top500 2016/11

Recent top500 list has some interesting results and statiscs

All details are on the top500 site .

• top10
  • China has top 2 and USA has 5 (3,4,6,9,10) , Japan has 2 (6,7) Switzerland 1(8)
  • Rmax TFlop/s): China (127K), USA (66K), Japan (24K) Switzerland(10K)
  • core count : China (13.7M), USA (4M), Japan(1.3M) , Switzerland(.21M)
  • Power(MW): China(33.2), USA (28.3), Japan(15.4) Switzerlan(1.3)
  • CPU: Intel (5,(phi(3), NVIDIA(1)), Power(2),Opteron(1) SPARC64(1), Sunway(1)
  • .Geographical Region

    Geographical Region	Count	System Share (%)	Rmax (GFlops)	Rpeak (GFlops)	Cores
    Eastern Asia	202	40.4	283,737,680	478,982,820	25,662,768
    North America	172	34.4	228,748,360	328,142,816	11,726,352
    Western Europe	62	12.4	78,376,139	101,783,622	3,252,860
    Northern Europe	23	4.6	34,378,503	40,750,099	1,402,720
    Eastern Europe	13	2.6	12,031,756	16,684,939	466,250
    Southern Europe	7	1.4	14,987,171	22,157,551	655,208
    Australia and New Zealand	6	1.2	4,164,460	5,645,363	209,952
    South-central Asia	5	1	3,092,368	4,456,051	133,172
    Western Asia	5	1	9,577,664	12,798,147	376,336
    South America	3	0.6	1,225,390	1,549,147	52,624
    Southern Africa	1	0.2	782,886	1,006,387	24,192
    South-eastern Asia	1	0.2	1,010,000	1,285,939	30,912

top500 list 2016/11 Continents System Share

Asia Domainte

List	Count	System Share (%)	Rmax (GFlops)	Rpeak (GFlops)	Cores
Nov 2016	213	42.6	297,417,712	497,522,957	26,203,188
Jun 2016	219	43.8	271,881,242	444,843,621	25,524,636
Nov 2015	174	34.8	149,293,886	269,150,905	13,468,596
Jun 2015	108	21.6	101,511,366	154,400,473	8,873,170
Nov 2014	120	24	85,740,414	144,533,987	7,931,290
Jun 2014	132	26.4	84,025,187	144,972,135	7,750,254
Nov 2013	116	23.2	77,329,076	127,385,292	7,064,620
Jun 2013	119	23.8	73,464,896	117,633,787	6,725,298
Nov 2012	124	24.8	35,258,054	51,485,041	3,377,630
Jun 2012	122	24.4	32,112,113	47,080,220	3,110,508
Nov 2011	118	23.6	26,639,805	39,197,323	2,663,902
Jun 2011	103	20.6	20,266,472	30,494,988	2,007,370
Nov 2010	83	16.6	10,292,028	18,279,733	1,147,058
Jun 2010	57	11.4	5,255,374	9,773,368	694,192

Americas decline

List	Count	System Share (%)	Rmax (GFlops)	Rpeak (GFlops)	Cores
Nov 2016	175	35	229,973,750	329,691,963	11,778,976
Jun 2016	170	34	175,484,758	249,126,212	10,233,542
Nov 2015	212	42.4	176,775,900	251,502,568	11,030,362
Jun 2015	246	49.2	165,461,147	235,803,926	11,158,047
Nov 2014	241	48.2	139,632,116	199,044,682	10,294,178
Jun 2014	245	49	125,443,451	178,928,390	9,859,309
Nov 2013	277	55.4	120,965,438	173,309,521	10,087,169
Jun 2013	264	52.8	109,231,647	156,170,730	9,296,024
Nov 2012	264	52.8	91,397,592	132,461,193	8,448,018
Jun 2012	265	53	61,929,981	86,600,408	7,387,893
Nov 2011	274	54.8	33,193,677	48,705,621	4,696,861
Jun 2011	265	53	26,175,708	37,285,628	4,007,424
Nov 2010	284	56.8	23,163,431	32,657,158	3,654,569
Jun 2010	288	57.6	18,388,515	26,488,583	3,023,761

2016 China HPC top100 list

recent  China HPC 2016 meeting publish top100 list

original hpc100 web list

excel format

2016%e5%b9%b4%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e9%ab%98%e6%80%a7%e8%83%bd%e8%ae%a1%e7%ae%97%e6%9c%ba%e6%80%a7%e8%83%bdtop100%e6%8e%92%e8%a1%8c%e6%a6%9c

Google translation with simple edit

2016-china-hpc-top100-list

Some observations:

• company
  • HP  has 2 on the list
  • rest are Chinese server company
    • 中科曙光 (sugon) 34 (+27)、联想 (lenovo) 34(+28)
    • 浪潮 (inspur) 19 (+11)
    • 华为 (huawei) has 5(+5)
• application area
  • big data & Machine Learning (19)
  • information service 23(-25)
  • Security 10
  • Scientific computation 9
  • Internet/Big data 29
  • Cloud computing 7
  • HPC center 8
  • internet 14
• CPU type
  • most are Intel based
    • two with Phi
    • some with NVGPU
  • Chinese CPU
    • SW20160 (core may be Alpha based)
    • SW1600 (core Alpha based)
    • FT1000(front-end) (openSPARC based)
• ~OS almost all are Linux based
  • Redhat
  • CentOS
  • Chinese variation
• Interconnect
  • Private 5
  • IB
    • FDR 12
    • QDR 1+1
  • GbE
    • 1 :1
    • 10 :58
    • 40:5
    • 100:1

win10 upgrade

recently,  my win7 laptop seems to need some update but missing the update in control panel, after many attempt to recovery but not successful, I decided to try win10

It is presently surprise that the whole process is quite smooth

since I belong to Microsoft insider community, so I regular get the announcement on w10 but I can not use window update, so I click the media-based upgrade to

Microsoft Software Download site download

MediaCreation Toolx64.exe

I just run it, after awhile it come back with questions to remove

1 recovery and update

2 McAfee security

I agree to remove both

It start to download the w10, take time, then ask to install and I agree

after some time, system reboot and I sign in with Microsoft account

every thing seems to work

e.g. Thunderbird mail, Google chrome, office 2007 etc

In the first night the display font seems big, by the 2nd night it become more reasonable , may be after new update

One thing I like  is the new iclound photo stream, now I can see what ipad can see

the following link is on Pravacy

privacy how to stop win 10 Preying eye

The following link to add Insider hub back

add insider hub

One can use the same process to add some more language input methods

e.g. Chinese hand writing, voice input etc

Change default browser to something other than edge e.g chrome

edge to chrome

T5-8 SPARC SuperCluster

 

hpc.inspur.com

NH-2 build by NUDT and inspur

IN searching for some more info on two web site, not too much detail are published

some interesting info on inspur software

TSMM

• TSMM, the cluster monitor and management software, will manage cluster system and asset, monitor cluster status and   alarm when cluster error.

•   Modularized design and flexible system architecture
• Scalability to 1000+ nodes, less impaction to system performance
• Dynamic resource monitor: CPU\GPU\Memory\Network\File system
• 12 months historical monitor data query
• Running status comparison between nodes
• 3 ways to alarm when error: Web/Email/SMS
• Cluster mobile monitoring with Android Phone/Pad supported

TSJM

• TSJM, the cluster job management and scheduling software, will receive serial, parallel or interactive job submitting and allocate computing resources, collect and feedback the job result.
• Multiple clusters job management and scheduling
• Web based job submitting interface
• Job templates customized, help job submit easily
• Multiple scheduling policies(Fareshare, Backfill, Reservation, Priority, FIFO), automatic load balance
• Real-time monitoring of resources and jobs
• Zombie processes automatic cleaning-up
• Memory usage check, avoids out of memory
• Checkpoint function(partly supported)
• Management server high availability supported
• 3 ways to notice or alarm: Web/Email/SMS
• Billing Reports in xls or pdf file

TSDM

• TSDM, the cluster OS and software parallel deployment software, will help deploy large scale cluster quickly.
• Windows and Linux OS supported
• OS Image installation supported
• Multiple OS deployment simultaneously
• Application software deployment supported
• Hardware drivers deployment supported
• System backup and recovery function
• Nodes installation style can be customized
• 100+ nodes deployment in less than 2 hours

China new Tianhe-2

This link provide some info on china new Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

detail report  by Dongarra

Chinese content  was reported by

by insideHPC

Compute Node

 

 

 

 

 

Frontend processors (not  part of the system)

 

 

 

 

 

 

this link  李楠 talk about the potential applications:

 

• weather forecast
• 3D movie
• new drug
• bio science
• Tsunami forecast
• nuclear
• material research
• weather changes

TH-2 will be in two stages

• by June 17, 2013
• by 2015

Observations:

• China want to be #1 in Top500 list
• This is big $$ project, join developed by NUDT and Inspur
• Key HPC facility for southern China (NSCC-GZ)
• To showcase the china own CPU, FT-1500 is included (just like Japan has its own SPARCX)

some new picture (TH-2)

link

http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/107376697-3173633817.html

New York SPARC Launch

Some interesting points

• there will be SPARC supercluster based on T5
• there will be speed increase and more core  for M5 soon
• there will be more HW assist feature for java/db in the future SPARC chip
• 
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• T4 & T5 servers co-existence
• 
• T5-8 vs T4-4
• chip:
• 2x cores
• 2.5x memory bandwidth
• 2x cache
• system
• 5x memory bandwidth
• 4x i/o bandwidth
• 2x memory capacity
• 5x application performance
• T5 CPU
• 
• M5 CPU
• 
• SPARC roadmap
• 
• SPARC future Work
• 
• SW in Silicon
• 
• Future of SPARC
• 

Oracle Introduces the Oracle Database Appliance X3-2

Oracle introduces DBA version 2

key features

• two 8-core E5-2690 processor
• 10ge interconnect
• COD licensing (4,8,12, 16 core)
• oracle VM capable(2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16 core license)
• 512 GB of memory(2.5X)
• 18TB SAS storage(4X) (with optional storage expansion)
• 800GB flash(3X)(4x200GB SSD in expansion storage)
• external NFS storage for online backup or additional DB files
• ASR support
• Appliance Manager

Observations:

• This run RAC with  two 10Ge without go through switches
• OEL 5.8 pre-installed
• support
• Oracle DB EE 11.2.0.3
• RAC
• RAC one node
• need down time for patching(patch bundle)(?)
• support ACFS so one can run some other apps in DBA, as example running SAP netweaver  and weblogic server
• using OVM for isolation between database and application wordloads, support linux, widnow and solaris
• documentation
• seems that DBA1 still availabe

T4-2 vs T5-2

server	T4-2	T5-2
H	3U	3U
HBA	PCIe2 (10)	PCIe3(8)
HDD	6	6
1 ge/10 ge	4 ge	4 1/10 ge
DIMM	32(max 1TB)	32(max 512GB)
LDOM	128	256
PCIe root complex	2	2
max root Domain with hdd + NIC	1	2
F40 support	yes	no
CPU Ghz	3.6	2.8

Observations: One  should pick T5-2

• 2X+ throughput and 1.28X single thread
• two root domains with HDD + NIC
• Pcie3 vs Pcie2 (very few pcie3 HBA exist)