Multi-petascale highly efficient parallel supercomputer
US9081501B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
- Sameh W. Asaad
- Ralph E. Bellofatto
- Michael A. Blocksome
- Matthias A. Blumrich
- Peter Boyle
- Jose R. Brunheroto
- Dong Chen
- Chen-Yong Cher
- George Liang-Tai Chiu
- Norman Christ
- Paul W. Coteus
- Kristan D. Davis
- Gabor J. Dozsa
- Alexandre E. Eichenberger
- Noel A. Eisley
- Matthew R. Ellavsky
- Kahn C. Evans
- Bruce M. Fleischer
- Thomas W. Fox
- Alan Gara
- Mark E. Giampapa
- Thomas M. Gooding
- Michael K. Gschwind
- John A. Gunnels
- Shawn A. Hall
- Rudolf A. Haring
- Philip Heidelberger
- Todd A. Inglett
- Brant L. Knudson
- Gerard V. Kopcsay
Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 10, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jul 14, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 28, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02D10/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A Multi-Petascale Highly Efficient Parallel Supercomputer of 100 petaOPS-scale computing, at decreased cost, power and footprint, and that allows for a maximum packaging density of processing nodes from an interconnect point of view. The Supercomputer exploits technological advances in VLSI that enables a computing model where many processors can be integrated into a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Each ASIC computing node comprises a system-on-chip ASIC utilizing four or more processors integrated into one die, with each having full access to all system resources and enabling adaptive partitioning of the processors to functions such as compute or messaging I/O on an application by application basis, and preferably, enable adaptive partitioning of functions in accordance with various algorithmic phases within an application, or if I/O or other processors are underutilized, then can participate in computation or communication nodes are interconnected by a five dimensional torus network with DMA that optimally maximize the throughput of packet communications between nodes and minimize latency.
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