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A first '''QUonG''' system prototype is expected to be delivered at the | A first '''QUonG''' system prototype is expected to be delivered at the | ||
| − | end of the year 2011. | + | end of the year 2011 while from the beginning of 2012 we will be ready |
| + | to start mass production of '''QUonG'''. | ||
| + | Building from the configuration of the first '''QUonG''' prototype | ||
| + | equipped with a current NVIDIA Tesla GPU with Fermi architecture, we | ||
| + | envision a final shape for a deployed '''QUonG''' system as an assembly | ||
| + | of fully populated standard 42U height '''QUonG''' racks, each one | ||
| + | capable of 60 TFlops/rack in single precision (30 TFlops/rack in double | ||
| + | precision) of peak performance, at a cost of 5kEuro/TFlops and for an | ||
| + | estimated power consumption of 25 kW/rack. | ||
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| + | A typical '''QUonG''' PFlops scale installation, composed of 16 | ||
| + | '''QUonG''' racks interconnected via APEnet+ 3-dim torus network, will | ||
| + | be characterized by an estimated power consumption of the order of 400 | ||
| + | kW and a cost ratio of the order of 5 kEuro/TFlops. | ||
Revision as of 15:00, 21 June 2011
The QUonG Project
QUonG is an 
INFN
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) initiative targeted to develop
a High Performance Computing system dedicated (but not limited) to
Lattice QCD computations.
QUonG is a massively parallel computing platform built up from commodity multi-core processors coupled with latest generation GPUs; its communication mesh - being tailored to the characteristics of LQCD algorithms - is a point-to-point, high performance, low latency network where the computing nodes are topologically arranged as vertexes of a 3 dimensional torus.
The network is built upon the APEnet+ project.
Upcoming system
A first QUonG system prototype is expected to be delivered at the end of the year 2011 while from the beginning of 2012 we will be ready to start mass production of QUonG. Building from the configuration of the first QUonG prototype equipped with a current NVIDIA Tesla GPU with Fermi architecture, we envision a final shape for a deployed QUonG system as an assembly of fully populated standard 42U height QUonG racks, each one capable of 60 TFlops/rack in single precision (30 TFlops/rack in double precision) of peak performance, at a cost of 5kEuro/TFlops and for an estimated power consumption of 25 kW/rack.
A typical QUonG PFlops scale installation, composed of 16 QUonG racks interconnected via APEnet+ 3-dim torus network, will be characterized by an estimated power consumption of the order of 400 kW and a cost ratio of the order of 5 kEuro/TFlops.
