Dell – Simplify HPC

Marius PURICE

Next Generation Data Center Solutions Consultant - SEE

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Infrastructure

Server Storage

Network Software

The raw materials needed to support application deployments and business growth.

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The Balancing Act

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New Dependencies

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Dell’s approach to HPC

Enabling discovery with flexible, modular, market-ready departmental HPC solutions

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Intelligent partnering built-in

Storage Engineering

Meeting Specific Customer Needs with the Industry’s Broadest Server Portfolio

Customer's Application

Hyper Scale

Scale

Single Machine

Applications

Hardware

Resiliency and

Availability

Standalone

Ha Clusters

Virtual Farms

HPC

Cloud

PowerEdge Core

PowerEdge Blades

PowerEdge C

DCS Classic

Broad Usage Models Specialized Customized

Design & Features

20 Customers

Up to 1000’s of Servers

Please note the diagram is conceptual and not to scale

T620

32 x M420

8 x C6220 + C410x

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The HPCS – 5 key touchstones

Drive R&D

Self-sustainable cost centre

Regional large-scale

shared service

Customer focused

Industrial partnership

Centralised University research

computing & data service

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Cambridge HPC history

• Cambridge has had a large scale central HPC service for the last 15 years

• The first 10 years the service operated as a traditional supercomputer centre – with traditional big iron and traditional top sliced central funding, traditional UK University service model

• Five years ago the HPC provision within Cambridge underwent major restructuring to become a customer focused HPC service with a self-sustaining charge at point of use HPC cloud business model

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Post-restructuring gains

• Move from position 270 to 20 in top 500 – from 1 TF to 18 TF

• A reduction in hardware costs from £6M to £2M (54 fold increase in value)

• 80 to 622 registered users - 14 to 162 research groups - 8 to 30 departments

• 3 fold increase in HPC related publication rate - 370 articles in 4 years

• 4 fold increase in PhDs trained 170 in 4 years

• Move from a 100 % subsidised model to a 100% self funding

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• 700 Dell servers – 4,000 cores – Woodcrest / Westmere

• 40 TF of sustained performance

• 4,000 network connections

– Ethernet, SDR IB, QDR IB

• 600 TB storage – Very high-performance parallel file system

• Planning a Q1 2012 upgrade

– 600 Sandy bridge nodes – 2 PB storage – 40 cabinets – 32 tones – Half megawatt

Dell/Cambridge HPC Solution Centre

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Solution centre expertise

• HPC operational experience – How to configure and run large scale HPC service systems – processes – tools etc

• HPC Storage – HPC storage lab – wide range of HPC storage hardware – Lustre storage on commodity hardware – MD3200 /MD1200 – NFS – IPOB / RDMA – Now pushing into data archiving

• GPU computing

• Application profiling – optimisation /Tuning benchmarking

• Commodity visualisation

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TACC provides researchers with data analysis capabilities that advance discoveries, thanks to partnership with Dell

Stampede Supercomputer

Texas Advanced Computing Center

10 Petaflops

Institutul de Geodinamică al Academiei Române de Științe

High Performance Visualization Cluster

CYBERDYN - Infrastructură Cibernetică pentru Studii Geodinamice Relaționate cu Zona Seismogenică Vrancea

High Performance Computing Cluster

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