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TheHartreeCentrePast, Present & Future Colin Morey - System Architect
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2011TildesleyReport• Economicimpactthrough
so1ware&modelling• InvestmentfromBIS• Crea=onofHartreeCentrein2012as
industrialdriverinHPC• Focusonindustrialengagement• PartnershipwithIBM
2015MajorInvestmentinCollabora=veResearch• DataCentric&Cogni=veCompu=ng• EmbeddedIBMResearchCentre• Extendedindustrial&scien=ficreach
TheHartreeCentreEstablishment
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Past,Present&Future• Past-GPFS3.4
• Present–GPFS3.5
• Future–SpectrumScale4.2
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GPFS-PastIni=alDeploymentin2012
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GPFS-Past
NSD
DDN
Blue Joule
BlueGene/Q
Blue Wonder
MPI Compute
Blue Wonder
vSMP Compute
Vizcontact
gateway for viz. systems
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Past–Performanceissues• RDMA-Verbskeptsilentlyfailing,andwouldn’tautofix• Sub-op=malnetworklayout(ini=albuildproblem)• “Slow”disks
– Individualbandwidthok,butslowtorespondtorequests
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GPFS-PresentExpandedprocurementin2014
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GPFS–Present(3.4/3.5)
NSD
DDN
Blue Joule
BlueGene/QBlue Wonder
MPI Compute
Blue Wonder
vSMP Compute
Vizcontact
gateway for viz. systems
GSS BGAS
BlueGene/Q
Benchmark
NeXtScale
Big Data
NeXtScale
LPP
NeXtScale
GSS
GSS
BlueWonder
iDataPlex
BlueWonder
NeXtScaleFlash system
BGAS
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SpectrumScale-Future
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SpectrumScale–Future• CommonDataStore
– Protocolaccesssupport• CIFS• WebDAV
– AFM• GPFSAE–Encryp=onPoC
– Vanilla,MixedandDedicatedmode