2. Table of Contents BULL – Company introduction
bullx – European HPC offer
BULL/Academic community co-operation
+ references
ISC’10 – News from Top European HPC Event
Discussion / Forum

3. Bull Strategy Fundamentals
Jaroslav Vojtěch, BULL HPC sales representative

4. Bull Group A growing and profitable company A solid customer base
REVENUE BREAKDOWN
A growing and profitable company
A solid customer base
Public sector, Europe
Bull, Architect of an Open World™
Our motto, our heritage, our culture
Group commitment to become a leading player in Extreme Computing in Europe
The largest HPC R&D effort in Europe
500 Extreme Computing experts = the largest pool in Europe
public sector – a distinctive advantage in times of crisis!

5. Business segments and key offerings
20/04/2017
Business segments and key offerings
Global offers and third-party products €77 m
Mainframes
Unix AIX systems
x86 systems (Windows/Linux)
Outsourcing
e-govt.
Telco
Others
Enterprise
Extreme Computing
& Storage
Hardware & System Solutions €358 m
Supercomputers
Solution integration
Consultancy, optimization
Services & Solutions €483 m
Systems Integration
Open Source
Business Intelligence
Security solutions
Infrastructure integration
Maintenance
& Product-Related Services €192 m
Green IT
Data Center relocation
Disaster recovery
Third-party product maintenance
Outsourcing
Operations 5

6. Extreme Computing offer
Boris Mittelmann, HPC Conslutant

7. Bull positioning in Extreme Computing
Presence in education, government and industrial markets
From mid-size solutions to high end
On the front line for innovation: large hybrid system for GENCI
Prepared to deliver petaflops-scale systems starting in 2010
The European Extreme Computing provider

8. Addressing the HPC market
HPC market evolution (EMEA)
2007
2012
Targeted HPC market
Super Computers
Divisional
Departmental
Divisional
Departmental
Workstation
Super Computers
Workstation
3 B$
5 B$
Expand into manufacturing, oil and gas
Open Framework: OS, NFS, DB and Services
HPC Grand Challenges
PetaFlops-class HPC
Tera-100 CEA project
Hybrid architectures
Leverage Intel Xeon roadmap, time to market
Manage and deliver complex projects
Our ambition: be the European leader in Extreme Computing

9. Target markets for Bull in Extreme Computing
Production HPC
Government
Defense
Economic Intelligence
National Research Centers
Weather prediction
Climate research, modeling and change
Ocean circulation
Oil & Gas
Seismic: Imaging, 3D interpretation, Prestack data analysis
Reservoir modeling & simulation
Geophysics sites Data Center
Refinery Data Center
Automotive & Aerospace
CAE: Fluid dynamics, Crash simulation
EDA: Mechatronics, Simulation & Verification
Finance
Derivatives Pricing
Risk Analysis
Portfolio Optimization

10. The most complete HPC value chain in Europe
Offer
Services
Bull organizations
Customers
Security
Encryption
Access Control
Operations and management
(SLA)
G e r m a n y
Hosting /
Outsourcing
Services
Design and architecture deployment
System design
Bull Systems
R&D
+500 specialists in Europe

11. Innovation through partnerships
Bull’s experts are preparing the intensive computing technologies of tomorrow by having an active role in many European cooperative research projects
A strong commitment to many projects, such as:
Infrastructure projects: FAME2, CARRIOCAS, POPS, SCOS
Application projects: NUMASIS (seismic), TELEDOS (health), ParMA (manufacturing, embedded), POPS (pharmaceutical, automotive, financial applications, multi-physical simulations…), HiPIP (image processing), OPSIM (Numerical optimization and robust design techniques), CSDL (complex systems design), EXPAMTION (CAD Mechatronics), CILOE (CAD Electronics), APAS-IPK (Life Sciences).
Tools: application parallelizing, debugging and optimizing (PARA, POPS, ParMA)
Hybrid systems: OpenGPU
Hundreds of Bull experts are dedicated to cooperative projects related to HPC innovation

12. Major Extreme Computing trends and issues
Networking
Prevalence of Open architectures (Ethernet, InfiniBand)
Multi-core
Multi core is here to stay and multiply
Programming for multi core is THE HPC challenge
Accelerators
Incredible performance per watt
Turbo charge performance… by a factor of 1 to 100…
Storage
Vital component
Integrated through parallel file system

13. Bull’s vision Extreme Computing Innovation Performance/Watt
bullx blade system
bullx accelerator blade
bullx supernode SMP servers
bullx cluster suite peta-scalability
mobull containers
Research with European Institutes
Extreme Computing
Performance/Watt
Integration
Green data center design
Accelerators
Mid-size to High-end
Cost efficiency
Accelerators
Mid-size to high end
Cost efficiency
Optimization an issue
Green data center design
Off the shelf components
bullx blade system
Mid-size systems
Cost efficiency

14. The bullx range
Designed with Extreme Computing in mind

15. hardware for peta-scalability
cluster suite
Water cooling
bullx supernodes
bullx blade system
bullx rack-mounted servers
Storage
Architecture
ACCELERATORS

16. The bullx blade system Dense and open
Best HPC server product or technology
Top 5 new products or technologies to watch

17. bullx blade system No compromise on: Performance Density Efficiency
Dense and open
No compromise on:
Performance
Latest Xeon processors from Intel (Westmere EP)
Memory-dense
Fast I/Os
Fast interconnect: full non blocking InfiniBand QDR
Accelerated blades
Density
12% more compute power per rack than the densest equivalent competitor solution
Up to 1296 cores in a standard 42U rack
Up to 15,2 Tflops of compute power per rack (with CPUs)
Efficiency
All the energy efficiency of Westmere EP + exclusive ultra capacitor Advanced reliability (redundant power and fans, diskless option)
Water-cooled cabinet available
Openness
Based on industry standards and open source technologies
Runs all standard software

