State-of-the-art Storage Solutions

...and more than that.

Fabrizio MaguglianiEMEA HPC Business Development and Sales

fabrizio.magugliani@e4company.com

European AFS Workshop 2009

September 28th-30th 2009Department of Computer Science and Automation/University Roma Tre

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What does E4 Computer Engineering stand for ?

E4 = Engineering 4 (for) Computing

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E4 builds the solutions that accomplish the users’ requirements

Workstation (fluid-dynamics, video editing … )

Server (firewall, computing node, scientific apps …)

Storage (from small DB up to big data requirements)

SAN – Storage Area Network

HPC Cluster , GPU Cluster, Interconnect

Products and Services

3Wide – Reliable – Advanced

System config and optimization

Technology Partners

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www.e4company.com luca.oliva@e4company.com

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Customer References

Choosing the right computing node

•Form factor: [1U,7U]

•Socket: [1,2,4,8]

•Core: 4,6

•Memory size

•Accelerators (GPUs)

Architecture Non Uniform Memory Access

(AMD)

•Form factor: [1U,7U]

•Socket: [1,2,4]

•Core: 4,6

•Memory size

•Accelerators (GPUs)

Architecture Uniform Memory Access

(INTEL)

•Form factor: •Workstation (graphic) •Server rack-mount•Blade 6

Choosing the right accelerator

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Choosing and connecting the right accelerator

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Choosing the right accelerator: Tesla S1070 Architecture

PowerSupply

ThermalManagement

System Monitoring

PCIe x16

Gen2 Switch PCI Express

Cables to Host

System(s)

PCIe x16 Gen2

PCIe x16 Gen2

TeslaGPU

4GB GDDR3DRAM

TeslaGPU

4GB GDDR3DRAM

PCIe x16

Gen2 Switch

TeslaGPU

4GB GDDR3DRAM

TeslaGPU

4GB GDDR3DRAM

Multiplexes PCIe bus between 2

GPUs

Each 2 GPU sub-system

can be connected to

a different host

10© NVIDIA Corporation 2008

800 GFLOPS on 16 GPUs~ 99% Scaling

Choosing the right accelerator: performance

Choosing the right interconnection technologies

• Gigabit Ethernet entry level on every solution. Ideal solution for codes with low interprocess communication requirements

• InfiniBand DDR 20 + 20 Gb/s, integrable on motherboard (first cluster InfiniBand 2005, Caspur)

• 10 Gb/s Ethernet

• Quadrics

• Myrinet

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  1 GbE 10 GbE10 GbE RDMA

(Chelsio)IB DDR

(InfiniHost)IB QDR

(ConnectX)

Latency (microsecondi) 50 50 10 2,5 1,2

Bandwith (MB/s) 112 350 875 1500 3000Bisectional Bandwith 

(MB/S) 175 500   2900 5900

Interconnect

• Gigabit Ethernet: Ideal solution for applications requiring moderate bandwidth among processes

•Infiniband DDR 20 + 20 Gb/s motherboard-based. Infinipath on HTX slot, tested with latencies less than 2 microseconds.

• Myrinet, Quadrics

Choosing the right Storage

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HD section 200-400 MB/s

Storage type

Performance

Disk Server-EHT300-800 MB/s

SAN - FCUp to 1 GB/s

HPC storage350-600 MB/s per each chassisETH interface

HPC storage6 GB/s – FC, IB interfaceStorage space of PB - DataDirect

Storage

• Disk subassembly

•Disk Server SATA /SAS

•Storage SAS / SAS

•Ideal for HPC applications, ethernet i/f

• Ideal for HPC applications, FC/IB i/f

Interface Performance

Ctrl RAID PCI-Ex

ETH

FC ETH

InfiniBand FC

ETH

200MB/s

300 – 800 MB/s

Up to 1 GB/s

Up to 3 GB/s

500 MB/s per chassis

Storage Server

• high flexibility, low power consumption solution engineered by E4 for high bandwidth requirements.

