WORLD SUPERCOMPUTING
A system in balance.
Understand the components together, from application code to facility constraints.
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Follow the work.
SYSTEM LAYER
Processors & memory
Feed the computation.
Explore SYSTEM LAYERAccelerators & software
Acceleration begins in the application.
Explore SYSTEM LAYERInterconnect & topology
Keep the nodes working together.
Explore SYSTEM LAYERStorage & data movement
A fast system needs a data plan.
Explore SYSTEM LAYERPower & cooling
Design the facility with the system.
Explore SYSTEM LAYEROperations & access
Make useful compute available.
ExploreTHE INTEGRATION QUESTION
What must work together?
A useful architecture connects application behavior, available memory, communication, I/O and operational ownership. An improvement to one component may simply move the bottleneck.
Use the workload patterns to describe the work, the research notes to question assumptions and the Planning Lab to prepare a reviewable scenario.
Start with a workload pattern →