Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Poster Presented by:

SGI Proprietary

Technologies for Breakthrough Research

Rosario Caltabiano

North East Higher Education & Research

Conformal Computing 2005

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Summary

• High Performance Computing

• Parallel MATLAB with Star-P

• FPGA’s for Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing (RASC)

• Visualization of Very Large Data Sets

• High Performance Scalable Storage

• One Multipurpose System

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Linux High Performance ComputingExtreme Shared Memory Scalability

Mid-Range Divisional Capability

SGI® Altix® 3700 BX2Servers and Superclusters

SGI® Altix® 350Servers and Clusters

Image courtesy: NASA Ames

• Global Shared Memory up to 24 TB• NUMALink Scalable Interconnect• Modular Growth (CPU’s, Memory, I/O)• Scalable to 1024 Processors• Single System Image• 64-bit Linux

128p System Topology Example

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Parallel MATLAB

Star-PTM: A Faster Path to New ScienceKeeping Scientists Focused on Research

Star-P enables new science by extending the MATLAB® environment to large memories and multiple processors.Star-P started as a research project at MIT and is being commercialized and distributed by SGI

MATLAB® Parallel SystemStar-P

• Use MATLAB® on your Desktop Client

• Minimum MATLAB® code Changes• Parallel MATLAB® Execution

• Large MATLAB® Arrays

Run your MATLAB®

Program in ParallelWithout having to know

Parallel Processing

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Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing

FPGASGI TIO

ASIC

6.4GB/s

Memory

I/O

• Direct connect to NUMAlink (6.4 GB/sec)• Atomic Memory Operations• Hardware Barriers - Load Balancing

NUMAlink

GlobalShared Memory

Fabric

Altix RASC Module

NL4 Ports(6.4GB/s x 2) Virtex2 6000 -6

• FPGA Aware Gnu Debugger• Configurations to 128 NUMA/FPGA Nodes• Production Quality

SGI Altix High Performance Computer

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SGI Prism - Very Large Data Visualization

Multiple Users - Multiple monitors - Improved workflow

Composited Graphics - Scalable Single Screen Performance

Multiple Synchronized displays - Immersive Visualization

Visual Area Network - Remote Access - Remote Collaborative Sessions

LargeDataSets

Scalable

Compute

and

Large

Memory

ScalableI/O

Scalable

Graphics

64 Bit Linux

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High Performance, Scalable StorageCXFS Clustered File System Infrastructure

With SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared File System CXFS™ • All files are shared• No copying• No wasted space

With SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared File System CXFS™ • All files are shared• No copying• No wasted space

Public LAN

File B

File D

File E

File F

File G

File H

File I

File A

File C

FC switch

IRIX®Windows®Sun™ Linux® AIX®NAS Gateway

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metadata server

Disk Array

PetaByte Scalability - Gigabytes/sec I/O Bandwidth

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ONE Multipurpose System

SGI®

Altix/Prism

Network-Attached Storage

CXFS Shared File Access

over SAN

NearlineStorage

Windows

Sun™

Linux®AIX®

Local & Remote Visualization

High Data VolumeSensors

Storage

Shared MemoryHigh Performance Computer

Parallel MATLABHPC Server

RASC (FPGA) Computing Platform