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SGI Production Supercomputing HPC User Forum Welcome

April 11, 2016

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Focus and Interest Areas WorkflowAccelera-on:Workflowaccelera,onthroughhigh-performanceHPC,UV/HPDAintegra,onwithLustre-baseddatapools

ConvergedStorageandCompute:Flash-based“TierZeroTM”high-performancestoragewithac,vedatamanagement

SystemUp-meandResilience:Automatedcapabili,esfordiscoveringandisola,ngcomponentfaultstominimizedown,meandcosts

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•  As HPC workflows expand to include computation, large data set analysis and visualization – optimizing the movement of data becomes critical

•  SGI’s architecture includes both near term and long term acceleration

Workflow Acceleration

CurrentDataPoints:•  HPCandHPDAConvergenceasKeySolu,onRequirements•  Consistentcustomerinterestintheuseofcommon‘datalakes’fordata

accesssuppor,ngmul,pleuses

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•  UV optimized client for high-performance Lustre integration

•  Multiple IB or OmniPath connections for massive throughput

•  Technical details announced last week at Lustre User Group (LUG) 2016

SGI UV Multi-Rail Lustre In-Process Co-Development Project with Intel

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LustreUVHP

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System Uptime and Resilience

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TheOldWay TheNewWorld

HPCPerformanceMeasurement

GB/sec TB/sec

High-PerformanceStorageTier

Disk Flash&3DXPoint

CapacityStorageTier

Tape Disk(TapeforResiliencyTier)

Convergence of Compute & Storage

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TierZero™ Storage UV Scalable Converged Compute & Storage Platform

•  Single scale-up SMP system delivers –  Compute:

•  Up to 480 Intel Xeon™ cores (32 sockets) –  Memory:

•  Up to 24TB DRAM –  Non-volatile Memory:

•  Up to 128TB FLASH •  Up to 30 Million IOPs •  Up to 200GB/s

•  All in one rack •  No switches, no arrays, no problems •  Generic servers (e.g. Arcadia) can

work as well by scaling out IntelP3700400KIOPS2.4GB/s

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