Capable of sustained multipetaflops performance, the xc30 systems hybrid. Stellenmarkt heise jobs heise download preisvergleich. The intent is to present a systems and facilities point of view regarding the cray xc30 installation, operational setup and identify key differences between the cray xc30 and previous generation cray systems such as the cray xe6. The cray 2 is a supercomputer with four vector processors made by cray research starting in 1985. Eventually, over 100 cray 1s were sold, making it one of the most successful supercomputers in history. Yokohama city university has selected the aircooled xc50ac for life sciences research. Hlrniii hardware summary in the following a summary of how to compile and achieve good performance will be presented.
Hot on the heels of the 20petaflops cray titan supercomputer, the recentlycrowned worlds fastest supercomputer, cray has announced the xc30 architecture, which will allow for the creation of. The cray xc30 is a massively parallel processor mpp supercomputer design. It is therefore built from many thousands of individual nodes. Nov 14, 2016 cray has a new supercomputer called the xc50, the successor to its xc40 model and the first supercomputer from the company that can deliver one petaflop of performance at peak in a single cabinet. Nov 15, 20 upgrade and extension of cray xc30 piz daint supercomputer cscsch.
The cray xc30 system combines intel processors, crays aries network and the cray linux environment to provide a system capable of delivering production processing capability to archer users. Cray stellt supercomputer xc30 mit intelchips vor heise online. We compare performance of the optimised version at a range of scales, and with a range of optimisations, including altered mpi rank placement, and addition of openmp. They run a full version of the cle operating system all libraries and tools available they are used for editing files, compiling code, submitting jobs to the batch queue and other interactive tasks. The hlrniii cray xc30 systems in berlin and hanover are described in detail here. With altairs hyperworks virtual wind tunnel running on cray xc30 or cs300 systems, manufacturers of all sizes can now predict a vehicles external aerodynamic performance without the need for numerous physical wind tunnel tests. Compute nodes these only do user computation and are always referred to as compute nodes service nodes. Cray xc30 compute node numa node 0 numa node 1 cray xc30 intel xeon compute node 18 the xc30 compute node features. The cray xc series is a distributed memory system capable of sustained performance in the petaflop range. The processors are connected by crays proprietary aries interconnect, in a dragonfly network topology.
The machine can support intel xeon processors, as well as cavium thunderx2 processors, xeon phi processors and nvidia tesla p100 gpus. Cray, a hewlett packard enterprise company, grounded in decades of hpc expertise, specializes in supercomputers and solutions for storage and analytics. Pdf performance analysis and optimisation of the met. Cray xc30 routing 24 s m d with adaptive routing we select between minimal and nonminimal paths based on load the cray xc30 class2 group has sufficient bandwidth to support full injection rate for all 384 nodes with nonminimal routing m minimal routes between any two nodes in a group are just two hops nonminimal route requires up to four hops. The xc50 is an evolution of the xc40, with the main. The cray xc40 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by cray. Cray xc series supercomputers turn boundaries into guideposts. Three libraries are required by the wps ungrib program for grib edition 2 compression support. The xc series supercomputers are available with the cray datawarp applications io. Scaling beyond 100,000 cores on cray xc30 was demonstrated. Using 1 cpu per compute unit means a maximum of 24 pes per node.
The cray xc50 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by cray. Creating a large server farm with fast cpus doesnt map well to applications that require storage connectivity, as most do, or socket to socket communication within the overall system. The ecmwf team used the cray xk7 titan system at oak ridge national laboratory and a cray xc30 system to test the performance of their radiationinparallel scheme. Performance analysis and optimisation of met office unified model on a cray xc30. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. Architecture overview by nathan wikmann cray get up to speed with cray xc30 piz daint, 1114 march 20 course organized by swiss national supercomputing centre cscs, lugano. First experiences with validating and using the cray. Zhengji zhao1, doug petesch2, david knaak2, and tina declerck1.
Crays new xc50 supercomputer hits one petaflop of computing. It was, in turn, replaced in that spot by the cray ymp in 1988 the cray2 was the first of seymour crays designs to successfully use multiple cpus. May 07, 20 the cray xc30ac supercomputer leverages the same compute node, compute blade and daughter card pdc architecture as the cray xc30. More details regarding the port of slurm to the xc30 can be found in our other paper 3. Eventually, over 100 cray1s were sold, making it one of the most successful supercomputers in history. Architecture overview by nathan wikmann cray get up to speed with cray xc30 piz daint, 1114 march 20 course organized by. Experiments are performed on archer, a cray xc30, and cirrus, an sgi ice machine. Trusted for over 23 years, our modern delphi is the preferred choice of object pascal developers for creating cool apps across devices. Request pdf deploying darter a cray xc30 system the university of tennessee, knoxville acquired a cray xc30 supercomputer, called darter, with a peak performance of 248. Io performance on cray xc30 zhengji zhao1, doug petesch2, david knaak2, and tina declerck1 1 national energy research scientific center, berkeley, ca 2 cray, inc. The cray xc supercomputer series is a massively parallel processing architecture designed to handle a broad range of compute problems. This massively parallel supercomputer provides balanced performance between processors, memory, interconnect, and io. The cray xc30 system is a distributed memory supercomputer developed as part of crays participation in the defense advanced research project agencys darpa high productivity computing system hpcs program.
Darter was deployed in late march of 20 with a very. The cray2 is a supercomputer with four vector processors made by cray research starting in 1985. The cray xc30ac supercomputer leverages the same compute node, compute blade and daughter card pdc architecture as the cray xc30. This document includes scalability benchmarks for both small and large problems, along with cray. Casup can be used with cray, intel and gccopencoarrays compilers.
