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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen4-VLIW µarch
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen4-VLIW µarch
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen4-VLIW µarch
SpARCS J161315+564930 has been spectroscopically confirmed at z = 0.87 (16 members) and has a mass of about 2 x 10^15 solar masses. This image is composed from zrg data taken with the CFHT 3.6m telescope.
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
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Gen4-VLIW µarch
(Polysilicon | Macro | Near Infrared)
(19,282 x 17,136 [330,416mm²] | 7950 dpi)
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
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Spotted at a new datacenter: an interesting, custom SPARC-based computing system for very large scientific workloads — this rack is part of a computer cluster that can solve a system of linear equations with more than ten million variables.
Each SPARC CPU is a 8-core chip clocked at 2GHz, and each core has 256 (!) double precision floating-point registers and four multiply-add units. That number of FP registers is sufficient to compute a 8x8 matrix multiplication without requiring any access to RAM beyond the initial loading and final storing of the FP data. Accesses to the "slow" L1, L2 caches and RAM are thus minimized, allowing the CPU to crunch numbers at high speed.
Operations on large matrixes can be efficiently divided e.g. into 8x8 block decompositions that fit in the register file.
Each multiply-add unit can output on each clock cycle the result of an operation of the form D := A * B + C where A, B and C are double precision FP numbers.
The SPARC CPU's maximum FP throughput is thus 2GHz * 8 cores * 4 fused mutiply-adds = 128 GFLOPs/CPU. Each SPARC CPU has a memory bandwidth of 64GBytes/s.
A SPARC CPU, together with 16GB of RAM and an Interconnect Controller (ICC), form a unified "compute node".
The ICC combines, on a single VLSI, four 5GBytes/s DMA interfaces and a crossbar switch / router with ten 5GBytes/s bidirectional links. These ten links connect to other compute nodes, forming a virtual 6D fused torus / mesh network structure.
Compute nodes can access the memory of other nodes using virtual addressing, as a remote DMA operation. The ICC of the destination node performs the required virtual to physical address translation and the actual DMA. The ICC can also perform simple arithmetic operations on integers and FP data, enabling the parallel computation by the communication fabric itself of barrier operations, without having to involve the SPARC CPU.
Four compute nodes are integrated on each system board, and each rack holds 24 hot swappable system boards.
The picture shows the upper twelve system boards in a rack. Also visible are the nine air-cooled, redundant power supply units, the six I/O controller units, as well as two blade-like, redundant rack supervisor controllers and a Fujitsu storage array containing the operating system boot disks.
The six I/O controller units are water-cooled, and each contains one unified compute node. These I/O controllers connect the rack to other racks and to a high-speed clustered local storage system with a capacity of about 11 petabytes, and a global file system of about 30 PBytes. The operating system of the unified compute nodes is a custom fault-resilient multi-core Linux kernel; the mass storage system is based on Lustre.
The peak FP performance of each rack is 128 GFLOPs/compute node * (4 compute nodes / system board * 24 system boards + 6 I/O controller compute nodes ) / rack = 128GFLOPs * (4*24+6) = 13056 GFLOPs, or 13.056 TeraFLOPs; the total memory size per rack is 1632 Gigabytes.
Each rack requires about 10KW of electrical power, and the high-speed 6D torus inter-node connection fabric has been designed to efficiently extend to hundreds of such racks. Beware that electricity bill...
In this data center, a cluster of 864 of these racks form a massive parallel supercomputer, with 1400 Terabytes of RAM, and a theoretical peak FP performance of 13.056 TFLOPs * 864 = 11.280 PetaFLOPs — i.e. more than eleven million gigaFLOPs.
The effective LINPACK performance is about 93% of that theoretical peak.
The main intended application area seems to be the life sciences, with an emphasis on molecular modelling ab initio — simulating complete molecules starting from the quantum behavior of elementary nucleons and electrons — to assist the design of new drugs, simulate biochemical processes like chemotherapy agent resistance of cancer cells at the molecular level, model neural processes etc.
Climate modelling, atomic level simulation of novel nanomaterials and computational fluid dynamics applications are also in the input queue.
Incoming Wake Forest freshmen work at a Habitat for Humanity site with SPARC, a pre-orientation service group, in Winston-Salem on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Students who will be working inside the renovation project put on protective clothing, dust masks, and hard hats.
this was a 1960's era microwave relay station. the system was known as "white alice" these relay towers are all that remain from the Anvil Mt. site and might soon by torn down...
kinda sad to see them go, they make a great landmark, seen for miles away, directing travelers.
Ross Hypersparc CPU module for Ross Hyperstation and Sun Microsystems Mbus-based workstations and servers
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Elbrus-8S
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen4-VLIW µarch
(Top-Metal | 20x | Brightfield)
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen4-VLIW µarch
MCST
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
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Gen4-VLIW µarch
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(19,282 x 17,136 [330,416mm²] | 22260 dpi)
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
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Package: 59,0mm x 43,0mm
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Elbrus-8S
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen4-VLIW µarch
Package: 59,0mm x 43,0mm
MCST
Elbrus-8S
МЦСТ
Эльбрус-8С
Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen4-VLIW µarch
Package: 59,0mm x 43,0mm
An afternoon of family fun including Shalom Street, Parent-Child Yoga, Magic Show, Kosher dinner and more!
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Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen5-VLIW µarch
An afternoon of family fun including Shalom Street, Parent-Child Yoga, Magic Show, Kosher dinner and more!
An afternoon of family fun including Shalom Street, Parent-Child Yoga, Magic Show, Kosher dinner and more!
Sun server was quite the rage back in the late 90's. From looking at this, it seems to be a blast from the past. Now that Sun is lessening their use of the SPARC CPU and leaning more toward Intel CPU, how will it be any different from a Dell (not even a HP ProLiant class from build quality and design engineering side)?
An afternoon of family fun including Shalom Street, Parent-Child Yoga, Magic Show, Kosher dinner and more!
Cary & 10th streets
Sparc - School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community www.sparconline.org
Wake Forest students in the SPARC pre-orientation program lay out and install pre-made wall sections at a Habitat for Humanity build site in East Winston-Salem on Tuesday, August 20, 2019.
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Elbrus-8SV
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Эльбрус-8СB
Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen5-VLIW µarch
MCST
Elbrus-8SV
МЦСТ
Эльбрус-8СB
Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen5-VLIW µarch
MCST
Elbrus-8SV
МЦСТ
Эльбрус-8СB
Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen5-VLIW µarch
MCST
Elbrus-8SV
МЦСТ
Эльбрус-8СB
Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST)
ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling (ELBRUS)
Gen5-VLIW µarch
Wake Forest first year students in the SPARC pre-orientation group work in the campus garden on Sunday, August 20, 2017. Zariah Hawthorne ('21), left, from Greenville, SC, and Lauren Berryman ('21), from Louisville, KY, plant seedlings together.