A look at the first Intel Xeon Phi projects outside of the USA with RSC

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Alexey Shmelev
COO, RSC Group, Russia
Booth #440 at ISC`13
RSC Tornado liquid cooled
HPC solutions
with Intel® Xeon Phi™
and other Intel server products
First Intel Xeon Phi projects outside of the USA
18th June, 2013

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Outline
• Mission and Company Profile
• Focus Activities
• Top Projects
• Intel Partnership
• Market Recognition and Positioning
• Summary

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Mission and Profile
We focused on achieving the
new levels in
• Efficiency
• Performance
• Productivity
• Usefulness
• Availability
Create innovative technologies
for the world leading HPC and cloud systems
Innovative HPC system developer and system integrator
• Founded in Jan, 2009 in Moscow, Russia.
• In-house HPC server design with liquid cooling and software development
• Leading HPC developer and solution provider in Russia/CIS,
1st implementations in EMEA and outside of the USA

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Marketing Differentiator
Good awareness on the market
• Direct liquid cooling with world leading
energy efficiency – #1 in Russia by Green500
• High computational efficiency – Intel® Turbo
Boost Technology all the time enabled
• Ultra high density – 180+ TFLOPS/rack
• Scalability – up to dozens PFLOPS
• Reliability – no moving parts at all
• Lowest TCO – up to 60% savings

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Development of energy efficient cluster
architecture: RSC Tornado
• Project proven efficient liquid cooling
• Based on industry standard off the shelf CPUs
and server boards
• Up to 128 x 2 socket server 80 x 80cm x 42U
• Achieving the world leading cooling PUE (1.06)
RSC BasIS – self developed HPC/Cloud
software stack based on standard
components
Focus Activities

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RSC Tornado 3rd Generation
3rd generation of RSC Tornado architecture -
with newest Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor
• Unique computing density:
• 181 TFLOPS per rack or
141 TFLOPS/м3
• 3.8X higher than the
previous world record
for х86 architectures
• Two RSC’s projects with Intel
Xeon Phi in Russia out of 7
systems worldwide at Top500 –
first outside of the USA
Product demo at RSC
booth, SC12 (USA)
November 12-15, 2012

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New breakthrough
RSC Tornado computing nodes based on Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 with
Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors and liquid cooling
• Record level performance – 2.5 TFLOPS per node
• Fully integrated energy efficient solution
• Used in JSCC, SUSU projects

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RSC Tornado Product Line
Electricity
Performance
RSC DСmicro
16-64 nodes
RSC HPC/Cloud
Management
RSC DСmini
64-256 nodes
RSC Data Center
Up to PFLOPS

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RSC DCmicro
• Fully functional Data Center
• From 16 up to 64 RSC Tornado based
computing nodes
• Includes all necessary infrastructure:
– Cooling system;
– Power supply system;
– Communication network;
– Management server.

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RSC DCmini
• Fully functional Data Center
• From 64 up to 256 RSC Tornado
based computing nodes
• Includes all necessary
infrastructure:
– 1-2 racks;
– Cooling system;
– Power supply system;
– Communication network;
– Management server.
Deployed at Roshydromet and
MIPT (Russia)

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RSC Data Center up to PFLOPs
• Fully functional Data Center
• More than 256 RSC Tornado based
computing nodes
• Includes all necessary
infrastructure:
– More than 2 racks;
– Cooling system;
– Power supply system;
– Communication network;
– Storage;
– Management server.
Deployed at JSCC RAS and SUSU (Russia)

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MVS-10P Supercomputer, JSCC RAS
• Prototype for 10PFLOPS system
• #2 in Russia/CIS by Top50 (April’13)
• #59 in Top500 (Nov’12)
• #30 in Green500 (Nov’12). #1 in Russia
• 20 sq. m. data center
• 523.8 TFLOPS Rpeak
• 375.7 TFLOPS Rmax (LINPACK)
• 1949.3 MFLOPS/W
The largest Intel® Xeon Phi™ based system outside the US to date

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MVS-10P Project Details
• 207 nodes, each with:
2 x Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 (8 cores, 2.9 GHz)
2 x Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor SE10X (61 cores)
Intel® SSD 330
Intel® S2600JF server board
• Total RAM 3.2 TB
DDR3-1600, low voltage green memory
• Total disk storage: 24.8 TB
• Interconnect: Infiniband FDR, 56 Gbps
• Service network:
two independent sensor and control networks

