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South Ural State University
(National Research University)
SUPERCOMPUTER SIMULATION LABORATORY
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«SKIF-Aurora SUSU» Supercomputer
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Complex solution of company «RSK» – one of the leading Russian developers and integrators of supercomputers, http://www.rscgroup.ru.
It consists of 736 compact and powerful computing blade-modules with liquid cooling.
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Top 500 Rating
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The supercomputer «SKIF-Aurora» took the following positions in TOP500:
| Editorial Rating |
Position |
| June 2011 |
87 |
| November 2011 |
121 |
| June 2012 |
185 |
| November 2012 |
303 |
| June 2013 |
471 |
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Top 50 Rating
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To help correctly navigate the world of high-performance computing systems and be able to quickly track the development trends of this area, the Interagency Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Research Computing Center of the Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov in May 2004, with the support of the Russian company T-Platforms, launched a joint project on the formation of the list of 50 most powerful CIS computers TOP50. The list includes 50 computer systems installed in the CIS and showed the highest productivity on the Linpack test by the time the list was published.
The supercomputer «SKIF-Aurora» took the following positions in TOP50:
| Editorial Rating |
Position |
| 30.03.2010 |
8 |
| 21.09.2010 |
13 |
| 29.03.2011 |
3 |
| 20.09.2011 |
3 |
| 27.03.2012 |
4 |
| 18.09.2012 |
4 |
| 02.04.2013 |
8 |
| 24.09.2013 |
8 |
| 01.04.2014 |
9 |
| 23.09.2014 |
11 |
| 31.03.2015 |
13 |
| 28.09.2015 |
14 |
| 29.03.2016 |
15 |
| 26.09.2016 |
15 |
| 04.04.2017 |
16 |
| 25.09.2017 |
18 |
| 03.04.2018 |
20 |
| 24.09.2018 |
21 |
| 02.04.2019 |
27 |
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Technical features:
| Quantity of computing units/processors/kernels: |
256/1472/8832 |
| Type of processor: |
Intel Xeon X5680 (Gulftown, 6 cores with frequency 3.33 GHz) |
| RAM: |
9 TB (DDR1333) |
| Disk memory: |
108 TB, 108 TB, solid-state drives Intel SSD |
| Type of communicative network: |
InfiniBand QDR (40 Gbit/s, max. delay 2 µs) |
| System network: |
3D torus |
| Service network: |
SKIF ServNet v.4
Network of global synchronization |
| Accelerators: |
Programmable FPGA accelerators |
| Peak performance SKIF-Aurora SUSU + Tornado SUSU: |
117,64 TFlops |
| Performance SKIF-Aurora SUSU + Tornado SUSU on LINPACK test: |
100 TFlops |
| Operating system: |
SKIF ALT Linux 4.3.2-alt15 |
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Features
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Power efficiency
- Effective cooling: direct liquid cooling on level of motherboards provides much more efficient heat removal in comparison to air cooling.
- Low price of possession: up to 60% of economy of electric power.
Compatibility
- Full compatibility with architecture x86.
- Optimized MPI-2 libraries.
Reliability
- Total lack of moving parts in processor units (absence of noise and vibration).
- Three-level system of monitoring and control.
Fail-safe feature
- Backup of all subsystems.
- Mode of «hot» change of equipment.
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