Cray Environmental Industry Solutions

Per Nyberg

Earth Sciences Business Manager

nyberg@cray.com

Annecy CAS2K3

Sept 2003

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TopicsTopics

• Update on Cray Inc.• Cray Earth Sciences Focus • Cray X1 Application Performance

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In the news…In the news…

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Recent Key AccomplishmentsRecent Key Accomplishments

• Cray X1 Introduction• Department of Energy Office of Science X1

Evaluation• Department of Energy ASCI Sandia Red Storm

Contract• DARPA Contract/Cascade Project• Financial Foundation• Organizational Growth

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Cray X1 IntroductionCray X1 Introduction

• Five early-production systems shipped in 2002.• First customer ship was on schedule in

December 2002.• >260 Nodes delivered; > 13 Tflops.• Production ramp-up in 2003.

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DOE Office of Science X1 EvaluationDOE Office of Science X1 Evaluation

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ORNL EvaluationORNL Evaluation

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Sandia Red Storm ASCI ProjectSandia Red Storm ASCI Project

• $90+M contract with Sandia National Labs.• Design and development of a massively-

parallel, high-bandwidth system.• Key system characteristics

– Massively parallel system – 10,000 AMD 2 GHz processors

– High-bandwidth mesh-based custom interconnect– High-performance I/O subsystem– Fault tolerant

• Full system delivery in 2004

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DARPA – Cascade ProjectDARPA – Cascade Project

• Advanced Research Program– Goal of a “trans-petaflops system”– Robust, easier to program, more broadly applicable

• Phase I– Started in June 2002 for one year– Five total vendors– University partners

• Phase II– Cray proposal selected– Three total vendors– $49.9M Three-year contract

• Phase III planned for 2006

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Financial HighlightsFinancial Highlights

• 2002Q1 ~2003Q2 - Six contiguous profitable quarters• Increasing revenue growth

– 2003 revenue guidance: ~$220 million– X1 sales are expected to be ~$140 million.

• Significant R&D funding • Public offering in February 2003 raised $48M

Total Debt $15,712 $4,537 $3,546

Cash and Cash Equivalents $12,377 $23,916 $61,309

Mar 31, 2003

Working Capital ($5,724) $27,351 $82,412

Total Assets $127,087 $145,245 $201,653

Shareholders Equity $39,750 $83,561 $138,162

Dec 31, 2002

Dec 31, 2001

$ in Thousands

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Cray Earth Sciences FocusCray Earth Sciences Focus

• Key market for Cray technologies.– Market that pushes the frontiers of supercomputing.– Cray has unique offering.

• Rapidly growing and developing a team of environmental applications analysts.– >15 PhD level Applications Analysts worldwide.– 6 hired in within last year.– Focused on continuously supporting key weather,

climate and ocean applications.

• ORNL collaboration– Focus on high-end climate science.– Porting and optimization of NCAR CCSM to X1.

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Cray X1 Design ApproachCray X1 Design Approach

• Cray X1 was designed from the ground up as an MPP architecture with vector processors:

• Highly scalable, shared memory MPP.• Scalable operating system with single system image.• Heterogeneous Storage Area Network.

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Cray X1 FeaturesCray X1 Features

• Fast Single Processor:– 12.8 Gflops MSP

• Memory Bandwidth:– Single processor: 24 GB/s STREAM TRIAD– Scaled: 1171 GB/s (15 Nodes/1 Chassis) STREAM TRIAD

• Network Performance:– A 128 node system has a typical latency of ~1µs and a

bisection bandwidth of ~820 GB/s.

• Scalable Architecture – not clustered:– 2-D Torus network

• Scalable operating system:– Single Operating System to 512 MSPs (>6 Tflops)

• ADIC StorNext SAN and HSM.

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Cray X1 LC ChassisCray X1 LC Chassis16 Nodes; > 800 Gflops16 Nodes; > 800 Gflops

102.4 GB/s

Local node memoryPeak BW = 16 slices x 11.4 GB/s/slice = 182.4 GB/sCapacity = 16, 32 (late 2003), 64 (late 2004) GB512 Banks

Inter-node networkTwo ports per M-chip1.6 GB/s peak both directions per port2D Torus

Two I/O channel pairs per node = 4 x 1.2 GB/s = 4.8 GB/s

Cray X1 Node 51.2 GFLOPS

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128 Nodes – 512 CPUs – 6.4 TFLOPS128 Nodes – 512 CPUs – 6.4 TFLOPS

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Cray SAN DirectionCray SAN Direction

1-100+ Heterogeneous Client Nodes

Fail Over Meta DataServers.

A True Native Heterogeneous SAN based on ADICA True Native Heterogeneous SAN based on ADIC

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X1 STREAM ResultsX1 STREAM Results

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Cray Product Line RoadmapCray Product Line Roadmap

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Cray X1 – The first in a series of extreme performance systems from Cray

Extreme Performance, Highly Differentiated SupercomputersExtreme Performance, Highly Differentiated SupercomputersExtreme Performance, Highly Differentiated SupercomputersExtreme Performance, Highly Differentiated Supercomputers

DARPA Pflops Program – Cascade projectASCI Red Storm project

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SummarySummary

• Scientific High-Performance Computing is Cray’s sole focus.

• Cray has a unique offering.• Cray has a strong product roadmap and is

committed to our mission.• Cray is executing successfully on both financial

and operational fronts.• Cray is well suited as a partner to the

environmental community.

Thank You for Thank You for Your Attention.Your Attention.