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South Ural State University
• 192 Nodes:
– 2х Intel® Xeon® X5680 3.33
– Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor SE10X
– Intel® SSD 330
• #4 in Russia/CIS by Top50 (April’13)
• #170 in Top500 (Nov’12)
• #40 in Green500 (Nov’12)
• 236.7 TFLOPS Rpeak
• 146.8 TFLOPS Rmax (LINPACK)
• 995 MFLOPS/W

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Other projects (RSC Tornado)
South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
• Peak performance — 117 TFLOPS
• #8 in Top50 (Russia/CIS), #303 in Top500 (max — #87)
• 5 racks based on Intel® Xeon® X5680 (3.33 GHz, 130 W)
Roshydromet (Moscow, Russia)
Russian Meteorology Service, 1 of 3 WW weather forecast centers
• 35 TFLOPS in one rack, 96 nodes in 1.3 m3
• First HPC project on Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 in Russia/CIS
• Record-level PUE=1.057
• Most efficient system in Тоp50 — 90% on LINPACK
• #27 in Top50 (Russia/CIS)
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
MIPT, Moscow Region (Russia)
• I-SCALARE Laboratory – dedicated to life-science
applications (biomedicine, etc.)
• 83.5 TFLOPS in two racks, 224 nodes
• #10 in Top50 (Russia/CIS)
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Intel Partnership
• Business with Intel since 2009
• Intel Technology Provider, Platinum level
• Joint SKU design with EPSD in 2010-2012
• Intel Award, 2010 – ‘Largest volume top
bin sales in Russia/CIS’
• Intel Award, 2010 – ‘Best Server Solution
Based on Intel® Xeon® Processors in Russia
and CIS’
• Intel Award, 2011, IPS event – ‘For
outstanding achievements in promotion IA
in HPC area in Russia’
• Intel Award, 2012, IPS event – ‘For
implementing the 1st Intel EPSD-based
liquid-cooling solution in the HPC area in
EMEA’
• Intel Award, 2013, ISS event – ‘For
implementing two unique, first in EMEA
installations of Intel Xeon Phi-based
supercomputer clusters appeared in Top500
list’

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Market Recognition
• RSC Tornado architecture is leading
on the HPC market in Russia/CIS –
press award «Breakthrough of the
Year-2012» (LAN Magazine)
• Customers achieve new levels of
application speed up and 2X reducing
of expenses on electricity and
maintenance
• 8.5+ Mln kW*h electricity saved in
Russia by RSC’s customers since 2009

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Jack Dongarra at RSC’s sites
“Both SUSU and JSCC RAS are state of the art high performance computing centers
with competent staff running the highly ranked Top500 and Green500 powerful and
energy efficient supercomputers. The facilities both use RSC Tornado based systems
with innovative liquid cooling and newest Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors which provide
impressive high performance capabilities and energy efficient solutions to solve very
demanding science research and engineering problems.” – said Jack Dongarra.

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Strong Market Position
• Leading innovative HPC solution builder in
Russia/CIS
• RSC share - near 40% of all Russian systems in
Top500
• Two the most energy efficient systems in Russia
according to Green500
• First two Intel Xeon Phi projects outside of USA
so far (out of 7 in Top500 worldwide)
• Key installations in Top50 (Russia/CIS) - 4
systems with liquid cooling in Top10 (April’13)
• Strong position with leading Russian universities
(incl. the largest one)

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Great results
RSC Group achieved great results as key HPC
player in Russia/CIS and visible worldwide:
• Building innovative HPC architecture
• Good market adoption with demand growth
RSC booth at SC12 (USA)
November 12-15, 2012

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Summary
RSC Group is one of the key HPC players
having:
• Unique technology innovations and
customer proven implementations
• Good market adoption
• Brand awareness on HPC market in
Russia/CIS and worldwide
• Clear strategy for business development

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Contact
Alexey Shmelev
RSC Group
Russia, Moscow
36 Kutuzovsky avenue, bld. 23
alexeysh@rsc-skif.ru

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