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Interconnects for HPC Systems |
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
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Panorama 1
Messe Frankfurt |
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| Breaks: | 12:30 pm - 01:45 pm Lunch |
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Sarah Neuwirth, University of Heidelberg |
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The internal interconnect of a HPC System is an integral and essential part of the architecture. Key characteristics like topology, bandwidth and latency have a dramatic impact on the actual performance that a system delivers for specific applications. Talks in this session will begin with a review of available interconnects in day-to-day use in a major HPC center. As it is well understood that current interconnect technologies are not applicable for exascale architectures the next talk will address options, challenges and the current status of interconnects that rely far more on photons than on electrons. It will be shown that the transition from electrons to photons has to occur right at the processor level for this kind of architectures. The final talk will address the status and potential of a future interconnect protocol standard called Gen-Z that is supported by several vendors all active in HPC. Gen-Z would actually allow more memory centric computing and foster highly efficient and heterogeneous application centric system architectures.
The three talks will be followed by a general Q&A session in form of a small panel. The audience then will have the opportunity to discuss directly with the session speakers.
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Existing De-Facto Standards for Interconnects: InfiniBand, GigE & OmniPath
11:00 am - 11:25 am |
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Jens Domke, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich |
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Optical Interconnects for Exascale - Challenges & Opportunities
11:25 am - 11:50 am |
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Sébastien Rumley, Columbia University |
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Gen-Z, a Future Standard for Interconnects?
11:50 am - 12:15 pm |
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John Bent, Seagate Government Solutions |
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Paolo Faraboschi, HPE |
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Panel
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm |
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Jens Domke, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Paolo Faraboschi, HPE |
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Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich |
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Sébastien Rumley, Columbia University |
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