18. bullx supernode An expandable SMP node for memory-hungry applications
SMP of up to 16 sockets based on Bull-designed BCS:
Intel Xeon Nehalem EX processors
Shared memory of up to 1TB (2TB with 16GB DIMMS)
RAS features:
Self-healing of the QPI and XQPI
Hot swap disk, fans, power supplies
Available in 2 formats:
High-density 1.5U compute node
High I/O connectivity node
Green features:
Ultra Capacitor
Processor power management features

19. bullx rack-mounted systems
A large choice of options
R422 E2
R423 E2
R425 E2
COMPUTE NODE
SERVICE NODE
VISUALIZATION
2 nodes in 1U
for unprecedented density
NEW: more memory
Xeon 5600
2x 2-Socket
2x 12 DIMMs
QPI up to 6.4 GT/s
2x 1 PCI-Express x16 Gen2
InfiniBand DDR/QDR embedded (optional)
2x 2 SATA2 hot-swap HDD
80 PLUS Gold PSU
Enhanced connectivity
and storage 2U
Xeon 5600
2-Socket
18 DIMMs
2 PCI-Express x16 Gen2
Up to 8 SATA2 or SAS HDD
Redundant 80 PLUS Gold power supply
Hot-swap fans
Supports latest graphics
& accelerator cards
4U or tower
2-Socket
Xeon 5600
18 DIMMs
2 PCI-Express x16 Gen2
Up to 8 SATA2 or SAS HDD
Powerful power supply
Hot-swap Fans

20. GPU accelerators for bullx
NVIDIA® Tesla™ computing systems: teraflops many-core processors that provide outstanding energy efficient parallel computing power
NVIDIA Tesla C1060
NVIDIA Tesla S1070
To turn an R425 E2 server into a
supercomputer
Dual slot wide card
Tesla T10P chip
240 cores
Performance: close to 1 Tflops (32 bit FP)
Connects to PCIe x16 Gen2
The ideal booster for R422 E2 or S6030 -based clusters
1U drawer
4 x Tesla T10P chips
960 cores
Performance: 4 Tflops (32 bit FP)
Connects to 2 PCIe x16 Gen2

21. Bull Storage Systems for HPC
DataDirect Networks
S2A 9900
(consult us)
StoreWay Optima 1500
StoreWay
EMC CX4
FC/SATA
Up to 480 HDDs
Up to 16 host ports
3U drawers
SAS/SATA
Up to 1200 HDDs
8 host ports
4+ 2/3/4 U drawers
SAS/SATA
3 to 144 HDDs
Up to 12 host ports
2U drawers
cluster suite

22. Bull Cool Cabinet Door
Bull’s contribution to reducing energy consumption
Enables world densest Extreme Computing solution !
28kW/m² (40kW on 1.44m²)
29 ‘U’/m² (42U + 6PDUs on 1.44m²)
77% energy saving compared to air conditioning!
Water thermal density much more efficient than air
600W instead of 2.6kW to extract 40kW
Priced well below all competitors
12K€ for fully redundant rack
same price as Schroff for twice the performance (20kW)
half price from HP for better performance (35kW) and better density

23. Extreme Computing solutions
Built from standard components, optimized by Bull’s innovation
Hardware platforms
Software environments
Services
 Design
 Architecture
 Project Management
 Optimisation
cluster suite
Interconnect
Open hardware architecture + Open software architecture
Storage systems
StoreWay

24. Choice of Operating Systems
cluster suite
Standard Linux distribution +
bullx cluster suite
A fully integrated and optimized HPC cluster software environment
A robust and efficient solution delivering global cluster management…
… and a comprehensive development environment
Microsoft’s
Windows HPC Server 2008
An easy to deploy, cost-effective solution with enhanced productivity and scalable performance
Global cluster management =
- installation and software deployment
- monitoring and fault handling
- cluster optimization and expansion

25. cluster suite Cluster DB benefits Master complexity +100,000 nodes
Mainly based on Open Source components
Engineered by Bull to deliver RAS features Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
Cluster DB benefits
Master complexity
+100,000 nodes
Make management easier, monitoring accurate and maintenance quicker
Improve overall utilization rate and application performances
bullx cluster suite advantages
Unlimited Scalability – Boot management and boot time
Automated configuration – Hybrid systems Management
Fast installation and updates – Health monitoring & preventive maintenance

26. Software Partners Batch management
Platform Computing LSF
Altair PBS Pro
Development, debugging, optimisation
TotalView
Allinea DDT
Intel Software
Parallel File System
Lustre

27. Industrialized project management
Expertise & project management
Solution design
Servers
Interconnect
Storage
Software 1
Computer room design
Racks
Cooling
Hot spots
Air flow (CFD) 2
Factory Integration & Staging 3
Rack integration
Cabling
Solution staging
On site Installation & acceptance 4
Installation
Connection
Acceptance
Trainings
Workshops
Administrators
Users 5
Start production
On-site engineers
Support from Bull HPC expertise centre 6
Support
and
Assistance
Call centre 7 days/week
On-site intervention
Software support
HPC expert support 7
Partnership
Joint research projects 8

28. Factory integration and staging
Two integration and staging sites in Europe
To guarantee delivery of « turn key » systems
2 sites = Angers + Serviware
5 300 m2 technical platforms available for assembly, integration, tests and staging
m2 logistics platforms
60 test stations
150 technicians
150 logistics employees
Certified ISO 9001, ISO and OHSAS 18000

29. mobull, the container solution from Bull
The plug & boot data center
Up to Teraflops per container
Up and running within 8 weeks
Innovative cooling system
Can be installed indoor or outdoor
Available in Regular or Large sizes

30. mobull, the container solution from Bull
MOBILE
FLEXIBLE
POWERFUL
PLUG & BOOT
MADE TO MEASURE
DENSE
Transportable container
Modular Buy / lease Fast deployment
550 kW 227,8 Tflops 18 PB
Hosts any 19’’ equipment - servers, storage, network
Can host bullx servers
Complete turnkey solution
confidentiel 30 30

