ISC14 Embedded HPC BoF Panel Presentation

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SYSTEMS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

High Performance Computing

Eric Van Hensbergen – Principle Engineer R&D

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Embedded HPC is not a new concept

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Top 500 Historical

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Why ARM is interesting in HPC

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GFL

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s/C

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Top 500 Historical Data

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ARM: 21st Century Design

§  Focuses on Design & Licensing of IP Building Blocks for SoCs

§  Fosters an eco-system of standard pieces, acting as COTS-on-Silicon

§  COTS-on-Silicon encourages multi-suppliers through the eco-system

§  Allowing the eco-system the ability to deliver cost effective solutions §  Enforcing localized optimized end designs

§  Enabling circuit-boards to be miniaturized onto a single chip

§  While retaining the technology DNA of Energy-Efficiency

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ARM Business Model

licence

royalty

IP

chips

ARM invests in ecosystem

Ecosystem provides value chain with support & products based on ARM technology

Processors

GPUs

Physical IP

Interconnect

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Diversity is Key

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10 Billion Cores Last Year, 50 Billion Overall

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System Design Space Exploration

HPC End Customers

Workloads

HPC Disk Image

Performance Projection

Design Sensitivity

Studies

Characterization Co-Design Centers

RTL Simulation

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▪  Build a prototype ARM-based Supercomputer ▪  Using low-power commercially available embedded technology ▪  Optimized OS and libraries for HPC ▪  Demonstrate competitive MFLOPS/Watt

▪  Port large scale HPC applications to the prototype ▪  Not benchmarks – real applications, real workloads ▪  Status: 11 large scientific applications ported to ARM-based

cluster @ BSC

▪  Design a next-generation ARM-based HPC ▪  Exploiting GPGPU/Compute Accelerators ▪  Exploiting novel memory technologies ▪  For world-beating GFLOPS/Watt

EU ARM HPC http://www.montblanc-project.eu

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