Contemporary High Performance Computing

Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale focuses on the ecosystems surrounding the world's leading centers for high performance computing (HPC). It covers many of the important factors involved in each ecosystem: computer architectures, software, applications, facilities, and sponsors.

The first part of the book examines significant trends in HPC systems, including computer architectures, applications, performance, and software. It discusses the growth from terascale to petascale computing and the influence of the TOP500 and Green500 lists. The second part of the book provides a comprehensive overview of 18 HPC ecosystems from around the world. Each chapter in this section describes programmatic motivation for HPC and their important applications; a flagship HPC system overview covering computer architecture, system software, programming systems, storage, visualization, and analytics support; and an overview of their data center/facility. The last part of the book addresses the role of clouds and grids in HPC, including chapters on the Magellan, FutureGrid, and LLGrid projects.

With contributions from top researchers directly involved in designing, deploying, and using these supercomputing systems, this book captures a global picture of the state of the art in HPC.

Auteur

Jeffrey S. Vetter holds a joint appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). At ORNL, he is a Distinguished R&D Staff member and the founding Group Leader of the Future Technologies Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. At Georgia Tech, Dr. Vetter is a professor in the Computational Science and Engineering School of the College of Computing, the principal investigator for the NSF Track 2D Experimental Computing Facility (Keeneland), and the director of the NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech. A Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist member of the ACM, Dr. Vetter has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers and has been a recipient of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize. His current research explores the role of emerging technologies in high performance computing.

Résumé
Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale focuses on the ecosystems surrounding the world's leading centers for high performance computing (HPC). It covers many of the important factors involved in each ecosystem: computer architectures, software, applications, facilities, and sponsors.The first part of the book examines significant trends in HPC systems, including computer architectures, applications, performance, and software. It discusses the growth from terascale to petascale computing and the influence of the TOP500 and Green500 lists. The second part of the book provides a comprehensive overview of 18 HPC ecosystems from around the world. Each chapter in this section describes programmatic motivation for HPC and their important applications; a flagship HPC system overview covering computer architecture, system software, programming systems, storage, visualization, and analytics support; and an overview of their data center/facility. The last part of the book addresses the role of clouds and grids in HPC, including chapters on the Magellan, FutureGrid, and LLGrid projects.With contributions from top researchers directly involved in designing, deploying, and using these supercomputing systems, this book captures a global picture of the state of the art in HPC.

Contenu

Trends in HPC
Contemporary High Performance Computing, *Jeffrey S. Vetter

• HPC Challenge: Design, History, and Implementation Highlights, *Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek

The Green500 List: A Look Back to Look Forward, *Wu-chun Feng, Kirk Cameron, and Thomas Scogland

• Contemporary HPC
  Tera 100, *Mickael Amiet, Patrick Carribault, Elisabeth Charon and Guillaume Colin de Verdiere, Philippe Deniel, and Gilles Grospellier

The Mole-8.5 Supercomputing System, *Xiaowei Wang and Wei Ge

• Supercomputing in the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, *John E. West, Roy L. Campbell, and Larry P. Davis

Keeneland: Computational Science using Heterogeneous GPU Computing, *Jeffrey S. Vetter, Richard Glassbrook, Karsten Schwan, Sudha Yalamanchili, Mitch Horton, Ada Gavrilovska, Magda Slawinska, Jack Dongarra, Jeremy Meredith, Philip C. Roth, Kyle Spafford, Stanimire Tomov, and John Wynkoop

• Blue Gene/P: JUGENE, *Norbert Attig, Jutta Docter, Wolfgang Frings, Johannes Grotendorst, Inge Gutheil, Florian Janetzko, Olaf Mextorf, Bernd Mohr, Michael Stephan, Klaus Wollkersdorfer, Lothar Wollschlager, Stefan Krieg, and Thomas Lippert

