1. Welcome to the outer limits
HPC Day, Kiev October 14 2011
Martin Jalový, Systems Engineer SGI
2. Our Differentiated View of the Market
A Trusted Leader in
Technical Computing
“… As we enter the next generation, moving from petaflops to
exaflops, SGI has emerged a trusted leader in technical
computing. Supporting some of the industry's most mission critical
and large-scale computing applications.”
-Earl Joseph, program vice president, high-performance systems
Company Confidential July 2011
3. Škoda Auto – ICE 8200, ICE 8400 Q3 2011
????? Processor Cores, ICE (was 3328c in 2010), UV
??? Tflop/s Peak Performance
???? TB Memory
?,? PB storage, Nexis 9000, ISS3500 fast scratch, CXFS
specialized nodes (eg. prepost n., each 144GB mem.
Grid engine
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4. NIIFI, University Hungaria – ICE, UV 1000 Q2 2011
Professor Stephen
Hawking inspecting
the final Altix UV
installation
1536 Cores ICE 8400
1152 Cores UV 1000
20,2+12,2 Tflop/s Peak Performance as Planck
Strategic projects, such
6,1 +6,1 TB Memory
satellite analysis codes
Storage, Lustre
Water cooled
Large simulation requirements
of theoretical ideas and
comparison with vast new
oбразовать observational data sets
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5. PCSS – Poznan Univ., GPU cluster 227n, UV 1000 Q4 2011
227 nodes with mix 1 or 2 GPU per node
7264 Processor Cores (AMD Interlagos)a
~50 Tflop/s Peak Performance
Water cooled
2048 Processor Cores, UV 1000
21,7 Tflop/s Peak Performance
16 TB Memory
Water cooled
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6. COSMOS, Cambridge University - UV 1000
August 2010
768 Processor Cores UV 1000
63 Tflop/s Peak Performance
2 TB Shared Memory
64TB IS4100 storage, CXFS Professor Stephen
MOAB Grid suite Hawking inspecting
Water cooled the final Altix UV
installation
Strategic projects, such as Planck
satellite analysis codes
Large simulation requirements
of theoretical ideas and
comparison with vast new
observational data sets
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7. Los Alamos National Lab – Altix XE clusters
Conejo project 51,4Tfl, Mapache project 49,2Tfl
10096 Processor Cores, Altix XE Peralta, Coyote
101,6 Tflop/s Peak Performance
30,2 TB Memory
Climate, Ocean, Advanced Simulation and
Company Confidential July 2011 National Nuclear Security Administration
8. LRZ - Altix 4700 (Munich)
Largest globally shared memory system in the world
9728 Processor Cores
63 Tflop/s Peak Performance
NEW!
39 TB Shared Memory
2048 Processor Cores, UV 1000
660TB RAID Storage, CXFS
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9. Total – bigest commercial system in the world
234 TFlops CPU
Expansion 2011
7680 cores
Westmere
73 TB Mem
2,5 PB Lustre
40GB/s
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10. RossHydroMet
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk
Moscow center
1664 cores Altix 4700, 11 TFlops peak, 6.6TB memory (4GB/core)
1416 cores Altix ICE, 2.5 TB (2GB/core)
other servers 12x Altix 450, 17x Altix XE,
CXFS, DMF, 60TB online, 200TB nearline, 86TB tape library
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11. Altix® ICE:
CINES - Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI)
• System installed at
CINES, France's
National Computer
Center for Higher
Education; supports
French researchers
23040 cores Altix ICE in variety of
267 Tflops Peak Performance research areas, and
103 TB of Memory connect to the
0,8 PB storage (IS 4600), DMF, Lustre RENATER French
high-speed network
20GB/s IO performance
and to European
Community
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12. HLRN – HLRN Link – 2 sites = 1 system
One Grid – One Workload – One Filesystem
Norddeutscher Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen
Single userbase/accouting
Single workload managed
across two sites
MPP1 MPP2
MPP1 MPP2
HLRN-Link Infiniband
SMP1 SMP2
Infiniband
SMP1 SMP2
30976 cores (ICE 20480c+UV1000 9728c)
339 Tflops Peak Performance,
114 TB of Memory
1.15 PB Storage, Lustre, LSI, target 2.3 PB
2x18GB/s IO bandwidth
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13. NASA Pleiades Supercomputer
number 7 in Top500 06/2011
112540 cores Altix ICE, 184 racks
1,009 PFlops RPeak Performance
188 TB of Memory (1GB/core)
storage SGI Nexis 9000, 7 Lustre cluster,
12 DDN RAIDS 6.9 PB
Company Confidential July 2011 two IB network 11D hypercube topology
15. Altix® XE: An Enterprise Solution to Keep Paris
Taxis Moving for Les Taxis Bleus
The Challenge The Solution
An increasing burden on the
• SGI® Altix® XE server with 8GB of memory running
existing infrastructure had made
it impossible to guarantee 100 Red Hat®Enterprise Linux® v.4
percent availability of the • Connects to an Oracle 10g database and 1TB of SGI
reservation management system, InfiniteStorage 220 direct attached Fiber Channel
resulting in potential lost • Services 120 dispatch agents, and drives Taxis
business.
