Exploring the Fringe of the Virtual Age - Greg Scantlen, CEO

EVOLVE.

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25+ Years in HPC

2012

2007 1986

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Evolution to Virtual Workspace

Stelletto (Compute) (Abstract to Instrument)

+ VR-Grotto (Virtualization)

+ Communications API (Distributed Compute+Vis)

= Scorpii (Interactive Virtual Workspace)

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CreativeC’s Product Develop Cycle

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Compute

Visualize

Interact

Evolve

Develop

• Timeline

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Supercomputing 2008 (SC08) 5 GPUs 1TF SP NBODY + NanoTube 3D Stereo

Stereoscopic Computational Microscope

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SC09 “Stella” ConSTELLAtion 4.5TF SP NBODY SIM

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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTE Custom Modular Cases Tesla Partner, nine C1060 GPUs TRIAD IB Network Communications

SC09 Booth

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Do you think GPUs will be important? WHAT CAN I RUN ON IT? HOW MANY PROJECTORS?

LAMMPS WorkShop Feb 2010

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Stella modified with 60” Stereoscopic Display for Group Viewing of MD Combined presentation with Axel Kohlmeyer

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Philly Science Festival April 2011

(Photos courtesy of Darryl W. Moran for the Philadelphia Science Festival)

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SC11 Stelletto “Titan-like” Configuration

8x 16Core CPU

4x Fermi GPUs

40Gbps IB

3D Stereo Display

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Stelletto Configurations • 2x AMD Quad Socket

Interlagos • 4x PCIe 2.0 GPUs • QDR InfiniBand

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• 2x Intel Dual Socket Sandy Bridge

• 6x PCIe 3.0 GPUs • FDR InfiniBand

Hardware Comparison using LAMMPS

• Classical Molecular Dynamics simulation code

• Scales well on many nodes, used on simple workstation as well as 100K core systems

• One of the six main applications for Titan, GPU based successor of Jaguar

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Compute Communications

Communications vs Compute Intense LAMMPS Simulations

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Conclusions • Code is the problem, Stelletto CDP is our solution

• Agility means Small to Large, Bottom Up Design

• Quickly Configure Rapidly Changing Architectures

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Desirable Features • Quiet enough for office use

• Standard power using wall receptacles

• Full HPC capability in portable package

Facilitate Science and Engineering • Compliment HPC Development Systems and/or Code

• MD Script Development

• Low Node Count Production Runs

MedeA Instrument

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Compute evolved Instrument

Future Technology Challenges & Opportunities

1. New generation of GPU/GPGPU specialized not general purpose

2. API Library

3. Supercomputer – refresh takes time, money, planning

4. Portability

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Conclusions • Massively Parallel Computing is tomorrow’s HPC

• Agility means Small to Large, Bottom Up Design

• Quickly Configure Rapidly Changing Architectures

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Desirable Features • Quiet enough for office use

• Standard power using wall receptacles

• Full HPC capability in portable package

• Low Node Count Production Runs

• Compute Faster!!!

Best Value Proposition

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K5000 now allows up to 16 Screens in “Stelletto” Custom Case

VSMM – Paper Submission

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VR-Grotto Original Configuration

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Was 4, Now up to 16 screens

Cyber Archeology - Point Cloud Tour

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VR-Grotto SfM

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Scorpii

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6 GPUs, 9 Screens, >250K threads, 18M Pixels, ?Stereo

• Library for Scorpii

• Combines a huge library of GPU compute functions for math, image processing, signal processing, finance, oil & gas, genomics, and more

• With functions for scientific visualizations Uses CUDA + OpenGL

Platform

Visualizations

Example App

Evolution to Virtual Workspace

Stelletto (Compute) (Abstract to Instrument)

+ VR-Grotto (Visualization)

+ Communications API (Distributed Compute+Vis)

= Scorpii (Interactive Virtual Workspace)

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Thank You

• Pass around ArrayFire iPad Demo

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