update MPI Latency - 1.4 µsec MPI BW - 1.5 GB/s
HPC Challenge work underway
SC5832, on 5772 cpus:
DGEMM 72%
HPL 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)