TY - GEN
T1 - The NWSC Benchmark suite using scientific throughput to measure supercomputer performance
AU - Kelly, Rory C.
AU - Ghosh, Siddartha S.
AU - Liu, Si
AU - Del Vento, Davide
AU - Valent, Richard A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will begin operating in June 2012, and will house NCAR's next generation HPC system. The NWSC will support a broad spectrum of Earth Science research drawn from a user community with diverse requirements for computing, storage, and data analysis resources. To ensure that the NWSC satisfies the needs of this community, the procurement benchmarking process was driven by science requirements from the start. We will discuss the science objectives for NWSC, translating scientific goals into technical requirements for a machine, and assembling a benchmark suite from community science models and synthetic tests to measure the technical capabilities of the proposed HPC systems. We will also talk about the benchmark analysis process, extending the benchmark suite as a testing tool over the life of the machine, and the applicability of the NWSC benchmarking suite to other HPC centers.
AB - The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will begin operating in June 2012, and will house NCAR's next generation HPC system. The NWSC will support a broad spectrum of Earth Science research drawn from a user community with diverse requirements for computing, storage, and data analysis resources. To ensure that the NWSC satisfies the needs of this community, the procurement benchmarking process was driven by science requirements from the start. We will discuss the science objectives for NWSC, translating scientific goals into technical requirements for a machine, and assembling a benchmark suite from community science models and synthetic tests to measure the technical capabilities of the proposed HPC systems. We will also talk about the benchmark analysis process, extending the benchmark suite as a testing tool over the life of the machine, and the applicability of the NWSC benchmarking suite to other HPC centers.
KW - Benchmarking
KW - Performance measurement
KW - System procurement
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/83055177118
U2 - 10.1145/2063348.2063358
DO - 10.1145/2063348.2063358
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83055177118
SN - 9781450311397
T3 - State of the Practice Reports, SC'11
BT - State of the Practice Reports, SC'11
T2 - State of the Practice Reports, SC'11
Y2 - 12 November 2011 through 18 November 2011
ER -