SiCortex Update IDC HPC User Forum

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SiCortex UpdateIDC HPC User Forum

• April 14, 2008

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The Company

• Founded by computer system designers
• Single Focus High Performance Computing

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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.

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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
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Whats 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
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Integrated HPC Linux Environment

• Operating System
• Linux kernel and utilities (2.6.18)
• 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

gentoo
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Hardware Update

• SC072 Catapult - 15000, shipping
• Expandable configurations of SC648, SC1458,
  SC5832
• Engineering work on multicabinet systems

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Software Update

• SiCortex Release 2.2 shipping
• Support for all system types
• Linux 2.6.18, Lustre 1.6
• Expanded I/O device support
• Infiniband, 10G
• Compiler and library performance improvements
• Open Source

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Performance Update

• MPI Latency - 1.4 µsec
• MPI BW - 1.5 GB/s
• HPC Challenge work underway
• SC5832, on 5772 cpus
• DGEMM 72
• HPL 3.6 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)