ClusterVision on Intel's role in the development of the top500 class system at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing

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ClusterVision & Intel
Dr.Tony Kent
Marketing & PR Manager, ClusterVision
“The best way to predict
the future is to invent it”
Top500 Class Computing at the University of Paderborn

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The University of Paderborn

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The University of Paderborn
• Originally founded 1614
- restablished in 1972
- Universität Paderborn in 2002
• 18,800 students
• 60 under/post-graduate degrees
• 5 faculties
- Arts & Humanities
- Business administration
- Science
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- & Mathematics
• PC² Center for Parallel Computing ..

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PC² Center for Parallel Computing
• Founded in 1991
• Integral inter-disciplinary institute
of the University of Paderborn
• Distributed & parallel high performance computing
• HPC research, development & applications
- Custom computing & many cores
- Middleware & system software
- Scalable storage
- Testbeds & benchmarking
• 5 HPC systems
• OCcuLUS part of 4m Euro investment
• “This system is a powerful compute resource for all
researchers in the region of East Westphalia and Lippe,
and our partners in Germany and Europe,” Prof.Dr.
Holger Karl, head of the PC² board. ..

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• 614 compute nodes, 10,000 cores
- 552 ASUS E7 rack-mount compute servers
- each with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2670 (16 cores) 2.6GHz processors
- Smaller compute nodes have 64 GByte of main memory per node
- larger nodes are enhanced with 256 GByte of main memory
• 40 GPU Nodes, ES4000
Type-1 Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors with 32 NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPUs.
Type-2 Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors with 8 Intel Xeon Phi co-processors
• 20 Intel Servers (256G).
• 2 SMP nodes
- Dell PowerEdge R820 servers with four 8-Core Xeon E5-4650 processors
• 6 front-end and management and administration nodes
- Supermicro Superserver 825TQ-R740WB and 1027GR-TRFchassis
• Fast QDR InfiniBand, 40 Gbit/s system from Mellanox Technologies.
• 14 42U Emerson/Knürr server racks,
- 12 of which incorporate Knürr’s backdoor chilled water cooling technology.
• Bright Cluster Manager
• FraunhoferFS (FhGFS) parallel file-system …
ClusterVision Project : 90208

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System Configuration

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Intel Xeon Phi

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Build
• Off-site engineering Nov-2012
• 6-man on-site build
• Handover Feb-2013
• Official inauguration
- ZKI Supercomputing Mar-2013
• Post-delivery services
- support/Maintenance for BCM/FhGFS
- multi-year critical hardware warranties …
“It is always exciting for our
company to work on Top500 class
systems like the new HPC cluster at
Paderborn. Large scale, complex
systems like this understandably
represent a showcase of possibility
to the HPC community, both in
academia and commercial
enterprise, and enable our team to
draw upon and demonstrate all of
their experience in system design
and their expertise in build and
configuration,” Christopher Huggins,
Commercial Director at
ClusterVision.

9. dd-Mmm-2011June-2013ClusterVision
ISC’13 Exhibitor Forum (02)
Tuesday 18 June, 11:00-11:30 hrs
Dipl.Bjoern Olausson
HPC System Architect, ClusterVision
Dr.Jens Simon
Technical Manager & Senior Research Assistant at PC²
ISC’13 Stand 520 www.clustervision.com