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Bringing Up Cielo: Experiences with a Cray XE6 System Or, Getting Started with Your New 140k Processor System Cory Lueninghoener Daryl Grunau Quellyn Snead Tim Harrington Los Alamos National Laboratory U N C L A S S I F I E D Slide 1


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Bringing Up Cielo: Experiences with a Cray XE6 System

Cory Lueninghoener Daryl Grunau Quellyn Snead Tim Harrington Los Alamos National Laboratory

Or, Getting Started with Your New 140k Processor System

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Cielo at a Glance

96 Racks

96 Nodes per Rack

Two 8-core 2.4GHz Processors per Node

32GB Memory per Node

Torus network: 4.68GB/s links

142,304 Total Compute Cores

284,608 GB Total Compute Memory

1.11 PF measured speed

(Blatantly ripped from top500.org)

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Cielo’s Family

Cielo Cielito Smog Muzia

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Software Challenges

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Software Challenges

 RPM Challenges  Configuration Management Challenges  Environment Management Challenges

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Vendor Relations

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Conclusions

 Keeping good vendor relations helped us a lot  Getting test systems early showed us problems early

  • Also helped us solve those problems early

 As always, configuration management is worthwhile  Working as a team is important

  • Many people and groups came together to get Cielo up

quickly

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Questions?