31. A worldwide presence

32. Worldwide references in a variety of sectors
Educ/Research
Industry
Aerospace/Defence
Other
… and many others

33. bullx design honoured by OEM of CRAY

34. bullx design honoured by OEM of CRAY

35. Perspectives

36. (W/2x2 NH-EP-Std/DDR/QDR) Air (20kw) or water-cooled (40kw)
HPC Roadmap for
09Q2
09Q3
09Q4
10Q1
10Q2
10Q3
10Q4
11Q1
11Q2
11Q3
11Q4
Processor
Nehalem EP
Westmere EP
Sandy Bridge EP
Nehalem EX
Westmere EX
std
R423-E2 (W/2xNH-EP)
R423-E2 (W/Westmere-EP)
R423-E3
Servers
Gfx
R425-E3
R425-E2 (W/2xNH-EP)
R425-E2 (W/Westmere-EP)
Twin
R422-E2
(W/2x2 NH-EP-Std/DDR/QDR)
R422-E2 (W/Westmere-EP)
R422-E3
2x Eth switch
Interc. IB/QDR
Ultracapa.
ESM. 10Gb
Blade
GPU
Blade
next platform
INCA - 18x blades w/2x NH-EP
INCA - 18x blades w/Westmere-EP
INCA w/ SB. EP
8SNL/
16S3U
R480-E1 (Dunnington - 24x cores)
SMP
MESCA w/Nehalem EX
MESCA w/Westm. EX
4S3U/4SNL
On R422-E1/E2 w/Tesla S1070)
On blade/SMP system
GPU
nVIDIA C S1070
nVidia T20 / new generation of accelerators & GPUs
IB interconnect
QDR 36p QDR 324p
EDR
Racks
Air cooled
20kw
Air (20kw) or water-cooled (40kw)
direct liquid
Storage
Optima/EMC CX DDN 9900/66xx/LSI-Panasas (TBC)
Future storage offer
Cluster suite
XR 5v3.1U1 - ADDON2
XR 5v3.1U1 ADDON3
New generation cluster manager Extreme/Enterprise
Tentative dates, subject to change without notice

37. A constantly innovating Extreme Computing offer
Hybrid clusters (Xeon + GPUs)
Integrated clusters
High-end servers with petaflops performance
2008
2009
2010

38. Our R&D initiatives address key HPC design points
The HPC market makes extensive use of two architecture models
Bull R&D investments
Scale-out Massive deployment of “thin nodes”, with low electrical consumption
and limited heat dissipation
bullx blade system
Key issues:
Network topology System Management Application software
Scale-up “Fat nodes” with many processors and large memories to reduce the complexity of very large centers
bullx super-nodes
Key issues:
Internal architecture Memory coherency
Ambitious long-term developments in cooperation with CEA and competitiveness cluster, competence centre, and many organizations from the worlds of industry and education

39. Tera 100: designing the 1st European petascale system
Collaboration contract between Bull and CEA, the French Atomic Authority
Joint R&D
High-performance servers
Cluster software for large-scale systems
System architecture
Application development
Infrastructures for very large Data Centers
Operational in 2010
Tera 100 in 5 figures
100,000 cores
(X86 processors)
TB memory
GB/s data throughput
m² footprint
5 MW estimated power
consumption

40. Product Descriptions – ON REQUEST

41. BULL IN EDUCATION/RESEARCH - References

42. 27 Tflops peak performance at the end of phase 2
University of Münster
Germany's 3rd largest university and one of the foremost centers of German intellectual life
Need
More computing power and a high degree of flexibility, to meet the varied requirements of the different codes to be run
Solution
A new-generation bullx system, installed in 2 phases
Phase 1
2 bullx blade chassis containing 36 bullx B500 compute blades
8 bullx R423 E2 service nodes
DataDirect Networks S2A9900 storage system
Ultra fast InfiniBand QDR interconnect
Lustre shared parallel file system
hpc.manage cluster suite (from Bull and s+c) and CentOS Linux
Phase 2 (to be installed in 2010)
10 additional bullx blade chassis containing 180 bullx B500 compute blades equipped with Intel® Xeon® ‘Westmere’
4 future SMP bullx servers, with 32 cores each
27 Tflops peak performance at the end of phase 2

43. University of Cologne
One of Germany’s largest universities, it has been involved in HPC for over 50 years
Need
More computing power to run new simulations and refine existing simulations, in such diverse areas as genetics, high-tech materials, meteorology, astrophysics, economy
Solution
A new-generation bullx system, installed in 2 phases
Phase 1 (2009)
12 bullx blade chassis containing 216 bullx B500 compute blades
12 bullx R423 E2 service nodes
2 DataDirect Networks S2A9900 storage systems
Ultra fast InfiniBand QDR interconnect
Lustre shared parallel file system
bullx cluster suite and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Bull water-cooled racks for compute racks
Phase 2 (2010)
34 additional bullx blade chassis containing 612 bullx B500 compute blades equipped with Intel® Xeon® ‘Westmere’
4 future SMP bullx servers, with 128 cores each
Performance at the end of phase 2: peak 100 Tflops 26 TB RAM and 500 TB disk storage

44. Jülich Research Center
JuRoPa supercomputer
“Jülich Research on Petaflops Architectures“: accelerating the development of high performance cluster computing in Europe
200-teraflops general purpose supercomputer
Bull is prime contractor in this project which also includes Intel, Partec, and Sun
HPC-FF supercomputer
100 Teraflops to host applications for the European Union Fusion community
Bull cluster :
1,080 Bull R422 E2 computing nodes
New generation Intel® Xeon series 5500 processors
interconnected via an InfiniBand® QDR network
water-cooled cabinets for maximum density and optimal energy efficiency
The leading and largest HPC centre in Germany
A major contributor to European-wide HPC projects
JuRoPa: to investigate emerging cluster technologies and achieve a new class of cost-efficient supercomputers for peta-scale computing
Together, the 2 supercomputers rank #10 in the TOP500, with Tflops (Linpack)
Efficiency: 91.6 %

