Accelerating data-intensive science with Gordon and Dash

  • Authors:
  • Michael L. Norman;Allan Snavely

  • Affiliations:
  • San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA;San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In 2011 SDSC will deploy Gordon, an HPC architecture specifically designed for data-intensive applications. We describe the Gordon architecture and the thinking behind the design choices by considering the needs of two targeted application classes: massive database/data mining and data-intensive predictive science simulations. Gordon employs two technologies that have not been incorporated into HPC systems heretofore: flash SSD memory, and virtual shared memory software. We report on application speedups obtained with a working prototype of Gordon in production at SDSC called Dash, currently available as a TeraGrid resource.