This manual or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form unless permitted by. Cray awarded contract to expand the xc30 supercomputer at the. Cray aprun is adding an extra dash to program arguments how. The new feature will be available to all cray xc customers starting next month, and on the cray cs400, cray xe and cray xk platforms. Performance analysis and optimisation of the met uni. Highperformance distributed rma locks patrick schmid department of computer science eth zurich patrick. Additional information on the cray xc30 supercomputers can be found on the cray website at. The cray xc30 is a massively parallel processor mpp supercomputer. Cray xc30 supercomputer xeon processor daughter card.
We evaluate our schemes on a cray xc30 and illustrate that they outperform stateoftheart mpi3 rma locking protocols by 81% and. The cray shmem 1 network programming interface provides very efcient remote memory read and write semantics that can be used to implement mpi. Guideposts that lead you from one question to the next to the next. 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 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. Service nodes this is the node you access when you first log in to the system. The cray xc50 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by cray. This resulted in ecmwf awarding a twophase service contract to cray uk ltd to supply and support this hpcf until mid2018. Cray aries interconnect with 8gbsec bandwidth cray xc30 cascade. 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. Capable of sustained multipetaflops performance, the xc30 systems hybrid. Xc systems remove barriers to discovery because theyre designed for it. The cray xc50ac aircooled supercomputer is ideal for dedicated test, development, ai and analytics use cases. Cray brings top supercomputer tech to businesses for a mere.
This session introduces the cray xc30, a brand new supercomputer architecture that builds upon crays highly successful previous generation of mpp computers. The new cray xc50 supercomputer will significantly accelerate our computational research capabilities, allowing our users to perform more advanced, dataintensive simulations, visualizations, and data analyses across a wide array of scientific studies, says dr. Cray scales to over 100 petaflops with cascade xc30. May 07, 20 crays xc30ac, which goes on sale tuesday, is crays cheapest supercomputer. Implementing highperformance geometric multigrid solver.
Nov 14, 2016 today cray announced the launch of the cray xc50 supercomputer the companys fastest supercomputer ever with a peak performance of one petaflop in a single cabinet. Ecmwfs high performance computing facility hpcf is the result of a competitive procurement carried out in 2012 and 20. Instead, the reader writer rw lock 35 can be used to reduce the. Nov 08, 2012 cray scales to over 100 petaflops with cascade xc30 behemoth aries interconnect, dragonfly topology crush gemini toruses by timothy prickett morgan 8 nov 2012 at 08. At the time of writing this is the largest such system worldwide and hence. Mpi on the cray xc30 aaron vose 4152014 many thanks to crays nick radcliffe and nathan wichmann for slide ideas.
New cray xc50 delivers 1 petaflop per cabinet insidehpc. Performance analysis and optimisation of the met unified model on a cray xc30 article pdf available november 2015 with 115 reads how we measure reads. Hpc means business in cray xc30a supercomputer debut. Cray awarded contract to expand the xc30 supercomputer at the university of stuttgart november 19, 20 seattle, wash. 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. Pdf performance analysis and optimisation of the met. Supercomputer operating systems, cray xc series cray. In 2015, cray and ecmwf signed a contract amendment extending the support period to 2020. In order to use python in cle some modifications to the standard python are needed. We have measured the sensitivity of energy use to cpu frequency for several microbenchmarks. Another property of many largescale workloads is that they are dominated by reads e. The original scaling limit was only about 2000 cores 80 cray xc30 nodes, which was the starting point in the profiling and optimisation of the cafe framework.
Mark hachman is a freelance editor at slashdot media. Feb 15, 20 cray readies xc30 supers for ivy bridge and coprocessors turns in slightly better 2012 than expected, looks forward to 20 by timothy prickett morgan 15 feb 20 at 00. Cray xc30 power monitoring and management steven j. 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. Measurement and interpretation of micro benchmark and. Crays new pascal xc50 supercomputer points to richer hpc. It has the same software and processors as its big brother, the xc 30. The new feature will be available to all cray xc customers starting next month, and on the cray cs400, cray xe and cray xk platforms in 2016. Modelling fracture in heterogeneous materials on hpc. Cray xc30 compute node numa node 0 numa node 1 cray xc30 intel xeon compute node 18 the xc30 compute node features.
The code is fully parallelised and ships with optimisations for various modern architectures, such as. Timing measurements show that sdssort can scale to k cpu cores and deliver a sorting throughput of 117tbmin. System year vendor cores rmax gflops rpeak gflops cray xc40, e52680v3 12c 2. 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. August 29, 2014 abstract understanding patterns of application energy use is key to reaching future hpc eciency goals. The cray xc30 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by cray. Crays xc30ac, which goes on sale tuesday, is crays cheapest supercomputer. Ive been running this successfully on various cray machines, including archer. 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. Measurement and interpretation of micro benchmark and application energy use on the cray xc30 brian austin, and nicholas j.