45. GENCI - CEA A hybrid architecture designed to meet production
and research needs, with a large cluster combining
general purpose servers and specialized servers:
1068 Bull nodes, i.e Intel® Xeon® 5500 cores providing a peak performance of 103 Tflops
48 GPU NVIDIA® nodes, i.e cores, providing an additional theoretical performance of 192 Tflops
25 TB memory
InfiniBand interconnect network
Integrated Bull software environment based on Open Source components
Common Lustre® file system
Outstanding density with water cooling
295 Tflops peak: first large European hybrid system
“In just two weeks, a common team from Bull and CEA/DAM successfully installed the GENCI's new supercomputer for the CCRT. Three days after the installation, we are already witnessing the exceptional effectiveness of the new 8000X5570 cores cluster, which has achieved a 88% efficiency on the Linpack benchmark, demonstrating the sheer scalability of Bull architecture and the remarkable performance of Intel's Xeon 5500 processor." (Jean Gonnord, Program Director for Numerical Simulation at CEA/DAM, at the occasion of the launch of the Intel Xeon 5500 processor in Paris)

46. One of Britain’s leading teaching and research universities
Cardiff University
One of Britain’s leading teaching and research universities
Need
Provide central HPC service to users in the various academic schools, who previously had to use small departmental facilities
Foster the adoption of advanced research computing across a broad range of disciplines
Find a supplier that will take a partnership approach – including knowledge transfer
Solution
25 Teraflops peak performance
Over 2,000 Intel® Xeon® Harpertown cores with Infiniband Interconnect
Over 100 TBs of storage
The partnership between Cardiff and Bull involves the development of a centre of excellence for high end computing in the UK, with Cardiff particularly impressed by Bull’s collaborative spirit.
Key factors in Cardiff selecting Bull were the quality of Bull’s technology, HPC expertise and commitment to joint working.
“The University is delighted to be working in partnership with Bull on this project that will open up a range of new research frontiers” said Pr Martyn Guest, Director of Advanced Research Computing

47. Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique
France's Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) is a key player in European research. It operates in three main areas: energy, information technology and healthcare, defence and security.
Need
A world-class supercomputer to run the CEA/DAM’s Nuclear Simulation applications
Solution
A cluster of 625 Bull NovaScale servers, including 567 compute servers, 56 dedicated I/O servers and 2 administration servers
10,000 Intel® Itanium® 2 cores
30 terabytes of core memory
Quadrics interconnect network
Bull integrated software environment based on Open Source components
A processing capacity in excess of 52 teraflops
# 1 European supercomputer (# 5 in the world) in the June 2006 TOP500 Supercomputer ranking
“Bull offered the best solution both in terms of global performance and cost of ownership, in other words, acquisition and operation over a five-year period.” Daniel Verwaerde, CEA, Director of nuclear armaments
“It is essential to understand that what we are asking for is extremely complex. It is not simply a question of processing, networking or software. It involves ensuring that thousands of elements work effectively together and integrating them to create a system that faultlessly supports the different tasks it is asked to perform, whilst also being confident that we are supported by a team of experts.” Jean Gonnord, Program Director for Numerical Simulation & Computer Sciences at CEA/DAM

48. Atomic Weapons Establishment
AWE provides the warheads for the United Kingdom’s nuclear deterrent. It is a centre of scientific and technological excellence.
Need
A substantial increase in production computing resources for scientific and engineering numerical modeling
The solution must fit within strict environmental constraints on footprint, power consumption and cooling
Solution
Two identical bullx clusters + a test cluster with a total of:
53 bullx blade chassis containing 944 bullx B500 compute blades, i.e cores
6 bullx R423 E2 management nodes, 8 login nodes
16 bullx R423 E2 I/O and storage nodes
DataDirect Networks S2A9900 storage system
Ultra fast InfiniBand QDR interconnect
Lustre shared parallel file system
bullx cluster suite to ensure total cluster management
Combined peak performance in excess of 75 Tflops

49. Petrobras
Leader in the Brazilian petrochemical sector, and one of the largest integrated energy companies in the world
Need
A super computing system:
to be installed at Petrobras’ new Data Center, at the University Campus of Rio de Janeiro
equipped with GPU accelerator technology
dedicated to the development of new subsurface imaging techniques to support oil exploration and production
Solution
A hybrid architecture coupling 66 general-purpose servers to 66
GPU systems:
66 bullx R422 E2 servers, i.e. 132 compute nodes or 1056 Intel® Xeon® 5500 cores providing a peak performance of 12.4 Tflops
66 NVIDIA® Tesla S1070 GPU systems, i.e cores, providing an additional theoretical performance of 246 Tflops
1 bullx R423 E2 service node
Ultra fast InfiniBand QDR interconnect
bullx cluster suite and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Over 250 Tflops peak One of the largest supercomputers in Latin America

50. ILION Animation Studios
Need
Ilion Animation Studios (Spain) needed to double their render farm to produce Planet 51
Solution
Bull provided:
64 Bull R422 E1 servers, i.e. 128 compute nodes
1 Bull R423 E1 head node
GB Ethernet interconnect
running Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
Rendered on Bull servers
Released end 2009

51. ISC’10 – Top News Intel Unveils Plans for HPC Coprocessor
25TH ANNIVERSARY – Record breaking attendance
Intel Unveils Plans for HPC Coprocessor
Tens of GPGPU-like cores with x86 instructions
A 32-core development version of the MIC coprocessor,
codenamed "Knights Ferry," is now shipping to selected
customers. A team at CERN has already migrated one
of its parallel C++ codes.
TOP500 released – China gained 2nd place!!!
TERA100 in production - by BULL / CEA:
FIRST EUROPEAN PETA-SCALE ARCHITECTURE
WORLD’S LARGEST INTEL-BASED CLUSTER
WORLD’S FASTEST FILESYSTEM (500GB/s)

52. Questions
&
Answers

53. bullx blade system – Block Diagram
18x compute blades
2x Westmere-EP sockets
12x memory DDR3 DIMMs
1x SATA HDD/SSD slot (optional – diskless an option)
1x IB ConnectX/QDR chip
1x InfiniBand Switch Module (ISM) for cluster interconnect
36 ports QDR IB switch
18x internal connections
18x external connections
1x Chassis Management Module (CMM)
OPMA board
24 ports GbE switch
18x internal ports to Blades
3x external ports
1x optional Ethernet Switch Module (ESM)
24ports GbE switch
1x optional Ultra Capacitor Module (UCM)
3x GbE/1G
3x GbE/1G
CMM
ESM
UCM
18x blades
ISM
18x IB/QDR

