Numerical Simulator III – A Terascale SMP-Cluster System for Aerospace Science and Engineering: Its Design and the Performance Issue

Matsuo, Yuichi

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39707-6_4

Numerical Simulator III – A Terascale SMP-Cluster System for Aerospace Science and Engineering: Its Design and the Performance Issue

Yuichi Matsuo⁸

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National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan has introduced a new terascale SMP- cluster-type parallel supercomputer system as the main engine of Numerical Simulator III, which is used for aerospace science and engineering purposes. It started its full operation in October 2002. The system has computing capability of 9.3Tflop/s peak performance and 3.6TB user memory, with about 1800 scalar processors for computation. It has a mass storage consisting of 57TB disk and 620TB tape library, and a visualization system tightly integrated with the computation system. In this paper, after reviewing the history of Numerical Simulator I and II, we will describe the requirements and design of the third generation system, focusing on its characteristic points. We will also show some performance measurement results and discuss the system effectiveness for typical applications at NAL.

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National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan, 7-44-1, Jindaijihigashi, 182-8522, Tokyo, Chofu, Japan
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Department of Computer Science, University of California (UCI), 3019 Donald Bren Hall, 92697-3435, Irvine, CA, USA
Alex Veidenbaum
Department of Information and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Nara women’s University, Kitauoyanishi-machi, Nara-city, 630-8506, Nara, Japan
Kazuki Joe
Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama, 223–8522, Kanagawa, Japan
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Tokyo University of Technology, 1404-1 Katakura, Hachioji, 192-0982, Tokyo, Japan
Hideo Aiso

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Matsuo, Y. (2003). Numerical Simulator III – A Terascale SMP-Cluster System for Aerospace Science and Engineering: Its Design and the Performance Issue. In: Veidenbaum, A., Joe, K., Amano, H., Aiso, H. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISHPC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2858. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39707-6_4

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