Bleus’ internal accounting system.
• Redundant configuration backs up the primary
system for no-compromise reliability, availability
and serviceability (RAS)
“Now back-ups happen faster, and we don’t have to
choose between backing up our enterprise data to tape or actually
managing our bookings and billings.”
Patrick Del’Vecchio, Director of IT Systems, Les Taxis Bleus
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16. Our main Markets
CLOUD
CLOUD STORAGE
BIG
HPC Web 2.0
SaaS
Active Archive
Storage Servers DATA
HP-HD Raid
Commercial Hadoop
Scientific Databases
Warehouses
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17. SGI Solutions Across Applications
Oil & Gas HPC Cluster Large Trading Platforms Large Cloud Provider
M45 ICE Cube HPC National Lab Video Streaming
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18. SGI® Technology @ Work
DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE DIGITAL MEDIA ENERGY FINANCIAL SERVICES
CLOUD MANUFACTURING RESEARCH & EDUCATION …AND MORE
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20. SGI OpenFOAM® Ready for Cyclone
Customer : iVEC and Curtin
Technical Applications Portal University Australia
Powered by
User Problem: Solving large scale CFD
Su
bm problems like simulating wind flows
its
J ob in the capital city of Perth.
Solution: OpenFOAM scaled on SGI
Cyclone better (1024 cores) and
was 20x faster than on Amazon
EC2.
Source: Dr Andrew King, Department of Mechanical Engineering Curtin, University of Technology, Australia
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21. SGI: Servers, Storage, Experience
Would you attach
caravan
to the F1?
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22. Datacenter Technologies : Eco-Logical™
DCE = PUE-1 = equip x facility-1
SGI top in its class
Savings from
direct water World Largest
cooling doors. datacenters,
hundreds installed design
experience
Savings from
12VDC rack
distribution
(480VDC
datacenter*) World Leader:
mobile,
containerized
datacenter
20’/40’ units
Savings from
90+% efficient
power supplies.
80 PLUS awards
* evaluating
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23. Power Supplies : High Efficiency
• AC power supplies up
to 92.5% efficiency*
• 80Plus validated at 91.2%
typical efficiency 90.6% SGI
Power Supply
• 48VDC power supplies
up to 96.5% efficiency*
• High-efficiency
redundant cabinet-level
48VDC in Rackable DC
SGI 450W AC Power Supply Efficiency
cabinets and PowerXE
(Validated by 80Plus.org)
distribution in
CloudRack C2
Company Confidential July 2011 * Peak efficiency based on power supply specification
25. Server Products
ICE Cube® Air Modular Datacenter
The
Power of Scale-Out Scale-Up
One
CloudRack™ X2 Rackable™ & Altix® ICE SGI Prism™ XL Altix UV
Octane® III CloudRack™ C2 Blade Architecture Petaflop in a Rack Shared-Memory Systems
Origin® 400 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U HPC Optimized Optimized
Design-to-Order Accelerator
Leader
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28. Customer Challenges
Need Faster Simulation on Large Datasets
– Altix: Use Fastest CPU’s available
Need to Simulate Very Large Datasets
– Altix: Extremely Large Memory Systems
Fast Delivery to Production and Results
– Altix: Standard Operating Systems
Ability to Scale System as Requirements Increase
– Altix: Range of Products based on same architecture
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29. FY11 was Good
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF
DENMARK DTU
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31. Altix® UV
World’s Fastest Supercomputer
– World Record SPECint_rate, SPECfp_rate, SPECjbb2005 Performance
– High speed NUMAlink® 5 interconnect (15 GB/sec)
– MPI offload engines maximize efficiency
– Direct access to global data sets up to 16TB
– Compelling performance regardless of type of application
Scalable
– Single system image scales up to 2048 cores & 16TB memory
– Investment protection: start with four sockets, scale up over time
Open Platform
– Leverages Intel® Xeon® 7600 (“Westmere-EX”) processors
– Runs industry-standard x86 operating systems & application code
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32. SGI Altix UV and Windows Server
2008 R2
The world’s most powerful x86 Windows® Server
platform: the SGI® Altix® UV, world’s fastest and most
scalable supercomputer
– Now certified up to 256 cores, 2 TB shared memory
