Accelerate Innovation at any Scale with Optimized Simulation Solutions

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Accelerate CAE Innovation at any Scale with

Optimized Simulation Solutions

Thierry Carron, HPC Senior Architect

HPC EMEA Win Team France

Stephan Gillich

Dir. HPC EMEA, Intel GmbH

HP / Intel®



Performance

Efficiency

Agility



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Deliver « qualified » compute resources to CAD and CAE engineers

Can you afford NOT to use clusters with new technology? How HP and Intel work with Altair Benefits on Radioss and AcuSolve

CAE Innovation

Some Key Questions



Can you afford NOT to use clusters with new technology?

TCO, Performance, Reliability, Optimization, Ease of Use.

Solid State Disk

Optimize

Performance for

I/O Intensive Apps

Work with Altair to optimize SW + scalability Tools,SW expertise (people)

One Cluster

Architecture.

Significant reduction in

simulation runtimes

More design cycles

higher task complexity.

Digital development

opportunity is acute • Lower R&D costs

• Accelerated product delivery2

Source: 2. Aberdeen 2010 Manufacturing Survey

Performance

enhancement through

Intel HW, and tools

internal adoption.

Compiler, Vtune, etc

Hybrid parallelism

(OpenMP + MPI)

Going from overnight to

more real time result

rendering

New productivity

scheme

4



HPC Platform Requirements: CAE

• Intel® Many Integrated

Core Architecture (MIC)

• Many cores for

highly parallel

workloads

• Same set of programming tools as

Intel Xeon®

• Intel® Xeon® 5600, Intel®

Xeon® E3

• Efficient Performance

• Coming: Sandybridge-EP

• More cores, more

capable

• AVX

• Intel® Xeon® E7 4 Socket

• Expandable

• High Memory capacity

Crash Simulation

CFD Solver

…..

Structural Analysis

CFD pre-processing

Future - In

development

Wide range of platform designs to adapt to a wide variety of CAx simulation workload’s requirements



Long term technical collaboration Altair/Intel

• Performance enhancement through Intel tools (Compiler, Performance tuning, etc ..)

• Hybrid parallelism (OpenMP + MPI) promotion, testing and performance enhancement

• Engagement in Intel Cluster Ready Program with Radioss

• Test new Intel hardware - applications correctness and performance

Customer Benefits

Extended Simulation, Reduced cost, maximized scalability, performance & flexibility to customer’s needs & hardware resources evolution

• High Quality: Full repeatability of SMP & SPMD numerical results

Intel and Altair Altair's PBS Works to

Optimize Software for

Intel® MIC Architecture TROY, Mich., Nov. 2, 2011 Altair

Engineering, Inc., a leading global

provider of simulation and advanced

computing software solutions,

announced today that PBS

Works(TM) has partnered with Intel

Corporation to optimize its software

for future Intel® Many Integrated

Core (Intel® MIC) products . The

strategic partnership was formed to

proactively ensure that as the first

commercially available Intel MIC

product, codenamed "Knights

Corner," is launched broadly, PBS

Professional will be able to

seamlessly schedule jobs onto both

Intel Xeon processors and Intel MIC

co-processors without requiring

additional technical ….

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notice

HP tools and methodology for

Radioss System tuning .

Thierry Carron

HPC Senior Architect

HPC EMEA Win Team

France

To see is to understand

Helping Radioss/AcuSolve to scale since 2001

2001 SMP Version HP-UX

TRUE 64

PA-RISK

Alpha Shared Memory

Single node Quadri sockets

4 cores

2002 MPI Version HP-UX

TRUE 64

PA-RISK

Alpha

Gigabit

Quadrics

4 nodes Quadri sockets

16 cores

2003 MPI Version

TRUE 64

Linux 64

HP-UX

Linux 32

Alpha

Itanium

X86-32

Myrinet

Quadrics

16 nodes Dual sockets

32 cores

2011 Hybrid Version

MPI Version Infiniband

86 nodes Dual sockets Hex Cores

1032 cores Linux

Windows HCS 2008 X86-64

2004 MPI Version Linux64 Itanium

X86-64 Myrinet

32 nodes Dual sockets

64 cores

2005 MPI Version Linux64 Itanium

X86-64 Myrinet

16 nodes Dual sockets Dual Cores

64 cores

2008 MPI Version Linux

Windows HPC 2008 X86-64 Infiniband


128 cores


Windows CCS

Itanium

X86-64 Myrinet


64 cores


Windows HPC 2008 X86-64 Infiniband

64 nodes Dual sockets QuadCores

512cores



Houston

Grenoble

Bangalore

Tokyo

HP HPC worldwide sites

6 HPC benchmark sites

Sidney

Atlanta

HP/Intel benchmark cluster – 4224 cores

2011-07: -- 176 BL2x220c = 4224 cores, IB Mellanox 2:1

Peak 52 Tflops – 108KW

Linpack 87,3% efficiency-> 45TFlops

Software environment based on 'images'

using HP Cluster Management Utility Software

• Linux standard distribution

– SLES11SP1 or RHEL6.1

– OFED (currently 1.5.3.1)

• Compilers

– GNU, Open64, Intel, PGI, CUDA

• Math libraries

– MKL, ACML, Goto's BLAS2

• MPI libraries

– M(VA)PICH(2), OpenMPI, Intel MPI, Platform

MPI

• Other specific tools

– MPE for Platform MPI

– OMPTOMPE for Platform MPI

– 'attach' binding wrapper

• Management/Monitoring

– Workload Management Software

• with enhanced prolog/epilog + on-demand reconfiguration

– HP CMU monitoring

• for users as well as for admins

– Collectl/Colplot

• per job feedback

– home-made tools...

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API for integration with Workload Manager

HP CMU

Also there for users to

monitor/analyze their

own jobs

PBS


PBS Professional and HP CMU Integration Thanks to Adam Diaz

Green Provisioning

• •Powering nodes on and off

• •Configurable by node-leave part of your system on all the time

Operating System Provisioning

• •Provision the entire operating system over a set of nodes

• •Launched by users qsub request command line

Automated PBS Professional Upgrade Script

• •Shell scripts

• •Automated install, removal and upgrade of PBS Professional


including external connectivity

IB traffic within islands


MPI Stats Analyzer

Upcoming activities with Altair


Altair & HP - Intel Technical program improving performance for our customers

• Characterization of Radioss/Acusolve on new Sandy Bridge processors

at a large scale

• Comparison of Radioss Hybrid version vs pure MPI at a large scale

• Study of impact of Fourteen Data Rate Infiniband

• Interest of Fabric Collective Accelerator library to Breakthrough MPI

Performance.

• Scalability testing for the ACUSOLVE solver

http://www.voltaire.com/Products/Application_Acceleration_Software/voltaire_fabric_collective_accelerator_fca/breakthrough_mpi_performance

http://www.voltaire.com/Products/Application_Acceleration_Software/voltaire_fabric_collective_accelerator_fca/breakthrough_mpi_performance

http://www.mellanox.com/index.php

–Major Commitment to HPC with HW, SW and expertise

–Providing « qualified » compute resources to CAD and

CAE engineers – accelerating Innovation.

HP & Intel: Innovation in HPC

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countries.



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