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BlueGene/L Supercomputer

BlueGene/L Supercomputer . George Chiu IBM Research. BlueGene/L. 512 Way BG/L Prototype. BlueGene/L Interconnection Networks. 3 Dimensional Torus Interconnects all compute nodes (65,536) Virtual cut-through hardware routing 1.4Gb/s on all 12 node links (2.1 GB/s per node)

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BlueGene/L Supercomputer

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  1. BlueGene/L Supercomputer George Chiu IBM Research

  2. BlueGene/L

  3. 512 Way BG/L Prototype

  4. BlueGene/L Interconnection Networks 3 Dimensional Torus • Interconnects all compute nodes (65,536) • Virtual cut-through hardware routing • 1.4Gb/s on all 12 node links (2.1 GB/s per node) • Communications backbone for computations • 0.7/1.4 Tb/s bisection bandwidth, 67TB/s total bandwidth Global Tree • One-to-all broadcast functionality • Reduction operations functionality • 2.8 Gb/s of bandwidth per link • Latency of tree traversal 2.5 µs • ~23TB/s total binary tree bandwidth (64k machine) • Interconnects all compute and I/O nodes (1024) Ethernet • Incorporated into every node ASIC • Active in the I/O nodes (1:64) • All external comm. (file I/O, control, user interaction, etc.)

  5. Complete BlueGene/L System at LLNL BG/L I/O nodes 1,024 WAN 48 visualization 64 archive 128 BG/L compute nodes 65,536 Federated Gigabit Ethernet Switch 2,048 ports CWFS 1024 512 Front-end nodes 8 Service node 8 8 Control network

  6. Summary of performance results • DGEMM: • 92.3% of dual core peak on 1 node • Observed performance at 500 MHz: 3.7 GFlops • Projected performance at 700 MHz: 5.2 GFlops (tested in lab up to 650 MHz) • LINPACK: • 77% of peak on 1 node • 70% of peak on 512 nodes (1435 GFlops at 500 MHz) • sPPM, UMT2000: • Single processor performance roughly on par with POWER3 at 375 MHz • Tested on up to 128 nodes (also NAS Parallel Benchmarks) • FFT: • Up to 508 MFlops on single processor at 444 MHz (TU Vienna) • Pseudo-ops performance (5N log N) @ 700 MHz of 1300 Mflops (65% of peak) • STREAM – impressive results even at 444 MHz: • Tuned: Copy: 2.4 GB/s, Scale: 2.1 GB/s, Add: 1.8 GB/s, Triad: 1.9 GB/s • Standard: Copy: 1.2 GB/s, Scale: 1.1 GB/s, Add: 1.2 GB/s, Triad: 1.2 GB/s • At 700 MHz: Would beat STREAM numbers for most high end microprocessors • MPI: • Latency – < 4000 cycles (5.5 ls at 700 MHz) • Bandwidth – full link bandwidth demonstrated on up to 6 links

  7. Applications • BG/L is a general purpose technical supercomputer • N-body simulation • molecular dynamics (classical and quantum) • plasma physics • stellar dynamics for star clusters, galaxies • Complex multiphysics code • Computational Fluid Dynamics (weather, climate, sPPM...) • Accretion • Raleigh-Jeans instability • planetary formation and evolution • radiative transport • Magnetohydrodynamics • Modeling thermonuclear events in/on astrophysical objects • neutron stars • white dwarfs • supernovae • Radiotelescope • FFT

  8. Summary • Embedded technology promises to be an efficient path toward building massively parallel computers optimized at the system level. • Cost/performance is ~20x better than standard methods to get to TFlops. • Low Power is critical to achieving a dense, simple, inexpensive packaging solution. • Blue Gene/L will have a scientific reach far beyond existing limits for a large class of important scientific problems. • Blue Gene/L will give insight into possible future product directions. • Blue Gene/L hardware will be quite flexible. A mature, sophisticated software environment needs to be developed to really determine the reach (both scientific and commercial) of this architecture.

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