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Emergence of GPU systems and clusters for general
purpose high performance computing
ITCS 4145/5145 April 3, 2012 © Barry Wilkinson
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Graphic processing units(GPUs) for high performance computing
Single computers with GPU cards GPU clusters GPU Grids
(Geographically distributed resources used collectively, see http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~abw/gridcourse/index.html)
GPU Clouds
With advent of graphic processing units (GPUs) for scientific high performance computing, can incorporate GPUs into systems, greatly increasing their compute capability.
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Many if not most high performance clusters use GPUs for HPC
Fastest computer systems in the world
Uses NVIDIA GPUs
Japanese
http://top500.org/
Chinese
Tianhe-1A (was #1 now #2) has 7168 NVIDIA M2050 GPUs
coit-grid01.uncc.edu – coit-grid7.uncc.educluster
coit-grid01
switch
coit-grid05
coit-grid03
coit-grid02
coit-grid04
All user’s home directories on coit-grid05 (NFS)
coit-grid06
NVIDIA Tesla GPU
(C2050 448 core Fermi)
Login from within the campus only
Login from on-campus or off-campusUse coit-grid01.uncc.edu
coit-grid07
NVIDIA Tesla GPU
(C2050 448 core Fermi)
coit-grid07: GPU server, X5560 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon processor with NVIDIA 2050 GPU, 12GB main memory
GPU servers grid06 and grid07 for HPC GPU programmingWill also use Windows machines in lab 335, which have mid-level (48-core) NVIDIA cards
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)Brief History
1970 2010200019901980
Atari 8-bit computer
text/graphics chip
Source of information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Processing_Unit
IBM PC Professional Graphics Controller
card
S3 graphics cards- single chip 2D
accelerator
OpenGL graphics API
Hardware-accelerated 3D graphics
DirectX graphics API
Playstation
GPUs with programmable shading
Nvidia GeForceGE 3 (2001) with
programmable shading
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
(GPGPUs)
GPU Computing
NVIDIA products
NVIDIA Corp. is the leader in GPUs for high performance computing:
1993 201019991995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce
20092007 20082000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Established by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris
Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
NV1 GeForce 1
GeForce 2 series GeForce FX series
GeForce 8 series
GeForce 200 series
GeForce 400 series
GTX460/465/470/475/480/485
GTX260/275/280/285/295GeForce 8800
GT 80
Tesla
Quadro
NVIDIA's first GPU with general purpose processors
C870, S870, C1060, S1070, C2050, …
Tesla 2050 GPU has 448 thread processors
Fermi
Kepler(2011)
Maxwell (2013)
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GPU performance gains over CPUs
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GFLO
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NVIDIA GPUIntel CPU
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Westmere
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GT200
3GHz Dual Core P4
3GHz Core2 Duo
3GHz Xeon Quad
Source © David Kirk/NVIDIA and Wen-mei W. Hwu, 2007-2009ECE 498AL Spring 2010, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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CPU-GPU architecture evolution
Co-processors -- very old idea that appeared in 1970s and 1980s with floating point co-processors attached to microprocessors that did not then have floating point capability.
These coprocessors simply executed floating point instructions that were fetched from memory.
Around same time, interest to provide hardware support for displays, especially with increasing use of graphics and PC games.
Led to graphics processing units (GPUs) attached to CPU to create video display.
CPU
Graphics card
Display
Memory
Early design
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Birth of general purpose programmable GPU
Dedicated pipeline (late1990s-early 2000s)
By late1990’s, graphics chips needed to support 3-D graphics, especially for games and graphics APIs such as DirectX and OpenGL.
Graphics chips generally had a pipeline structure with individual stages performing specialized operations, finally leading to loading frame buffer for display.
Individual stages may have access to graphics memory for storing intermediate computed data.
Input stage
Vertex shader stage
Geometry shader stage
Rasterizer stage
Frame buffer
Pixel shading stage
Graphics memory
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GeForce 6 Series Architecture
(2004-5)From GPU Gems 2, Copyright 2005 by NVIDIA Corporation
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General-Purpose GPU designs
High performance pipelines call for high-speed (IEEE) floating point operations.
People tried to use GPU cards to speed up scientific computations
Known as GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units) -- Difficult to do with specialized graphics pipelines, but possible.)
By mid 2000’s, recognized that individual stages of graphics pipeline could be implemented by a more general purpose processor core (although with a data-parallel paradigm)
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2006 -- First GPU for general high performance computing as well as graphics processing, NVIDIA GT 80 chip/GeForce 8800 card.
Unified processors that could perform vertex, geometry, pixel, and general computing operations
Could now write programs in C rather than graphics APIs.
Single-instruction multiple thread (SIMT) programming model
GPU design for general high performance computing
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Evolving GPU designNVIDIA Fermi architecture
(announced Sept 2009)
•Data parallel single instruction multiple data operation (“Stream” processing)
•Up to 512 cores (“stream processing engines”, SPEs, organized as 16 SPEs, each having 32 SPEs)
• 3GB or 6 GB GDDR5 memory
•Many innovations including L1/L2 caches, unified device memory addressing, ECC memory, …
•First implementation: Tesla 20 series (single chip C2050/2070, 4 chip S2050/2070) 3 billion transistor chip? Number of cores limited by power considerations, C2050 has 448 cores.
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Fermi Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)
* Whitepaper NVIDIA’s Next Generation CUDA Compute Architecture: Fermi, NVIDIA, 2008
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CUDA(Compute Unified Device Architecture)
• Architecture and programming model, introduced in NVIDIA in 2007
• Enables GPUs to execute programs written in C.• Within C programs, call SIMT “kernel” routines that are
executed on GPU. • CUDA syntax extension to C identify routine as a
Kernel.
• Very easy to learn although to get highest possible execution performance requires understanding of hardware architecture
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2010: NVIDIA Corp. selected UNC-Charlotte Department of Computer Science to be a CUDA Teaching Center, kindly providing GPU equipment and TA support.
2011: NVIDIA kindly provided 50 GTX 480 GPU cards valued at $15,000 as continuing support for the CUDA Teaching Center.
UNC-C CUDA Teaching Center
Our course materials are posted on NVIDIA’s corporate site next to those from Stanford, and other top schools.
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http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-training
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