Title
Unprecedented Scalability and Performance of the New NNSA Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Cluster 2
Abstract
As one of the largest users of supercomputing resources in the world, capacity computing is a critical component in the NNSA's (National Nuclear Security Administration) Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program. The latest acquisitions in this program - named the Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Cluster 2 (TLCC2) machines - have recently been installed at the three NNSA laboratories: Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. In this paper we investigate performance on Chama, Sandia's 1232 node cluster, with dual socket Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge processors connected using Qlogic QDR InfiniBand. Production applications benchmarked on Chama reveal significant improvements in the time to solution and scalability when compared against our earlier generation capacity clusters and a PetaFlops class capability machine.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.61
SC Companion
Keywords
Field
DocType
parallel processing,high performance computing,linux
InfiniBand,Supercomputer,Pattern clustering,Computer science,Parallel computing,Parallel processing,Xeon,Operating system,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-6218-4
2
0.42
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahesh Rajan1624.89
Douglas Doerfler21059.48
P. T. Lin3362.85
S. D. Hammond419819.05
R. F. Barrett5464.13
C. T. Vaughan6343.10