2. Program Systems Institute Russian Academy of Sciences1 Program Systems Institute Research Activities Overview Extended Version Alexander Moskovsky, Program Systems Institute RAS, Russia, Pereslavl-Zalessky

3. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science 2 Institute Structure Institute Structure  ~200 research staff  Artificial Intelligence Research Centre  Medical Informatics Research Centre  Research Center for Multiprocessor Systems  System Analysis Research Centre  Control Processes Research Centre  Scientific and educational centre:  International Children’s Computer Centre named after A. Aylamazyan  Kindergarten and Primary school “Pochemuchka”

4. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science “SKIF-GRID” PROJECT TIMELINE PSI RAS is a lead organizarion in Russian Federation 1. 2000-2004 - SKIF project, SKIF K-1000 is #98 in Top500 2. June 2004 – first proposal filed for “SKIF-GRID” project 3. March 2007 – approved by Government 4. March 2008 - SKIF-MSU supercomputer deployed (#36 in June 08 Top 500) 5. May 2008 - “SKIF-Testbed” federation created. 6. March 2009 – alliance agreement signed for SKIF series 4 development

5. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science SKIF MSU  Theoretical peak performance 60 TFlops  47 TFlops Linpack  Advanced clustering solutions:  diskless computational nodes  Original blade design ParameterValue CPU architecture:x86-64 CPU model:Intel XEON E5472 3,0 GHz (4-cores) Nodes (dual CPU)625 CPU cores total5 000 InterconnectInfiniband DDR, Fat Tree

6. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science PROJECT ORGANIZATION: 2009-2010 Project directions 1. Grid technology 2. Supercomputers SW SW HW HW 3. Security 4. Pilot projects – applications of HPC and grid technology Totally more than 20 organizations in Russia

7. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of ScienceSKIF-AuroraSKIF-Aurora  Fulfillment of original SKIF-GRID project goals (back to 2004)  Highest density of performance (increase number of FLOPS per 1U)  Interconnect: we need better scalability, bandwidth and latency that it’s provided by best available solutions (eg. Infiniband QDR)  New approach to monitoring and management of the supercomputer  CPUs and accelerators in computational nodes of the supercomputer

8. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science SKIF Aurora Overview  Nodes:  dual-CPU boards (Nehalem)  FPGA for 3D torus interconnect  Infiniband QDR integrated  liquid cooling  Chassis:  32 nodes  Integrated management and monitoring  Integrated Infiniband QDR  Cables integrated on backplane  Rack:  Up to 8 chassis (512 CPU)  No moving parts  Designed by an alliance of Eurotech, PSI RAS and RSC SKIF with support by Intel chassis RackDatacenter

9. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science SKIF-4 node

10. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Subsidiary Interconnect, Infiniband Our proposal  Based on SKIF-Aurora architecture:  Interconnect w. 3-D torus topology  FPGA on network level 9 System Interconnect, 3D-torus FPGA... CPU standard part non- standard part

11. Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Program Systems Institute, Russian academy of Science Our proposal-2  FPGA-based  Integral support of programming model by hardware  Customizable hw platform  Project idea: optimized runtime support for FP-based languages 10