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View article: Blue <scp>Waters</scp> system and component reliability
Blue <span>Waters</span> system and component reliability Open
Summary The Blue Waters system, installed in 2012 at NCSA, has the largest component count of any system Cray has built. Blue Waters includes a mix of dual‐socket CPU (XE) and single‐socket CPU, single GPU (XK) nodes. The primary storage i…
View article: The Delta Gateway: Exploring Community Use of GPU Resources through a Science Gateway
The Delta Gateway: Exploring Community Use of GPU Resources through a Science Gateway Open
What could a research team accomplish if given access to the latest GPU hardware? A molecular dynamics research team could process protein-ligand tests using 100 GPUs on Delta in about 3.6 days, a task that would take their local lab a ful…
View article: Holistic Measurement-Driven System Assessment
Holistic Measurement-Driven System Assessment Open
In high-performance computing systems, application performance and throughput are dependent on a complex interplay of hardware and software subsystems and variable workloads with competing resource demands. Data-driven insights into the po…
View article: Workload Analysis of Blue Waters
Workload Analysis of Blue Waters Open
Blue Waters is a Petascale-level supercomputer whose mission is to enable the national scientific and research community to solve "grand challenge" problems that are orders of magnitude more complex than can be carried out on other high pe…
View article: Account Management of a Large-Scale HPC Resource
Account Management of a Large-Scale HPC Resource Open
Blue Waters is the largest system that Cray has built and operates in a very open network environment. This paper will discuss the design of the Blue Waters logical administrative network and how that design provides a secure and reliable …
View article: Blue Waters Resource Management and Job Scheduling Best Practices
Blue Waters Resource Management and Job Scheduling Best Practices Open
This paper describes resource management and job scheduling best practices learned from operating Blue Waters (a petascale Cray XE+XK supercomputer with 26,864 compute nodes) since April 2013. We will describe various aspects of such opera…
View article: GPU Acceleration of the Horizontal Diffusion Method in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model
GPU Acceleration of the Horizontal Diffusion Method in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model Open
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system. It is designed with a dual purpose, forecasting and research. The WRF software infrastructure consists of a number of components…
View article: Automatic Parallelization of GPU Applications Using OpenCL
Automatic Parallelization of GPU Applications Using OpenCL Open
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been successfully used to accelerate scientific applications due to their computation power and the availability of programming languages that make more approachable writing scientific applications for…