Measurement and interpretation of micro benchmark and. Dwd applications on cray xc30 and beyond elisabeth krenzien technical infrastructure ulrich schattler numerical modeling, cosmo florian prill numerical modeling, icon harald anlauf data assimilation contentsdeutscher wetterdienst result from last procurement. With an architecture and software environment that delivers extreme scalability and sustained performance, xc supercomputers can. In order to compete in the fastpaced app world, you must reduce development time and get to market faster than your competitors. The cray1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by cray research. The cray xc30 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by cray. We have measured the sensitivity of energy use to cpu frequency for several microbenchmarks. Testing the t l 159 model on titan using the radiationinparallel scheme with radiation called every timestep, the team achieved 58,858. The cray xc30 system combines intel processors, cray s aries network and the cray linux environment to provide a system capable of delivering production processing capability to archer users. Xc systems remove barriers to discovery because theyre designed for it.
Peg williams, the senior vice president of high performance computing systems at cray said that with all of the features and functionality of our highend. We describe our approach in detail and discuss the options taken for correctness and performance. Cray xc30 power monitoring and management steven j. It consists of intel xeon processors, with optional nvidia tesla or xeon phi accelerators, connected together by crays proprietary aries interconnect, stored in aircooled or liquidcooled cabinets. The calculation is based on calculating wz, the faddeyeva plasma dispersion function. View and download jvc pcxc30 service manual online. Cray xc50 supercomputer adaptive computing reaches new heights the cray xc50 supercomputer is a massively parallel processing mpp architecture designed for environments where engineering, research, scientific, analytics and deep learning applications can leverage the processing power of todays advanced. It a distributed memory system built from thousands of individual sharedmemory nodes. This session introduces the cray xc30, a brand new supercomputer architecture that builds upon crays highly successful previous generation of mpp computers. Some basic examples 12 assuming xc30 nodes with 2x12 core ivybridge processors each node has. The cray xc30 system is a distributed memory supercomputer developed as part of cray s participation in the defense advanced research project agencys darpa high productivity computing system hpcs program. Manual control allows the xc30 system to provide cooling for small amounts of equipment. This is their third cray machine after acquiring an xc30 and cs300, both in 20.
Cray has a new supercomputer called the xc50, the successor to its xc40 model and the first supercomputer from the company that can deliver one petaflop of performance at peak in a. Hpc means business in cray xc30a supercomputer debut. Scaling and performance efficiencies of applications conference paper pdf available august 20 with 159 reads how we measure reads. Archer is managed by epsrc on behalf of the uk research councils. Each liquidcooled cabinet can contain up to 48 blades, each with eight cpu sockets, and uses 90 kw of power. The mpi lib, include, and bin need to be included in the users path. The cray 1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by cray research. It consists of intel haswell xeon processors, with optional nvidia tesla or intel xeon phi accelerators, connected together by crays proprietary aries interconnect, stored in aircooled or liquidcooled cabinets. Upgrade and extension of cray xc30 piz daint supercomputer. On archer, we use cray performance analysis tools craypat to analyse the performance of um and then cray reveal to identify and parallelise serial loops using openmp directives. Measurement and interpretation of micro benchmark and application energy use on the cray xc30 brian austin, and nicholas j. During phase i, system management and monitoring interfaces were evaluated on the cray xk7 system.
List rank system vendor total cores rmax tflops rpeak tflops power kw 112019. According to the product brief pdf, the system relies on intel xeon e52600 series processors with between 32 and 128 gb per node. Oct 10, 20 this session introduces the cray xc30, a brand new supercomputer architecture that builds upon cray s highly successful previous generation of mpp computers. August 29, 2014 abstract understanding patterns of application energy use is key to reaching future hpc eciency goals.
Performance analysis and optimisation of metoffice. Darter was deployed in late march of 20 with a very aggressive production timeline the system was deployed, accepted, and placed into production in only 2 weeks. Evaluation and comparison of the aries interconnect in the cray xc30 and the gemini interconnect in the cray xe6 and cray xk7 con. It consists of intel xeon processors, with optional nvidia tesla or xeon phi accelerators, connected together by cray s proprietary aries interconnect, stored in aircooled or liquidcooled cabinets. Performance analysis and optimisation of the met unified model on a cray xc30. The railway technical research institute rtri will install five xc50 cabinets and a 720tb cray clusterstor l300 for storage to gain insights on rail transportation. Service nodes this is the node you access when you first log in to the system. Cray aries interconnect with 8gbsec bandwidth cray xc30 cascade. This is mainly a hmc implementation including phmc and rhmc for wilson, wilson clover and wilson twisted mass fermions and inverter for different versions of the dirac operator.
As noted above, the xc30 tds comprises a standalone cabinet and is populated with 3 service blades. Each system blade contains four compute nodes of two processors each. Guideposts that lead you from one question to the next to the next. There are two basic types of nodes in any cray xc30. This package provides a bsd licensed fortran 2008 module with erfz, where z is a complex argument. Users guide 24 which mpirun if all of these executables are defined, mpi is probably already available.
In the case of the piz daint cray xc30 machine power supply is. May 08, 20 peg williams, the senior vice president of high performance computing systems at cray said that with all of the features and functionality of our highend cray xc30 systems, our new cray xc30 ac. Mpi on the cray xc30 aaron vose 4152014 many thanks to crays nick radcliffe and nathan wichmann for slide ideas. Pdf performance analysis and optimisation of met office. Archer is a cray xc30 supercomputer and is the successor of hectorxe6.
Supercomputers, hpc company, big data solutions cray. Download fulltext pdf performance analysis and optimisation of the met unified model on a cray xc30 article pdf available november 2015 with 115 reads. The code is fully parallelised and ships with optimisations for various modern architectures, such as. Mpi on xc30 cray mpi cray mpi uses mpich2 from argonne.
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