54. bullx blade system – blade block diagrams
bullx B500 compute blade
bullx B505 accelerator blade
31.2GB/s
31.2GB/s
31.2GB/s
31.2GB/s
Westmere EP
Westmere EP
Nehalem EP
Westmere EP
Westmere EP
Nehalem EP
QPI
QPI
QPI
12.8GB/s
Each direction
QPI
12.8GB/s
Each direction
QPI
QPI
I/O Controller
(Tylersburg)
I/O
Controller
(Tylersburg)
I/O
Controller
(Tylersburg)
SATA
SSD
diskless
QPI
GBE
SATA
SSD
diskless
PCIe 8x
4GB/s
PCIe 8x
4GB/s
PCIe 16x
8GB/s
PCIe 8x
4GB/s
PCIe 16x
8GB/s
GBE
InfiniBand
InfiniBand
Accelerator
InfiniBand
Accelerator

55. bullx B500 compute blade Connector to backplane
WESTMERE EP w/ 1U heatsink
Fans
Tylersburg w/ short heatsink
© CEA
HDD/SSD 1.8"
DDR III (x12)
143.5
425
ConnectX QDR
iBMC
ICH10

56. Ultracapacitor Module (UCM)
NESSCAP Capacitors (2x6)
Embedded protection against short power outages
Protect one chassis with all its equipment under load
Up to 250ms
Avoid on site UPS
save on infrastructure costs
save up to 15% on electrical costs
Improve overall availability
Run longer jobs
Board
Leds

57. Bull StoreWay Optima1500 750MB/s bandwidth
12 x 4Gbps front-end connections
4 x 3Gbps point to point back-end disk connections
Supports up to 144 SAS and/or SATA HDDs:
SAS 146GB (15krpm), 300GB (15krpm),
SATA 1000GB (7,2Krpm)
RAID 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 10, 50, 3, 3DualParity, Triple Mirror
2GB to 4GB cache memory
Windows, Linux, VmWare Interoperability (SFR for UNIX)
3 Models:
Single Controller 2 front-end ports
Dual Controllers 4 front-end ports
Dual Controllers 12 front-end ports
FE: Front-End (to the hosts)
BE: Back-End (to the Hard Disk Drives)

58. CLARiiON CX4-120 UltraScale Architecture Connectivity Scalability
Two 1.2Ghz dual core LV-Woodcrest CPU Modules
6 GB system memory
Connectivity
128 high-availability hosts
Up to 6 I/O modules (FC or ISCSI)
8 front-end 1 Gb/s ISCSI host ports max
12 front-end 4 Gb/s / 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel host ports max
2 back-end 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel disk ports
Scalability
Up to 1,024 LUNs
Up to 120 drives 58

59. CLARiiON CX4-480 UltraScale Architecture Connectivity Scalability
Two 2.2Ghz dual core LV-Woodcrest CPU Modules
16 GB system memory
Connectivity
256 high-availability hosts
Up to 10 I/O modules (FC or iSCSI at GA)
16 front-end 1 Gb/s iSCIS host ports max
16 front-end 4 Gb/s / 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel host ports max
8 back-end 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel disk ports
Scalability
Up to 4,096 LUNs
Up to 480 drives 59

60. DataDirect Networks S2A 9900
Performance
Single System S2A9900 delivers 6GB/s Reads & Writes
Multiple System Configurations are Proven to Scale beyond 250GB/s
Real-Time, Zero-Latency Data Access, Parallel Processing
Native FC-4, FC-8 and/or InfiniBand 4X DDR
Capacity
Single System: Up to 1.2 Petabytes
Multiple Systems Scale Beyond: 100’s of Petabytes
Intermix SAS & SATA in Same Enclosure
Manage up to 1,200 Drives
1.2PB in Just Two Racks
Innovation
High Performance DirectRAID™ 6
Zero Degraded Mode
SATAssure™ PlusData Integrity Verification & Drive Repair
Power Saving Drive Spin-down with S2A SleepMode
Power Cycle Individual Drives

61. bullx R422 E2 characteristics
1U rackmount – 2 nodes in a 1U form factor
Intel S5520 Chipset (Tylersburg)
QPI up to 6.4 GT/S
Processor: 2x Intel® Xeon® 5600 per node
Memory: 12 x DIMM sockets Reg ECC DDR3 1GB / 2GB / 4GB / 8GB
Up to 96 GB per node at 1333MHz (with 8GB DIMMs)
2 x HDD per node
Hot swap SATA2 rpm
250/500/750/1000/1500/2000 GB
Independent power control circuitry built in for power management
1x shared Power Supply Unit 1200w max
fixed / no redundancy
80 PLUS Gold
InfiniBand
1 optional on-board DDR or QDR controller per node
Expansion slots
1 PCI-E x 16 Gen2 (per node)
Rear I/O
1 external IB, 1 COM port, VGA, 2 Gigabit NIC, 2 USB ports (per node)
Management
BMC (IPMI 2.0 with virtual media-over-LAN) Embedded Winbond WPCM450-R (per node)

62. bullx R423 E2 The perfect server for service nodes 2U rack mount
Processor: 2x Intel® Xeon® 5600
Chipset: 2x Intel® S (Tylersburg)
QPI: up to 6.4 GT/s
Memory: 18 DIMM sockets DDR up to 144GB at 1333MHz
Disks Without add-on adapter : 6 SATA2 HDD (7200 tpm - 250/ 500/ 750/ 1000/ 1500/ 2000 Go) With PCI-E RAID SAS/SATA add-on adapter : Support of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 8 SATA2 (7200 tpm - 250/ 500/ 750/ 1000/ 1500/ 2000 Go) or SAS HDD (15000 tpm - 146/ 300/ 450 Go)
All disks 3.5 inches
Expansion slots (low profile)
2 PCI-E Gen 2 x16
4 PCI-E Gen 2 x8
1 PCI-E Gen 2 x4
Redundant Power Supply Unit
Matrox Graphics MGA G200eW embedded video controller
Management
BMC (IPMI 2.0 with virtual media-over-LAN) Embedded Winbond WPCM450-R on dedicated RJ45 port
WxHxD: 437mm X 89mm x 648mm

