MODERN , GEORGIAN PROJECT AND USAGE AREAS

• Authors: Bekar Oikashvili • Archil Prangishvili • Zurab Modebadze AREAS OF USAGE FOR SUPERCOMPUTER

• AERONAUTICS • AUTO INDUSTRY • SPACE TECHNOLOGIES • MILITARY • SEISMOLOGY • WEATHER FORECAST • SEVERAL VISUALIZATIONS (GLOBAL WARMING, ANALYSIS, OTHER) • DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES • OTHER SUPERCOMPUTER USAGE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES %

Others Poland Russia 11% India South1% Korea 1% 1% China United2% Kingdom 34% France 2% 4% Germany 5% Japan 6%

United States 33%

China United States Japan Germany France United Kingdom India Russia South Korea Poland Others FIRST SUPERCOMPUTER: CDC 6600

• Was created in 1960s and was used by CERN and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory; • Performance: 3 MegaFLOPS; • For comparison today’s desktop computer has average peak performance of 50+ GigaFLOPS; MODERN SUPERCOMPUTERS VENDOR SYSTEMS SHARE ON MARKET

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Other Dell Fujitsu 11% HP Inspur2% 2% 25% 4% Bull 4% SGI 5%

IBM 8% Lenovo 17% Sugon 10% Cray Inc 12%

HP Lenovo Cray Inc Sugon IBM SGI Bull Inspur Dell Fujitsu Other THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER TODAY: TAIHULIGHT

The compute system is composed of 40 Cabinets THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER TODAY: SUNWAY TAIHULIGHT SUNWAY TAIHULIGHT SPECIFICATIONS:

• Physical location: National Supercomputer Center, China • CPU: Shenway-64 (Sunway SW26010) • RAM: 1.31 PB • Total Nodes: 40 960 • Total Cores: 10 649 600 • Performance: 93 PetaFLOPS • Operating System: Sunway RaiseOS (Linux based) • Power consumption: 15 MW • Price: 273 Million US Dollars • Active from: June 2016 • Purpose: Oil prospecting, life science, weather forecast, Industrial • design, drug research, … SUNWAY TAIHULIGHT SPECIFICATIONS:

• Developer: NRCPC, China • : Sunway SW26010 (4th generation Sunway) • Architecture: Shenway-64 Instruction Set • Core count: 260 Cores (Many core 64 bit RISC) • Process Technology: N/A • Performance: 3.03 TeraFLOPS MODERN SUPERCOMPUTER PROCESSOR TYPES:

• Homogeneous model includes in itself only one type of processor:

• Heterogeneous model includes in itself two or more different types of processors:

+ = DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE BETWEEN PROCESSOR TYPES: FROM HETEROGENEOUS BACK TO HOMOGENEOUS ? GEORGIAN SUPERCOMPUTER PROJECT

• Name: GeoGrid System (working name) • Phisical location: Niko Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics, Tbilisi, Georgia • Architecture: Intel Xeon (Skylake) • Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (gen 2) • RAM: 10 TB (DDR 4) • Storage: 5 PB • Interconnect: Intel Omni-Path (100 Gb/s) • Performance: 200+ TerraFLOPS • Operating System: Scientific Linux INTEL XEON PHI (KNIGHTS LANDING)

• The newest and one of the most advanced processors for parallel calculations; • Two forms: Co-processor or Host processor; • Self boot processor; • Binary Compatibility with Xeon: Runs all legacy software. No recompilation; • 14nm HPC Intel Xeon Phi; • 8 billion transistors; • 72 Silvermont (Atom) cores on single physical crystal; • 6 DDR4 channels with 384GB Capacity; • 4 threads per core; • 16 GB Memory built-in crystal. 3 modes: Memory, Cache, Hybrid; • 3+ TeraFLOPS (double-precision floating point performance) per socket; INTEL XEON PHI BLADE (KNIGHTS LANDING) INTEL XEON PHI BLADE CHASSIS (KNIGHTS LANDING) INTEL XEON (SKYLAKE)

• The next generation Xeon; • CPU form: Host processor; • Cores: up to 28 cores with Intel HT Technology; • 14nm HPC Intel Xeon; • 6 DDR4 channels with 1.5 TB Capacity; • Scalability: S2, S4, S8; • Omni-Path support; • 1 TeraFLOPS (double-precision floating point performance) per socket; GEOGRID USAGE AREAS

• Connect to CERN Tier 3 network; • Deploy weather forecast system (WRF); • Deploy HPC platform for scientists, students and researchers for different tests and modellings; • Platform for scientific research applications; THANK YOU

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