On archer, we use cray performance analysis tools craypat to analyse the performance of um and then cray reveal to identify and parallelise serial loops. Because the ungrib program requires modules from these files, they are not suitable for usage with a traditional library. It incorporates intel processors and the nextgeneration aries interconnect, which uses a dragonfly topology instead of a torus. In the case of the piz daint cray xc30 machine power supply is different for the following three component sets. The cray software stack includes a high performance mpi implementation as well as the cray shmem api. The darter supercomputer originally funded by the university of tennessee to study cutting edge computing technologies. Any bug fixes will appear in the nightly build version on the download site. Download the new report from that explores why a hpc solution may be the right. The railway technical research institute rtri will install five xc50 cabinets and a 720tb cray clusterstor l300 for storage to gain insights on rail transportation. Guideposts that lead you from one question to the next to the next. Through technology codevelopment efforts that were validated on the cray xc30 system nicknamed edison at nersc, the craynersc collaboration brings docker container capabilities to largescale supercomputing. Measurement and interpretation of micro benchmark and application energy use on the cray xc30 brian austin, and nicholas j. The cray xc40 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by cray.
This is mainly a hmc implementation including phmc and rhmc for wilson, wilson clover and wilson twisted mass fermions and inverter for different versions of the dirac operator. Hpc means business in cray xc30a supercomputer debut. Key elements of the cray xc30 are designed to minimize timetosolution for large problems the choice of. Yokohama city university has selected the aircooled xc50ac for life sciences research. Service nodes this is the node you access when you first log in to the system. This licensing information is also provided as a pdf file along with the documentation. Pdf performance analysis and optimisation of the met.
We have measured the sensitivity of energy use to cpu frequency for several microbenchmarks. Architecture overview by nathan wikmann cray get up to speed with cray xc30 piz daint, 1114 march 20 course organized by swiss national supercomputing centre cscs, lugano. Edison has three lustre file systems deploying the. Cray xc30 routing 24 s m d with adaptive routing we select between minimal and nonminimal paths based on load the cray xc30 class2 group has sufficient bandwidth to support full injection rate for all 384 nodes with nonminimal routing m minimal routes between any two nodes in a group are just two hops nonminimal route requires up to four hops. New cray xc50 delivers 1 petaflop per cabinet insidehpc. The code is fully parallelised and ships with optimisations for various modern architectures, such as. Using 1 cpu per compute unit means a maximum of 24 pes per node. The file sy stem for the cray xc30 platform at cscs is.
It a distributed memory system built from thousands of individual sharedmemory nodes. Cscs is currently upgrading its cray xc30 supercomputer nicknamed piz daint to a cray xc50 system, and will combine it with the centres cray xc40 supercomputer nicknamed piz dora. Any documentation updates will appear in the nightly build users guide online or 5. It consists of intel xeon processors, with optional nvidia tesla or xeon phi accelerators, connected together by cray s proprietary aries interconnect, stored in aircooled or liquidcooled cabinets. The cray xc30 system is a distributed memory supercomputer developed as part of crays participation in the defense advanced research project agencys darpa high productivity computing system hpcs program. Network topology adaptation for cray xexk and ibm blue geneq. Xc systems remove barriers to discovery because theyre designed for it. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Mpi on the cray xc30 aaron vose 4152014 many thanks to crays nick radcliffe and nathan wichmann for slide ideas.
Performance analysis and optimisation of the met unified model on. Cray 2, the cray t3e900, and more recently hopper, one of the first xe6 systems. At the time of writing this is the largest such system worldwide and hence the systemlevel challenges of this latest generation cray platform will be of interest to other sites. Io performance on cray xc30 zhengji zhao1, doug petesch2, david knaak2, and tina declerck1 1 national energy research scientific center, berkeley, ca 2 cray, inc. Cray has a new supercomputer called the xc50, the successor to its xc40 model and the first supercomputer from the company that can deliver one petaflop of performance at peak in a. Cray xc30 intel linux intel cray xe amd linux intel ibm power series aix vendor ibm intel linux intel pgi gfortran. Scaling and performance efficiencies of applications. Each liquidcooled cabinet can contain up to 48 blades, each with eight cpu sockets, and uses 90 kw of power. View and download jvc pc xc30 service manual online. She specializes in supporting materials science and chemistry applications and users at nersc. This package provides a bsd licensed fortran 2008 module with erfz, where z is a complex argument. While the original study was a strong scaling analysis, for illustrative purposes were going to assume that the umt and minife benchmarks were run at.
