Toward Next-Generation HPC with HPE Moonshot
Session ChairWu Feng
Event Type
Emerging Technologies
TimeWednesday, November 16th10am - 6pm
Location155-B
DescriptionHPE’s Moonshot was created as infrastructure to host emerging application focused silicon (SoC’s and accelerators). The advent of Intel Xeon E3 v3, 4, 5 processor based cartridges with integrated GPUs have made the next disruption possible. Benchmarking studies on diverse HPC workloads from molecular dynamics to life sciences show order of magnitude improvement in per core performance over staple Xeon E5. At a rack level this leads to extraordinary energy efficiency. Shared power, cooling, management infrastructure enables rapid development of cartridges of newer technology with more cores, memory speeds, storage capacity and heterogeneity. FPGAs offer the ability to escape the constraints of von Neumann architecture, the mainstay of computing over the past half-century. Moonshot is the only system in the industry today that enables FPGAs as standalone compute entities. Such heterogeneous offerings with Moonshot systems make it a future-proof investment for the next generation energy-efficient HPC.