– The only platform certified up to the full processor AND
memory limits of Windows Server 2008 R2
Industry standard Intel® Xeon® processors
Single instance of Windows Server
Runs standard Microsoft software:
– Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition
– Unlimited virtualization with Hyper-V
– Microsoft SQL Server
Expandability: SGI UV enables new releases of
SGI Altix UV Microsoft software to scale to their limits
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33. Altix UV: Supporting the Microsoft
Platform
Microsoft Stack Big Data Technical Apps
Data Warehousing
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34. Customer benefits
Altix UV Delivers
– Higher performance and better price performance –
delivers the capabilities of SGI Altix UV to
Windows Server users
Customer Benefits
– Faster data access for a range of data intensive computing
(more data in memory)
– Larger databases without partitioning
– Faster computing using lower latency
– Easier management
– Consolidated resources
– Quicker and more complete business decisions
SGI Altix UV
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35. SGI Altix UV running Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 R2
World’s largest Windows platform:
256 cores, 2 TB memory
4x the number of cores over HP*
2.6x the number of cores of IBM
Industry defining application scalability for
Windows applications: 64 Intel Xeon Physical Cores
Compute intensive
Data intensive
SGI Altix UV *HP ProLiant
DL 980 G7
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38. Reliability Altix ICE 8200, Altix ICE 8400
Cable-free, Redundant Components
Cable-free blade
enclosures: 128 cores
and no cables
Redundant, hot swap
power and cooling
Fully Buffered DIMMS
to reduce transient
errors
Blade design provides
rapid serviceability
InfiniBand backplane
To THIS
From this (traditional for high signal
racked cluster)… reliability
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39. SGI® Altix® ICE 8400
Designed for High-Performance Computing
Performance Density: Up to 1536 Cores and
14.13 TFlops per Rack / 8.3 ft2 (0.77 m2)
SGI® Altix® ICE Compute Blade
Up to 12-Core, 96GB, 2-IB
SGI® Altix® ICE Compute Blade
Up to 24-Core, 128GB, 2-IB
Altix ICE Rack:
• 42U rack (30” W x 40” D)
• 4 Cable-free blade enclosures, each with up to 16 2-Socket nodes
• Up to 128 DP Intel® Xeon® or AMD Opteron™ 6100 sockets
• Single-plane or Dual-plane IB QDR interconnect
• Minimal switch topology simplifies scaling to 1000s of nodes
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40. Introducing Altix® ICE 8400
No-compromise, high performance
blade design for scale-out clusters
Tightly integrated
Greatly increased flexibility:
– Five different compute blades
– Choice of processor type, network
topology, system fabric and storage
– Value and performance-optimized
configurations
QDR InfiniBand- through and through
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41. Flexible Compute Blade Options
Intel® Xeon® 5500/5600 or AMD Opteron™ 6100
processors
Intel blades feature 12 DIMM slots and up to 768
cores/cabinet. Up to 130W processors are supported.
AMD blades feature 16 DIMM slots and up to 1536
cores/cabinet* Up to 105W processors are supported
Choice of three on-board Mellanox® ConnectX-2
InfiniBand HCA configurations
– Single-port, dual-port or two single-port chipset(s)
Option for 2.5” storage on the node (SSD and/or HDD)
Intel Intel
NHM/ WM-EP NHM/ WM-EP
Intel Intel Intel Intel Processor Processor
NHM/ WM-EP NHM/ WM-EP NHM/ WM-EP NHM/ WM-EP
Processor Processor Processor Processor
Single
Tylersburg Tylersburg IB4x QDR Tylersburg
HCA
Single x4 Chipset Dual x4 Chipset Chipset
Backplane Connector
Backplane Connector
Backplane Connector
QDR IB QDR IB
HCA HCA Single
IB4x QDR
HCA
ICH10 ICH10
PHY PHY
ICH10
BMC BMC PHY
PHY PHY BMC
PHY
Flash Memory SIO FWH Flash Memory SIO FWH
Flash Memory SIO FWH
Company Confidential July 2011 * AMD Opteron blades planned for Q3CY10.
42. Flexibility in Networking Topologies
Hypercube Topology:
- Lowest network infrastructure cost
- Well suited for "nearest neighbor" type MPI
communication patterns
Enhanced Hypercube Topology:
- Increased bisectional bandwidth per node at only
a small increase in cost
- Well suited for larger node count MPI jobs
All-to-All Topology:
- Maximum bandwidth at lowest latency for up to
128 nodes
- Well suited for "all-to-all" MPI communication
patterns.
