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Cray Environmental Industry Solutions
Per Nyberg
Earth Sciences Business Manager
nyberg@cray.com
Annecy CAS2K3
Sept 2003
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TopicsTopics
• Update on Cray Inc.• Cray Earth Sciences Focus • Cray X1 Application Performance
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In the news…In the news…
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Recent Key AccomplishmentsRecent Key Accomplishments
• Cray X1 Introduction• Department of Energy Office of Science X1
Evaluation• Department of Energy ASCI Sandia Red Storm
Contract• DARPA Contract/Cascade Project• Financial Foundation• Organizational Growth
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Cray X1 IntroductionCray X1 Introduction
• Five early-production systems shipped in 2002.• First customer ship was on schedule in
December 2002.• >260 Nodes delivered; > 13 Tflops.• Production ramp-up in 2003.
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DOE Office of Science X1 EvaluationDOE Office of Science X1 Evaluation
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ORNL EvaluationORNL Evaluation
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Sandia Red Storm ASCI ProjectSandia Red Storm ASCI Project
• $90+M contract with Sandia National Labs.• Design and development of a massively-
parallel, high-bandwidth system.• Key system characteristics
– Massively parallel system – 10,000 AMD 2 GHz processors
– High-bandwidth mesh-based custom interconnect– High-performance I/O subsystem– Fault tolerant
• Full system delivery in 2004
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DARPA – Cascade ProjectDARPA – Cascade Project
• Advanced Research Program– Goal of a “trans-petaflops system”– Robust, easier to program, more broadly applicable
• Phase I– Started in June 2002 for one year– Five total vendors– University partners
• Phase II– Cray proposal selected– Three total vendors– $49.9M Three-year contract
• Phase III planned for 2006
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Financial HighlightsFinancial Highlights
• 2002Q1 ~2003Q2 - Six contiguous profitable quarters• Increasing revenue growth
– 2003 revenue guidance: ~$220 million– X1 sales are expected to be ~$140 million.
• Significant R&D funding • Public offering in February 2003 raised $48M
Total Debt $15,712 $4,537 $3,546
Cash and Cash Equivalents $12,377 $23,916 $61,309
Mar 31, 2003
Working Capital ($5,724) $27,351 $82,412
Total Assets $127,087 $145,245 $201,653
Shareholders Equity $39,750 $83,561 $138,162
Dec 31, 2002
Dec 31, 2001
$ in Thousands
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Cray Earth Sciences FocusCray Earth Sciences Focus
• Key market for Cray technologies.– Market that pushes the frontiers of supercomputing.– Cray has unique offering.
• Rapidly growing and developing a team of environmental applications analysts.– >15 PhD level Applications Analysts worldwide.– 6 hired in within last year.– Focused on continuously supporting key weather,
climate and ocean applications.
• ORNL collaboration– Focus on high-end climate science.– Porting and optimization of NCAR CCSM to X1.
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Cray X1 Design ApproachCray X1 Design Approach
• Cray X1 was designed from the ground up as an MPP architecture with vector processors:
• Highly scalable, shared memory MPP.• Scalable operating system with single system image.• Heterogeneous Storage Area Network.
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Cray X1 FeaturesCray X1 Features
• Fast Single Processor:– 12.8 Gflops MSP
• Memory Bandwidth:– Single processor: 24 GB/s STREAM TRIAD– Scaled: 1171 GB/s (15 Nodes/1 Chassis) STREAM TRIAD
• Network Performance:– A 128 node system has a typical latency of ~1µs and a
bisection bandwidth of ~820 GB/s.
• Scalable Architecture – not clustered:– 2-D Torus network
• Scalable operating system:– Single Operating System to 512 MSPs (>6 Tflops)
• ADIC StorNext SAN and HSM.
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Cray X1 LC ChassisCray X1 LC Chassis16 Nodes; > 800 Gflops16 Nodes; > 800 Gflops
102.4 GB/s
Local node memoryPeak BW = 16 slices x 11.4 GB/s/slice = 182.4 GB/sCapacity = 16, 32 (late 2003), 64 (late 2004) GB512 Banks
Inter-node networkTwo ports per M-chip1.6 GB/s peak both directions per port2D Torus
Two I/O channel pairs per node = 4 x 1.2 GB/s = 4.8 GB/s
Cray X1 Node 51.2 GFLOPS
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128 Nodes – 512 CPUs – 6.4 TFLOPS128 Nodes – 512 CPUs – 6.4 TFLOPS
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Cray SAN DirectionCray SAN Direction
1-100+ Heterogeneous Client Nodes
Fail Over Meta DataServers.
A True Native Heterogeneous SAN based on ADICA True Native Heterogeneous SAN based on ADIC
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X1 STREAM ResultsX1 STREAM Results
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MM5 Ver. 3.6.1 t3a BenchmarkMM5 Ver. 3.6.1 t3a BenchmarkInternal Data – Work-in-ProgressInternal Data – Work-in-Progress
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Cray Product Line RoadmapCray Product Line Roadmap
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Shared Technologies
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Cray X1 – The first in a series of extreme performance systems from Cray
Extreme Performance, Highly Differentiated SupercomputersExtreme Performance, Highly Differentiated SupercomputersExtreme Performance, Highly Differentiated SupercomputersExtreme Performance, Highly Differentiated Supercomputers
DARPA Pflops Program – Cascade projectASCI Red Storm project
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SummarySummary
• Scientific High-Performance Computing is Cray’s sole focus.
• Cray has a unique offering.• Cray has a strong product roadmap and is
committed to our mission.• Cray is executing successfully on both financial
and operational fronts.• Cray is well suited as a partner to the
environmental community.
Thank You for Thank You for Your Attention.Your Attention.