HPC User Site Census: Processor Technologies

November 13, 2019|Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard Ph.D., Laura Segervall

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Intersect360 Research surveyed the High Performance Computing (HPC) user community to complete its eleventh Site Census study. The study is a look at their
current computer system installations, storage systems, networks, middleware, and application software supporting these computer installations. This
report provides a detailed examination of HPC systems and technologies installed among responding HPC user sites. Our goal in this analysis is to provide
an overview of how HPC systems are configured, including the breadth of technologies most commonly used.

Our Site Census survey results can be found in many reports, including the following:

HPC System Configurations and Technologies
HPC System Vendors Installed
HPC Storage Configurations and Technologies
HPC Storage Vendors Installed
HPC Networking Technologies
HPC Processing Technologies (Including Accelerators)
HPC Operating System Installations
HPC Middleware and Tool Installations
HPC Application Installations (segmented into application domains):
- Biosciences
- Business: Business intelligence, analytics, pattern recognition, ERP, CRM, security, complex event processing, general business
- Chemistry
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Engineering: Structural analysis, electronic design automation (EDA), general engineering
- Finance and economics
- Geophysics
- Physics
- Scientific research
- Visualization and image analysis
- Weather modeling, climate modeling, environment modeling

This report looks at processor elements for HPC systems, including both CPUs and accelerators. This analysis includes both a look at how processors are
configured in HPC systems, and the reported vendors of both CPUs and accelerators.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Methodology
Total Responses
Table 1: HPC User Site Census Responses for HPC System Analysis
HPC PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGIES
Definitions
CPUs
Figure 1: Architecture of Reported HPC Systems
Table 2: Total Nodes Reported in HPC Systems, by Architecture
Table 3: CPUs per Node for Reported Distributed-Memory HPC Systems
Figure 2: Cores per CPU in Reported Distributed-Memory HPC Systems, by Year Installed or Last Modified
Table 4: Cores per CPU in Reported Distributed-Memory HPC Systems, by Year Installed or Last Modified
Table 5: Processor Architecture of Reported CPUs in HPC Systems
Table 6: CPU Vendor by Year of System Installation or Last Modification
Table 7: CPU Vendor by HPC System Size (CPUs per System)
Accelerators
Figure 3: Proportion of Reported HPC Systems Using Accelerators, by Year of Installation or Last Modification
Table 8: Accelerator Vendor of Reported HPC Systems

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