Roadrunner: The Dawn of Accelerated Computing, *Sriram Swaminarayan

• Blue Gene/Q: Sequoia and Mira, *Bill Allcock, Anna Maria Bailey, Ray Bair, Charles Bacon, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Adam Bertsch, Barna Bihari, Brian Carnes, Dong Chen, George Chiu, Richard Coffey, Susan Coghlan, Paul Coteus, Kim Cupps, Erik W. Draeger, Thomas W. Fox, Larry Fried, Mark Gary, Jim Glosli, Thomas Gooding, John Gunnels, John Gyllenhaal, Jeff Hammond, Ruud Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Mark Hereld, Todd Inglett, K.H. Kim, Kalyan Kumaran, Steve Langer, Amith Mamidala, Rose McCallen, Paul Messina, Sam Miller, Art Mirin, Vitali Morozov, Fady Najjar, Mike Nelson, Albert Nichols, Martin Ohmacht, Michael E. Papka, Fabrizio Petrini, Terri Quinn, David Richards, Nichols A. Romero, Kyung Dong Ryu, Andy Schram, Rob Shearer, Tom Spelce, Becky Springmeyer, Fred Streitz, Bronis de Supinski, Pavlos Vranas, Bob Walkup, Amy Wang, Timothy Williams, and Robert Wisniewski

"Lomonosov": Supercomputing at Moscow State University, *Victor Sadovnichy, Alexander Tikhonravov, Vsevolod Opanasenko, and Vladimir Voevodin

• Pleiades: NASA's First Petascale Supercomputer, *Rupak Biswas, William Thigpen, Robert Hood, Robert Ciotti, Piyush Mehrotra, Chris Henze, John Parks, and Bryan Biegel

The Blue Waters Super-System for Super-Science, *Brett Bode, Michelle Butler, Thom Dunning, William Gropp, Torsten Hoefler, Wen-mei Hwu, and William Kramer

• Kraken: The First Academic Petaflop Computer, *Mark R. Fahey, Lonnie D. Crosby, Gary L. Rogers, and Victor G. Hazlewood

Titan: 20-Petaflop Cray XK6 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, *Arthur Bland, Wayne Joubert, Don Maxwell, Norbert Podhorszki, Jim Rogers, Galen Shipman, and Arnold Tharrington

• Blacklight: Coherent Shared Memory for Enabling Science, *Nick Nystrom, Eng Lim Goh, Phil Blood, and Joel Welling

Gordon: A Novel Architecture for Data-Intensive Computing, *Pietro Cicotti, Michael Norman, Robert Sinkovits, Allan Snavely, and Shawn Strande

• Monte Rosa: Architectural Features and a Path toward Exascale, *Sadaf R Alam, Gilles Fourestey, Maria Grazia Giuffreda, and Colin McMurtrie

Tianhe-1A Supercomputer: System and Application, *Xiangke Liao, Yutong Lu, and Min Xie

• TSUBAME2.0: The First Petascale Supercomputer in Japan, *Satoshi Matsuoka, Takayuki Aoki, Toshio Endo, Hitoshi Sato, Shin'ichiro Takizawa, Akihiko Nomura, and Kento Sato

HA-PACS, *Taisuke Boku, Toshihiro Hanawa, Yoshinobu Kuramashi, Kohji Yoshikawa, Mitsuo Shoji, Yuetsu Kodama, Mitsuhisa Sato, and Masayuki Umemura

• Clouds and Grids in HPC
  Magellan: A Testbed to Explore Cloud Computing for Science, *Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Adam Scovel, Iwona Sakrejda, Susan Coghlan, Shane Canon, Anping Liu, Devarshi Ghoshal, Krishna Muriki, and Nicholas J. Wright

FutureGrid: A Reconfigurable Testbed for Cloud, HPC, and Grid Computing, *Geoffrey C. Fox, Gregor von Laszewski, Javier Diaz, Kate Keahey, Jose Fortes, Renato Figueiredo, Shava Smallen, Warren Smith, and Andrew Grimshaw

• LLGrid: Supercomputer for Sensor Processing, *Jeremy Kepner, William Arcand, Nadya Bliss…