High Performance Computing Accelerators AcceleratorPublic_Nov07_v11

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• Coordination with 3rd-party hardware and software futures • Promoting open standards for programming and interfaces

Delivery
• Order fulfillment, factory integration, and delivery • Options on top of Unified Cluster Portfolio
• FPGAs
(field programmable gate arrays)
• Celoxica in HTX slot • Nallatech and Maxeler on PCIe • XDI, DRC, and Nallatech in processor slots
• ClearSpeed
• FPGAs
(field programmable gate arrays) compiler and tools
• Mitrionics, Celoxica
• ClearSpeed
Qualified Accelerators
as of SC07 (November 2007)

Celoxica RCHTX
HPC Accelerator Program Features

BladeSystem and ProLiant engineering
• Faster slots (dual PCIe G2 x16), hotter slots (over 200 watts!), BIOS support • Advanced interfaces
Technology for better business outcomes
© 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice
Bioscience
• Genetic sequencing and chemistry
Government
• Searching and encryption engines
Digital Content Creation
• Movie animation
Scientific research
• Galaxy simulation
Challenges for HPC Accelerators
Growth and scalability Cost and efficiency Mitigating risk
Demand for computing cycles is growing dramatically while clock cycles speeds are heat limited. Need to support new heterogeneous architectures. Standards based economies drive down cost and raise performance for high-volume accelerator parts. Accelerators maximize results per dollar, watt, and sq.ft. HP HPC Accelerator Catalyst for Innovation engineering: Trusted partner for research, benchmarking, and expertise to navigate through emerging technologies. Qualified in proven BladeSystem and ProLiant servers; optimized for a choice of 3rd-party accelerators.
• Innovative parallel programming partners
• From RapidMind, Mitrionics, NVIDIA, and AMD
• Mitigate risks
• Qualified and delivered by HP in BladeSystem and ProLiant servers • Time-proven HP research, expertise, delivery, and choice
Research and trusted advice
• HPCD Catalyst for Innovation Accelerator team of experts • Benchmarking, testing, and research for trusted advice
• Help navigate through rapidly emerging technology
• Fast-hot PCIe, HTX, HT-socket, FSB-socket, QuickPath-socket, DIMM
• Qualification of range of 3rd-party accelerators
• Compatibility, space, heat, electrical, BIOS, software, benchmarking •
(custom SIMD ASIC)
• ClearSpeed e620 on PCIe
Example Software and Tools
(not all yet qualified or shipping)
• GPGPUs
(graphics processing units)
• NVIDIA CUDA (C-like) • ATI Brook+ (C-like) • RapidMind (C++ methods)
High Performance Computing Accelerators
Advancing innovation through high-productivity computing
20 minute summary November 2007 R. Kent Koeninger Product and Technology Marketing HP High Performance Computing Division
Where are accelerators working?
• • • • • • •
Oil and Gas (O&G)
• Seismic processing
Financial Services (FSI banks)
• Automated option pricing and trading
• Enable high-volume accelerators in high-volume servers
• Standards based economies driving innovation, price, and performance
• Leverage highly parallel accelerator technologies
• DL145 G3

ClearSpeed on PCIe
• DL160, DL140, DL380 • Dual e620s in c-Class BladeSystem BL460c or BL465c sidecar

NVIDIA
• XW8400 or XW9400 with NVIDIA FX4600
• Graphics engines à Highly parallel GPGPU compute engines • FPGAsà Highly parallel custom logic: E.g., Celoxica • ClearSpeed SIMD à Many functional units with simple control
• • Time proven confidence HP expertise, integration, and reliability
• • HP HPC Accelerator Catalyst for Innovation expertise Navigate through emerging accelerator technologies
• • High volume BladeSystem and ProLiant servers High volume graphics accelerator and FPGA parts

Simplify choices: qualified solutions
• Mitigate risks

• Significant programming efforts
Big payoff for a select set of qualified applications • Rapidly volving technology

• Features and peformance advancing at a rapid pace • Many new languages and accelerators in the last year alone
Challenges for Improving Time to Outcome
• Goals: 10x (or more) faster time to breakthrough outcomes
• 1/10th space, power, and price