A publication of the Advanced Simulation & Computing Division, NA-121.2, NNSA Defense Programs
December 2008
NA-ASC-500-08—Issue 9
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Lawrence Livermore Teams with Computing Industry Leaders to Develop an Advanced Technology Cluster Testbed
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has teamed with 10 computing industry leaders to accelerate the development of powerful next-generation Linux clusters in a project dubbed Hyperion.
Hyperion brings together Dell, Intel, Supermicro, QLogic, Cisco, Mellanox, DDN, Sun, LSI and RedHat to create a large-scale testbed for high-performance computing technologies critical to NNSA’s work to maintain the aging U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without underground nuclear testing, and industry’s ability to make petaFLOPS (quadrillion floating operations per second) computing and storage more accessible for commerce, industry, and research and development.
The goal of the project is to provide a development, testing, and scaling environment for new cluster technologies and infrastructure critical to the mission requirements of ASC. This includes testing new hardware and software technologies and forming long-term relationships to ensure continuity in the development of new technologies for ever-larger systems over the long haul.
Important technologies for scaling up computing clusters include Open Fabrics Enterprise Edition (OFED) InfiniBand™ Open Source software; Lustre Open Source Parallel File System; and Open Source Operating System Software and cluster tools used by the Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Clusters, which serve researchers at LLNL, Los Alamos, and Sandia. In addition, Hyperion will help lay the foundation for future petascale ASC computing platforms by facilitating the development of processors, memory, networks, storage and visualization.
For more information, view the press release.
https://publicaffairs.LLNL.gov/news/news_releases/2008/NR-08-11-04.html
LLNL Hyperion Project Leader Mark Seager (left) shakes the hand of Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, who announced Hyperion during his SC08 keynote address. Hyperion will provide a development, testing, and scaling environment for new cluster technologies and infrastructure critical to the mission requirements of ASC.
Cindy Heer and Marc Stearman of LLNL check on the Hyperion testbed.
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