Libsciblas, lapack, blacs, scalapack, superlu, crayfft, fftw, irt. 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. It features intels dualsocket 12core ivy bridge processors. Here, simple locks would entail unnecessary overheads. The processors are connected by cray s proprietary aries interconnect, in a dragonfly network topology. Each liquidcooled cabinet can contain up to 48 blades, each with eight cpu sockets, and uses 90 kw of power. Cray xc software to feature docker container capabilities. 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. Compute blades stack 16 to a chassis, and each cabinet can be populated with up to three chassis, culminating in 384 sockets per cabinet. List rank system vendor total cores rmax tflops rpeak tflops power kw 112019. It supports nvidia tesla p100 pcie gpus, intel xeon scalable processors and arm based processors and delivers up to 236 tf peak performance in a 24 cabinet with no requirement for liquid cooling or extra blower cabinets. We tested sdssort extensively on edison, a cray xc30 supercomputer. Today cray announced the launch of the cray xc50 supercomputer the companys fastest supercomputer ever with a peak performance of one petaflop in a single cabinet.
A 7group system is interconnected with 21 optical bundles. Research center for advanced computing infrastructure. Cray scales to over 100 petaflops with cascade xc30 behemoth aries interconnect, dragonfly topology crush gemini toruses by timothy prickett morgan 8 nov 2012 at 08. Cray awarded contract to expand the xc30 supercomputer at. In tests with real application data from large science projects, sdssort outperforms hyksort, a stateofart parallel sorting algorithm, by 3. Cray xc30 rank3 network an alltoall pattern is wired between the groups using optical cables blue network the global bandwidth can be tuned by varying the number of optical cables in the grouptogroup connections example. There are two basic types of nodes in any cray xc30.
Applications need to be linked with a cray comms libraries mpi. Cray xc series application programming and optimization nersc. Cray aprun is adding an extra dash to program arguments. Cray readies xc30 supers for ivy bridge and coprocessors turns in slightly better 2012 than expected, looks forward to 20 by timothy prickett morgan 15 feb 20 at 00. Crays new pascal xc50 supercomputer points to richer hpc future. Plex releases media server app dash, and plexamp player for windows, mobile, macos and linux. Mpi on xc30 cray mpi cray mpi uses mpich2 from argonne. The xc50 is an evolution of the xc40, with the main.
Cray today announced it will deliver a high performance computing hpcoptimized docker solution for the cray xc line of supercomputers. According to the product brief pdf, the system relies on intel xeon e52600 series. Cray readies xc30 supers for ivy bridge and coprocessors. The current operating system in cray xt4xt5 compute nodes, compute linux environment cle has some limitations, most notably it does not support shared libraries. The space of parameters of the proposed reader writer lock.
Supercomputing applications are evolving to include more deep learning algorithms, and with this evolution, the uses for gpus in our systems are increasing, enabling our customers to use new. 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. Previously, the shmem interface was only available on the cray t3d and t3e machines and implementations of mpich using shmem were developed specically for those two platforms 2,3. The cray xc30ac supercomputer leverages the same compute node, compute. Now when i launch the program on the compute nodes with aprun, the program is receiving the the option as ss. The processors are connected by crays proprietary aries interconnect, in a dragonfly network topology. Cray brings top supercomputer tech to businesses for a. 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. Supercomputing applications are evolving to include more deep learning algorithms, and with this evolution, the uses for gpus in our systems are increasing, enabling our customers to use new analytics techniques to gain. Running applications on the cray xc30 ecmwf confluence wiki.
The cray xc30 series architecture implements two processor engines per compute node, and has four compute nodes per blade. 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. 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. We need to distinguish between readers and writers we need flexible performance for both types of processes.
Edison 1, a cray xc30 system, is nerscs newest supercomputer, with a peak performance of 2. Nov 12, 2015 performance analysis and optimisation of the met unified model on a cray xc30 article pdf available november 2015 with 115 reads how we measure reads. 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. With an architecture and software environment that delivers extreme scalability and sustained performance, xc supercomputers can.
The cray lustre file system is a fully integrated solution from cray that provides ddn block storage, cray integrated servers and switches, and cray supported lustre distributions. Cray xc30 installation a system level overview cray user group. The os was recently upgraded and as part of this alps was upgraded to version 5. Crays aries interconnect with dragonfly topology, and the cray sonexion storage system. The cray xc series is a distributed memory system capable of sustained performance in the petaflop range. Cray systems are designed to be high productivity as well as high.
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