Taking the Complexity out of Cluster Computing

Vendor Update HPC User Forum

Arend Dittmer
Director Product Management HPC
April,17 2009
Penguin Vision and Focus
 Founded 1998 – One of HPC industry’s longest track
records of success

 Donald Becker, CTO – Inventor of Beowulf

architecture and primary contributor to Linux
kernel

 Over 2500 Customers in Enterprise, Academia and

Government

 Focus on integrated ‘turnkey’ HPC clusters

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 Penguin Solutions Delivered “Ready-to-Run”
 Rack Integration
 Software
 Software Integration
> Cluster Management
• Scyld Clusterware
> Applications and • Schedulers
Workload Managers
• Development tools
> Compilers and Tools
• Applications
 Hardware
 Solution Testing
> Servers • System level burn-
> GPU Accelerators in
> Storage • Full cluster
testing
> Interconnects
 24x7 Support
> Racks and PDU’s

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Trends in Cluster Computing
Cluster Management Software
The HPC Cluster Management Challenge
 Linux clusters deliver unmatched price/performance
 Linux clusters dominate the HPC Market (Market share >75%)
however…

Compute power delivered by many systems introduces complexity

> Configuration consistency
> Distributed applications
> Workload Management
 Scyld ClusterWare designed to make cluster management easy

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Scyld ClusterWare Design

Designed for Ease-of-Use and Manageability

‘Manage a Cluster like a Single System’

 Master node is the single

point of control
 Compute nodes are
attached 'stateless'
memory and processor
resources
 Scyld maintains
consistency across the
cluster

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Web Based Monitoring Framwork
 One web based interface to all HPC cluster components
 Integrates existing tools e.g. IPMI, Ganglia, TORQUE
 Customizable, extensible Framework

> Based on XML, Java script and ExtJS

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Trends in Cluster Computing
Hardware
Heterogeneous Computing: GPUs + CPUs
 Massive processing power introduces I/O challenge
> Getting data to and from the processing units can take as long as
the processing itself
> Requires careful software design and deep understanding of
algorithms and architecture of
 Processors (Cache effects, memory bandwidth)
 GPU accelerators
 Interconnects (Ethernet, IB, 10 Gigabit Ethernet),
 Storage (local disks, NFS, parallel file systems)

4 cores

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Application Case Study: ANSYS / Acceleware
 ANSYS Direct Sparse Solver (DSS) - Single System Mode
 Matrix Decomposition offloaded to NVIDIA Tesla C1060
GPU Accelerator
 ANSYS standard benchmark BM-7 – 500K-1750K DoF
 Overall speedup up to 3.7X for Single Precision runs, 2.7X
for Double Precision

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Sample of Penguin’s Advanced Compute Offering
 Relion Intel 1702
> 1U Chassis housing two independent x86 nodes
> Two Xeon 5500 Series 'Nehalem' processors per
node
> Up to 96GB of RAM on each node
 NVIDIA Tesla S1070 GPU Accelerator
> Four processors, 240 cores each
> Native double precision floating point support
> Supports Nvidia’s CUDA API
 Niveus HTX Personal Supercomputer
> Engineered to support Tesla coprocessors
> 720 GPU cores

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Thank You

April,17 2009
Application Case Study: ANSYS / Acceleware
 ANSYS
> Direct Sparse Solver (DSS) - SMP/Single System Mode
 Acceleware Plug-In for ANSYS
> Matrix Decomposition offloaded to NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU Accelerator
 Benchmark
> ANSYS standard benchmark BM-7 – 500K-1750K Degrees if Freedom (DoF)
> Intel Xeon E5405 – Dual core runs
> Overall speedup up to 3.7X for Single Precision runs, 2.7X for Double Precision

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Integrated Management Framework
 One web based interface to all HPC cluster components
 Follows Scyld ‘Ease-of-Use’ Philosophy
 Integrates existing tools e.g. IPMI, Ganglia, TORQUE

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A Sample of our 2500+ Customers
National Labs Aerospace/Defense

Universities/Institutions Enterprise

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Hardware Effects: Multicore-Multithreading

 Moore’s Law is doubling the number of transistors on an integrated

circuit every 18 months
 However, clock speeds are not scaling
 Multicore and Multithreaded
Programming is critical for
continued software scalability
 Rather than reinvent the wheel,
use existing frameworks and tools
> OpenMP
> MPI
> Threaded Building Blocks
> Atlas, FFTW, MKL, AMCL, etc.

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