Installation to Production of a Large-Scale General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) Cluster at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory: Thufir

Abstract

This report documents the installation, acceptance testing, vendor interactions, and final system acceptance for production usage of a dedicated high performance computing project investment that was installed at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory facilities on the Aberdeen Proving Ground in MD. The uniqueness of this system lies in the use of the low latency 10 GigE (gigabit Ethernet) network fabric, many-core AMD Opteron central processing units (CPUs), Nvidia Fermi graphics processing unties (GPUs), and a mixture of CPU-only and CPU/GPU nodes. The final accepted production system is stable and capable of nearly 1 PetaFLOPS (1012 floating-point operations per second) of single precision performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA610234

Entities

People

  • Brian J. Henz
  • Dale R. Shires
  • Jaroslaw Knap
  • Jason Livingston
  • John Lazorisak

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Cellular Networks
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Floating Point Operations
  • Graphics
  • Graphics Processing Unit
  • High Performance Computing
  • Mesh Networks
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Software-Defined Radio Waveforms
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering