Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

With the development of science and technology and the improvement of the degree of informatization of scientific research, high performance computer has become an important force for the development of science, especially the development of some High-tech, which becomes the decisive force of economic and social development. In the November 2006, after the introduction of the Dawning high-performance computer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Advanced Technology Research Institute in the past few weeks to deal with the data simulation and simulation data, now a few hours can be processed to complete, so that the huge leap into the inkstone real.

Cutting-edge applications trigger high-end demand

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (hereinafter referred to as Advanced Institute) is a first-class integrated technology research base at home and abroad, in the advanced manufacturing base Strategic research field and application development research field, Shenzhen Advanced Technology Research Institute has strong strength.

The dean of the Institute said that at present, 7 research centers have a large number of complex data needs to be accurately calculated and analyzed, Advanced Institute of High-performance computer platform in the advanced, System compatibility, communication performance, storage management and cost-effective and other aspects have a high demand. The choice of dawn is mainly in the field of high-performance computer technology advantages and other manufacturers can not match the after-sales service.

Dual-core fitter "Hercules" to build a nest advanced courtyard

"Shenzhen Advanced Technology Research Institute of Scientific Experimental Computing capacity, is a typical high-performance computing applications, the need for large-scale HPC computing operations, some aspects of computational complexity and even no less than the satellite sky." "Shuguang company senior engineer says.

According to the actual needs of the Advanced Technology Research Institute in Shenzhen, Shuguang company has put forward a hybrid system of dual-core AMD and Intel, which uses the skeleton cluster structure, and the computing node adopts the solution of the combination of the Fat node group and the Phlegm node group (the Fat Thin node refers to the server system with different processors The formation of a powerful high-performance cluster computing system, a total of 96 from the performance of the processor, floating-point operations to achieve 1.449 trillion floating-point operation capacity/second, and has a full range of applications in many areas, to meet the user of Intelligent bionic Integration technology, automotive electronics integration Technology, Advanced manufacturing integration technology, such as the demand for cutting-edge applications, but also to the whole cluster has high processing capacity, high reliability and cost-effective characteristics. It is particularly noteworthy that this combination is very similar to the way the RISC minicomputer +x86 cluster, but because it is fully compatible on the processor, so that the structure to the job scheduling system has a lower demand, users in the use of this structure of the cluster system can have more flexibility.

In the computing system platform of Shenzhen Advanced Technology Research Institute, the parallel processing of the system can be realized well between the Fat node group and the Thin node group. The system chooses is the dawning day broad series server's highest end product A950 to satisfy the user in this aspect the outstanding demand, the Shuguang A950 server is the dawn specially for the enterprise class core application, the High performance cluster system and so on high-end application domain meticulously to build a high-end server, uses 8 AMD Opteron 800 series processors, and can support dual-core processors, the use of professional 16GB ECC memory, and the highest support to 128GB, with high-performance, cost-effective, fully compatible mainstream applications such as the outstanding features, is to achieve large-law high-performance cluster computing an ideal node.

In contrast, the thin-node aspect of the more extensive operation of the program, so that the industry-oriented market medium network regulation of the departmental server-wide i620r-f, Dawn days wide i620r-f support Intel Xeon 5000/5100 series dual-core processors, The main frequency of up to 3.73GHz, the system front-end bus frequencies up to 1333MHz, system memory using serial transmission of DDR2 FBD RAM, the largest support 32GB FBD memory, can bring "massive processing." Application experience, it is very good to meet the user in these aspects of the application.

In order to meet the high network communication requirements of advanced institutes, dawning in the system has adopted the computing Communication network, the storage Exchange network, the SAN storage network, the Hundred Trillion management Network, the SKVM network as well as the hardware surveillance network altogether 6 network together function, and has utilized the most current high performance computation network InfiniBand highest end 20Gbps , all compute nodes are connected together based on the high-speed communication Network (InfiniBand), and the corresponding MPI and PVM versions are used to realize high-speed communication between all compute nodes, and to realize the cooperative operation and virtualization processing of large-scale scientific datasets. The whole network communication system provides a high speed network communication environment, which provides a powerful computing platform for high demand data simulation analysis and distributed computing.

For the complex and valuable research data, in storage, the system adopts the domestic advanced cluster storage System BWFS file system and the industry has its absolute leading edge of the Shuguang cluster Management system. With Bwfs file system and Yom backup software, you can achieve linear extension of file system level and backup of system. and the virtual storage device is used in this system, using a similar IP San device, this device not only has a common IP san device with better price/performance and compatibility, but also can be expanded to integrate new IP SAN devices and existing devices into a large volume, to achieve a truly seamless expansion, Form mass storage. Meet the high requirements of advanced courtyard data storage needs.

Moreover, in the cluster management uses the dawn unique SKVM over IP solution system, utilizes it, can realize to the system all nodes KVM switching management through the system Central console, has greatly simplified the network allocation, the fault diagnosis and the elimination, has realized "the complex science and technology, simple management".

Perfect after the sale of the value of the material

This system, the dawn after the outstanding performance, but also let the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology feel the value of things. In order to help the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology to better achieve its high performance calculation of the value of the flat. Dawn first developed a comprehensive and meticulous training program, to provide users with up to 5 working days of the complete high-performance computer system training, training of qualified cluster management personnel and excellent users. Moreover, in order to solve the after-sale maintenance problems, Shuguang provides the industry's absolute leading 5 years of free original vendor after-sales service. Strong after-sales service to help Shenzhen Advanced Technology Research Institute to the fastest speed mastered the use of management, greatly improve the system utilization, improve the level of scientific research.

Not only that, the system in the dawning Company provides a comprehensive cluster system using software suite, including performance analysis tools VTune, Intel and PGI compilers, based on InfiniBand MPI implementation, OPENPBS, and so on. The whole system has become a "turnkey project" that can be used directly.

High-speed teaching process to promote scientific research efficiency

Shenzhen Advanced Technology Research Institute related Personage expresses, the dawning formidable technical strength and the brand superiority is the advanced courtyard decision and the dawn cooperation important factor. Dawn fully take into account the localization requirements of domestic users, advanced, compatible with strong stability, convenient management, strong network function, excellent after-sales service and its very high cost-effective, these are the dawning machine high-performance many bright spots, is our choice of the dawn of the decisive. Advanced Courtyard technicians, the system can carry out 1.449 trillion times per second floating-point operation capacity, and the old computing equipment, compared to the past several weeks to deal with the test data, now a few hours can be processed to complete.

Shuguang High Performance Computer Assisted Shenzhen Advanced Technology Research Institute, which will play a decisive role in the future development of advanced manufacturing base Strategic research field and application developing field.