RED STORM

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RED STORM

• Chaitanya K Gouni
• David Ells
• Rich Daniello

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• Introduction
• History
• System Facts and Rank
• Operating System
• Architecture
• Unique features and Benchmarks
• Jaguar

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Introduction

• Red Storm is installed at Sandia National
  Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Engineered by Jim Hopkins and Bill Camp
• The project was commission by the United States
  Department of Energys NNSA

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History

• In 1987, Sandia housed the first supercomputer
  composed of 1024 processors known as the
  nCube-10.
• Sandia received the only Karp Challenge ever
  awarded, as well as winning the first ever
  awarded Gordon Bell Award.

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• Cray has the long tradition of being builder and
  implementer of the supercomputers
• Cray is responsible for the construction of many
  other computers on the Top500 list

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Red Stroms History

• Red Strom was installed in the winter of 2004 at
  Albuquerque, NM
• The original implementation at Sandia was
  completed for 90 million, and the system
  recently went through upgrades that cost an
  additional 15 million.

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Rank

• Red Storm, is listed as the 2nd fastest
  supercomputer in the world (Nov 2006
• 101.4 Tflops/s scored on the LINPACK benchmark.
• Red storm has achieved a theoretical peak
  performance of 124.42 TeraOps (Feb 07)
• Red Storm debuted at 9 and jumped to 2 in
  single 4 month period.

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System Facts

• 12,960 AMD Opteron Dual-core compute node
  processors held in 135 compute node cabinets
• 20 service and I/O node cabinets, providing 640
  additional processors

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• 40 terabytes of DDR
• 320 terabytes of Disk Storage
• Approximately 3500 Sq ft including disk systems

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Operating System

• The service and I/O nodes run a version of the
  Linux operating system
• while the compute nodes run an operating system
  called Catamount.
• Catamount is a light weight used to reduce the
  over head of the os .

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Architecture

• The architecture of the Red Storm is geared very
  heavily towards solving scientific
  calculation-intensive problems, particularly in
  modeling and simulation.
• The nodes of the system are arranged in a 3D mesh
  network

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• Red strom was built on XT3 architecture.
• IBM SeaStar Interconnect chips are used along
  with each processor for faster communication

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Unique Features

• Partitioning of nodes into Classfied and
  Unclassified
• The system operates in two networks, and the
  compute nodes can be migrated rapidly among them

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Benchmarks

• Red Storm achieved first place in HPCC test suite
• HPCC is a set of tests designed to provide more
  information than the traditional Linpack test
• HPCC benchmarks measure the efficiency of keeping
  track of data and of communicating data between
  processors

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• Red Storm posted 1.8 trillion bytes per second in
  the HPC test to measure the total communication
  capacity
• Which is 40 times more than IBM Blue Gene.

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Jaguar

• Jaguar is the another supercomputer built by Cray
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• Jaguar installed at Oak Ridge National
  Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• Listed 10th place with
• 43.4 Tflops/s(linpack score)

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• Jaguar is an implementation of the XT3 model that
  Cray licensed from Sandia

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Sources

• 1. http//www.cray.com/products/programs/red_storm
  /index.html
• 2. http//www.cs.sandia.gov/platforms/index.html
• 3. http//www.top500.org/lists/2006/11
• 4. http//www.cs.sandia.gov/platforms/RedStorm.htm
  l
• 5. http//www.cs.sandia.gov/platforms/RedStorm_Ris
  ing.pdf
• 6. http//www.sandia.gov/asc/redstorm.html
• 7. http//www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases
  /2004/comp-softmath/redstormrising.html
• 8. http//www.lockergnome.com/nexus/news/2006/11/1
  6/red-storm-upgrade-lifts-sandia-supercomputer-to-
  2nd-in-world-but-1st-in-scalability/
• 9. http//www.cray.com/downloads/Cray_XT3_Datashee
  t.pdf

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Questions

• Question 1 Red Strom is installed where?
• Answer Sandia National Laboratories
• Question 2 What is the name of the company that
  built Red Storm?
• Answer Cray Incorporated
• Question 3 Red Strom is currently the worlds
  fastest supercomputer?
• Answer False, It is the second fastest.

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Questions

• Question 4 Red Storm uses 12,960 AMD __________
  processors.
• Answer Opteron
• Question 5 Red Storm performs (classified /
  unclassified) computing tasks. Circle one.
• Answer Both are correct, the compute nodes are
  partitioned to perform both classified and
  unclassified computing tasks, simultaneously.