Mark Seamans from SGI presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "As the trusted leader in high performance computing, SGI helps companies find answers to the world’s biggest challenges. Our commitment to innovation is unwavering and focused on delivering market leading solutions in Technical Computing, Big Data Analytics, and Petascale Storage. Our solutions provide unmatched performance, scalability and efficiency for a broad range of customers." Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-ff5 Learn more: http://www.sgi.com/ and http://hpcuserforum.com

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SGI Production Supercomputing
HPC User Forum Welcome
April 11, 2016

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Focus and Interest Areas
Workflow Accelera-on: Workflow accelera,on
through high-performance HPC, UV/HPDA integra,on
with Lustre-based data pools
Converged Storage and Compute: Flash-based
“TierZeroTM” high-performance storage with ac,ve
data management
System Up-me and Resilience: Automated
capabili,es for discovering and isola,ng component
faults to minimize down,me and costs

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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
Current Data Points:
• HPC and HPDA Convergence as Key Solu,on Requirements
• Consistent customer interest in the use of common ‘data lakes’ for data
access suppor,ng mul,ple uses

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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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Lustre Storage Environment
Infiniband
Infiniband
Infiniband
Lustre
HPC
Client
Lustre
HPC
Client
Infiniband
Infiniband
Lustre UV HPDA Client

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System Uptime and Resilience

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The Old Way The New World
HPC Performance
Measurement
GB/sec TB/sec
High-Performance
Storage Tier
Disk Flash &
3DXPoint
Capacity Storage
Tier
Tape Disk
(Tape for Resiliency Tier)
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 Intel P3700
400K IOPS
2.4GB/s

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