Robust integrated switch
blade design enables industry- Fat Tree Topology:
leading bisectional bandwidth - Highest network infrastructure cost. Requires
external switches.
at ultra-low latency!
- Well suited for "all-to-all" type MPI
communication patterns
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43. SGI® Altix® ICE 8400 IRU Topology –
Hypercube optimized
Compute 03
Compute 03
Compute 03
Compute 03
Compute 07
Compute 05
Compute 05
Compute 05
Compute 05
Compute 04
Compute 04
Compute 04
Compute 04
Compute 02
Compute 01
Compute 00
Compute 06
Plane-1 Plane-2
Switch Blade
Switch Blade
36-Port QDR
36-Port QDR
InfiniBand
InfiniBand
1st Hypercube Dimension is
Quad-Linked on Backplane
Switch Blade
Switch Blade
36-Port QDR
36-Port QDR
InfiniBand
InfiniBand
Compute 15
Compute 13
Compute 13
Compute 13
Compute 13
Compute 11
Compute 11
Compute 11
Compute 11
Compute 09
Compute 14
Compute 12
Compute 12
Compute 12
Compute 12
Compute 10
Compute 08
(21) Cabled Ports
(8) Node Fan-In Ports
(33 of 36) Ports Used
Notice the rich >3 ratio of ‘Fabric Ports’ to ‘Node Ports’ {(21+4)/8}
Closest like competitor has 1.25:1 (SUN 6048). Most have 1:1
SGI ICE 8400 has 2.4x to 3x the link to node bandwidth fabric interconnect
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46. Topologies
Hypercube topology
– Cables together switches in blade enclosures
– No external switches, less cables reduces costs
– Lower bi-section bandwidth per node, but also lower networking costs
– Fits well in some application spaces, but not all
– Suited for…
– larger node count MPI jobs
– low per node bandwidth requirement (i.e. less than 500MB/s/node)
– “nearest neighbor” type MPI communication patterns
– Constant Bi-Section (CBB) Fat Tree
– Common cluster topology
– High bi-section bandwidth per node
– Requires external switches
– As system size grows, cost of network grows rapidly
– Suited for…
– smaller node count MPI jobs
– high per node bandwidth requirement (i.e. GB/s/node or greater)
– “all-to-all” type MPI communication patters
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47. SGI Altix ICE- Industry Breakthrough
Compute Rack Level ‘Live’ Integration
NASA Ames Post - NAS TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS February 8, 2010
'Live' Integration of Pleiades Rack Saves 2 Million Hours (excerpt)
The new 512-core rack arrived in late December and installation was completed in early January.
Integration into the Pleiades system was accomplished by connecting the new rack's InfiniBand (IB) dual
port fabric via 44 fibre cables-while Pleiades was running a full production workload.
This live integration saved 2 million hours in productivity that have previously been lost each time a
planned system outage occurs. When outages on Pleiades are planned, users get a one-week notice and
system utilization plummets about three days before the actual shutdown. This drop in usage is partly due
to the fact that batch jobs are only started if they can finish by the start of the planned outage. About half
of Pleiades' computational hours are consumed by long-running jobs-most take five days to complete-
further adding to the usage slowdown.
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/News/TechHighlights/2010/2-8-10.html
•SGI’s superior hypercube based IB network topologies not only enables adding nodes and
switches but also now enables adding racks of nodes and switches without disturbing the
existing production load.
•Competitor network topology offerings such as fat tree and 3D torus are either
inherently limited or strictly incapable of supporting such a dynamic reconfiguration.
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48. Tightly Integrated Software Stack
Linux® Operating System
Performance
SGI® ProPack™ software for Linux OS
Optimization
System Management SGI® Tempo
Workload Manager Altair® PBS Professional™
MPI Intel MPI Runtime or SGI MPT
IB Fabric and Subnet SGI InfiniBand Fabric Subnet Management (based on
Management OFED and OpenSM)
Customizable, integrated solution stack
Cost-effective, standards-based & optimized for ease of use
Factory integrated and tested
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49. Customers That Are… "Our new SGI Altix ICE system was up and
running the afternoon it arrived, and we
Breaking Barriers with ICE began running benchmarks within 48 hours"
Matthew Bate, Professor of Theoretical
Astrophysics at the University of Exeter.
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50. Customers That Are… “Just as Columbia has helped NASA achieve
breakthroughs that were previously impossible, this new
Breaking Barriers with ICE supercomputer will enable NASA to continue tapping the
far limits of science and innovation.“
Dr. Rupak Biswas, acting chief of the NAS Division
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51. Customers That Are… “It quickly became clear to us that for the same
number of processors, the performance of the SGI
Breaking Barriers with ICE Altix ICE system was in a league of its own.”
Henrik Diamant, Head of CFD, Honda Racing F1 Team
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52. OS Noise Synchronization – SGI® Tempo™ Feature
• OS system noise: CPU cycles stolen from a user application by the OS to do
periodic or asynchronous work (monitoring, daemons, garbage collection, etc).
• Management interface will allow users to select what gets synchronized
• Performance boost on larger scales systems
Process on: Unsynchronized OS Noise → Wasted Cycles
System Wasted Wasted
Node 1 Overhead Cycles Cycles
Node 2 Wasted System Wasted
Compute Cycles Cycles Overhead Cycles
Node 3 Wasted Wasted System
Cycles Cycles Overhead
Barrier Complete
Process on:
System
Node 1 Overhead
System
Node 2 Overhead
System
Node 3 Overhead
Synchronized OS Noise → Faster Results
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56. Staying in Front of the Data Gap
1982 1983 1987 1991 1992 1993 1996 1999 2001 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
SGI’s core focus for 25 years has been to push the leading edge of
efficiently creating & managing massive amounts of data
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57. Storage Platforms for Technical
Computing
InfiniteStorage JBOD Platforms InfiniteStorage Server Platforms InfiniteStorage RAID Platforms InfiniteStorage MAID Platforms Tape Libraries
Half-depth
Half- Half-depth
Half-
Half-depth Entry Level
Entry Level COPAN 400T/TX SpectraLogic Tape
SpectraLogic Tape
Half-depth COPAN 400T/TX
•Optimized for low cost •Optimized for low cost
•Optimized for low cost •Optimized for price
•Optimized for price •VTL •T50e
•T50e
•Optimized for low cost •VTL
capacity capacity
capacity performance
performance •Ground breaking density •T120
•T120
capacity •Ground breaking density
•2U and 3U enclosures •3U servers
•3U servers •Designed to limit power •T200
•T200
•2U and 3U enclosures •Designed to limit power
•2.5” or 3.5” disks
2.5” or 3.5” disks •3.5” disks
3.5” disks Enterprise Mid-Range
Mid- •T380
•2.5” 3.5” •3.5” Enterprise Mid-Range and cooling
and cooling •T380
•Integrates into a a wide •T680
•Integrates into wide •T680
Full-depth
Full- Full-depth
Full-
Full-depth •Performance, reliability
•Performance, reliability variety of environments •T950
•T950
Full-depth variety of environments
and features
and features •T-Finity
•T-Finity
•Optimized for
•Optimized for •Optimized for scalability
•Optimized for scalability COPAN 400M
COPAN 400M
performance •3U and 4U Servers
•3U and 4U Servers HPC
HPC •Strong feature set, like
•Strong feature set, like
performance
•2U enclosure •3.5” disks
3.5” disks
•3.5” •Disk to Disk Solutions integrated encryption,
integrated encryption,
•2U enclosure •Disk to Disk Solutions
•2.5” disks
2.5” disks •High performance and
•High performance and •DMF and popular media health monitoring
media health monitoring
•2.5” •DMF and popular
scalability
scalability applications and easy maintenance
and easy maintenance
applications
NAS – File Serving InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystems InfiniteStorage Software Suite
ArcFiniti CXFS DMF LiveArc
CXFS
•Integrated, network •Enables “online” access to “offline” data
online” offline” •Digital asset and knowledge
•High performance shared
•High performance shared
accessible Disk-based
Disk- •Dramatic cost reductions in large management platform
file system for Scale-Up
Scale-
file system for Scale-Up
archiver leveraging MAID environments •General (collaborative) application
SGI File Serving
Lustre
Lustre SGI InfiniteStorage Hardware Platforms
•Rules-based migration, enables fine
Rules-
tuning of storage resources
platform
•Components can be used to create a
diverse range of applications
•Price/performance file •High performance parallel
•High performance parallel
file system for Scale Out
file system for Scale Out
serving over IP or IB
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58. Storage Platforms for Technical
Computing
InfiniteStorage JBOD Platforms InfiniteStorage Server Platforms InfiniteStorage RAID Platforms InfiniteStorage MAID Platforms Tape Libraries
Half-depth
Half- Half-depth
Half-
Half-depth Entry Level
Entry Level COPAN 400T/TX SpectraLogic Tape
SpectraLogic Tape
Half-depth COPAN 400T/TX
•Optimized for low cost •Optimized for low cost
•Optimized for low cost •Optimized for price
•Optimized for price •VTL •T50e
•T50e
•Optimized for low cost •VTL
capacity capacity
capacity performance
performance •Ground breaking density •T120
•T120
capacity •Ground breaking density
•2U and 3U enclosures •3U servers
•3U servers •Designed to limit power •T200
•T200
•2U and 3U enclosures •Designed to limit power
