Innovation without Limits SGI ® High Performance Computing Silicon Graphics, Inc. Nyuli Gábor Silicon Computers Kft.

Innovation without LimitsSGI® High Performance Computing

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Nyuli GáborSilicon Computers Kft.

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Silicon Graphics

• Focus on the technical computing market

• Over 20 years of experience in high performance computing innovation

• Technology designed to enable the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century

• Products and services are mission critical to government and defense, science and research, manufacturing, energy and media industries

Industry Leading Compute, Storage and Visualization Solutions

Images courtesy of Dr. Arthur W. Toga, The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging; American Museum of Natural History; Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasfilm Ltd; Image courtesy of Parametric Technology Corporation.  

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Science35%

Manufacturing20%

Defense and Security

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Media10%Energy

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Focus Is on Engineers, Scientists and Creative Professionals

ScienceDefense & Security

Manufacturing

Images courtesy of EPL Productions, Leonard Wikberg III, EnSight image, Landmark, and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Energy

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SGI® Core Technology Offerings

High-PerformanceComputing

• Linux® OS and Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor-based platform

• Scales up and out• Programming models and libraries• System partitioning and

resource management

AdvancedVisualization • Unmatched visualization

• Leverages industry and open standard components

• Single-user and collaborative • Large-model visualization• Real-time and distributed visualization

Storage

• I/O performance• File systems• Data management• Networking• Distributed data access

Delivering technology that enables significant scientific and creative breakthroughs

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SGI in High Performance Computing

and BEYOND2000s1990s1980s

1982Jim Clark

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1984IRIS®

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1994Challenge® XL server -

Steven Spielberg’s Shoah project

1988Power Series™ multiprocessing

1995Origin® 2000 and Indigo2™

help Team New Zealand win America’s Cup

1996 First-generation NUMA

System: Origin 2000

1998DOE 6144p Origin 2000 to

simulate nuclear stockpileASCI Blue Mountain

1995SGI introduces its first 64-bit operating system

• The industry's most scalable architecture – from 2 to 10,000+ processors• Shared memory scales up to 24 terabytes• Based on Intel processors and the Linux® operating system • Flexible, modular design that independently scales CPU, memory, I/O• Complete solution stack for High Performance Computing

2001Introduced modular

NUMAflex™ architecture with Origin® 3000

2003SGI Altix first scalable

64-bit Linux Server

2004First 512, CPU SGI Altix cluster drives ocean research at NASA

Ames and 10,000 CPUs upgrade

Image courtesy of NASA

2005SGI introduces Altix

330 Server and RASC™

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FY03 FY04

800+Processors Sold!

3,300+ Processors Sold!

62,000+ Processors Sold!

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SGI ® Altix ® 3000 Server Announced 1/03

SGI ® Altix ® 350 Server Announced

SGI ® Altix ® 3000 BX2 Announced

SGI® Altix® 330, RASC™ Announced

HPCWire Awards For 2004Best Price/performanceMost Innovative Hardware Technology Most Innovative Visualization Technology Most Innovative StorageBest Govt/industry collaborationMost Innovative Implementation

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SGI® Altix® Server High-Performance Architecture

Global Shared Memory

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Fast NUMAlink™ interconnect technology• All processors operate on one large

shared-memory space• Industry’s highest bandwidth

interconnect at 6.4GB/second• High performance, low cost,

easy to deploy

• NUMAflex™ global shared memory and ultra-high bandwidth interconnect

• Modular, expandable architecture–processors, I/O, memory

• SGI ProPack™ software feature for Linux® OS optimizations for HPC

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Single-job, single-user Processing Capacity

SGI® Altix® Servers

Scale out(Total number of processors)

SGI® Altix® 350Departmentalservers(4–32 CPUs)

SGI® Altix® ClustersLarge nodeclusters

SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2NEW: SGI® Altix® 4000 Supercomputers

SGI® Altix® 330Low-costworkgroup(1–16 CPUs)

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SGI® Altix® High-end Servers

