Technical Seminar: Paramnet Iii
Technical Seminar: Paramnet Iii
Technical Seminar: Paramnet Iii
PARAMNET III
Presented By
Rajesh Kumar Singh
Supercomputer
History
1960 - Introduced in 1960 by Seymour Cray at Control
Data Corporation (CDC)
1970 – Cray Research
1980 – New Competition
1985 – 1990 – Cray Research holds the market
Mid 1990’s –supercomputer Market Crash
Today – Cray , IBM and Hewlett-Packard
Features
Just like our superhero superman
Ability to perform the task at much higher
speed
Specialty high speed of computing
Perform many tasks in parallel
Able to solve complex mathematical and
engineering problems
Hardware & Software Design
Carefully designed memory hierarchy
Innovative designs to perform task at faster
rate
I/o system designed to support high
bandwidth
Avoid to eliminated software serialization
Use hardware to address the remaining
bottlenecks
Supercomputer challanges
Consumes large amount of electrical power
Require cooling
Delay in sending data from one supercomputer
to another
Requires large external storage
Slow in usually numerical calculation
Processing Techniques
Vector processing techniques were first
developed
It uses SIMD ( Single Instruction Multiple Data)
General Purpose computing on Graphics
Processing Units (GPGPU)
FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second)
10^15 FLOPS = 1 TFLOPS(teraflops)
Programming
The Parallelism in supercomputer is provided
by special programming techniques
Special libraries
Minimize wasting time of CPU
Software Tools
Special software tools
Creation from collection of workstations or
servers
Beowulf , Ware Wulf , OpenMosix
Zeroconf technology
Some Super Computers
Fastest Supercomputer - Tianhe-1A
India’s 1st supercomputer (C-DAC) - PARAM
EKA – TATA Group Supercomputer (4th in
Rank)
Special Purpose Supercomputer
It uses custom VLSI CHIPS
Belle , Deep , Hydra for playing chess
GRAPE , for astrophysics
MDGRAPE-3 for protein structure
computation
D.E. Shaw research Autom for
Share of Top 500 Supercomputers
Application
Solving calculation problem
Quantum mechanics Physics
Molecular Modeling
Weather Forecasting
Climate research
Physical simulation For nuclear test
Introduction to PARAM
PARAM is a series of Supercomputer
Centre for development of Advanced
Computing
PARAM Yuva (109 in top 500)
Challenge for Mission 2012
PARAM PADMA
Computer Cluster
A group of linked Computers
Forming a single Computer
Components are connected to each other via
LAN
Design to improve performance of single
computer
Cost effective
Cluster Categorization
High availability (HA) Clusters
Load – Balancing (LB) Clusters
Cluster and Features
Support computational Simulation of weather
or vehicle crashes
Shares a dedicated network
Beowulf cluster
Supercomputing
Paramnet III
Used to connect computer nodes
PARAM PADMA uses Paramnet III
provides High technical Performance
PARAMNET-III features
Low latency (LOHC)
High Bandwidth interconnect
High data rate (2.5 Gigabytes/sec)
Non-Blocking Architecture
PARAM , PADMA has 12 PARAMNET III
switches
Components of PARAMNET III
SAN switch (Storage Area Network)
SAN SWITCH
A storage area
network (SAN) is a
dedicated storage network
that provides access to
consolidated, block level
storage
The computer storage field,
a Fibre Channel switch is
a network switch compatible
with the Fibre Channel (FC)
protocol. It allows the
creation of a Fibre Channel
fabric, that is currently the
core component of
most storage area
networks (SAN).
NIC
A network interface
controller (also known as
a network interface
card, network
adapter, LAN adapter and
by similar terms) is a
computer
hardware component that
connects a computer to
a computer network.
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