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vSMP Foundation 2.0 Announcement
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vSMP Foundation – Background
Existing: Partitioning
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
Applications requiring fractionof the physical server resources
New: Aggregation
NEW SERVER VIRTUALIZATION PARADIGM
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Hypervisor or VMM
Virtual Machines
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
Virtual Machine
App
OS
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor or VMM
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Applications requiring supersetof the physical server resources
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vSMP Foundation – Background
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THE NEED FOR AGGREGATION - TYPICAL USE CASES
Virtual Machine
App
OS
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor or VMM
vSMP Foundation
Capabilities:Up to 16 nodes:• 32 processors (128 cores)• 4 TB RAMMore at: http://www.scalemp.com/spec
Cluster Management• Requirements driven by IT to simplify
cluster deployment:• Single OS
• InfiniBand complexity removal
• Simplified I/O: faster scratch storage
• Large memory is a plus
• OPEX savings
SMP Replacement• Requirements driven by the end
users per application characteristics:• Large memory
• High core-count
• IT simplification is a plus
• CAPEX savings
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vSMP Foundation 2.0
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Enhanced performance and enterprise-class features
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vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
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Efficiency(compared to 1 board)
Bandwidth(MB/sec.)
Cores:
STREAM (OMP) Performance (MB/s)
1333MHz FSB (128 cores / 16 boards)1600MHz FSB (128 cores / 16 boards)QPI 6.4GT/s (32 cores / 4 boards)1333MHz - Efficiency1600MHz - EfficiencyQPI - Efficiency
• First Nehalem solution with more than 2 processors
• Up to 3 times better performance
• Optimized performance with intra-board memory placement and QDR InfiniBand
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vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• 2 InfiniBand switches (dual-rail) in anactive-active configuration
• Automatic failover on link errors (cable) or switch failure
• Improved performance with switch load-balancing (both switches used in parallel)
Server A Server B Server C
InfiniBand Switch 2InfiniBand Switch 1
Automatic failover and load-balancing
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vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Create isolated hardware-level partitions, each can run different OS
• Up to 8 partitions, minimum 2 servers per partition
• Requires add-on license
Single Partition
Multiple Partitions
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vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Up to 2 Emulex LightPulse® Fibre-Channel (FC) HBAs per server
• Up to 32 HBAs for virtual machine
• Significantly improves cluster IO capabilities, while keeping cost low
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vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Serial console for all vSMP Foundation control and monitoring operations
• Augments existing VGA-based control
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vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Full stack profiler allows identification of code scalability inefficiencies
• Zoom to line of code, providing insight about cross-node memory usage, I/O access and interrupts
• Open API, allowing integration with 3rd party tools
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vSMP Foundation 2.0MODULAR LICENSING STRUCTURE
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Up
to
16
sys
tem
s vSMP Foundation Enterprise
– Up to 1 TB RAM, unlimited processor speed
– Extensible platform: support for add-on modules
Pricing structure: per-node license starting the 2nd
node.
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n M
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s Partitioning
– Up to 8 partitions
Pricing structure: one license per each 16 nodes
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vSMP Foundation Lite
– For platforms with entry level processors (2.66GHz (core2) or 2.4GHz (corei7)) and maximum of 4GB RAM per core
– Add-on modules not available
Pricing structure: per-node reduced-cost license starting the 2nd node, minimum 8-node configuration
Large memory
– Up to 4 TB RAM
Pricing structure: per-TB license starting the 2nd TB (first TB is part of the base product)
Profiling
– Profiling tools
Pricing structure: free for academic customers
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Target Environments and Applications
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Target Environments
• Users seeking to simplify cluster complexities
• Applications that use large memory footprint (even with one processor)
• Applications that need multiple processors and shared memory
Manufacturing
CSM (Computational Structural Mechanics)
ABAQUS/ExplicitABAQUS/StandardANSYS MechanicalLSTC LS-DYNAALTAIR Radioss
CFD (Computational Fluid
Dynamics)
FLUENTANSYS CFXSTAR-CDAVL FIRETgrid
OtherinTrace OpenRT
Life Sciences
GaussianVASPAMBERSchrödinger JaguarSchrödinger GlideNAMDDOCKGAMESSGOLDmpiBLASTGROMACSMOLPROOpenEye FREDOpenEye OMEGASCM ADFHMMER
Energy
Schlumberger ECLIPSEParadigm GeoDepth3DGEO 3DPSDMNorsar 3D
OthersThe MathWorks MATLABROctaveWolfram MATHEMATICAISC STAR-P
Typical end-user applications
EDA
MentorCadence
Finance
WombatKX
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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:US / ROW:Manuel Hoffmann ([email protected])• US East: Jeff Stemler ([email protected])• US West: Tom Wall ([email protected])
EMEA: Benzi Galili ([email protected])
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