Deploying a top-100 supercomputer for large parallel workloads: The niagara supercomputer

M Ponce, R Van Zon, S Northrup, D Gruner… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Niagara is currently the fastest supercomputer accessible to academics in Canada. It was
deployed at the beginning of 2018 and has been serving the research community ever …

MilkyWay-2 supercomputer: system and application

X Liao, L Xiao, C Yang, Y Lu - Frontiers of Computer Science, 2014 - Springer
Abstract On June 17, 2013, MilkyWay-2 (Tianhe-2) supercomputer was crowned as the
fastest supercomputer in the world on the 41th TOP500 list. This paper provides an overview …

Benchmarking amazon ec2 for hig-performance scientific computing

E Walker - ; login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE, 2008 - dialnet.unirioja.es
How effective are commercial cloud computers for high-performance scientific computing
compared to currently avaible alternatives? I aim to answer a specific instance of this …

JURECA: general-purpose supercomputer at Jülich supercomputing centre

D Krause, P Thörnig - … of large-scale …, 2016 - … -of-large-scale-research-facilities.org
JURECA is a petaflop-scale, general-purpose supercomputer operated by Jülich
Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Utilizing a flexible cluster architecture …

Cluster computing: High-performance, high-availability, and high-throughput processing on a network of computers

CS Yeo, R Buyya, H Pourreza, R Eskicioglu… - Handbook of Nature …, 2006 - Springer
The first inspiration for cluster computing was developed in the 1960s by IBM as an
alternative to linking large mainframes in order to provide a more cost-effective form of …

The top500 list and progress in high-performance computing

E Strohmaier, HW Meuer, J Dongarra, HD Simon - Computer, 2015 - escholarship.org
For more than two decades, the TOP500 list has enjoyed incredible success as a metric for
supercomputing performance and as a source of data for identifying technological trends …

Stepping up to summit

J Hines - Computing in science & engineering, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilitys newest supercomputer, Summit, will supply
five to ten times more computing power than current leadership-class systems. From facility …

Stampede 2: The evolution of an xsede supercomputer

D Stanzione, B Barth, N Gaffney, K Gaither… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The Stampede 1 supercomputer was a tremendous success as an XSEDE resource,
providing more than eight million successful computational simulations and data analysis …

Performance evaluation of Amazon EC2 for NASA HPC applications

P Mehrotra, J Djomehri, S Heistand, R Hood… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Cloud computing environments are now widely available and are being increasingly utilized
for technical computing. They are also being touted for high-performance computing (HPC) …

Deploying RMACC Summit: an HPC resource for the Rocky Mountain region

J Anderson, PJ Burns, D Milroy, P Ruprecht… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
RMACC Summit is a heterogeneous supercomputer cluster with an aggregate floating point
performance of 379 TFLOPS (Rmax, as currently configured) that provides about 85 million …