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The Tianhe-1A, sponsored by the National University of Defense Technology in China, is capable of | The Tianhe-1A, sponsored by the National University of Defense Technology in China, is capable of 4.701 petaFLOPS. It is comprised of 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia GP-GPUs. In addition to the Xeon and Nvidia chips, there are 2048 FeiTeng 1000 processors. | ||
All of these processors are contained in 112 computer cabinets, 12 storage cabinets, 6 communication cabinets, and 8 I/O cabinets. In each cabinet are 32 blades and a 16 port switch. | All of these processors are contained in 112 computer cabinets, 12 storage cabinets, 6 communication cabinets, and 8 I/O cabinets. In each computer cabinet are 32 blades and a 16 port switch. A single blade contains 2 computer nodes each containing 2 Xeon processors and 1 Nvidia GPU. This comes to a total of 3584 blades. These individual nodes are connected using a high-speed interconnect called Arch, which has a bandwidth of 160 Gbps. | ||
[[Maybe you could make a table of characteristics of these supercomputers ... you could use top500 as a starting point, and add more detailed info on architecture ... though that might be hard to obtain for some.]] | [[Maybe you could make a table of characteristics of these supercomputers ... you could use top500 as a starting point, and add more detailed info on architecture ... though that might be hard to obtain for some.]] | ||
Revision as of 17:08, 11 April 2012
Large-Scale Multiprocessor Examples
Some examples of large-scale multiprocessor systems include Fujitsu's K Computer, the Tianhe-1A from the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China, and [another example or two] How 'bout IBM's large systems--Blue Gene, etc.
K Computer
Made by Fujitsu, the K Computer consists of 88,128 processors between 864 cabinets. Each cabinet contains 96 nodes which, in turn, each contain one processor and 16 GBytes of memory. <ref name="kprocs"/>
The system is networked together via point-to-point, or direct, connection. <ref name="knetwork"/> What topology? Surely not 95^2 links!
The K Computer is not a distributed shared memory (DSM) machine in which the physically separate nodes are addressed as one logically shared address space. Instead, the K Computer utilizes a message passing interface (MPI), allowing the nodes to pass messages to one another as needed.
Tianhe-1A
The Tianhe-1A, sponsored by the National University of Defense Technology in China, is capable of 4.701 petaFLOPS. It is comprised of 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia GP-GPUs. In addition to the Xeon and Nvidia chips, there are 2048 FeiTeng 1000 processors.
All of these processors are contained in 112 computer cabinets, 12 storage cabinets, 6 communication cabinets, and 8 I/O cabinets. In each computer cabinet are 32 blades and a 16 port switch. A single blade contains 2 computer nodes each containing 2 Xeon processors and 1 Nvidia GPU. This comes to a total of 3584 blades. These individual nodes are connected using a high-speed interconnect called Arch, which has a bandwidth of 160 Gbps.
References
<references> <ref name="kprocs">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_computer</ref> <ref name="knetwork">http://www.riken.jp/engn/r-world/info/release/pamphlet/aics/pdf/2010_09.pdf</ref> </references>