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SUSE and Lenovo Deliver Some of the World's Most Powerful White Paper SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing SUSE Enterprise Storage SUSE and Lenovo Deliver Some of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers Table of Contents page Put the Power of High-Performance Computing to Work for Your Business...........................................................................................................2 The Changing Face of HPC ..............................................................................................................2 Why SUSE and Lenovo? ..........................................................................................................................3 Get the Best of HPC without the Hassle .............................................................3 Components of the SUSE-Lenovo Solution ................................................3 Make the Most of HPC with SUSE and Lenovo .....................................5 White Paper SUSE and Lenovo Deliver Some of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers Put the Power of High- Performance Computing to Work for Your Business The demand for high-performance computing (HPC) has grown beyond its traditional home of research institutions and government labs. Today, enterprises of all sizes are realizing the value of HPC for a variety of tasks, such as financial forecasting, physical simulations, fraud detection, business intelligence, engineering, marketing and personalized medicine—and the most common use, data analytics. With an HPC infrastructure, enterprises more cost-effective for enterprises, and for Analyze or develop large data sets. can leverage massive volumes of data to the first time, they can benefit from those Develop the AI applications of the quickly solve large and complex problems powerful capabilities while staying within future. like modeling or simulations. SUSE and budget. Monitor and profile consumer trends. Lenovo have partnered to offer a com- Create computer visualizations. prehensive HPC infrastructure that can get HPC is being used in many industries, Carry out simulations or modeling of you started quickly and easily. mostly where organizations have a lot of complex processes. data or complex projects to complete, in- The Changing Face of HPC cluding energy, oil and gas; healthcare and As more enterprises move to HPC, it’s HPC is now almost entirely Linux based. In life sciences; higher education and research; becoming clear that not all HPC systems fact, 100 percent of Supercomputing’s Top finance; and manufacturing, and in the de- are created equal. That’s why SUSE and 500 supercomputers run Linux.* Where velopment of artificial intelligence (AI). Lenovo developed their joint solution. Our HPC systems were once large, specialized aim is to empower you to spend more systems used in labs, they are now mostly Enterprises employ HPC for a variety of time on the work that matters, and we do composed of very large Linux clusters of tasks, including to: that by delivering the most HPC compute small, standard systems. This makes HPC power and capacity possible at the low- __________ Develop and redesign products. est cost and energy usage—plus provid- Optimize production and delivery ing ease of use and expert support from * www.top500.org/statistics/details/osfam/1 processes. industry leaders. 2 Why SUSE and Lenovo? than 3.2 trillion calculations per second, Get popular OpenHPC packages SUSE and Lenovo are uniquely positioned pro viding a total cluster capacity of 11.1 pet- with technical support and added in the HPC space. Both companies were aflops. It’s more impressive when you con- functionality from leading technology OpenHPC founding members and con- sider that the cluster was delivered, wired, providers. tinue to be major contributors in the open and up and running before Intel announced Get robust, high-capacity HPC source HPC community. the processor to the general public. infrastructure in a small footprint. Reduce the cost and risk of HPC investments by expanding the SUSE® software runs on 50 percent of the Lenovo built the first warm-water-cooled world’s top 50 largest supercomputers, supercomputer together with the Leibniz capabilities of existing infrastructure and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the Supercomputing Centre, or LRZ. The new components. only Linux distribution that includes sup- SuperMUC-NG installation will provide Simplify administration with a single ported HPC packages within the distribu- LRZ with a staggering 26.7 petaflop com- platform that lets you efficiently tion. The SUSE High Performance Module pute capacity powered by almost 6,500 manage HPC and AI workloads. refresh cycle helps you keep up with rap- nodes of Lenovo’s next-generation Think- Build storage that scales affordably idly evolving HPC technologies