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2. Nov 18th 2013
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3. Nov 18th 2013
Readers’ Choice best server product or technology:
Intel Xeon Processor
Editors’ Choice best server product or technology:
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
Readers’ Choice top product or technology to watch:
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor

4. Nov 18th 2013
on
Readers’ Choice:
GENCI CURIE for DEUS
(Dark Energy Universe Simulation) project

17. Needs
Increase the capacity of University of Reims’ ROMEO HPC Center, an
NVIDIA CUDA® Research Center
Develop the teaching activities on accelerators technologies
A system to drive research in mathematics and computer science, physics
and engineering sciences, and multiscale molecular modeling.
Solution
A large GPU-accelerated cluster:
260 NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerators housed in 130 bullx R421 E3 servers
Expected performance: 230 Tflops (Linpack)
Free-cooling system based on Bull Cool Cabinet Doors
joint scientific and technical collaboration with NVIDIA and BULL
The new “Romeo” system will be installed this summer

18. Needs
Create a world-class supercomputing center that will be
made available to the Czech science and industry community
Find accommodation for the supercomputer while the IT4I
supercomputing center is built
Solution
The Anselm supercomputer, an 82 Tflops bullx system housed in a
leased mobull container:
180 bullx B510 compute nodes
23 bullx B515 accelerator blades with NVIDIA M2090 GPUs
4 bullx B515 accelerator blades with Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors
Lustre shared file system
Water-cooled rear doors
bullx supercomputer suite

19. Needs
A system that matches the University’s strong involvement in
sustainable development
A minimum performance of 45 Tflops
Solution
A bullx configuration that optimizes power consumption, footprint
and cooling, with Direct Liquid Cooling nodes and free cooling:
136 dual-socket bullx DLC B710 compute nodes
InfiniBand FDR
Lustre file system
bullx supercomputer suite
PUE 1.13
Free cooling installation

20. Needs
A solution focusing on green IT with a very innovative collaboration
and research program
Solution
A bullx supercomputer based on the bullx DLC series
Phase 1 (Q1 2013)
Throughput: 180 bullx B500 blades, IB QDR
HPC: 270 bullx DLC B710 nodes, 24 bullx B515 accelerator blades, IB FDR
Phase 2 (Q3 2014)
HPC: 630 bullx DLC B720 nodes, 4 SMP nodes with 2TB each
A total peak performance > 1.6 Petaflops at the end of phase 2

21. Needs
Replace the current 41.8 Tflops vector system by a scalar supercomputer
Two identical systems: one for research & one for production
Solution
A bullx configuration that optimizes power consumption, footprint and cooling,
with Direct Liquid Cooling nodes:
Phase 1 (2013): 2 x 475 Tflops peak
─ 2 x 990 dual-socket bullx B710 compute nodes with Intel® Xeon® ‘IvyBridge EP’
Phase 2 (2015): 2 x 2.85 Pflops peak
─ 2 x 1800 dual-socket bullx B710 compute nodes with Intel® Xeon® ‘Broadwell EP’
Fat tree InfiniBand FDR
Lustre file system
bullx supercomputer suite

22. Needs
Replace the 65 TFlops Dutch National Supercomputer Huygens
Support a wide variety of scientific disciplines
A solution that can easily be extended
An HPC vendor who can also be a partner
Solution
A bullx supercomputer delivered in 3 phases:
Phase 1: 180 bullx Direct Liquid Cooling B710 nodes – Intel Sandybridge-based
+ 32 bullx R428 E3 fat nodes
Phase 2: 360 bullx Direct Liquid Cooling B710 nodes – Intel Ivybridge-based
Phase 3: 1080 bullx Direct Liquid Cooling B710 nodes – Intel Haswell-based
A total peak performance in excess of 1.3 Petaflops in phase 3

23. Needs
Provide high level computing resources for the R&D teams at
AREVA, Astrium, EDF, INERIS, Safran and CEA
Meet the requirements of a large variety of research topics
Solution
200 Tflops supercomputer “Airain” with a flexible architecture
594 bullx B510 compute nodes
InfiniBand QDR interconnect
Lustre file system
bullx supercomputer suite
+ extension used for genomics
180 “memory-rich” bullx B510 compute nodes (128GB of RAM)

24. Needs
Replacement of the bullx cluster installed in 2007
Support a diverse community of users, from experienced practitioners
to those just starting to consider HPC
Solution
A dedicated MPI compute node partition
 128 dual-socket bullx B510 compute nodes with Intel® Xeon® E5-2670
 16 “memory-rich” nodes for codes with large memory requirements
A dedicated HTC compute node partition
 72 refurbished bullx B500 blades
InfiniBand QDR
Lustre
bullx supercomputer suite

25. Needs
Upgrade the computing capacities dedicated to aerodynamics
Solution
A homogeneous cluster of 72 compute nodes
A few specialized nodes used either as “pure” compute nodes or as
hybrid nodes transferring part of the calculations to accelerators
bullx R424-E/F3 2U servers each housing 4 compute nodes
1 NVIDIA 1U system with 4 GPUs
InfiniBand QDR
Managed with the bullx supercomputer suite.
«The bullx cluster provides the ease of use and robustness that our
engineers are entitled to expect from an everyday tool for their work.»