•2.5” or 3.5” disks
2.5” or 3.5” disks •3.5” disks
3.5” disks Enterprise Mid-Range
Mid- •T380
•2.5” 3.5” •3.5” Enterprise Mid-Range and cooling
and cooling •T380
•Integrates into a a wide •T680
•Integrates into wide •T680
Full-depth
Full- Full-depth
Full-
Full-depth •Performance, reliability
•Performance, reliability variety of environments •T950
•T950
Full-depth
•Optimized for
SGI InfiniteStorage Software & File Systems
•Optimized for scalability
and features
and features
COPAN 400M
variety of environments
•T-Finity
•T-Finity
•Optimized for •Optimized for scalability COPAN 400M
performance •3U and 4U Servers
•3U and 4U Servers HPC
HPC •Strong feature set, like
•Strong feature set, like
performance
•2U enclosure •3.5” disks
3.5” disks
•3.5” •Disk to Disk Solutions integrated encryption,
integrated encryption,
•2U enclosure •Disk to Disk Solutions
•2.5” disks
2.5” disks •High performance and
•High performance and •DMF and popular media health monitoring
media health monitoring
•2.5” •DMF and popular
scalability
scalability applications and easy maintenance
and easy maintenance
applications
NAS – File Serving InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystems InfiniteStorage Software Suite
ArcFiniti CXFS
CXFS DMF LiveArc
•Integrated, network •Enables “online” access to “offline” data
online” offline” •Digital asset and knowledge
•High performance shared
•High performance shared
accessible Disk-based
Disk- •Dramatic cost reductions in large management platform
file system for Scale-Up
Scale-
file system for Scale-Up
archiver leveraging MAID environments •General (collaborative) application
•Rules-based migration, enables fine
Rules- platform
Lustre
Lustre
SGI File Serving tuning of storage resources •Components can be used to create a
diverse range of applications
•High performance parallel
•High performance parallel
•Price/performance file
file system for Scale Out
file system for Scale Out
serving over IP or IB
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59. SGI InfiniteStorage Software & File Systems
Aligned to Client Requirements
For clients requiring: For clients requiring: For clients requiring: For clients requiring:
• HSM • Digital Asset Management • High bandwidth Access to • Scalable FS to scale-out
Scale-up SSI servers clusters
• Transparent multi-tier data • Data Classification
migration • Real-time, streaming • Scalable to 100+ GB/s
• Tools to enable collaboration
• A methodology to “green” across disparate data workloads • Linux only
their storage environments • DMF back-end • HPC Environment
• Minimize administrative • Workflow management • IB, GigE or 10 GigE
overhead
• DMF back-end
DMF LiveArc CXFS Lustre
• Enables “online” access to • Digital asset and knowledge • Instant multi-OS, multi- • Medium to huge clusters
“offline” data management platform
platform, no copy, data with greater than 4GB/s
• Dramatic cost reductions in • General (collaborative) sharing requirements
large environments application platform
• Enables multiple file • Best solution for very
• Rules-based migration, • Components can be used to
enables fine tuning of storage create a diverse range of systems in a cluster large clusters
resources at file and volume applications • High availability with • Open source solution
levels • Extensible service-oriented automatic failure
• Maintains data in online state architecture (SOA) • Object-based file system,
detection and recovery
during migration requires object storage
• XODB, XML-based Object
• Partial-file migration for rapid Database server
access • Written in platform neutral Java
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60. SGI® InfiniteStorage Hardware
Platforms
JBOD InfiniteStorage RAID Platforms Persistent Data Stores
Entry RAID Mid-Range
Mid- Performance MAID
MAID Tape Libraries
Tape Libraries
Entry RAID Mid-Range Performance
• IS1000 Series
Half Depth JBOD • IS4600 • IS6120 • COPAN 400M • Spectra Logic
• IS5000 - Performance RAID Native MAID
- Mixed Use RAID - T50e
- Entry RAID - SSD, SAS, SATA drives
• IS2000 Series - FC or IB HBAs • COPAN 400T/TX - T120
- 6 Gb/s SAS intermix
Full Depth JBOD - Optional 4U VTL - T200
- SAS and/or SSD drives - 120 drives max
60-drive dense tray - T380
- 192 drives max
- 480 drives max • IS15000 - T680
• IS4100 - Extreme bandwidth, Integrated Archive
Integrated Archive - T950
• IS5500 - T-Finity
- Mid-Range RAID density & scalability
ArcFiniti
- FC and SATA drives - Next Gen RAID - 600 drives per rack
- 112 drives max - 6 Gb/s SAS - 1200 drives max • Network-accessible
Network-
- FC, IB, SAS Disk-based archive
Disk-
- SAS and/or SSD • IS16000
solution.
