Param padma SuperComputer Vishal Bakshi



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PARAM Padma SuperComputer

  • Vishal Bakshi

  • Aditya Polumetla


Topics

  • Introduction

  • Specifications

  • Machine Architecture

  • Microkernel Architecture

  • PARAMNet II

  • System Software

  • Applications on PARAM



PARAM

  • PARAM – PARAllel Machine

  • Developed by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) India

  • PARAM Padma is the latest in the line of PARAM series after PARAM 8000, PARAM 9000 and PARAM 10000

  • Introduced in 2003

  • Its a next generation high performance scalable computing cluster

  • PARAM Padma's theoretical peak performance of complete configuration is 1.13 TFlops



PARAM Padma



PARAM Padma Configuration



Specifications

  • Compute Nodes:

    • 248 Power 4 1 Ghz processors
    • 54 4-way SMP and 1 32-way SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) configuration
    • OS – AIX / LINUX
  • AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a IBM's UNIX operating system

    • Aggregate Memory of 0.5 TeraBytes


Specifications continued

  • Network:

    • PARAMNet II (primary)
    • GigaByte Ethernet (backup)
  • File Servers:

    • 24 UltraSparc-III 900MHz processors
    • 6 4-way SMP configuration
    • OS – Solaris
    • File System – QFS (Quantitative File System)


Specifications continued

  • External Storage:

    • Storage array 5 TeraBytes
    • Tape Library 12 TeraBytes
  • System Software:



PARAM Padma System Layout



PARAM Machine Architecture



PARAM Machine Architecture continued

  • Cluster Personality

  • - Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) driver allows mapping of common network protocols to the underlying network

  • MPP (Massively Parallel Processor) Personality

  • - Architecture allows microkernel to be loaded on compute nodes

  • - implements custom designed Concurrent Runtime Environment (CORE)

  • - Standard message passing interface

  • 1. Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)

  • 2. Message Passing Interface (MPI)



PARAS Microkernel Architecture

  • Message for high MPP

  • Supports multiple tasks with a paged virtual memory space

  • Multiple threads of execution within each task

  • Message based interprocess communication

  • Communication between tasks by message passing

  • Location independent interprocess communication supported by port abstraction



PARAS Microkernel Architecture continued

  • Services:

  • - An executive which schedules priority based threads

  • - Location transparent interprocess communication mechanism

  • - Simple virtual memory model

  • - Low kernel hardware supervisor



PARAS Microkernel – Block Diagram



Microkernel Architecture

  • PARAS service request dispatcher routes all requests to appropriate service provides

  • Resource Managers

  • - Process Manager

  • - Virtual Memory Manager

  • - Inter-Process Communication (IPC) Manager



Microkernel Abstractions

  • Five basic abstractions supported

  • - Tasks

  • - Threads

  • - Ports

  • - Messages

  • - Regions



Operating Environment



Operating Environment continued

  • Components of Operating Environment

  • - Partition Manager: global resource manager and management of that partition's resources

  • - Process Server: Spawning tasks on a node and provides remote system call interface

  • - Microkernel File System Server: to serve UNIX file system calls

  • - Name Server: provides port naming services to user application



PARAMNet II

  • Developed by C-DAC

  • System Area Network (SAN) switch to interconnect the nodes of the system

  • Provides a low latency and high bandwidth interconnect

  • data rate @ 2.5 Gigabits/sec

  • message latency of 10 µ sec

  • switch latency of 0.5 µ sec



PARAMNet II continued

  • Major components are -

  • 1. 8 / 16-port SAN switch

  • 2. Network Interface Card (NIC) with CCP-III

  • (C-DAC Co-Processor) communication

  • coprocessor

  • 3. Application Programming Interface (C-VIPL)

  • C-DAC's Virtual Interface Provider Library



PARAMNet II – SAN Switch

  • Non-blocking crossbar based architecture

  • 2.5 Gbps full duplex bandwidth per port

  • Distributed schedulers allow individual routing tables per port, allowing for any network topology

  • More than 8 / 16 ports supported using multi-level switching

  • Ethernet based management interface allows for remote access and control of multiple switches



