CaDS Seminar 2024 - Apr. 9

Prof. Dr. Estela Suarez (Novel System Architecture Design)

Modular Supercomputing Architecture: from DEEP to JUPITER

Abstract:

The variety of applications using or striving to use high performance computing (HPC) resources is growing. The challenge for HPC technology providers and hosting sites consists on coming up with HPC system designs able to cope with such application diversity, while keeping the energy consumption and operational costs at bay. The Modular Supercomputing Architecture (MSA) addresses these challenges by orchestrating diverse resources like CPUs, GPUs, and disruptive technologies such as quantum or neuromorphic devices at a system level, organizing them into compute modules. Each module is configured to cater to specific application classes and user requirements. Users have the flexibility to determine how many nodes to use within each module, aligning their hardware requirements with their application's needs. Advanced scheduling mechanisms are used to maximize system utilization. This talk will detail MSA's key features, hardware, and software components, and discuss MSA's prospects in the context of Exascale computing.