Taking The Complexity Out of Cluster Computing
Taking The Complexity Out of Cluster Computing
Taking The Complexity Out of Cluster Computing
Arend Dittmer
Director Product Management HPC
April,17 2009
Penguin Vision and Focus
Founded 1998 – One of HPC industry’s longest track
records of success
4 cores
April,17 2009
Application Case Study: ANSYS / Acceleware
ANSYS
> Direct Sparse Solver (DSS) - SMP/Single System Mode
Acceleware Plug-In for ANSYS
> Matrix Decomposition offloaded to NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU Accelerator
Benchmark
> ANSYS standard benchmark BM-7 – 500K-1750K Degrees if Freedom (DoF)
> Intel Xeon E5405 – Dual core runs
> Overall speedup up to 3.7X for Single Precision runs, 2.7X for Double Precision
Universities/Institutions Enterprise