26. Atomic Weapons Establishment
AWE confirms its trust in Bull with the upgrade
of its 3 bullx supercomputers
New blades in the existing infrastructure
Simple replacement of the initial blades with new bullx B510
blades featuring the latest Sandy Bridge EP CPUs
Willow 2x 35 Tflops  Whitebeam 2x 156 Tflops
Blackthorn 145 Tflops  Sycamore 398 Tflops
All existing bullx chassis re-used to house the new blades
Upgrade of the storage systems
Cluster software upgraded to bullx supercomputer suite 4

27. Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau
Needs
Replace one of their 2 compute clusters used for:
 2D and 3D modeling of rivers
 3D modeling of flows
 Reliability analyses (Monte Carlo simulations)
Solution
126 bullx B510 compute nodes (2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2670)
Bull Cool Cabinet doors (water-cooled)
Full non-blocking InfiniBand QDR interconnect network
Panasas Storage System (110 TB)
Cluster software: Hpc.manage powered by scVENUS (a solution
from science + computing, a Bull Group company)

28. HPC Midlands Consortium
Needs
Make world-class HPC facilities accessible to both academic and
industrial researchers, and especially to smaller companies, to
facilitate innovation, growth and wealth creation
Encourage industrially relevant research to benefit the UK economy
Solution
A bullx supercomputer with a peak performance of 48 TF:
188 bullx B510 compute nodes (Intel® Xeon® E5-2600)
Lustre parallel file system (with LSI/Netapp HW)
Water-cooled racks

29. This research center active in the fields of energy &
transport wanted:
A 100 Tflops extension to their computing resources
To provide sustainable technologies to meet the challenges of climate
change, energy diversification & water resource management
Solution
A bullx supercomputer delivering 130 Tflops peak:
392 B510 compute nodes (Intel® Xeon® E5-2670)
new generation InfiniBand FDR interconnect
GPFS on LSI storage

30. Needs
Create a world-class manufacturing research
centre
Finite-based modeling of detailed 3D timedependent manufacturing processes
Solution
72 bullx B510 compute nodes (Intel® Xeon® E52670)
1 bullx S6030 supernode

31. Needs
One of the newest public universities in Spain, it
needed a high density compute cluster:
For the Physical Chemistry Division
To design multifunctional nano-structured materials
Solution
A complete solution with:
36 bullx B500 compute blades (Intel® Xeon® 5640)
installation, training, 5-year maintenance

32. This innovative engineering company
specializing in design for the motor
racing industry wanted to:
Support the use of advanced virtual engineering
technologies, developed in-house, for complete
simulated vehicle design, development and testing
Solution
198 bullx B500 compute blades
2 memory rich bullx S6010 compute nodes for pre
and post meshing

33. Needs
“Keep content looking great wherever it’s played”
An ultra-dense HPC platform optimized for large scale
video processing
Solution
TITAN, built on bullx B510 blades: a scalable video
processing platform that enables massively parallel
content transcoding into multiple formats at a very high
degree of fidelity to the original

34. This Belgian research center working for
the aeronautics industry wanted to:
Double their HPC capacity
Find an easy way to extend their computer room
capacity
Solution
A bullx system delivering 40 Teraflops (bullx B500
compute nodes)
Installed in a mobull mobile data centre

35. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria needed to
reduce run time for mathematical models to:
manage financial risks better
have a competitive advantage and get the best price for
complex financial products
Solution
A bullx cluster delivering 41 Teraflops, with:
80 bullx R424-E2 compute nodes
2 bullx R423-E2 service nodes

36. The Dutch meteo was looking for:
More computing power to be able to issue early warnings in case
of extreme weather and enhance capabilities for climate research
Solution
A system 40 times more powerful than KNMI’s previous system:
396 bullx B500 compute nodes, equipped with Intel® Xeon® Series
5600 processors
9.5 TB memory
peak performance 58.2 Tflop/s
“The hardware, combined with Bull's expert support, gives us
confidence in our cooperation”

37. 300 Tflops peak
A massively parallel section (MPI) including
1,350 bullx B500 processing nodes with a total
of 16,200 Intel® Xeon® cores
An SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) section
including 11,456 Intel® Xeon® cores, grouped
into 181 bullx S6010/S6030 supernodes
Over 90 Terabytes of memory

38. Join
the Bull User group for eXtreme computing
www.bux-org.com