Abstract
The Cybermedia Center is a research institute in Osaka University, which is in charge of administrating high-performance computing systems and high-speed networks for research and education. Especially in the era where the proliferation of scientific data to analyze is accelerating, limited and finite computational and network resources are to be efficiently and flexibly leveraged and shared among scientists. Also, computing requirements for supercomputing and visualization such as memory bandwidth, computational performance and scalability vary widely depending on the applications. Therefore, designing a supercomputing and visualization system which fits to all applications in advance is becoming more difficult. From such a perspective, this paper presents our center’s research activities to realize the concept of flexible supercomputing and visualization as well as its progress report by introducing a new attracting notion of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and its northbound APIs.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
ExpEther (Express Ethernet) Consortium, http://www.expether.org/ (2014)
Visual Molecular Dynamics, http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ (2015)
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator, http://lammps.sandia.gov/ (2014)
Leigh, J., Renambot, L., Johnson, A., Jagodic, R., Hur, H., Hofer, E., Lee, D.: Scalable adaptive graphics middleware for visualization streaming and collaboration in ultra resolution display environments. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization (2008)
Top500 Supercomputing Sites, http://top500.org/ (2014)
Dashdavaa, K., Date, S., Yamanaka, H., Kawai, E., Watashiba, Y., Ichikawa, K., Abe, H., Shimojo, S.: Architecture of a high-speed MPI_Bcast leveraging software-defined network. In: The 6th Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing 2013, Euro-Par 2013: Parallel Processing Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 874, pp. 885–894 (2013)
Takahashi, K., Khureltulga, D., Watashiba, Y., Kido, Y., Date, S., Shimojo, S.: Performance evaluation of SDN-enhanced MPI_Allreduce on a cluster system with fat-tree interconnect. In: The International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulations (HPCS2014), pp. 784–792 (2014)
Furuichi, T., Date, S., Yamanaka, H., Ichikawa, K., Abe, H., Takemura, H., Kawai, E.: A prototype of network failure avoidance functionality for SAGE using OpenFlow. In: Proceedings of 2012 IEEE 36th International Conference on Computer Software and Applications Workshops, pp. 88–93 (2012)
Kido, Y., Ichikawa, K., Watashiba, Y., Abe, H., Yamanaka, H., Kawai, E., Takemura, H., Shimojo, S.: SAGE-based tiled display wall enhanced with dynamic routing funcitonality triggered by user interaction. In: INDIS2014 (2014)
Open Grid Scheduler: The official Open Source Grid Engine, http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ (2013)
Watashiba, Y., Date, S., Abe, H., Kido, Y., Ichikawa, K., Yamanaka, H., Kawai, E., Shimojo, S., Takemura, H.: Efficacy analysis of a SDN-enhanced resource management system through NAS parallel benchmarks. Rev. Socionetw. Strateg. 8(2), 69–84 (2014)
Jarschel, M., Zinner, T., Hossfeld, T., Tran-Gia, P., Kellerer, W.: Interfaces, attributes, and use cases: a compass for SDN. IEEE Commun. Mag. 52, 210–217 (2014)
Open Networking Foundation: North Bound Interface Working Group (NBI-WG) Charter, https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/working-groups/charter-nbi.pdf (2013)
Acknowledgements
This research was partly supported by collaborative research of the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology and Osaka University (Research on high functional network platform technology for large-scale distributed computing). Also, this work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26540053 and 26330145.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Date, S., Kido, Y., Khureltulga, D., Takahashi, K., Watashiba, Y., Shimojo, S. (2015). Toward Flexible Supercomputing and Visualization System. In: Resch, M., Bez, W., Focht, E., Kobayashi, H., Qi, J., Roller, S. (eds) Sustained Simulation Performance 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20340-9_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20340-9_7
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-20339-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-20340-9
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)