Contemporary High Performance Computing

Chapter 17

Gordon: A Novel Architecture for Data Intensive Computing

Pietro Cicotti, Michael Norman, Robert S. Sinkovits, and Shawn Strande

San Diego Supercomputer Center

Allan Snavely

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

17.1  Introduction

17.1.1  Sponsor/Program Background

17.1.2  Design Highlights and Philosophy

17.2  Architecture

17.2.1  Overview

17.2.2  Compute Nodes

17.2.3  I/O Nodes

17.2.4  vSMP Virtualization

17.2.5  Interconnect

17.2.6  Data Oasis Lustre File System

17.2.7  Facility and Power

17.2.8  Project Timeline

17.3  System Software

17.4  Programming Environment

17.4.1  Programming Models

17.4.2  I/O Models

17.4.3  Profiling

17.5  Benchmarks and Applications

17.5.1  Benchmark Results

17.5.1.1  Standard HPC Benchmarks

17.5.1.2  I/O ...