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SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Research Infrastructures PRACE-2IP PRACE Second Implementation Project D5.1 Preliminary Guidance On SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Research Infrastructures INFRA-2011-2.3.5 – Second Implementation Phase of the European High Performance Computing (HPC) service PRACE PRACE-2IP PRACE Second Implementation Project Grant Agreement Number: RI-283493 D5.1 Preliminary Guidance on Procurements and Infrastructure Final Version: 1.0 Author(s): Guillermo Aguirre, BSC Date: 21.02.2013 D5.1 Preliminary Guidance on Procurements and Infrastructure Project and Deliverable Information Sheet PRACE Project Project Ref. №: RI-283493 Project Title: PRACE Second Implementation Project Project Web Site: http://www.prace-project.eu Deliverable ID: < D5.1> Deliverable Nature: Report Deliverable Level: Contractual Date of Delivery: PU 28/02/2013 Actual Date of Delivery: 28/02/2013 EC Project Officer: Leonardo Flores Añover Document Control Sheet Title: Preliminary Guidance on Procurements and Infrastructure Document ID: D5.1 Version: <1.0 > Status: Final Available at: http://www.prace-project.eu Software Tool: Microsoft Word 2007 File(s): D5.1.docx Written by: Guillermo Aguirre, BSC Authorship Contributors: Francois Robin, CEA; Jean-Philippe Nominé, CEA; Ioannis Liabotis, GRNET; Norbert Meyer, PSNC; Radek Januszewski, PSNC; Andreas Johansson, SNIC-LIU; Eric Boyer, CINES; George Karagiannopoulos, GRNET; Marco Sbrighi, CINECA; Vladimir Slavnic, IPB; Gert Svensson, SNIC-KTH Reviewed by: Peter Stefan, NIIF Florian Berberich, PMO & FZJ Approved by: MB/TB Document Status Sheet Version Date Status Comments 0.1 16/01/2013 Draft First outline 0.2 22/01/2013 Draft Added contributions 0.3 29/01/2013 Draft Added contributions 0.4 31/01/2013 Draft Content-complete 0.5 06/02/2013 Draft Proofread 0.6 08/02/2013 Draft For internal review 0.7 18/02/2013 Draft After internal review 1.0 21/02/2013 Final version PRACE-2IP - RI-283493 i 21.02.2013 D5.1 Preliminary Guidance on Procurements and Infrastructure Document Keywords Keywords: PRACE, HPC, Research Infrastructure, Petascale Disclaimer This deliverable has been prepared by the responsible Work Package of the Project in accordance with the Consortium Agreement and the Grant Agreement n° RI-283493. It solely reflects the opinion of the parties to such agreements on a collective basis in the context of the Project and to the extent foreseen in such agreements. Please note that even though all participants to the Project are members of PRACE AISBL, this deliverable has not been approved by the Council of PRACE AISBL and therefore does not emanate from it nor should it be considered to reflect PRACE AISBL’s individual opinion. Copyright notices 2013 PRACE Consortium Partners. All rights reserved. This document is a project document of the PRACE project. All contents are reserved by default and may not be disclosed to third parties without the written consent of the PRACE partners, except as mandated by the European Commission contract RI-283493 for reviewing and dissemination purposes. All trademarks and other rights on third party products mentioned in this document are acknowledged as own by the respective holders. PRACE-2IP - RI-283493 ii 21.02.2013 D5.1 Preliminary Guidance on Procurements and Infrastructure Table of Contents Project and Deliverable Information Sheet ......................................................................................... i Document Control Sheet ........................................................................................................................ i Document Status Sheet .......................................................................................................................... i Document Keywords ............................................................................................................................. ii Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................. iii List of Figures ....................................................................................................................................... iv List of Tables ......................................................................................................................................... iv References and Applicable Documents ............................................................................................... v List of Acronyms and Abbreviations .................................................................................................. vi Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................. 1 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2 2 Assessment of petascale systems .................................................................................................. 3 2.1 Market Watch and Analysis ............................................................................................................... 3 2.1.1 Sources ......................................................................................................................................... 3 2.1.2 Snapshot ....................................................................................................................................... 8 2.1.3 Static Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 9 2.1.4 Dynamic Analysis ....................................................................................................................... 16 2.2 Business Analysis ............................................................................................................................... 23 2.2.1 General HPC Trends .................................................................................................................. 23 2.2.2 HPC vendor market analysis ...................................................................................................... 26 2.2.3 HPC accelerator market analysis ............................................................................................... 29 2.3 PRACE and the European HPC Ecosystem in a Global Context ................................................. 30 3 Hardware-software correlation .................................................................................................. 33 3.1 Programming Models ........................................................................................................................ 33 3.2 Applications and usage ...................................................................................................................... 35 4 Trends in HPC Energy Efficiency ............................................................................................. 36 4.1 Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Working Group ................................................ 36 4.2 Energy Consumption Trends and Cooling ...................................................................................... 37 4.3 Hot water cooling ............................................................................................................................... 37 5 Best Practices for HPC Site Security ......................................................................................... 39 6 European Workshop on HPC Centre Infrastructure .............................................................. 43 7 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 44 8 Annex ............................................................................................................................................ 45 8.1 HPC Centre Security White Paper Survey ..................................................................................... 45 PRACE-2IP - RI-283493 iii 21.02.2013 D5.1 Preliminary Guidance on Procurements and Infrastructure List of Figures Figure 1: Petascale systems by year of construction ............................................................................... 9 Figure 3: Peak performance of petascale systems (in PFlop/s) ............................................................. 10 Figure 2: Petascale systems by country ................................................................................................. 10 Figure 4: LINPACK performance of petascale systems (in PFlop/s) ................................................... 11 Figure 5: Petascale systems by vendor .................................................................................................. 12 Figure 6: Petascale systems by processor .............................................................................................. 12 Figure 7: Petascale systems by accelerator ........................................................................................... 13 Figure 8: Core count of petascale systems ............................................................................................ 13 Figure 9: Memory of petascale systems (in TB) ................................................................................... 14 Figure 10: Petascale systems by interconnect ....................................................................................... 15 Figure 11: Computing efficiency of petascale systems (in %) .............................................................. 15 Figure 12: Power
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