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The MSA story of the DEEP projects family
1) Motivation
General purpose systems
+ Highly flexible
- High energy consumption
+ Preferred by many applications
Highly scalable systems
- Few (highly parallelizable) codes can fully exploit them
+ Highly energy efficient
2) Can one combine the best of these two worlds into a single system? → Yes! Exploit heterogeneity!
Homogeneous cluster
- General purpose CPUs attached to a high-speed network
+ Easy to use, very flexible
- Power hungry
Traditional heterogeneous cluster
- Attach accelerators (e.g. GPUs) to each CPU
+ Energy efficient, easy management
- Static assignment of accelerators to CPUs
3) The basis for the MSA: The Cluster-Booster Concept
The MSA developed in DEEP-EST builds on the so-called Cluster-Booster architecture. It was first conceptualized and proven with prototypes in the DEEP project. It is a combination of a standard HPC Cluster and a tightly connected HPC Booster.
Cluster-Booster architecture
+ Energy efficient, high flexibility, dynamic ressource assignment
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