"Bull has emerged as a significant provider of midrange to supercomputing scale HPC systems, building a base first in its native France before expanding in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Leveraging its own in-house expertise in R&D, Bull has unveiled a full range of HPC products."

1. Nov 18th 2013
on
Readers’ Choice:
GENCI CURIE for DEUS
(Dark Energy Universe Simulation) project

2. Nov 18th 2013
Readers’ Choice best server product or technology:
Intel Xeon Processor
Editors’ Choice best server product or technology:
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
Readers’ Choice top product or technology to watch:
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor

3. Nov 18th 2013
Bull Extreme Factory
Remote Visualizer
3D Streaming Technology

4. Bull: from Supercomputers to Cloud Computing
Expertise
& services
Software
Servers
Infrastructure
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HPC Systems Architecture
Applications & Performance
Energy Efficiency
Data Management
HPC Cloud
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Open, scalable, reliable SW
Development Environment
Linux, OpenMPI, Lustre, Slurm
Administration & monitoring
• Full range development from
ASICs to boards, blades, racks
• Support for accelerators
• Data Center design
• Mobile Data Center
• Water-Cooling
bullx supercomputer suite

5. Energy Optimization Paths towards Exascale Computing
Environment
 PUE
Middleware
 resource utilization
Microlectronics
optimization
 PicoWatts/operation
Application
 new Paradigms
Supercomputer
power efficiency

7. DLC blade system

8. DLC blade system
Brings (warm) water to the heart of the
computing power
- All the benefits of bullx blades
- PUE close to 1
- Standard servicing

9. DLC B710 blade
• Double blade hosting 2 nodes
• 2 x 2 Intel® Xeon® processors
E5 Family
• InfiniBand FDR – ready for EDR
• Standard CPUs, memory, disks
• As easy to maintain as an aircooled blade

10. DLC B710 blade

11. DLC B715 blade
Cold plate
Liquid
Cooling
InfiniBand FDR
2x Intel Xeon CPUs
2x Accelerators
(Intel® Xeon Phi™
or NVIDIA® Tesla™)

12. DLC blade system
Cooperative Power Chassis
- Standard connection by the top of the rack
 physical separation of water and high
voltage
Hydraulic chassis
Temperature of water in customer loop
- Rack inlet temperature : 35°C max
- Rack outlet temperature depends on rack consumption
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Typically for 5 chassis : 42°C
Water flow needed per rack
- Controlled according to rack consumption
- Maximum : 4.5 m3/h (75 l/min)

13. blade chassis (B500 series)

14. blade chassis (B500 series)

15. blade chassis (B500 series)
Chassis
Management
Board
Hot- swappable
PSU x 4
Ethernet Switch Board

16. B510 compute blade
ConnectX3
FDR
HDD/SSD 2.5"
DDR III (x8)
2 x Intel Xeon
processors E5-2600
(v2-ready)
2 compute nodes
2x
Fans

17. B515 accelerator blade
• Double-width blade
• 2 x NVIDIA K20/K20X GPUs (Kepler)
OR
• 2 x Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors
• 2 x Intel Xeon E5-24xx
(ready for future generation)
• Dedicated PCI-e3 16x connection for each accelerator
• 2 InfiniBand FDR ports connected to 1st-level switch, so
that each accelerator has access to full FDR bandwidth

19. supercomputer suite
Application Management
Extended Offer
Data Management
Extended Offer
LSF, PBS Pro, DDT,
Totalview...
GPFS
Supercomputer
Management
Development Execution
Environment Environment
bullx BM
Management Center
Data
Management
bullx MC
Application
Management
Parallel File System
Software
Manager
Monitoring
& Control
Manager
bullx PFS
(Lustre)
(Batch Management)
bullx DE
Network File System
bullx MPI
1
1
SIR
NFS
(Message Passing
Interface)
Local File System
Infrastructure Manager
1. Supercomputer Information Repository
Operating System
bullx Linux - Red Hat Entreprise Linux (RHEL) - SUSE Linux Entreprise Server (SLES)

20. mobull, the plug and boot data center
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Up to 2 Petaflops per container
• Fast field deployment
• All-weather operation -30⁰ to +50⁰
• Secure
• Cost effective
• Hardware agnostic
• High density - innovative cooling system
• Pay As You Grow - Opex financed
The container solution from Bull

22. computer simulation in the age of cloud computing
 Perform pay-per-use HPC on bullx solutions
 No requirement for heavy investment
 Set up and operated by Bull HPC experts
 High level of service with total security
 Web portal access for full HPC workflow
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Data management
Job management
Licensing management
Remote 3D visualization
Accounting

23. HPC & Viz Portal « Appliance »
• Front-end for HPC private cloud
• Sold as a product
• Integrated solution (hardware +
software)
• Customers in production in many
countries
• Graphics customization framework
• Modular (HPC, VIZ, HPC+VIZ)
• Supports various job schedulers
• Supports various remote streamers

24. XRV is Bull’s client-server 3D
streaming technology
• Sold as a product
• Standalone or integrated with XCS
• Supports Windows and Linux clients
• Several sessions mapped on a single GPU
• Groundbreaking performance: Video
compression based on advanced algorithms,
requiring little bandwidth (3Mbit/s for
comfortable work at 1280x1024)

28. European Exascale computing
approach, based on embedded
power-efficient technology
The objective of the Mont-Blanc project:
to design a new type of computer
architecture capable of setting future global
HPC standards that will deliver Exascale
performance while using 30 times less
energy.
This project is coordinated by the Barcelona
Supercomputing Center (BSC) and is partly funded
by the European Commission.
www.montblanc-project.eu

29. European Technology Platform
for High Performance Computing
An industry-led forum founded by stakeholders
of HPC technology supply and research
HPC System Architecture
System Software and Management
Programming environment
HPC Stack
Elements
including support for extreme parallelism
Usability
Affordability
(cost, energy)
ISV support
End-user support
SME focus
Horizon 2020
ERA
Education &
training
HPC Usage
Expansion
including:
Energy efficiency
System resiliency
Extreme Scale
Requirements
New HPC
Deployments
HPC services,
including:
Improve system
and environment
characteristics
Balance compute
subsystem, I/O and
storage performance
Calls For
Proposals
HPC usage models
Including: Big data, HPC in clouds
Strategic Research Agenda
European HPC Ecosystem Vitality
http://www.etp4hpc.eu