•COTS-based (2 CPU INTEL Nehalem)

•RAM can be configured according to the users’ requirements (up to 144GB DDR3)

•Controller SAS/SATA multi lane

•48 TB in 4U

• 1GbE (n via trunking), 10GbE, Infiniband DDR/QDR

•374 units installed at CERN (Geneva), 70 in several customers

HPC Storage Systems

Data Direct Network PANASAS Cluster Storage

• Interface: FC / IB

•Performance: up to 6GB/s

•560TB per Storage System

•Ideal areas:•Real time data acquisition•Simulation•Biomedicine, Genomics•Oil & Gas•Rich media•Finance

•Clustered storage system based on Panasas File System

•Parallel

•Asynchronous

•Object-based

•Snapshot

•Interface : 4x1GbE, 1x10GbE, IB (router)

•Performace (x shelf)

•500 – 600 MB/s up to 100s GB/S (sequential)

•20 TB per shelf, 200TB/rack, up to PBs

•SSD (optimal for random I/O)

HPC Storage Systems

File Systems

• NFS

•lustre

•GPFS

•panasas

•AFS

Storage Area Network

•E4 is Qlogic Signature Partner

•Latest technology

•Based on high performance I/F Fibre Channel 4+ 4 Gb multipath

•HA

•Failover for mission critical applicationss (finance, biomedics..)

•Oracle RAC

•Reliability: basic requirement, guaranteed by E4’s production cycle

•Selection of quality components

•Production process taken care of in every detail

•Burn-in to prevent infantile mortality of the component

•At least 72h accelerated stress test in a room with high temperature (35C)

•24h individual test of each sub-system

•48h simultaneous test of each sub-system

System’s validation - Rigid quality procedure

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•OS installation to prevent HW/SW incompatibility

Case Histories

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Case History – Oracle RAC http://www.oracle.com/global/it/customers/pdf/snapshot_gruppodarco_e4.pdf

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Case History – INTEL cluster @ Enginsoft

May 2007 INTEL Infinicluster

• 96 computing nodes Intel quad core 2,66GHz 4 TFLOPS

• 1,5 TB RAM• Interconnection: Infiniband

4x DDR 20Gbps• 30 TB Storage FC• Application’s fields:

Computer Aided Engineering

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Case History – CERN computing servers 1U

• Server 1U with high computing capacity

• Application’s field: Educational, academic research

• Customer: CERN (Geneva), main national computing and research centres

• 2005• 415 nodes dual Xeon® 2,8Ghz• 4,6 TFLOPS

• 2006• 250 nodes Xeon® Woodcrest 3GHz• 6 TFLOPS• 2 TB RAM

• System installed up to July ’08 : over 3000 units

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Case History – AMD cluster @ CASPUR

June 2005 AMD Infinicluster

• 24 computing nodes Opteron dual core 2,4GHz, 460GFLOPS

• 192GB RAM• Interconnection Infiniband• Expanded at 64 nodes: 1,2

TFLOPS, 512GB RAM

2004 Cluster SLACSCluster SLACS

• 24 computing nodes Opteron, 200GFLOPS

• 128GB RAM

• Managed by CASPUR on behalf of Sardinian LAboratory for Computational materials Science, l'INFM (Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia)

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Case History – CRS4 Cluster 96 core

February 2005

• 96 computing nodes Opteron Dual core, 384 GFLOPS

• 192 GB RAM in total

• Application’s fields :• environmental sciences• Renewable energy, fuel

cell• bioinformatics

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Case History – Cluster HPC Myrinet 2005

Cluster HPC interconnection Myrinet

• 16 computing nodes dual Intel® Xeon® 3.2 GHz

• High speed interconnetcion Myrinet

• Storage SCSI to SATA 5 TB

• Monitor KVM

• 2 switch Ethernet 24 ports layer 3

Application’s fields : Educational, research

Customer : ICAR CNR of Palermo

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12 Computes Nodes96 core - 24 CPU INTEL “Nehalem” 5520

GFLOPS(peak): 920RAM: 288 GB

6 GPU server nVIDIA S107024 GPU TESLA5760 core singola precisione 720 core doppia precisioneGLOPS(peak): 24000 (24 TFLOPS)

Case History – CNR/ICAR

Hybryd Cluster (CPU + GPU)

1 Front end Node

48-port Gb Ethernet Switch 

24-port Infiniband 20Gb/s Switch

Case History – CNR/ICAR

Hybryd Cluster (CPU + GPU)

Hybrid cluster CPU/GPU – ICAR CNR Cosenza - ALEPH

Case History – CNR/ICAR

Case History – EPFL

E4: The right partner for HPC

Questions?

Feel free to contact me:

Fabrizio Maguglianifabrizio.magugliani@e4company.com+39 346 9424605

Thank you!

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