A survey report on rack scale computers and warehouse scale computers

1. From Rack scale computers to
Warehouse scale computers
産総研 情報技術研究部⾨門
⾼高野 了了成
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2014/7/31 (Revised 8/6)

2. 概要
• 単純な規模の拡⼤大から⾮非連続的技術の導⼊入へ
– キーワード “disaggregation”
• Rack scale computer
– Case #1: Open Compute Project
– Case #2: Intel Rack Scale Architecture
• Warehouse scale computer
– Case #1: HP The Machine
– Case #2: UCB ASPIRE FireBox
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3. Rack scale computer
• HP Moonshotよりもう少し先の話
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Moonshot for extreme efficiency
Converged
Infrastructure
for extreme scale
Shared
Power
Shared
Storage
Shared
Fabric
Shared
Management
Shared
Chassis
Shared
Cooling
… with a rich set of
applications specific
cartridges codesigned
for extreme efficiency
The new metric Gflops/Watt
At extreme scale no way to escape specialization and heterogenity

4. Open Compute Project
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• コモディティ製品の利利⽤用から、ユーザ主導の設計へ
• 2011年年4⽉月に⽶米フェイスブックが、同社データセンター
におけるサーバや設備の仕様をオープンソース化
• ⼤大規模データセンターの集積度度や省省エネルギー性の向上
– Industry Standard: 1.9 PUE
– Open Compute Project: 1.07 PUE
• サーバ、ストレージ、ラック、ネットワークスイッチ、
データセンター設計などに関する仕様が公開
• 製品化の開始：Quanta Rackgo X series, GIGABYTE
DataCenter Solution series
PUE: Power Usage Effectiveness

5. Open Compute Rack v2:
Open Rack
Ø Well-defined “Mechanical API” between
the server and the rack
Ø Accepts any size equipment 1U – 10U
Ø Wide 21” equipment bay for maximum
space efficiency
Ø Shared 12v DC power system
Ø Available now from Delta Electronics
(more suppliers coming soon)
http://www.slideshare.net/finalbsd/1-ocp-workshop

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7. 7
Reference Architecture
Network platform
– Flexible & Cost
effective
Increase utilization
thru storage
aggregation
Extreme Compute
and Network
bandwidth
Platform Flexibility
- Increase useful
life, and capacity
Intel rack scale architecture
CPU / Mem Modules
Silicon – Atom & Xeon
Photonics & switch fabric
Storage – PCIE -SSD
& Caching
Open Network Platform
Orchestration
Accelerating rack scale innovation by delivering suite of interoperable technologies
Efficiency thru granularity at physical & logical level
• Intel technologies
optimized for
flexibility, performance
& cost
• Open rack scale
reference architecture
to simplify adoption
• Driving alignment on
common standards
with broad range of
uses (end users,
Scorpio and OCP ) and
OEM implementations

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Silicon Photonics for Disaggregation
Mezzanine Options
Intel Ethernet controller and
Intel Silicon Photonics
Optical PCIe via
Intel Silicon Photonics
Intel® Xeon ®
processor based tray
Mezzanine fiber
Intel® AtomTM
Micro-server
tray
100 Gb in the rack, enables flexible topologies & distributed
switching

9. 911
Optical Rack
Choice of Logical Architecture
CPUMem DDR
Server
CPUMem DDRServer
CPUMem
Xeon: PCIe
Atom: Enet
DDR
Server
Xeon and Atom Fabric
Compute
HDDs PCIeCPUSSDs
Compute Network
CPUMem DDRServer
CPUMem DDRServer
CPUMem
DDR
Server
SiPhSiPhSiPh
FabricFabricFabric
100Glinks
Architecture offers flexible solutions and multiple Value
Propositions
Remote Storage
I/O
Appliance
To Spine Switches
Network
Storage
Compute
Switch
ASIC
CPU
NIC SSD NICSSD
Server
SiPhSiPh
CPUMem DDR
CPUMem
DDR
CPUMem
DDR
SiPh
PCIe
PCIe
PCIe
Server
Server
• Inter operable & programmable systems based on standard platforms
• Choice of platform sub systems & logical architecture – “composability”
Network & Storage move
into TOR Switch
TOR Switch distributed
into Servers

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Example Usages
Public Cloud Private Cloud Big Data IMDB (future)
CSP’s SW //
• Range of end user usage models driving innovation
• OEM’s delivering range of implementations
• Industry delivering common building blocks with flexible configurations
Range of emerging solution stacks with “composability”

