Experiences evaluating functionality and performance of IBM POWER8+ systems

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Abstract

In preparation for Summit, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s next generation supercomputer, two IBM Power-based systems were deployed in late 2016 at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). This paper presents a detailed description of the acceptance of the first IBM Power-based early access systems installed at the OLCF. The two systems, Summitdev and Tundra, contain IBM POWER8+ processors with NVIDIA Pascal GPUs and were acquired to provide researchers with a platform to optimize codes for the Power architecture. In addition, this paper presents early functional and performance results obtained on Summitdev with the latest software stack available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHigh Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2017 International Workshops, DRBSD, ExaComm, HCPM, HPC-IODC, IWOPH, IXPUG, P^3MA, VHPC, Visualization at Scale, WOPSSS, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsRio Yokota, Julian M. Kunkel, Michela Taufer, John Shalf
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages254-274
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9783319676296
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event32nd International Conference on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2017 - Frankfurt, Germany
Duration: Jun 18 2017Jun 22 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10524 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference32nd International Conference on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2017
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityFrankfurt
Period06/18/1706/22/17

Funding

Notice of Copyright. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy. gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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