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S u p e r C o m p u te r S h o w D a i l y W e d n e s d a y, N o ve m b e r 2 0 , 2 0 1 3 4 TERABIT NETWORKING GETS ITS CLOSE-UP AT SC13 CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, reports that experi- ments at the facility, which include the Large Hadron Collider, have generated 75 petabytes of data during the last three years. The volume of information coming out of CERN is enormous, and a far-reaching network of data centers and supercomputers store and analyze files, while teams of scientists collabo- rating across continents work to under- stand and make sense of these high- end experiments. CERN is just one example of how advanced scientific research has become globalized and data-intensive. Here at SC13, the world is getting a preview of how the technology com- munity is responding to meet the demand for increased capacity for sci- entific processing power, be it for par- ticle physics, medical research or envi- ronmental monitoring. With bandwidth-hungry scientific projects needing to send more data over longer distances faster than ever, one of the big trends at SC13 this year is the evolution of terabit networking. SCinet, the high-capacity network underpinning the data flows within SC13 and also linking the convention center to the outside world, pulls in advanced tech- nology each year to build out a network designed to showcase the current state of networking innovation and meet the needs of dozens of high-performance computing demos and workshops. Year after year, SCinet increases the capacity of the show network at Supercomputing, and this year is no exception. Leveraging expertise from recent terabit networking trials, Ciena is helping SCinet assemble a 400G network that will link the conference site to the various global networks outside. Ciena ONE STOP SYSTEMS INTRODUCES GEN3 HIGH DENSITY COMPUTE ACCELERATOR FOR HPC APPLICATIONS One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS), a leader in PCI Express (PCIe) expansion tech- nology and related products, introduces the first PCIe Gen3 expansion appliance to support up to 16 high-end accelerator boards. The High Density Compute Accelerator adds 73.3 teraflops of com- putational power using 16 NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPUs. The Accelerator is targeted for data centers operating HPC applica- tions, providing the user with a complete appliance that solves any integration issues. The user simply connects the cable or cables to the host server(s), and it has hundreds or thousands of addition- al compute cores readily available. Installation is made easier by the modularity of the appliance. The Accelerator consists of the rackmount chassis, three modular power supplies, four pre-loaded canisters and the front bezel. The power supplies and the canis- ters slide into the front of the chassis and the front bezel snaps into place. One to four servers are then cabled to the rear of the enclosure. Each connection operates at Gen3 speeds of 128Gb/s. Each canister is equipped with four PCIe x16 Gen3 slots that operate up to 128Gb/s each. While the enclo- sure supports any type of PCIe card, for convenience the canisters are pro- vided pre-loaded with four Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors or NVIDIA Tesla K10 or K20 GPUs. An intake fan is located on the front of each canister, directing ambient air through the can- Continued on Page 12 Continued on Page 12 AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH SC Lee M. Oser CEO and Editor-in-Chief Lyle Sapp Senior Associate Publisher Director of Sales Kim Forrester Jeff Rosano Associate Publishers Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director Hayden Neeley Senior Associate Editor Jeanie Catron Associate Editor Yasmine Brown Keaton Kohl Graphic Designers Ruth Haltiwanger Customer Service Managers Lynn Hilton Jeff Meyer Account Managers Enrico Cecchi European Sales Super Computer Show Daily is published by Oser Communications Group ©2013. All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 www.oser.com European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy.