“Tornado SUSU” supercomputer

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU consists of 480 compact and powerful liquid-cooled computing blades.

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU is a complex solution , developed by a group of companies “RSK“.

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU is completely liquid-cooled of all electronic components and high energy efficiency Green500 and 127 in TOP500.org rating in November 2013).

Specifications

Number of compute nodes/processors/coprocessors/processor cores:	480/960/384/29184
Processor type:	Intel Xeon X5680 (Gulftown, 6 cores 3.33 GHz) — 960 pcs.
Coprocessor type:	Intel Xeon Phi SE10X (61 cores 1.1 GHz) — 384 pcs.
RAM:	16.9 TB
Disk storage:	177.62 TB, Panasas ActiveStor 11 parallel storage
System network type:	InfiniBand QDR (40 Gbit/s)
Control network type:	Gigabit Ethernet
Peak complex performance:	473.6 TFlops
Performance of the complex on LINPACK test:	288.2 TFlops
Operating system:	Linux CentOS 6.2

Compute node specifications

384 compute nodes with multi-core accelerators:

two Intel Xeon X5680 3.33 GHz CPUs (12 cores / 24 streams per node),
RAM: 24 GB ECC DDR3 Full buffered,
Intel Xeon Phi multi-core coprocessor (61 core, 8 GB),
Solid State Drive: 80 GB.

96 compute nodes with extended memory:

two Intel Xeon X5680 3.33 GHz CPUs (12 cores / 24 streams per node),
RAM: 48 GB ECC DDR3 Full buffered,
Solid State Drive: 80 GB.

Distinguishing properties

Computing power

High peak computing power Up to 47.5 TFLOPS in single rack based Intel x86 architecture with AVX Instruction Set.
High density 74 TFLOPS per sqm m.
High scalability to several PFLOPS (tens of racks ).
Compactness —several times saving the area of the data center.
The ability to use accelerators.

Energy efficiency

Record Energy Efficiency —a measure of energy efficiency PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) reaches an HPC industry record of 1.06 “power consumption of the entire system/power consumption of electronic components”). That no more than 5.7% of energy consumption is spent on cooling the entire system.
Efficient Cooling: Direct liquid cooling provides much more efficient heat removal than air cooling.
Cost of Ownership: Up to 60% energy savings

Compatibility

Full compatibility with x86 architecture.

Reliability

Complete absence of moving parts in computer.
Three-level monitoring and management system.

Fault tolerance

Reserve all subsystems.
Hot hardware swap.

Rating of the 50 most powerful computers in the CIS TOP50

In to help you get your bearings in the world of high-performance computing systems and to be able to quickly track development trends in this area, the Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Research Computing Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University in May 2004 years, with the support of the Russian company T-Platforms, we started a joint project to form a list of the 50 most powerful computers in the CIS TOP50. The list includes 50 computing systems installed in the territory of the CIS and showing the highest performance on the Linpack test by the time the list was published.

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU held the following positions in TOP50:

Rating edition	Position
02.04.2013	4
24.09.2013	4
01.04.2014	3
23.09.2014	5
31.03.2015	6
28.09.2015	7
29.03.2016	8
26.09.2016	8
04.04.2017	8
25.09.2017	8
03.04.2018	8
24.09.2018	9
02.04.2019	11
23.09.2019	12
31.03.2020	14
21.09.2020	13
30.03.2021	14
27.09.2021	15
29.03.2022	19

Rating of supercomputers based on HPCG test

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU took 54th place in the rating of supercomputers in World Ranking HPCG. The goal of the HPCG project is to create a test that more adequately reflects the performance of modern high-performance computing systems. The computational schemes and data access schemes used in the LINPACK test no longer reflect the real need of many modern parallel applications in the computer architecture. The HPCG test is also designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of tasks and algorithms, and encourages computer system developers to focus on those areas that will improve the performance of computing systems on a similar set of tasks.

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU held the following positions in HPCG:

Rating edition	Position
November 2015	54
June 2016	65
November 2016	83
June 2017	94
November 2017	97
June 2018	108
November 2018	111
June 2019	130
November 2019	136
June 2020	142
November 2020	157

Rating of the 500 most powerful computers in the world TOP500

TOP500 is a project to compile a rating and descriptions of the 500 most powerful publicly known computer systems in the world. The project was launched in 1993 and publishes an updated list of supercomputers twice a year. This project aims to provide a solid foundation for identifying and tracking trends in high-performance computing.

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU held the following positions in TOP500:

Rating edition	Position
November 2012	170
June 2013	249
November 2013	127
June 2014	156
November 2014	190
June 2015	244
November 2015	348
June 2016	498

Green500 Top 500 Most Energy Efficient Supercomputers

The purpose of the Green500 list is to rank the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world.

Supercomputer Tornado SUSU held the following positions in Green500:

Rating edition	Position
June 2013	50
November 2013	64
November 2014	107
June 2015	150
November 2015	174
June 2016	189