Exascale Innovation Center

Develop hardware and software for an exascale system

Analysis of Power Consumption in HPC Systems
Energy efficiency is a key design principle of exascale systems Currently, analysis is performed for Blue Gene/P and Power7 systems on system as well as on application level Goal: Identify energy-saving potentials within large-scale parallel jobs, e.g. exploiting wait states in MPI runs

LLview showing system utilisation and power consumption on JUGENE

Exascale I/O Architecture

Explore strategy to deal with the I/O challenge: Fast storage directly attached to the I/O nodes to keep track with compute power Prototype based on Blue Gene/Q is developed in the framework of PRACE Possible use case: Multi-stage I/O - Flash drives used as fast cache in storage hierarchy

Evaluation of Blue Gene/Q Features

First experiences on Blue Gene/Q prototype FZJs key applications and tools are being ported: PEPC, LQCD, MP2C, Elemental, and juRS Scalasca, LinkTest, and SIONlib Performance analysis toolset Scalasca is already in use for application profiles and traces

IB/10GigE Switch (external network) BG/Q compute racks BG/Q I/O - Nodes with Direct attached storage

Proposed Blue Gene/Q storage architecture Trace analysis by Scalasca on Blue Gene/Q
Exascale Innovation Center (EIC) is a collaboration of IBM Germany Research & Development and Forschungszentrum Jlich