Maximizing The Compute Power With Mellanox Infini Band
Maximizing The Compute Power With Mellanox Infini. Band Connectivity Gilad Shainer Wolfram Technology Conference 2006
Mellanox Technologies • A global leader in semiconductor solutions for server and storage connectivity INFINIBAND ADAPTERS • Leading provider of low-latency and high-bandwidth Infini. Band solutions SERVERS • Converges clustering, communications, management and storage onto a single link with Quality of Service 2 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The STORAGE
High Performance Computing Commodity Servers Off-the-Shelf Storage Industry Megatrend Mellanox Infini. Band Proprietary Systems • $1 M+ • Expensive to scale • Not flexible 3 Clusters • One-tenth the cost • Affordable to scale • Very flexible Infini. Band Clusters • Up to 40 X more performance • 1/10 latency • Scalable to 10, 000 s of connections • Flexible and easy to manage Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Increased Demand for Compute Power • Automotive $500 K per vehicle crash test (GM) Ø Design cycles reduced from 4 years to 18 months Ø • Digital Content Creation $90 M to produce “The Incredibles” Ø $630 M gross income Ø • Oil and Gas Exploration Ø Up to $4 B for offshore wells • Weather Forecasting 4 Ø Technologies $1 M per mile -to Mellanox Maximizing The
Mellanox Infini. Band Performance Bavarian Car-To-Car Model 1. 1 M elements, 145000 cycles Lower Is better • Infini. Band price/performance advantage increases with cluster size • Gigabit Ethernet becomes ineffective with cluster size 5 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Building High Performances Solution • Best price/performance servers Ø Ø PCI Express servers Low power multi-core HP c-Class Blade System CPUs • Best price/performance storage Ø High performance file system 20 Gb/s Infini. Band • Mellanox Infini. Band Ø Ø 6 Highest bandwidth, low latency, low CPU overhead Parallel direct access from compute nodes to storage Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Top 500 – Industry-wide Clustering Trends • List of the 500 most powerful computers Ø Published twice a year • Infini. Band deployments increase 33% from Nov 05 to Jun 06 Ø The only growing high speed interconnect solution • Three Top 10 high ranked industrystandard clusters use Infini. Band #4 NASA, 10 K Itanium-2 CPUs, 51. 8 TFlops (2004) Ø #6 Sandia National Laboratories, 4500 nodes, 9 K CPUs, 38. 2 TFlops (2005) Ø #7 Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1300 nodes, Ø 7 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Mellanox Increases The Compute Power • Reduces the high CPU processing overhead Ø Full transport offload, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) • Allows performance-hungry applications to fully utilize CPU resources Ø 8 Overlapping I/O communication with CPU computation cycles Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Mellanox Increases The Compute Power • Dramatically increases overall compute cluster efficiency Ø Eliminating memory bandwidth bottleneck (Zero-copy) … • Ensures I/O resource for multi-core systems Ø 9 20 Gb/s node to node (40 Gb/s, 2007) Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
A Unified Infini. Band Fabric • World-class performance • Simplified Management • Ultimate scalability • Optimal total cost of ownership 10 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Mellanox Cluster Center http: //www. mellanox. com/applications/clustercenter. php • Neptune cluster Ø Ø 32 Node, Dual core AMD Opteron CPUs • Helios cluster Ø Ø 32 node Dual core Intel Woodcrest CPUs • Utilizing “Fat Tree” network architecture (CBB) Ø Ø Non-blocking switch topology Non-blocking bandwidth • Infini. Band 20 Gb/s 11 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Air Pollution Simulation – The Problem • Technological innovations increases our need for energy and materials but also increase air pollutions • Worldwide air pollution is responsible for a large number of deaths and cases of respiratory disease Ø The World Health Organization estimates 4. 6 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution • Minimizing and managing the production of pollutants is critical to our environment 12 • Complex modeling and simulation requires a compute-intensive solution Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Air Pollution Simulation – The Solution • Personal supercomputing for scientific research, modeling and simulations • High speed, low latency and low CPU overhead Infini. Band interconnect • High performance low power multi-core CPUs • Powerful Wolfram grid. Mathematica supercomputing environment for developing solutions • Ease-of-use of Windows Compute Cluster Server operating system 13 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Air Pollution Simulation Performance Seconds • Maximum utilization, efficiency and scalability 14 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Summary • Wolfram grid. Mathematica with the performance of Mellanox Infini. Band • Powerful environment for rapidly developing solutions for computationally challenging problems 15 Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The
Q&A Gilad Shainer, shainer@mellanox. com “A leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high performance interconnect products”
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