She was part of the nersc7 edison, a cray xc30 procurement, coleading its implementation team. Ancillary programs that perform file parsing and file construction, both of which are required for default building of the wrf modeling code, are written in c. Our initial evaluation on a cray xc30 and on an infiniband cluster indicates that performance is hampered by the interaction with lustre. It consists of intel xeon processors, with optional nvidia tesla or xeon phi accelerators, connected together by crays proprietary aries interconnect, stored in aircooled or liquidcooled cabinets. Cray brings top supercomputer tech to businesses for a. As part of the cray networking environment for the cray xc30, the aries interconnect and related software stack have been optimized for parallel computing environments. Capable of sustained multipetaflops performance, the xc30 systems hybrid. Cray awarded contract to expand the xc30 supercomputer at.
They run a full version of the cle operating system all libraries and tools available they are used for editing files, compiling code, submitting jobs to the batch queue and other interactive tasks. View and download jvc pcxc30 service manual online. This is their third cray machine after acquiring an xc30 and cs300, both in 20. First experiences with validating and using the cray. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Cray readies xc30 supers for ivy bridge and coprocessors.
Plex releases media server app dash, and plexamp player for windows, mobile, macos and linux. There are two basic types of nodes in any cray xc30. It consists of intel xeon processors, with optional nvidia tesla or xeon phi. Oob collection of total node power and energy at the blade level. Performance analysis and optimisation of the met unified model on a cray xc30. Cray xk7 16 y x z xk7 compute node characteristics host processor amd series 6200 interlagos. Now funded by nsf and is part of the xsede program.
Measurement and interpretation of micro benchmark and. Performance analysis and optimisation of met office unified model on a cray xc30. List rank system vendor total cores rmax tflops rpeak tflops power kw 112019. Supercomputer operating systems, cray xc series cray. Initial experiences with deploying singularity on a cray. The cray xc30 system is a distributed memory supercomputer developed as part of cray s participation in the defense advanced research project agencys darpa high productivity computing system hpcs program. Aggregate bandwidth by scattering different files over nodes. The whole environment is included in one virtualbox virtual disk image, and users can use it immediately by. Dwd applications on cray xc30 and beyond elisabeth krenzien technical infrastructure ulrich schattler numerical modeling, cosmo. The cray xc30 is a massively parallel processor mpp supercomputer design. August 29, 2014 abstract understanding patterns of application energy use is key to reaching future hpc eciency goals. Hipgisaxs has been successfully tested on the following platforms. The cray xc30 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by cray. It is therefore built from many thousands of individual nodes.
What better place to use the new vintage computing theme than in napa valley where the cray user group meeting took place on. Cray xc software to feature docker container capabilities. This session introduces the cray xc30, a brand new supercomputer architecture that builds upon crays highly successful previous generation of mpp. The calculation is based on calculating wz, the faddeyeva plasma dispersion function. The xc30 is the first allnew cray design since red storm. The weighted geometric mean can be easily calculated in a spreadsheet using the following form. Zhengji zhao, doug petesch, david knaak, and tina declerck, io performance on cray xc30, cray user group meeting, may 4, 2014, download file. Zhengji zhao is a high performance computing hpc consultant at nersc 2007.
Some basic examples 12 assuming xc30 nodes with 2x12 core ivybridge processors each node has. It consists of intel haswell xeon processors, with optional nvidia tesla or intel xeon phi accelerators, connected together by crays proprietary aries interconnect, stored in aircooled or liquidcooled cabinets. The cray xc supercomputer series is a massively parallel processing architecture designed to handle a broad range of compute problems. Hot on the heels of the 20petaflops cray titan supercomputer, the recentlycrowned worlds fastest supercomputer, cray has announced the xc30 architecture, which will allow for the creation of. Ubuntu, red hat linux, suse linux, cray linux environment xk7, xe6, xc30, xc40.
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