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NVIDIA and PNY High Performance Computing (HPC)
Partners at SuperComputing 2007 Conference (SC07)
Sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, SC07 spotlights the latest advances in high performance computing,
networking, storage and analysis. At NVIDIA and PNY Partner booths, attendees witnessed for the first time the
revolutionary
NVIDIA® Tesla™ high performance computing (HPC) solutions in action.
NVIDIA and PNY Partners were also showcasing
NVIDIA Quadro Plex, the world’s first visual computing system (VCS), and the ultra high performance
NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY professional graphics boards driving advanced visualization applications.
Visitors to NVIDIA’s booth were rewarded with stunning 3D visualizations of simulated complex molecular systems, seismic data and simulated neural growth created with industry leading HPC applications using the incredible processing power of a Tesla S870 GPU Computing server. This was the first time scientists and engineers could actually witness the computation power of this 12 node cluster including four Tesla S870s (16GPUs) hooked up to eight HP DL140 servers. The processing power of the Tesla C870 GPU was also being demonstrated using sophisticated data-intensive financial applications, along with additional demonstrations on SUN workstations using the Tesla D870 Deskside System. www.nvidia.com
Avanced Clustering Technologies: "Our primary focus during the SC07 rested on our commitment to our customers and how Advanced Clustering Technologies maintains a level of customer service and satisfaction as customized and reliable as the products we offer. The SC07 was also a great opportunity for us to showcase the ultra high performance NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 by PNY graphics cards, along with other new HPC technologies available to maximize cluster performance." Shelly Matthews - Kelley, Vice President of Sales. www.advancedclustering.com
GraphStream showcased their new 4O32A-GR3A GPU Computing Server, which incorporates Tesla S870 and combines 16-way SMP, 256 GBytes shared main memory, and four NVIDIA Tesla GPUs in a cost-efficient 3RU-rackmount unit, enabling world-leading compute density of over 32 TeraFLOP/s peak per rack. GraphStream worked with NVIDIA to show the single-server Tesla S870 achieve record performances of 1.07 TeraFLOP/s sustained on a real science application (VMD molecular dynamics). The output was then rendered on a tiled display driven by two Quadro® Plex 1000 VCS units provided by PNY. GraphStream also celebrated the continued dominance of the 596-TeraFLOP/s BlueGene/L system as the Top500 #1 world's most powerful supercomputer. GraphStream, PNY, and NVIDIA teamed to create the visualization system for BlueGene/L, which combines the power of 256 Quadro GPUs operating in parallel. www.graphstream.com
Mercury Computer Systems using Tesla GPUs, demonstrated how it could provide the Oil Industry with a comprehensive solution for simultaneous computation and visualization of huge 3D seismic data sets. Mercury showed a prototype application developed with Ocean, an application development framework for extending the Schlumberger Petrel seismic-to-simulation software that demonstrates seamless integration between high-performance computing and high- quality visualization for huge 3D seismic data sets. www.mc.com
Mercury Computer Systems and NVIDIA to Provide Oil Industry with Data Computation on the Fly –Read press release here.
Microway showcased their new ultra-quiet WhisperStation which uses the C870 Tesla GPU. According to Ann Fried, chairperson and cofounder of Microway, Inc.: “When testing the VMD molecular modeling application, Tesla showed very fast performance. Visitors to the booth were excited about exploring the use of the Tesla GPU in research applications. Microway believes that usage of the Tesla GPU processor will revolutionize the way floating point operations are performed in scientific computations." www.microway.com
Microway® WhisperStation™ Silent Personal Supercomputer To Use NVIDIA Tesla GPUs – Read press release here
Purdue University used NVIDIA Quadro by PNY genlockable graphics boards to power their tiled wall (12 LCD panels) to display uncompressed 4K video which had been streamed from Purdue to the show floor. www.envision.purdue.edu
Sun Microsystems teamed up their high performing Sun Fire X2200 server with a Tesla S870 GPU server to create a super powerful Scalable GPU Computing and Visualization Solution. The computation power of this system is astounding; it powered NAMD/VMD molecular modeling applications that normally require large, sophisticated clusters of computers.
Also on show was the Sun Scalable Visualization Solution: a powerful graphics cluster consisting of 8 Sun Ultra 24 workstations each connected to one NVIDIA Quadro Plex Visual Computing System (VCS) Model IV and Mellanox Infiniband DDR HCA with display client Ultra 24 workstations in the Sun, Intel, and Mellanox booths. The cluster was split between the Sun booth and the Intel booth. A Voltaire Grid Switch ISR 9024 connected the Sun booth sub-cluster to the SciNet network and the Intel booth sub-cluster via Intel Connects Cables.
The applications running on this system showed the power of scaling across multiple GPUs to render very large data sets: Gocad High Performance Volume Interpretation (HPVI) from Paradigm Geophysical and Scalable Graphics was used to render a seismic cube of 108 GB (2000 x 4120 x 3536 voxels, 32 bits floating point value per voxel), data provided by Paradigm Geophysical. The entire seismic cube was explored and interpreted without any pre-loading time and always at full resolution in real-time (no multi-resolution, no down-sampling).
A Scalable Graphics 3D Viewer based on NVIDIA Scene Graph (NVSG) was used to display a non-engineering CAD 3D model of the Boeing 777, model data courtesy of Boeing Corporation. The whole model contains about 320 million color-coded polygons and is rendered as-is (without any pre-processing or optimization of any kind besides simple frustum culling) in real-time.
www.sun.com
Other partners demonstrating NVIDIA graphics at SC07 included: Aspen Systems, Barco Simulation, Bell Computer, Christie Digital Systems, SICORP, Verari Systems and Western Scientific.
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