MVAPICH Supporting Stampede


Every day as scientific research grows and expands the boundaries of knowledge, the need for faster and larger computing capacity also grows accordingly. Software developed by Dr. DK Panda and his team, MVAPICH, will be used in the National Science Foundation's powerful new supercomputer, "Stampede," being built at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Upon completion in 2013, Stampede will be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At its initial peak performance, it will process at 10 petaflops, contain 272 terabytes (272,000 gigabytes) of total memory, and handle 14 petabytes (14 million gigabytes) of disk storage. Eventually, Intel will be adding new generations of MIC processors which will then allow Stampede to clock at 15 petaflops.

MVAPICH/MVAPICH2 (pronounced em-va-pich) software delivers best performance, scalability and fault tolerance for high-end computing systems and servers using InfiniBand, 10GigE/iWARP and RoCE networking technologies. All components of Stampede will be integrated with InfiniBand FDR 56G/bs network. MVAPICH improves the processing by connecting traditional supercomputing software with innovative networking technologies and protocols, thus increasing the data flow speed in a significant manner.

Dr. Panda is very enthusiastic about this project.

"The NSF funded Stampede system at TACC will push the frontier of Petascale supercomputing with commodity computing platform, commodity networking technology (InfiniBand) and accelerators. The OSU MVAPICH team is happy to participate in this project with TACC and associated partners.

"We look forward to driving this system with MVAPICH2 software and delivering multi-Petaflop performance to the large number of cutting-edge applications targeted for this system."

For more details on MVAPICH, you check the site here. For more details about Stampede, follow this link.