• Small-footprint packaging for high density, reduced costs

• Up to 512 processors under one OS, single system image

• Up to 2,048 total processors per NUMAlink™ system

• Best-in-class NUMAlink™ 4 routers with new topologies

• Water-cooled door option for larger configurations

• NEW SGI® Altix® 4000 extends scaling up to 8192 core NUMAlink™’d systems and 128TB of global shared memory in a functional blade design

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SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2 Building Blocks

Linux™

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M-BrickMemory

Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor CR-Brick CPU and memory

IX-Brick, IA-BrickBase I/O module

PA-Brick, PX-BrickPCI-X expansion

R-BrickRouter interconnect

D-Brick2Disk expansion

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Altix® Customers with Memory >500GB

• 98 systems with >500GB memory– 39 with > 1TB

• Benefits of Large Shared Memory– Massive In-core Computation,

Memory-Mapped I/O Lead to Breakthrough Results

– Unmatched Ease of Scaling from Efficient MPI, Trivial Load Balancing and No Data Replication

– Up to 512P, 6TB under one OS Means Ease of Development and Administration

* Only publicly referenced customers are listed.

Customers* with >1TB Memory

Customers* with 500GB to 1TB Memory

APAC APAC

GFDL Army Research Lab

JAERI BP Amoco

Japan Inst of Statistical Mathematics

GFDL

Los Alamos National Lab LRZ

McLaren Motor Racing Ltd. NASA Goddard

NASA Ames SARA

NASA Goddard Saudi Aramco

National Center for Supercomputing Apps.

Tata Motors

Naval Research Lab Total SA

Oak Ridge National Lab U of MN Supercomputing Inst

Total SA U Montreal

US Air Force UNC Chapel Hill

U Manchester US Government

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SGI Altix® 4000 Platform:Extending Performance Leadership

•Superior Performance Density: up to nearly 3X density improvement over Altix 3700 Bx2

•‘Plug and solve’ Versatility: 8 standard functional blade choices, high-speed NUMAlink™ backbone supports top performance for any HPC application

•Best Performance on Cluster Applications: SGI NUMAlink™ interconnect beats the competition with sub-microsecond latency

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SGI® Altix® 4000 Platform:Step into Multi-Paradigm Computing

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• Multi-Paradigm Computing: Taking HPC to the next level with integrated computational resources that can be seamlessly accessed as application workload requires.

• SGI Altix 4000 Resources Tightly Integrated with Peer I/O: Direct, high-speed connection of integrated graphics, RASC/FPGA and other future processing elements to global memory address space

• Takes HPC to the Next Level – beyond the limits of Moore’s Law and parallelism

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One Giant Leap for NASA

Deployment20 systems, each:

>512p, 1 TB memory, 1 Linux kernel

>440 Tbytes CXFX SAN storage

>SAN with >1 petabyte managed by DMF

The Challenge:

> Deliver a world-class supercomputing platform to NASA in support of their world-class scientific and engineering problems

> Provide the environment needed for NASA to perform simulations to support Space Shuttle Return to Flight

The Solution:

>Deploy a 10,240 processor supercomputer in a record 15 weeks. Ranks as 3rd most powerful computer in world.

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SGI® Altix® 350: Powerhouse Midrange Server

• Provides superior performance and scalability from 1 to 32 processors

• Best price/performance midrange server

• Ideal for departmental application servers, technical database, throughput clusters

• One Linux® instance to manage

• Cluster to thousands of processors using industry-standard interconnects

• Independently scale CPU, memory, I/O– Investment protection and leverage current

assets

– Allocate budget and resources to ongoing needs

– Right-size systems for the ultimate price/performance

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Ultra-dense,

Ultra-affordable,

Ultra-powerful

SGI® Altix® 330: Entry Midrange Price/Performance Leader

NUMAflex™Architecture

Linux® OS

Intel® Itanium® 2Processor

HPC Heritage

SGI HPC Expertise

Advanced Developer Tools

Scalable Architecture

SGI® Altix® Family:

Ultra-high Density Package

Great Price Point

Combined With: Results:

SGI® Altix® 330 Server

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SGI® Altix® Midrange: Powerful, Affordable, Flexible