11. Warehouse scale computer
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HE DATACENTER AS A COMPUTER
Figure 1.1 depicts some of the more popular building blocks for WSCs. A set of low-end serv-
typically in a 1U or blade enclosure format, are mounted within a rack and interconnected using
cal Ethernet switch. These rack-level switches, which can use 1- or 10-Gbps links, have a num-
of uplink connections to one or more cluster-level (or datacenter-level) Ethernet switches. This
ond-level switching domain can potentially span more than ten thousand individual servers.
.1 Storage
k drives are connected directly to each individual server and managed by a global distributed
system (such as Google’s GFS [31]) or they can be part of Network Attached Storage (NAS)
ices that are directly connected to the cluster-level switching fabric. A NAS tends to be a simpler
ution to deploy initially because it pushes the responsibility for data management and integrity to
AS appliance vendor. In contrast, using the collection of disks directly attached to server nodes
uires a fault-tolerant file system at the cluster level. This is difficult to implement but can lower
dware costs (the disks leverage the existing server enclosure) and networking fabric utilization
GURE 1.1: Typical elements in warehouse-scale systems: 1U server (left), 7´ rack with Ethernet
ch (middle), and diagram of a small cluster with a cluster-level Ethernet switch/router (right).
connectivity.
Storage Hierarchy
2 shows a programmer’s view of storage hierarchy of a typical WSC. A server consists of a
f processor sockets, each with a multicore CPU and its internal cache hierarchy, local shared
ent DRAM, and a number of directly attached disk drives.The DRAM and disk resources
e rack are accessible through the first-level rack switches (assuming some sort of remote
call API to them), and all resources in all racks are accessible via the cluster-level switch.
Quantifying Latency, Bandwidth, and Capacity
3 attempts to quantify the latency, bandwidth, and capacity characteristics of a WSC. For
n we assume a system with 2,000 servers, each with 8 GB of DRAM and four 1-TB disk
ach group of 40 servers is connected through a 1-Gbps link to a rack-level switch that
ditional eight 1-Gbps ports used for connecting the rack to the cluster-level switch (an
1.2: Storage hierarchy of a WSC.
？

12. HP “The Machine”
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⽤用途特化型コア ＋
（SoC）
ユニバーサル
メモリプール
フォトニクス ＋
（＋ファブリック）

13. ユニバーサルメモリ
（HP Nanostores/Memristor）
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UNIVERSAL MEMORY
A drastic reduction of the memory stack complexity and cost
But requires a complete software stack redesign to leverage the full potentiality of the new architecture
性能/ワット⽐比は
10〜～100倍向上

14. フォトニクス技術
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15. アーキテクチャ
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Photonic
Interconnect
Compute Elements
Memory Elements
NV Memory Elements
Storage Elements
Architecture evolution/revolution
“Computing Ensemble”: bigger than a
server, smaller than a datacenter,
built-in system software
– Disaggregated pools of uncommitted
compute, memory, and storage
elements
– Optical interconnects enable dynamic,
on-demand composition
– Ensemble OS software using
virtualization for composition and
management
– Management and programming
virtual appliances add value for IT
and application developers
On-demand composition
Ensemble OS Management
Ensemble Programming

16. Example Usage (1)
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17. Example Usage (2)
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18. Performance Estimation
• 京よりも6倍⾼高速で、80倍のエネルギー効率率率
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HPC Challengeʼ’s RandomAccess benchmark

19. Performance Estimation
• BG/Qと同等の性能で、20倍のエネルギー効率率率
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Graph 500 benchmark

20. Roadmap
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21. UC Berkeley
1 Terabit/sec optical fibers
FireBox Overview!
High Radix
Switches
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoCSoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
SoC
Up to 1000 SoCs +
High-BW Mem
(100,000 core total)
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVMNVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
NVM
Up to 1000 NonVolatile
Memory Modules (100PB total)
InterXBox&
Network&
Many&Short&Paths&
Thru&HighXRadix&Switches&
FireBox Overview
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The Machineと
ほぼ同じような図

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UC Berkeley Photonic-Switches-
! Monolithically&integrated&silicon&photonics&with&WaveXDivision&
MulCplexing&(WDM)&
- A&fiber&carries&32&wavelengths,&each&32Gb/s,&in&each&direcCon&
- OffXchip&laser&opCcal&supply,&onXchip&modulators&and&detectors&
! MulCple&radixX1000&photonic&switch&chips&arranged&as&middle&
stage&of&Clos&network&(first&and&last&Clos&stage&inside&sockets)&
! 2K&endpoints&can&be&configured&as&either&SoC&or&NVM&modules&
! In&Box,&all&paths&are&two&fiber&hops:&
- ElectricalXphotonic&at&socket&
- One&fiber&hop&socketXtoXswitch&
- PhotonicXelectrical&at&switch&
- Electrical&packet&rouCng&in&switch&
- ElectricalXphotonic&at&socket&
- One&fiber&hop&switchXtoXsocket&
- PhotonicXelectrical&at&socket&
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SoC&
Switch&
Switch&
SoC& NVM&
結局、電気でパケットスイッチング

23. まとめ
• データセンターに⾮非連続的技術導⼊入の波
– 近い将来のデータセンターは、サーバ単位ではなく、ラック単位
で構成可能
– さらに先のデータセンターは、データセンターワイドで構成可能
• アーキテクチャおよびシステムソフトウェアに⼤大きなイ
ンパクト
• フォトニクス技術が鍵
– システムとしてどのように構築するか？
• フォトニクススイッチの⼤大規模化に対するブレークスルーがないなら、fat
node化が唯⼀一の道。⼀一⽅方でB/Fは低下。
– 各種通信インタフェース規格は統⼀一されるのか？
– メモリがdisaggregationされるかは？？
– 電気の⼊入出⼒力力帯域はどこまで向上する？
• 25 Gbps (100 GbE)、28 Gbps (HMC)あたりが現状のstate-‐‑‒of-‐‑‒the-‐‑‒art
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24. 出典
• Intel rack scale architecture overview, Interop2013
– http://presentations.interop.com/events/las-‐‑‒vegas/2013/
free-‐‑‒sessions-‐‑‒-‐‑‒-‐‑‒keynote-‐‑‒presentations/download/463
• New technologies that disrupt our complete
ecosystem and their limits in the race to
Zettascale, HPC2014
– http://www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2014/pdfs/demichel.pdf
• HPが「Tech Power Club」で⾒見見せた“未来のサーバー技
術”, ASCII.jp
– http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/915/915508/
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