[san-tech][03337] IBM: NCSA Blue Watersキャンセルだ！, Aug. 8, 2011, Effective August 6, 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:39:33 +0900
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※Blue Waters Interconnect Network情報追加 (09 Aug 2011 21:13:59 +0900)

あれまぁ、

"Blue Waters Update-NCSA/IBM Joint Statement"

 Aug. 8, 2011, Effective August 6, 2011

  http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/system.html

  "IBM terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide

   the supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications'

   Blue Waters project."

  "NCSA is confident that its goal of building a sustained-petascale

   supercomputer remains achievable in a timely manner. NCSA is

   coordinating with the National Science Foundation to ensure project

   continuity and that the goals of the project are achieved."

.....

  "IBM will return money received to date and NCSA will return equipment

   delivered by IBM per terms of the contract."

関連記事 (と言っても上のプレスリリースがメイン)

"IBM Cancels Blue Waters"

 Aug 8, 2011, insideHPC

  http://insidehpc.com/2011/08/08/ibm-cancels-blue-waters/

2011/08/09

"IBM yanks chain on 'Blue Waters' super"
 Power7 petaflops behemoth gets flushed
 8th August 2011, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/ibm_kills_blue_waters_super/

"IBM Bails on Blue Waters Supercomputer"
 August 08, 2011, HPCwire
  http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-08-08/ibm_bails_on_blue_waters_supercomputer.html

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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:13:59 +0900

今さらながら、NCSA Blue Waters Interconnect Network についてのおさらい：

"Blue Waters:
 Leading the Way in Sustained Petascale Computing"
 Thom Dunning, Director,
 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA),
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA
 DEISA PRACE Symposium (13-14 April, 2011, Helsinki, Finland)
  http://www.prace-project.eu/documents/dunning-pdf.pdf

*)Logical View of Blue Waters Interconnect (Page 9 - 11)

*)Two-level (L, D) Direct-connect Network (Page 12)

  Each Supernode = 32 QCMs (4 Drawers x 8 SMPs/Drawer)
  Fully Interconnected with Llocal and Lremote Links
  *)Lremote links between drawers in supernode (240 GB/s)
                        &
  Blue Waters = 320 Supernodes (40 BBs x 8 SNs/BB)
  Fully Interconnected with D Links
  *)D-links between supernodes (320 GB/s)
  *)BB: 3-Rack Building Block (Each BB = 8 Supernodes)


*)Blue Waters vs. Other Future Systems (Page 15)
Network
Interconnect Topology Bisection Bandwidth                          (TB/s)  [Peak PF]
  NCSA Blue Waters (IBM PERSC, IBM Power 7): 2-Level Direct, ~500    [10]
  ANL Mira (IBM BlueGene, PowerPC):                5D Torus,          30**  [10]
  RIKEN K-Computer (Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx):   Mesh/Torus       >30   [>10]


Documents, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
  http://www.prace-project.eu/documents
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