drives - 10GB/s Reads and
writes • Up to 1.44 PB in a
- 384 drives max
- 300k Random HDD single rack.
read IOPS • Leveraging MAID
InfiniteStorage Server Platforms
InfiniteStorage Servers
InfiniteStorage Servers
• ISS3009 • ISS3500
- Half-depth, 3U - 4U – 36 Drives
- 9 Drives - IB, GigE & 10GigE
• ISS3012 - SAS, SATA & SSD
- Half-depth, 3U - ISER, iSCSI, NFS, CIFs
- 12 Drives
• ISS3118
- Full-depth, 3U
- 18 Drives
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61. Storage Strategy, where SGI Plays
SGI Sweet Spot: Larger Deals & Integrated, Productive
Solutions
Block-Based
1000 Transaction
Transaction
Processing
Processing
Intranet/
Intranet/
Extranet
Extranet Data
System files Data
OLTP Warehousing
Banking
Warehousing
Retail … Electronic
Commerce
Databases
Data Warehousing
Data Mining
Internet
Internet
IOPS (thousands)
Scientific
Scientific
100
Cloud
Cloud Computing
Computing
Imaging
Imaging
10 Video
Video
File-Based
5 10 50 100 500
Throughput in MB/sec MB/sec
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62. SGI® InfiniteStorage Server 3500
An solutions platform with integrated compute and storage
– High-density, aggressively-priced storage server
– Single & Dual-socket Intel® Xeon® processors
– High-Availability configuration
• Redundant (1+1) 1400W Gold Level power supply with PMBus function
• 7 x 8cm (middle) hot-swap cooling fans
– 4U - 36 hot-swappable 3.5” drives – SAS, SATA & SSD
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63. Copan Technology
A Strategic Portfolio Enhancement
Significant savings in power and cooling
– All disks can be powered off when not in use
– Up to 50% of the disks can be powered on
Reduced floor space requirement
– Lower power requirements and reduced heat
generation allows high density packaging
Extends disk life
– DiskAerobics software
• Data integrity verification
• Proactive sparing
– Disk power down reduces wear and tear*
*Testing showed 3-6x reduction in failure rate (increased MTBF)
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64. Purpose-built Persistent Data
Platform
Advantages over transactional storage: Advantages over tape storage:
6x better drive reliability 20x faster data access
6x higher capacity in a single footprint Integrated with tape vaulting
32x better data protection than standard RAID RAID protection benefit
Unmatched product life of 7+ years Simplified media management
Assured drive health and data integrity Integrated with HSM data movers
Persistent data lives in every tier
Availability Reliability Footprint
Performance Data Protection Scalability Affordability
Tier I Tier II Tier III Tier IV Tier V
Enterprise Disk Modular Array Object-Based File Backup/Recovery Off-Site DR Vaulting
Mission Critical, Repurposed Disaster Recovery,
Low-Cost SATA Near-line Recovery
Transactional Storage Transactional Storage Off-Site Data
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65. Different Types of Data Demand Different
Storage Solutions
Transactional or Persistent Data Vaulted Data
Dynamic Data Data Protection and Archive Data
I/O intensive • Large files • Sequential • Offsite
Small files • Very large storage • Explosive growth • Copy of copy
Modest storage growth • Throughput • Sequential
Steady growth rates • Compliance
E-mail Document Database Backup Replication Maps Video Imaging
8KB 80KB 8MB 10MB 20MB 60MB 300MB 48GB
Transactional data Persistent data Vaulted data
Amount of data in the typical enterprise
Within 30 days the
Within 30 days the
majority of transactional
majority of transactional
data becomes
data becomes
persistent data
persistent data
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66. SGI COPAN 400 Platform Details
Disk-Based Core Platform
– Enterprise 1TB, 2TB or 3TB Drives
– 1 to 8 MAID Shelves
– Up to 2,688TB raw storage per cabinet with 3TB
drives
– FC 8Gbps MAID, FC 4Gbps VTL GigE 1Gbps
Performance
– Up to 6,400 MB/s, 23TB/hr. (native MAID) or
– Up to 3,200 MB/s, 12.5TB/hr.* (VTL)
Multiple Solutions
– Native MAID: ideal for HSM and D2D applications
- SGI Data Migration Facility - IBM TSM D2D
- Commvault Simpana - Quantum StorNext
– VTL: reliable, high performance target for backup
and archive applications
*speed to double in future software release
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67. Enabling Efficient Density
ArcFiniti’s Canister Technology
Exclusive mounting scheme to eliminate
“rotational vibration” within a storage shelf
Unique canister technology provides
even thermal distribution to reduce
cooling needs.