63. Bull System Manager Suite
Consistent administration environment thanks to the cluster database
Ease of use through
centralized monitoring
fast and reliable deployment
configurable notifications
Built from the best Open Source and commercial software packages
integrated
tested
supported
Easy system operation using Bull System Manager HPC Edition
Conman - centralized console management
NSCommands - nodes power-on control through IPMI
Ksis - preparation and deployment of software images and patches
Nagios - hardware and software components monitoring, alerts triggering
Ganglia - system activity monitoring
pdsh - parallel commands

64. Detailed knowledge of cluster structure
Customized
Clusters
Architecture
drawing
Standard
Clusters
Expertise Centre
R & D
Logical
NetList
Physical
NetList
Equipment
and
Description
Generator
Cable
Labels
Factory
Preload File
Model « B »
Preload File
Model « A »
Preload File
Installer

65. Product descriptions bullx blade system Bullx supernodes
bullx rack-mounted systems
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

66. bullx blade system – overall concept

67. bullx blade system – overall concept
Uncompromised performances
Support of high frequency Westmere
Memory bandwidth: 12x mem slots
Fully non blocking IB QDR interconnect
Up to 2.53 TFLOPS per chassis
Up to 15.2 TFLOPS per rack (with CPUs)
General purpose, versatile
Xeon Westmere processor
12 memory slots per blade
Local HDD/SSD or Diskless
IB / GBE
RH, Suse, Win HPC2008, CentOs, …
Compilers: GNU, Intel, …
Leading edge technologies
Intel Nehalem
InfiniBand QDR
Diskless
GPU blades
High density
7U chassis
18x blades with 2 proc, 12x DIMMs, HDD/SSD slot/IB connection
1x IB switch (36 ports)
1x GBE switch (24p)
Ultracapacitor
Optimized Power consumption
Typical 5.5 kW / chassis
High efficiency (90%) PSU
Smart fan control in each chassis
Smart fan control in water-cooled rack
Ultracapacitor  no UPS required

68. bullx chassis packaging
LCD unit
CMM
Fans
7U chassis
PSU x4
IB Switch Module
Ultracapacitor
18x blades
ESM

69. bullx B505 accelerator blade
Embedded Accelerator for high performance with high energy efficiency
2.1 TFLOPS
0.863kw
2 x Intel Xeon 5600
2 x NVIDIA T10(*)
2 x IB QDR 7U
18.9 TFLOPS in 7 U
(*) T20 is on the roadmap

70. bullx B505 accelerator blade
Double-width blade
2 NVIDIA Tesla M1060 GPUs
2 Intel® Xeon® 5600 quad-core CPUs
1 dedicated PCI-e 16x connection for each GPU
Double InfiniBand QDR connections between blades
2 x CPUs x GPUs
Front view Exploded view

71. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx supernodes
Bullx rack-mounted systems
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

72. bullx supernode An expandable SMP node for memory-hungry applications
SMP of up to 16 sockets based on Bull-designed BCS:
Intel Xeon Nehalem EX processors
Shared memory of up to 1TB (2TB with 16GB DIMMS)
RAS features:
Self-healing of the QPI and XQPI
Hot swap disk, fans, power supplies
Available in 2 formats:
High-density 1.5U compute node
High I/O connectivity node
Green features:
Ultra Capacitor
Processor power management features

73. bullx supernode: CC-NUMA server
QPI-
connected
module
NHM EX
IOH
BCS
SMP (CC-NUMA)
128 cores
Up to 1TB RAM (2TB with 16 GB DIMMs)
QPI-
connected
module
QPI-
connected
module
BCS
BCS
XQPI fabric
BCS
BCS
QPI-
connected
module 1
QPI-
connected
module
Max configuration
4 modules
4 sockets/module
16 sockets
128 cores
128 memory slots

74. Bull's Coherence Switch (BCS)
Heart of the CC-NUMA
Insure global memory and cache coherence
Optimize traffic and latencies
MPI collective operations in HW
Reductions
Synchronization
Barrier
Key characteristics
18x18 mm in 90 nm technology
6 QPI and 6 XQPI
High speed serial interfaces up to 8GT/s
Power-conscious design with selective power-down capabilities
Aggregate data rate: 230GB/s

75. bullx S6030 – 3U Service Module / Node
BCS
Ultra-capacitor
Nehalem EX (4 max)
Fans
Hot swap
Disks (8 max)
Hot swap
SATA RAID 1
SAS RAID 5
2 Power supplies
Hot swap
6 PCI-e 1-x16, 5-x8
32 DDR3

76. bullx S6010 - Compute Module / Node
BCS
2 Modules (64 cores / 512GB RAM)
Nehalem EX (4 max)
1 PCI-e x16
1 Power supply
Ultra-capacitor
Disk SATA
32 DDR3
Fans

77. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx supernodes
bullx rack-mounted systems
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

78. bullx rack-mounted systems
A large choice of options
R422 E2
R423 E2
R425 E2
COMPUTE NODE
SERVICE NODE
VISUALIZATION
2 nodes in 1U
for unprecedented density
NEW: more memory
Xeon 5600
2x 2-Socket
2x 12 DIMMs
QPI up to 6.4 GT/s
2x 1 PCI-Express x16 Gen2
InfiniBand DDR/QDR embedded (optional)
2x 2 SATA2 hot-swap HDD
80 PLUS Gold PSU
Enhanced connectivity
and storage 2U
Xeon 5600
2-Socket
18 DIMMs
2 PCI-Express x16 Gen2
Up to 8 SAS or SATA2 HDD
Redundant 80 PLUS Gold power supply
Hot-swap fans
Supports latest graphics
& accelerator cards
4U or tower
2-Socket
Xeon 5600
18 DIMMs
2 PCI-Express x16 Gen2
Up to 8 SATA2 or SAS HDD
Powerful power supply
Hot-swap Fans

