Journal
FRONTIERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 345-356Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11704-014-3501-3
Keywords
MilkyWay-2 supercomputer; petaflops computing; neo-heterogeneous architecture; interconnect network; heterogeneous programing model; system management; benchmark optimization; performance evaluation
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- National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) [2012AA01A301]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61120106005]
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On June 17, 2013, MilkyWay-2 (Tianhe-2) supercomputer was crowned as the fastest supercomputer in the world on the 41th TOP500 list. This paper provides an overview of the MilkyWay-2 project and describes the design of hardware and software systems. The key architecture features of MilkyWay-2 are highlighted, including neo-heterogeneous compute nodes integrating commodity-off-the-shelf processors and accelerators that share similar instruction set architecture, powerful networks that employ proprietary interconnection chips to support the massively parallel message-passing communications, proprietary 16-core processor designed for scientific computing, efficient software stacks that provide high performance file system, emerging programming model for heterogeneous systems, and intelligent system administration. We perform extensive evaluation with wide-ranging applications from LINPACK and Graph500 benchmarks to massively parallel software deployed in the system.
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