Industry-leading packing density
896 SATA drives in single footprint
2,688TB with 3TB drives
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68. Introducing ArcFiniti™
File-based Archiving Solution
Primary
– Virtualized storage tiers for scalability, lower cost. Cache
– TCO advantages with industry-leading power efficiency
and density featuring COPAN MAID technology Archive
Policy
– High-performance file-based access for easy integration
into existing infrastructures
Archive Tier
– Data protection software to ensure very long term data
integrity
– 1.4PB Usable archive in a single rack
--An easy-to-deploy, integrated archive solution--
Bringing together the best of SGI Storage Tech
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69. Objective:
Providing a true archive for all persistent file data
Document File System
management Media & Entertainment
E-mail Archive Archives
Software
Bio Sciences and Pharma
CCTV & Video
Surveillance
• Single platform supporting multiple
applications simultaneously
• Standard NFS File System Access
• CIFS SAMBA (V2)
• Hugely scalable, reliable and secure storage
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70. SAN without CXFS…
LAN
LAN
SAN
-- Each host owns dedicated volume in shared array
-- Files must be copied for sharing
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71. SAN with CXFS… True Storage
Consolidation
SAN LAN
-- Each host shares multiple volumes
-- Eliminates multiple copies of shared files
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72. Related Solutions:
DMF: Automated, Policy-Based Tier Virtualization
By replacing a Tape Library with an SGI COPAN System, you can significantly decrease access times
By replacing a Tape Library with an SGI COPAN System, you can significantly decrease access times
of even the oldest data in your DMF environment while maintaining cost optimization
of even the oldest data in your DMF environment while maintaining cost optimization
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73. SGI® InfiniteStorage 5000
Price-Performance Leader
Next-generation 6Gb/s SAS controllers
Three interface options
– SAS, FC/SAS, iSCSI*/SAS 12-Bay - 3.5-in Drive Tray
Up to 192 drives –
High capacity and nearline SAS, SSD** drives
– Three enclosure options
2 GB of cache per controller
– Mirrored, battery-backed, de-staged to flash 24-Bay - 2.5-in Drive Tray
Base and Hyper Performance options
Premium features
SnapCopy (8/64), VolumeCopy (8), Remote Volume
Mirroring (8 over FC ports)
*iSCSI available only in IS5000-SP
**SSDs and require a premium feature purchase
60-Bay - 2.5 & 3.5-in Drive Tray
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74. SGI® InfiniteStorage 5500
High performance, modular versatility
The next-generation RAID platform with Intel Jasper Forest
multi-core based SAS RAID Controllers
Two interface options – FC or Infiniband
– Eight 8Gb FC host ports standard (no HICs)
12-Bay - 3.5-in Drive
– Sixteen 8Gb FC ports with optional FC Host Interface Cards (HICs)
Enclosure – Four 40Gb Infiniband ports with optional IB HICs
Up to 384 drives per IS5500 array
– High Performance SAS, Value SAS, High Capacity SAS, FDE and SSD drives
– 2U24 or 2U12 or 4U60 drive enclosures – mix and match drive types
6 or 12 GB of cache per controller
24-Bay - 2.5-in Drive
Enclosure
– Mirrored, battery-backed and destaged to flash memory
Base and Turbo Performance options
Telco Ready - NEBs level 3 Certified & -48v DC Power Option*
Premium Features
– Snapshot Copy, Volume Copy, Remote Mirroring, Data Assure and Safe Store
Safe
60-Bay - 2.5 & 3.5-in
Drive Enclosure
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75. Converged SAN and NAS
SAN-attached clients
SAN-attached clients
Windows
•Leverage SGI’s XFS
•Leverage SGI’s XFS
Linux RHEL Linux SLES Server Windows® OS X 32 OS X 64 bit
•Seamless integration with
•Seamless integration with
near-line storage for unlimited
near-line storage for unlimited
data growth
data growth
•Data access via FC SAN, GigE,
•Data access via FC SAN, GigE,
10GbE, Infiniband via CXFS, NFS
10GbE, Infiniband via CXFS, NFS
SAN
SAN and CIFS
and CIFS
Primary
Storage
Secondary
Storage
(Optional)
Cluster
Cluster
NAS
NAS
MAID or
Tape
Library
Integrated Tiered Storage Network-Attached clients
Network-Attached clients
Integrated Tiered Storage
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76. Thank you
Martin Jalový, Systems Engineer SGI
mjalovy@sgi.com
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