79. bullx R425 E2 For high performance visualization 4U / tower rack mount
Processor: 2x Intel® Xeon® 5600
Chipset: 2x Intel® S (Tylersburg)
QPI up to 6.4 GT/s
Memory: 18 DIMM sockets DDR up to 144GB at 1333MHz
Disks Without add-on adapter : 6 SATA2 HDD (7200 tpm - 250/ 500/ 750/ 1000/ 1500/ 2000 Go) With PCI-E RAID SAS/SATA add-on adapter : Support of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 8 SATA2 (7200 tpm - 250/ 500/ 750/ 1000/ 1500/ 2000 Go) or SAS HDD (15000 tpm - 146/ 300/ 450 Go)
All disks 3.5 inches
Expansion slots (high profile)
2 PCI-E Gen 2 x16
4 PCI-E Gen 2 x8
1 PCI-E Gen 2 x4
Powerful Power Supply Unit
Matrox Graphics MGA G200eW embedded video controller
Management
BMC (IPMI 2.0 with virtual media-over-LAN) Embedded Winbond WPCM450-R on dedicated RJ45 port
WxHxD: 437mm X 178mm x 648mm

80. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx rack-mounted systems
bullx supernodes
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

81. GPU accelerators for bullx
NVIDIA® Tesla™ computing systems: teraflops many-core processors that provide outstanding energy efficient parallel computing power
NVIDIA Tesla C1060
NVIDIA Tesla S1070
To turn an R425 E2 server into a
supercomputer
Dual slot wide card
Tesla T10P chip
240 cores
Performance: close to 1 Tflops (32 bit FP)
Connects to PCIe x16 Gen2
The ideal booster for R422 E2 or S6030 -based clusters
1U drawer
4 x Tesla T10P chips
960 cores
Performance: 4 Tflops (32 bit FP)
Connects to 2 PCIe x16 Gen2

82. Ready for future Tesla processors (Fermi)
Tesla C2070
Gigaflop DP
6 GB Memory
ECC
Tesla C2050
Gigaflop DP
3 GB Memory
ECC
Large Datasets
P e r f o r m a n c e
Tesla C1060
933 Gigaflop SP
78 Gigaflop DP
4 GB Memory
8x Peak DP Performance
Talk about value of 6 GB for seismic imaging, medical imaging, CFD
Mid-Range Performance Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2009
2010
Disclaimer: performance specification may change 82

83. Ready for future Tesla 1U Systems (Fermi)
Tesla S2070
Teraflop DP
6 GB Memory / GPU
ECC
Tesla S2050
Teraflop DP
3 GB Memory / GPU
ECC
Large Datasets
P e r f o r m a n c e
Tesla S
4.14 Teraflop SP
345 Gigaflop DP
4 GB Memory / GPU
8x Peak DP Performance
Mid-Range Performance Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2009
2010
Disclaimer: performance specification may change 83

84. NVIDIA Tesla 1U system & bullx R422 E2
Tesla 1U system connection to the host
PCIe Gen2 Host
Interface Cards
PCIe Gen2
Cables
bullx R422 E2 server
PCIe Gen2 Cables 1U 1U
PCIe Gen2 Host Interface Cards
NVIDIA Tesla
1U system

85. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx rack-mounted systems
bullx supernodes
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

86. Bull Storage for HPC clusters
A complete line of storage systems
Performance
Modularity
High Availability*
A rich management suite
Monitoring
Grid & standalone system deployment
Performance analysis
*: with Lustre

87. Bull Storage Systems for HPC - details
Optima1500
CX4-120
CX4-480
S2A 9900 couplet
#disk
144
120
480
1200
Disk type
SAS 146/300/450 GB
SATA 1TB
FC 146/300/400/450 GB
FC 10Krpm 400 GB
15Krpm 146/300/450 GB
SAS 15Krpm 300/450/600GB
SATA 500/750/1000/2000 GB
RAID
R1, 3, 3DP, 5, 6, 10, 50 and TM
R0, R1, R10, R3, R5, R6
8+2 (RAID 6)
Host ports
2/12 FC 4
4/12 FC4
8/16 FC4
8 FC4
Back end ports
2 SAS 4X 2 8
20 SAS 4X
Cache size (max)
4 GB
6GB
16GB
5 GB RAID-protected
Controller size
2 U base with disks
3 U
4 U (couplet)
Disk drawer
2 U 12 slots
3 U 15 slots
3/2/4 U 16/24/60 slots
Performance (MB/s; Raid5)
R: Read; W:Write
R: up to 900 MB/s W: up to 440 MB/s
R: up to 720 MB/s W: up to 410 MB/s
R: up to 1.25 GB/s W: up to 800 MB/s
R&W: up to 6 GB/s

88. Bull storage systems - Administration & monitoring
HPC-specific Administration Framework
Specific administration commands developed on CLI:
ddn_admin, nec_admin, dgc_admin, xyr_admin
Model file for configuration deployment:
LUNs information, Access Control information, etc.
Easily Replicable for many Storage Subsystems
HPC specific Monitoring Framework
Specific SNMP trap management
Periodic monitoring of all Storage Subsystems in cluster
Storage Views in Bull System Manager HPC edition:
Detailed status for each item (power supply, fan, disk, FC port, Ethernet port, etc.)
LUN/zoning information

89. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx supernodes
bullx rack-mounted systems
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

90. Bull Cool Cabinet Door Innovative Bull design
‘Intelligent’ door (self regulates fan speed depending on temperature)
survives handily fan or water incidents (fans increase speed and extract hot air)
optimized serviceability
A/C redundancy
Side benefits for customer
no more hot spots in computer room – Good for overall MTBF !
Ready for upcoming Bull Extreme Computing systems
40kW is perfect match for a rack configured with bullx blades or future SMP servers at highest density