and avoid System SD650 servers—all in a smaller to support your HPC system. Take advantage of expert extensive retesting of your platform. data center footprint with drastically re- configuration and implementation duced energy usage. Lenovo is one of the fastest-growing HPC services to ensure that all components work together seamlessly. providers in the Top 500 HPC, coming sec- The joint SUSE-Lenovo HPC solution uses ond worldwide and first in China. It’s also the OpenHPC components for flexibility and leading Top 500 supercomputer provider lower total cost of ownership (TCO). It Components of the in Italy, Spain, China, Norway, Germany and also provides supported versions of the SUSE-Lenovo Solution Denmark. Lenovo took home five HPCwire most popular OpenHPC packages, such SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for “Best of HPC” awards at SuperComputing as SLURM for workload management and High Performance Computing 2017, including best HPC server for the job scheduling. In addition to supporting The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High ThinkSystem SD530 and best HPC storage popular software components, the solu- Performance Computing is the same dis- product for Lenovo Distributed Storage tion is enabled with best-of-breed fabrics, tribution as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale (DSS-G). including Ethernet, InfiniBand and Intel but it is sold with different terms, condi- Omni-Path Architecture fabrics, to deliver tions and prices that are tailored for the Together, Lenovo and SUSE worked with the best performance for your demand- unique requirements of HPC environments. the Barcelona Supercomputing Center ing workloads. to develop MareNostrum 4, the highest- It includes the SUSE HPC Module with performing supercomputer in the world And finally, SUSE and Lenovo are continu- high-demand packages for HPC work- based on next-generation Intel Xeon Scal- ally working together to refine their HPC loads. These are packages that are a part able processors. Each of the 3,456 Lenovo offerings. The Lenovo HPC team identifies of the OpenHPC stack, but unlike the ThinkSystem SD530 nodes performs more a rising need for particular features and ca- software available through OpenHPC, all pabilities, and SUSE integrates those into packages in the SUSE module come with its HPC module. enterprise support from SUSE. Together, SUSE and Lenovo deliver the most HPC compute power and Get the Best of HPC Packages in the HPC module include (but are not limited to): capacity possible at the lowest without the Hassle With SUSE and Lenovo, you can realize cost and energy usage—plus Console access: conman 0.2.7 the powerful potential of HPC without CPU identification: cpuid 20151017 providing ease of use and expert the difficult implementation and manage- (x86-64) support from industry leaders. ment. The solution allows you to: Portable hardware locality: hwloc 1.11.5 www.suse.com 3 White Paper SUSE and Lenovo Deliver Some of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers User environment management: Lenovo Hardware percent better performance and up to 50 lua-lmod 6.5.11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High percent energy savings compared to air- File system library: lua-luafilesystem Performance Computing runs on Lenovo’s cooled systems. 1.6.3 award-winning servers, which are spe- Bindings for POSIX APIs: lua-luaposix cifically designed for high-performance 33.2.1 workloads. Whether you’re looking for en- Terminal management: lua-luaterm 0.7 ergy efficiency, highly dense computing, Memory allocation: memkind 1.7.0 reduced TCO or GPU-enabled hybrid so- (x86-64) lutions, the Lenovo ThinkSystem portfolio Remote shell programs: mrsh 2.12 has a wide array of options: Authentication service: munge 0.5.12 ThinkSystem SR650 Parallel remote commands: pdsh 2.31 —With its unique Power management for clusters: AnyBay design—which allows for mul- powerman 2.3.24 tiple storage types in the same drive Parallel task executor: prun 1.0 bay, including front-accessible Peripheral Monitor kernel RAS: rasdaemon 0.5.7 Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Workload manager: slurm 16.5.5.1 solid-state drives—this server lets you flex- ibly configure your storage the way you want it. SUSE has a flexible release schedule for ThinkSystem SD530—This ultradense two- the HPC module. Releases are indepen- unit, four-node platform delivers more dent of the base SUSE operating system compute power in less space and sup- service pack schedule, allowing SUSE to ports the use of GPUs for diverse workload update the module more frequently so you requirements. get the latest HPC technology as quickly as possible. ThinkSystem SR630—Ideal for manage- SUSE Package Hub ment nodes, the two-unit SR650 has ex- The SUSE Package Hub offers access to tensive memory and storage
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