Sept. 26 — DataDirect Networks Japan (DDN Japan) today announced that the University of Tokyo and the Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC) decided to deploy DDN’s burst buffer solution “IME14K” for their new systems.

New System of the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo: “Reedbush”

It was decided that “Reedbush”, which is a new system of the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, would deploy DDN’s burst buffer solution the “IME14K” appliance and high-performance appliance “SFA14KE” with embedded parallel file system Lustre. The “IME14K” appliance is connected by the calculation node group and the EDR InfiniBand network to the parallel file system with a capacity of 209TB. The high-speed file cache system has 5.04PB of capacity with a data transfer rate of 436.2GB/sec. The parallel file system has a data transfer rate of 75GB/sec. The solution will be provided as an expansion of the computing resources that the University of Tokyo uses for its supercomputing system and will strongly support the response to new areas of demand, such as big data analysis and machine learning that are not limited to the science and technical computing markets.

New System of Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC): “Oakforest-PACS”

The Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba and the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo and the supercomputing system of JCAHPC have deployed the DDN “IME 14K” and “SFA14KE” and will co-operate the systems. Oakforest-PACS added the high-speed file cache system “IME14K” onto the present system. The cache has a capacity of 940TB with 50 nodes and the data transfer rate will be 1.56TB/sec. In addition, the “SFA14KE” with the parallel file system has a capacity of 26PB and a data transfer rate of 484GB/sec. “IME 14K” and “SFA14KE” work together with the Intel Omni-Path architecture to achieve high-speed access performance and wideband data transfer performance between the 8,208 compute nodes that have been Fat Tree bonded.

The complete solution becomes a “K computer” with about 2.2 times the ultra-high-performance system as the total peak computing performance and achieves a theoretical aggregate performance of 25 petaflops (PFLOPS). Production is scheduled to start in December 2016. It is expected to be the fastest supercomputer system in Japan at that time. As a result, it will support the collaboration of computer scientists and computational scientists, and will support the strengthening of infrastructure to provide a wide range of large-scale and ultra-high-speed arithmetic processing functions for academic research across the university.

DDN Fast File Cache System “IME14K”

DDN “IME14K” provides two-nodes per chassis, each with 50GB/sec read and write performance. Users can combine multiple systems as distributed shared file cache. One “IME14K” with NVMe SSDs from Toshiba Corporation can be configured with a maximum of 48 drives and can scale up to a 10-chassis configuration per rack with 500GB/sec of throughput and 55 million random write IOPS.

DDN High Performance Block Storage ”SFA14KE”

DDN “SFA14KE” is a 4U high-performance block storage platform with built-in storage application options. It can be extended, if necessary, and can be configured as a single system scaled up to 8.4PB in a 44-rack unit. It reduces footprint, power usage, and cooling costs as well as management complexity.

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Source: DDN