• Advanced scalability:– Altix 350 scales to 32 processors,

384GB of memory– Altix 330 scales to 16 processors,

128GB of memory

• Expand-on-demand modularity for perfect right-sizing & cost effectiveness

• Best in class price/performance

• Altix 330 provides affordable entry point, development platform

• Based on award-winning SGI® NUMAflex™ architecture for superior performance and scalability from 1 to

“Expand-on-Demand” Growth Path

1-32P/2-384GB

1-12P/2-144GB

Base Unit: 1 or 2P/2-24GB

1- 4P/2-48GB

1-8P/2-96GB

CPU Expansion Module

Memory Expansion Module

I/O Expansion (4-32) Module

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Accelerating Research at the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

DeploymentAdded a 256P Altix 3700 system and 18P SGI Altix 3700 system featuring Intel® Itanium™ 2 Processors with 512GB of memory to existing SGI Altix infrastructureAdded a 128P (8 x 16P) SGI Altix 350 cluster with Voltaire InfiniBand interconnectIntegrated new cluster with SGI InfiniteStorage SAN Solution with CXFS™ Shared Filesystem software and 3TB fibre channel RAID

The Challenge:

>Provide computational power for researchers in a broad range of disciplines, including computational genetics, biology, and atmospheric sciencesCost efficiently acquire a supercomputing class, shared memory computing solution

The Solution:

> The 256P SGI Altix system is helping to break new ground in a broad range of disciplinesThe University obtained a 128P cluster with lower interconnect and fabric management costs than with other 2P or 4P node systems

Image Courtesy of Dr. Shuxia Zhang at the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.

“Shared memory architecture is widely acknowledged as ideal for large-scale scientific computing tasks…It undoubtedly will

lead to significant improvements in our already high productivity.DONALD TRUHLAR, SUPERCOMPUTING INSTITUTE DIRECTOR

AND PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

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SGI® RASC™ Technology

•Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing

•Extends SGI’s leadership in high performance computing

•Delivers unmatched performance, scalability and bandwidth for data-intensive applications

• Over 100X Improvements in mission-critical application acceleration

•Solution stack comprised of industry-leading tools and libraries

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RASC™ Technology — Demonstrated Application Speed-up

Bit Manipulation (Cryptography)1

• 79x 1.5GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor (single RASC Unit)• 119x 1.5GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor (dual RASC Unit)

Customer Application• 20,000x speedup on scalar microprocessor

Graphics Edge Detection1

• 7.4x 1.5GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor (single RASC Unit)

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SGI® Altix® and DatabasesA Wealth of Options

SGI Altix Database Options• MySQL®

• Empress RDBMS• Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise• Oracle9i™• IBM® DB2®

• IBM® Informix®

• Objectivity/DB™

• Eliminates data bottlenecks with blazing I/O throughput (6.4GB/second)

• Faster, more complex analyses through scalable database processing

• Full database workload placement in shared memory within a cluster system

• Cost-efficient database-in-memory by allowing user to add incremental memory as required

• Based on the industry-leading database performance processor (Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor)

1-32 Intel Itanium 2 Processors1 Linux®

Global Shared Memory

SGI ® NUMAlink ™

Shared Storage

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Altix-ok itthon

• Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat (Altix 3700, 144 CPU)• Szegedi Tudományegyetem (Altix 3700, 48 CPU)• ELTE Szerves Kémia Tsz. (Altix 350, 16 CPU)• Collegium Budapest (Altix 350, 16 CPU)• MTA Atomenergia Kutatóintézet (Altix 350, 12 CPU, 96GB RAM)• MTA SZBK Enzimológia Intézet (Altix 350, 12 CPU)• Semmelweis Egyetem Biofizika Intézet (Altix 350, 6 CPU)• Duna Televízió (Altix 3300)• Nemzeti AudioVizuális Archívum (Altix 350)• Silihost (Altix 350)

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Summary

• SGI® proven leader in High Performance Computing, with industry-leading technology and expertise

• SGI® Altix® platform based on SGI® NUMAflex™ architecture, with ability to scale from 1 to 10,000+ processors and terabytes of memory

• Unified Altix family of servers, supercomputers, and clusters provides the ability to "start small" and grow to meet any processing requirements

• Investment protection, with an open standards-based system that supports all major HPC applications

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