OpenPOWER Supercomputing Recap Day Two: Innovating Across the Stack
- 1. SC15 AUSTIN,TEXAS INNOVATION ACROSS THE STACK DRIVES PERFORMANCE. A recap of Day Two at SC15
- 2. Day Two at a glance, brought to you by Day Two at SC15 covered several themes: Removing the networking bottleneck with accelerated interconnects. Laying the foundations for the move to exascale computing. The growing role of GPUs and FPGAs in accelerated computing. 1 2 3
- 4. Such acceleration on a massive scale can help solve many of today’s high-performance computing problems like real-time performance requirements, unstructured data and extremely large data sets.
- 5. At SC15, OpenPOWER Foundation members demonstrated how accelerators can solve networking bottlenecks caused by unprecedented volumes of unstructured data.
- 7. Yes it is, with InfiniBand from Mellanox. • Mature and proven technology. • Scales effortlessly in the cloud. • Has the support of the InfiniBand Trade Alliance.
- 8. InfiniBand Interconnect advantages • Proven and scalable for high-performance end-to-end connectivity. • Flexible, supporting POWER, GPUs, and FPGAs. • Standards-based, supported by large ecosystem. • Offloading architecture, like RDMA and application acceleration engines. • Converged I/O: compute, storage, and management on a single fabric. • Backward and future compatible.
- 9. Where does this lead us?
- 10. The U.S. Department of Energy is charting a path to exascale with accelerated interconnects and GPUs.
- 11. U.S. Dept. of Energy FLOP targets
- 12. But to get there, we need to start seeing our systems in new ways. Take a broad view of the stack. If it’s integrated top- to-bottom, you can customize the system to fit your needs and get better performance than relying solely on the chip.
- 14. And accelerators help us achieve that specialization, with reprogrammable FPGAs customized to your needs and GPUs that slash the time it takes to glean insights from data.
- 15. 80x up to faster for real-world graph analytics. How much faster is GPU acceleration?
- 17. By embracing innovations driven by the OpenPOWER Foundation’s ecosystem, you can take advantage of the full spectrum of acceleration technology. Because for maximum effect, accelerators must be implemented across the stack.
- 19. Thanks!To keep up with the latest on Open Innovation from #SC15, follow @OpenPOWERorg for real-time updates and tomorrow’s recap.