An Energy-Efficient Multi-GPU Supercomputer

Author

Rohr, David ; Kalcher, Sebastian ; Bach, Matthias ; Alaqeeliy, Abdulqadir A. ; Alzaidy, Hani M. ; Eschweiler, Dominic ; Lindenstruth, Volker ; Alkhereyfy, Sakhar B. ; Alharthiy, Ahmad ; Almubaraky, Abdulelah ; Alqwaizy, Ibraheem ; Bin Suliman, Riman

Author_Institution

Frankfurt Inst. for Adv. Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

fYear

2014

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

45

Abstract

During recent years, heterogeneous HPC systems, which combine commodity processors with GPUs have proven to deliver superior energy efficiency. In this paper an international collaboration of research groups from Germany and Saudi Arabia presents SANAM, the prototype of a general-purpose 10 PFLOPS supercomputer based on off-the-shelf components. Leveraging an advanced multi-GPU architecture, supported by particular software optimizations that aim at energy efficiency, the system ranked second in the Green500 list of November 2012 with a power efficiency of 2351 MFLOPS/W.

Keywords

energy conservation; energy consumption; general purpose computers; graphics processing units; mainframes; multiprocessing systems; parallel machines; power aware computing; Germany; Green500 list; HPC systems; LOEWE-CSC; LQCD; Linpack optimizations; SANAM system; Saudi Arabia; commodity hardware; energy consumption; energy-efficient multiGPU supercomputer; general-purpose supercomputer; lattice QCD; manycore accelerated cluster system; off-the-shelf components; power efficiency; quantum chromodynamics; software optimizations; Graphics processing units; Hardware; Lattices; Power demand; Runtime; Servers; SANAM HPC HPL Linpack HPL-GPU multi-GPU LQCD power-efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Communications, 2014 IEEE 6th Intl Symp on Cyberspace Safety and Security, 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Embedded Software and Syst (HPCC,CSS,ICESS), 2014 IEEE Intl Conf on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6122-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCC.2014.14

Filename

7056716