Along the lines of interesting - but not particularly surprising - trends in the industry, we notice that the NCSA has recently endorsed the continuing evolution of HPC workloads towards a Linux base.
Check out the NCSA article titled: "Linux selected as operating system for Blue Waters".
This is particularly encouraging for not only the operating system and in our case the POWER7 platform, but also for the various software stack products that are being developed, improved, enhanced, and deployed in high-demand HPC environments across many industries.
Massive HPC clusters on the scale of projects like Blue Waters are exciting just looking at all of the technologies being worked on. There's a nice Blue Waters project newsletter available which shows the breadth of activities happening around this project.
One of our real-life challenges is to improve the whole food-chain of software products which enable easier deployment of HPC applications on the Linux base and the POWER7 platform. Collaborative projects like the Blue BioU project can provide an expanding community of Linux HPC users access to open-source based POWER7 clusters.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
IBM donates Linux-based POWER7 super-computer
Rice University has deployed a sweet POWER7 based cluster based on Linux. The brand new IBM 750 systems in the cluster are based on Linux, Maui, Torque, openmpi, Infiniband, 10Gb Ethernet, the Advance Toolchain, IBM compilers and IBM's ESSL math libraries.
Check out http://bluebiou.rice.edu/.
Over the coming weeks, we'll describe numerous collaborative efforts underway to develop, deploy, leverage, and execute workloads on the cluster.
One of the exciting aspects of the project is the team at Rice University is well versed in managing and deploying open-source-based production-level HPC clusters used by hundreds of students and researchers.
The initial goal is to integrate the cluster into an existing Maui/Torque infrastructure deployed and in use at Rice University. Extending the infrastructure to allow researchers control of POWER7 SMT hardware threads on each node, the number of 16MB huge pages if desired, energy optimization techniques, and POWER tuning techniques.
Check out http://bluebiou.rice.edu/.
Over the coming weeks, we'll describe numerous collaborative efforts underway to develop, deploy, leverage, and execute workloads on the cluster.
One of the exciting aspects of the project is the team at Rice University is well versed in managing and deploying open-source-based production-level HPC clusters used by hundreds of students and researchers.
The initial goal is to integrate the cluster into an existing Maui/Torque infrastructure deployed and in use at Rice University. Extending the infrastructure to allow researchers control of POWER7 SMT hardware threads on each node, the number of 16MB huge pages if desired, energy optimization techniques, and POWER tuning techniques.
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