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vSMP Foundation 2.0 Announcement
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2. vSMP Foundation – Background
NEW SERVER VIRTUALIZATION PARADIGM
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Applications requiring fraction Applications requiring superset
of the physical server resources of the physical server resources
Existing: Partitioning New: Aggregation
Virtual Machines Virtual Machine
App App App App
OS OS OS OS
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
or VMM or VMM or VMM or VMM
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3. vSMP Foundation – Background
THE NEED FOR AGGREGATION - TYPICAL USE CASES
vSMP Foundation
Virtual Machine
App
OS
Cluster Management SMP Replacement
Hypervisor or Hypervisor or Hypervisor or Hypervisor or
VMM VMM VMM VMM
• Requirements driven by IT to simplify • Requirements driven by the end
cluster deployment: users per application characteristics:
• • Large memory
Single OS
• • High core-count
InfiniBand complexity removal
• • IT simplification is a plus
Simplified I/O: faster scratch storage
• • CAPEX savings
Large memory is a plus Capabilities:
• OPEX savings Up to 16 nodes:
• 32 processors (128 cores)
• 4 TB RAM
More at: http://www.scalemp.com/spec
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4. vSMP Foundation 2.0
Enhanced performance and enterprise-class features
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5. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
Bandwidth Efficiency
STREAM (OMP) Performance (MB/s)
• First Nehalem solution with more (MB/sec.) (compared to 1 board)
100% 100%
180,000 100%
99%
99% 98%
than 2 processors 98% 97%
97%
142,280
150,000 95%
131,462
1333MHz FSB (128 cores / 16 boards)
1600MHz FSB (128 cores / 16 boards)
92%
QPI 6.4GT/s (32 cores / 4 boards)
120,000 90%
90%
1333MHz - Efficiency
• Up to 3 times better performance 1600MHz - Efficiency
QPI - Efficiency
90,000 85%
75,634 73,218
66,536
60,000 80%
44,111
• Optimized performance with intra- 38,197
33,279
23,981
19,145
30,000 75%
74%
12,018
6,1579,714
board memory placement and 0 70%
QDR InfiniBand Cores: 8 16 32 64 128
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6. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• 2 InfiniBand switches (dual-rail) in an
active-active configuration Server A Server B Server C
• Automatic failover on link errors (cable)
or switch failure Automatic failover and load-balancing
• Improved performance with switch load- InfiniBand Switch 1 InfiniBand Switch 2
balancing (both switches used in parallel)
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7. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Create isolated hardware-level
partitions, each can run different OS
• Up to 8 partitions, minimum 2
Multiple Partitions
servers per partition
• Requires add-on license
Single Partition
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8. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Up to 2 Emulex LightPulse® Fibre-
Channel (FC) HBAs per server
• Up to 32 HBAs for virtual machine
• Significantly improves cluster IO
capabilities, while keeping cost low
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9. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Serial console for all vSMP Foundation
control and monitoring operations
• Augments existing VGA-based control
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10. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Full stack profiler allows identification of code
scalability inefficiencies
• Zoom to line of code, providing insight about cross-
node memory usage, I/O access and interrupts
• Open API, allowing integration with 3rd party tools
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11. vSMP Foundation 2.0
MODULAR LICENSING STRUCTURE
Add-on Modules
Large memory Partitioning Profiling
Future Module…
Future Module…
– Up to 4 TB RAM – Up to 8 partitions – Profiling tools
Pricing structure: per- Pricing structure: one Pricing structure: free
TB license starting the license per each 16 for academic customers
2nd TB (first TB is part of nodes
the base product)
Up to 16 systems
vSMP Foundation Enterprise vSMP Foundation Lite
– Up to 1 TB RAM, unlimited processor speed – For platforms with entry level processors
(2.66GHz (core2) or 2.4GHz (corei7)) and maximum
– Extensible platform: support for add-on
of 4GB RAM per core
modules
– Add-on modules not available
Pricing structure: per-node license starting the 2nd Pricing structure: per-node reduced-cost license
starting the 2nd node, minimum 8-node configuration
node.
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12. Target Environments and Applications
Target Environments Typical end-user applications
• Users seeking to simplify Energy
Manufacturing Life Sciences
cluster complexities Schlumberger ECLIPSE
CSM (Computational Gaussian
Paradigm GeoDepth
Structural Mechanics) VASP
ABAQUS/Explicit 3DGEO 3DPSDM
AMBER
• Applications that use large ABAQUS/Standard Norsar 3D
Schrödinger Jaguar
ANSYS Mechanical Schrödinger Glide
memory footprint (even with LSTC LS-DYNA NAMD EDA
ALTAIR Radioss
one processor) DOCK
Mentor
GAMESS
CFD (Computational Fluid Cadence
GOLD
Dynamics)
• Applications that need mpiBLAST
FLUENT
Finance
GROMACS
ANSYS CFX
multiple processors and shared MOLPRO
STAR-CD Wombat
memory OpenEye FRED
AVL FIRE KX
OpenEye OMEGA
Tgrid
SCM ADF
Others
HMMER
Other
inTrace OpenRT The MathWorks MATLAB
R
Octave
Wolfram MATHEMATICA
ISC STAR-P
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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
US / ROW:Manuel Hoffmann (Manuel@ScaleMP.com)
• US East: Jeff Stemler (Jeff@ScaleMP.com)
• US West: Tom Wall (TWall@ScaleMP.com)
EMEA: Benzi Galili (Benzi@ScaleMP.com)
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