PARAMNet II – SAN Switch continued

  • Virtual channel based routing with 1 KB buffering per port each at input and output

  • Interval routing scheme based on 32-bit header (16-bit routing information)

  • Group adaptive routing based on LRU algorithm to ensure uniform bandwidth distribution in a group

  • Point-to-point flow control with pause and resume token



PARAMNet II - NIC

  • Provides interface to SANSW8 (8 port ) and SANSW16 (16 port) PARAMNet II switch

  • Supports for connection oriented and connectionless protocols

  • Can be configured for other protocols

  • Capable of performing I/O from paged virtual memory



PARAMNet II – NIC continued

  • Support for up to 1024 connections and up to 1024 completion queues

  • Support for different page sizes

  • Packetization and reassembly done in hardware

  • Error detection and recovery done in hardware

  • Latency of 10 µ sec



PARAMNet II - C-VIPL



PARAMNet II – C-VIPL continued

  • C-VIPL is an application programming interface for PARAMNet II

  • Major feature – Thread safe implementation

  • Supports AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows OS



System Level Block diagram for PARAMNet II



System Level Block diagram for PARAMNet II continued

  • PARAMNet II network comprises of N hosts connected in non-blocking fat tree topology

  • For more than 8 / 16 hosts multiple SANSW8 / SANSW16 are required

  • As switch latency is low multiple levels of switches have less latency



PARAM Padma and PARAMNet II

  • PARAM Padma has 12 PARAMNet II switches connected to two-level configuration to form 64 node CLOS network

  • CLOS Network: multi-stage network topology that provides alternate paths between input and output making it possible to eliminate the blocking that occurs in other networks

  • Latency associated with packet routing are small for a non -blocking topology



HPCC Software

  • HPCC software on the PARAM Padma provides a high performance flexible software environment



HPCC Software continued

  • HPCC Software consists of

  • -program development tools

  • - system management tools

  • - software engineering tools

  • Provides low overhead for communication

  • Optimized Message Passing Interface (MPI)

  • Parallel file system with MPI-IO interface to enable applications to scale on large cluster



HPCC Software continued

  • C-FPS is a client-server and user level parallel file system that addresses high I/O throughput requirements

  • The Fortran programming environment consists of

  • - Fortran 90 compiler,

  • - parallelizing compiler for Fortran 77/90 for SMP

  • - integrated development environment and Fortran 77 to Fortran 90 converter



HPCC Software continued

  • The DIViA debugging environment comprises of a coherent set of tools that help programmers in debugging parallel programs

  • PARMON the system management tool, enables the administrator to monitor activities and resource utilization of various cluster components

  • RMS resource management tool enables users to optimally schedule jobs across the cluster nodes



Storage Architecture

  • Storage is provided by Storage array and Tape library

  • Storage Area Network

  • PARAM Padma has a network centric storage architecture

  • Storage capacity of 5 TB scalable to 22 TB

  • Use of Fibre Channel Arbitration Loop (FC-AL) technology to interconnect storage subsystems



Applications on PARAM Padma

  • Bioinformatics

  • - stimulations of large bio molecules

  • - analysis of large databases for studying functions

  • of genes

  • Computational Structural Mechanics

  • - fracture analysis

  • - stress analysis

  • - visualization for structural and fluid mechanics

  • - study of thin walled structures



Applications on PARAM Padma contt

  • Seismic Data Processing

  • - for oil and natural gas exploration

  • Computational Chemistry

  • - calculation of electronic structure and properties of molecules

  • - molecular dynamics simulation

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • - simulation of external and internal flows

  • - simulation of hypersonic flows



References

  • 1. http://cdac.in/html/parampma.asp

  • 2.A Microkernel Based Operating System for PARAM 9000, Mohan Ram, N et al, CDAC 1995

  • 3. PARAM Padma – A Teraflops Computing System And High Performance Computing in India, Purohit, S.K., CDAC, 2003

  • 4.Current State and Future Trends in High Performance Computing & Communications (HPCC) Research in India, Sinha, P.K. et al, 10th IEEE Internaltional Workshop on FTDCS 2004.

  • 5.Overview of recent supercomputers, Aad J. van der Steen, NCF, The Hague, 1997.



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