91. Jülich Research Center: water-cooled system

92. Cool cabinet door: Characteristics
Width 600mm (19”)
Height mm (42U)
Depth 200mm (8”)
Weight kg
Cooling capacity Up to 40 kW
Power supply Redundant
Power consumption 700 W
Input water temperature 7-12 °C
Output water temperature °C
Water flow 2 liter/second (7 m3/hour)
Ventilation 14 managed multi-speed fans
Recommended cabinet air inlet 20°C +- 2°C
Cabinet air outlet 20°C +- 2°C
Management Integrated management board for local regulation and alert reporting to Bull System Manager

93. Cool Cabinet Door: how it works

94. Flexible operating conditions
Operating parameters adaptable to various customer conditions
Energy savings further optimized depending on servers activity
Next step: Mastering water distribution
Predict Temperature, flow velocity, pressure drop within customer water distribution system
Promote optimized solution

95. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx supernodes
bullx rack-mounted systems
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

96. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx supernodes
bullx rack-mounted systems
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

97. bullx cluster suite benefits
With the features developed and optimized by Bull, your HPC cluster is all that a production system should be: efficient, reliable, predictable, secure, easy to manage.
Cluster Management
Fast deployment
Reliable management
Intuitive monitoring
Powerful control tools
Save administration time
Help prevent system downtime
MPI
Scalability of parallel application performance
Standard interface compatible with many interconnects
Improve system productivity
Increase system flexibility
File system: Lustre
Improved I/O performance
Scalability of storage
Easy management of storage system
Improve system performance
Provide unparalleled flexibility
Interconnect
Cutting edge InfiniBand stack support
Improve system performance
Development tools
Fast development and tuning of applications
Easy analysis of code behaviour
Help get the best performance and thus the best return on investment
Kernel debugging and optimization tools
Better performance on memory-intensive applications
Easy optimization of applications
Save development and optimization time
SMP & NUMA architectures
Optimized performance
Reliable and predictable performance
Improve system performance
Red Hat distribution
Standard
Application support / certification
Large variety of supported applications

98. bullx cluster suite components
System environment
Installation/configuration Monitoring/control/diagnostics
Application environment
Execution environment Development File systems
Lustre
config
Ksis
Nscontrol
// cmds
Nagios
Ganglia
Job scheduling
Libraries
& tools
Lustre
NFSv4
NFSv3
Resource
management
MPIBull2
Bull System Manager cluster database
Interconnect access layer (OFED,…)
Linux OS
Bull Cluster Suite incorporates a compre­hensive set of tools enabling users to efficiently operate the cluster at all stages.
Easy system operation using Bull System Manager HPC Edition
Conman - centralized console management
NSCommands - nodes power-on control through IPMI
Ksis - preparation and deployment of software images and patches
Nagios - hardware and software components monitoring, alerts triggering
Ganglia - system activity monitoring
pdsh - parallel commands
Optimized execution environment
Integrated high speed network drivers and debugging and monitoring tools
Scientific computing and communication libraries: Bull MPI 2, OpenMP, FFTW, BlockSolve, Intel MKL (commercial)
Lustre parallel file system -- optimized and integrated within Bull Advanced Server to facilitate configuration
Job scheduling software -- tightly integrated with the Bull MPI 2 libraries: SLURM, Platform LSF (commercial) or Altair PBS Pro (commercial)
Development and tuning environment
Compilers: GNU Compilers, Intel C/C++/Fortran 10 (commercial)
Debuggers: IDB, GDB, Etnus TotalView (commercial), Alinea DDT (commercial)
Profilers: oprofile, GNU profiler, Intel Vtune (commercial), Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector (commercial)
Administration network
HPC interconnect
Linux kernel
Hardware
XPF SMP platforms InfiniBand/GigE interconnects
GigE network switches Bull StoreWay/disk arrays

99. Product descriptions bullx blade system bullx supernodes
bullx rack-mounted systems
NVIDIA Tesla Systems
Bull Storage
Cool cabinet door
mobull
bullx cluster suite
Windows HPC Server 2008

100. Bull and Windows HPC Server 2008
Clusters of bullx R422 E2 servers
Intel® 5500 processors
Compact rack design: 2 compute nodes in 1U or 18 compute nodes in 7U, depending on model
Fast & reliable InfiniBand interconnect
supporting
Microsoft® Windows HPC Server 2008
Simplified cluster deployment and management
Broad application support
Enterprise-class performance and scalability
Common collaboration with leading ISVs to provide complete solutions
The right technologies to handle industrial applications efficiently

101. Windows HPC Server 2008
Combining the power of the Windows Server platform with rich, out-of-the-box functionality to help improve the productivity and reduce the complexity of your HPC environment
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 HPC Edition
Microsoft® HPC Pack 2008
Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008 + =
Support for high performance hardware (x64 bit architecture)
Winsock Direct support for RDMA for high performance interconnects (Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Myrinet, and others)
Support for Industry Standards MPI2
Integrated Job Scheduler
Cluster Resource Management Tools
Integrated “out of the box” solution
Leverages past investments in Windows skills and tools
Makes cluster operation just as simple and secure as operating a single system
101

102. A complete turn-key solution
Bull delivers a complete ready-to-run solution
Sizing
Factory pre-installed and pre-configured Roll)
Installation, integration in the existing infrastructure
1st and 2nd level support
Monitoring, audit
Training
Bull has a Microsoft Competence Center

103. bullx cluster 400-W
Enter the world of High Performance Computing with bullx cluster 400-W running Windows HPC Server 2008
bullx cluster 400-W4
4 compute nodes to relieve the strain on your work stations
bullx cluster 400-W8
8 compute nodes to give independent compute resources to a small team of users, enabling them to submit large jobs or several jobs simultaneously
bullx cluster 400-W16
16 compute nodes to equip a workgroup with independent high performance computing resources that can handle their global compute workload
A solution that combines:
The performance of bullx rack servers equipped with Intel® Xeon® processors
The advantages of Windows HPC Server 2008
Simplified cluster deployment and management
Easy integration with IT infrastructure
Broad application support
Familiar development environment
And expert support from Bull’s Microsoft Competence Center