Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Got 438-Node HPC

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announces the deployment of a new supercomputer in Japan at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) supporting scientists and researchers focused on discovery and innovation in the life, physical and environmental sciences.

The OIST Sango Supercomputer is a collaboration between Industry HPC leaders, Supermicro, DataDirect Networks, Inc. and Mellanox Technologies Ltd to integrate Supermicro 7U TwinBlade and 4U FatTwin compute nodes with lowest-latency and massive storage capacity.

Sango, recently ranked #281 on the Top500, serves the OIST research community with 438 nodes consisting of Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors combined with Intel Xeon Phi 7120P Coprocessors. The supercomputer also provides 3PB of performance DDN storage integrated via low-latency 56Gb/s FDR IB.

“Supermicro is pleased to support OIST environmental protection research with design and deployment services of our Green Computing solutions for their Sango Supercomputer,” said Tau Leng, VP and GM of HPC, Supermicro. “The HPC system integrates our latest TwinBlade and FatTwin SuperServer platforms with 56Gb/s FDR IB, 10G/40G Ethernet network switches and parallel file storage system for a complete end-to-end infrastructure solution. With our high-performance and high-efficiency systems, the Sango Supercomputer provides OIST a powerful and yet energy efficient tool to accelerate their research for many years to come.“

“I have been very impressed by the quality of the cluster we received through the collaboration of Supermicro, DDN and Mellanox,” said Tim Dyce, CIO, OIST. “These resources place us well to support the world-leading research activities taking place here at OIST.“

“We are excited to work again with OIST, to support scientists at one of the fastest-growing research universities in Japan with HPC storage capabilities,” said Robert Triendl, GM, DDN Japan, “The combination of Supermicro servers, Mellanox IB, and versatile EXAScaler storage from DDN provide OIST with a powerful but cost-effective platform to deal with the most demanding research computing and scientific data analysis challenges.“

“Mellanox leads the industry in high-performance, smart and flexible interconnect technology offering 100Gb/s performance with EDR IB for the most demanding HPC applications, and the OIST Sango project highlights our specialty in this field,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “Our longstanding collaborative efforts with Supermicro and DDN accelerate the development and deployment process for large scale supercomputing clusters. We look forward to working with our close partners to further build robust and scalable high-performance infrastructures.“

OIST Sango Supercomputer Specifications:

• 400x computing nodes: Supermicro 7U SuperBlade 2-node, dual-processor TwinBlade (SBI-7228R-T2F) supporting Intel Xeon Processor E5-2680 v3 (12C, 2.5GHz)
• 20x large memory nodes: Supermicro 4U 8-node FatTwin (SYS-F618R2-RT+) supporting 512GB of DDR4 memory @2133MHz
• DDN storage: 15 nodes (including 12 OSS nodes) 3PB
• 3x Intel Xeon Phi nodes: Supermicro 2U single node SuperServer (SYS-2028GR-TR) supporting 4x Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors per node
• 3x future Accelerator nodes, plus additional Administration nodes
• Supermicro TwinBlade with onboard 56Gb/s FDR IB, SuperBlade 56Gb/s FDR IB modules (SBM-IBS-F3616M), 1U Top-of-Rack 10GbE (SSE-G48-TG4), 1GbE (SSE-G2252) and Mellanox 10/40/56GbE FDR IB (SX1024, SX6518) network switches
• Linpack Performance (Rmax) 252.7 TFlop/s
• OS: CentOS