Rating of supercomputers of Russia and CIS of Top50

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2020: RSK is in the lead in the rating of Top50 of supercomputers of Russia and the CIS on number of projects

On March 31, 2020 it became known that the RSK group announced that in the last 32 editions of rating Top50 of the most powerful supercomputers at Russia and the CIS (it is announced on March 31, 2020) there are 11 computer systems of production of RSK group. The share of the company in this list makes 22%, i.e. every fifth supercomputer which is in the rating of Top50 is developed and installed by specialists of RSK.

After planned upgrade supercomputer "The polytechnician – the RSK Tornado" in SPbPU, carried out at the beginning of 2020, this system reserved the fifth line of Top50 list. Its peak capacity grew to level 1.15 PFLOPS (petaFLOPS – one quadrillion transactions with a floating comma per second, or 1000 TFLOPS). According to the industrial LINPACK test the maximum capacity of this supercomputer of SPbPU grew to 801.63 TFLOPS.

After the next planned upgrade of the MVS-10P OP2 supercomputer in JSCC RAS which is carried out at the end of 2019 according to the program of development of the centers of collective use implemented by the Ministry of science and the higher education of the Russian Federation, this system rose by the 12th line of rating Top50. Its peak capacity grew more than twice, having reached 427.6 TFLOPS. At the same time on the industrial LINPACK test the maximum capacity of this supercomputer JSCC RAS grew to 292.8 TFLOPS.

Among key customers of RSK there are organizations of the highest educations the Russian (leading universities) and sciences, research centers, laboratories and design offices. From other projects of the company are present at the current Top50 list hyper convergent Govorun supercomputer Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (the 11th position), computing systems Southern Ural State University (the 14 and 30 place), MIPT The RSK Tornado — supercomputer of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (the 44th position), the NKS-1P computing system of the Siberian supercomputer center Institute of calculus mathematics and mathematical geophysics of the Siberian department Russian Academy of Sciences takes the 49th place^[1].

2018: Rapid growth of capacity of supercomputers in rating

According to data of the fresh 28th edition (spring of 2018) of Top-50 list of the most powerful computers of the CIS provided RCC of Lomonosov Moscow State University and JSCC RAS within the International scientific conference "Parallel Computing Technologies (PAVT) 2018" the noticeable increase in productivity of systems entering the list was outlined^[2].

Gross performance of systems from Top-50 list on the Linpack test for half a year grew with 8.7 PFLOPS ((1015) of quadrillion transactions with a floating point per second) to 10.7 PFLOPS. Gross peak capacity of the systems of the list at the same time reached 17.4 PFLOPS though half a year ago in the previous edition of the list it made only 13.4 PFLOPS.

In total for half a year which passed from the publication of the previous rating Top-50, the list was replenished with nine absolutely new supercomputers, and seven systems from the list underwent large-scale updating. These indicators, according to originators of Top-50, are a record for the last six years.

Requests for entry into rating was more, but not all systems overcame a lower limit of performance: entry into the current edition Top-50 required performance on the Linpack test not less than 42.6 TFLOPS against 38.1 TFLOPS in the previous edition.

Originators of rating note that the main changes in the latest revision Top-50 fell not on leaders of the list, but on systems with a performance of 50-70 TFLOPS. It means that the supercomputer in Russia became rather mass phenomenon, and its performance is put not for the sake of records, but already taking into account requirements and financial opportunities of the customer.

The Russian science and education remained the main consumers of supercomputer capacities, at them, as well as in former edition, 18 systems from rating were necessary. The quantity of systems for specific application studies decreased from 16 to 14. The number of the HPC systems in the industry was also a little reduced – from five to four; the number of systems in financial area remained equal to three.

By quantity of the systems entering the list, the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise company - 13 systems, as well as in last edition remained the leader. It is followed by the RSK group with 12 systems which added for half a year to rating one more supercomputer. Top three is closed by T-Platforms company with 11 systems against seven systems in last edition. On the fourth place IBM with five systems was placed (seven in last rating). For the first time in the list there were four systems as which producer Nvidia appears.

2015

Lomonosov-2 holds leadership in TOP50 of supercomputers of the CIS

On October 1, 2015 RCC of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Interdepartmental supercomputer center RAS officially provided the 23rd edition of the list of the most powerful supercomputers of the CIS - TOP50. Positions of four leaders of the list remained invariable from date of publication of the previous^[3].

In supercomputer (2014)

The Lomonosov-2 supercomputer of production of T-Platforms company heads the list. SK is set in MSU, its performance for half a year did not change and remained at the Linpack level of 1849. The second place - Lomonosov (MSU) of production T-Platforms of Tflops with a performance of 901.9. The third place behind the Polytechnician of the RSK Tornado supercomputer (The St. Petersburg polytechnical university) of production of RSK Group, Tflops with a performance of 658.1.

To the fifth position for the first time there was a HPC4 supercomputer (Research Center Kurchatov Institute) of production of SuperMicro and Borlas companies Tflops with a performance of 289.5, it displaced the system of the Nizhny Novgorod State University of N.I. Lobachevsky on the sixth place and pressed other systems of the list on one step.

The next edition of Tor50 list showed the general gain of capacity of supercomputers of the CIS:

• gross performance of systems on the Linpack test for half a year grew from 6.87 quadrillion (1015) transactions with a floating point per second (Pflops) to 7.3 Pflops,
• gross peak capacity of the systems of the list was 11.46 Pflops (10.81 Pflops in the previous edition).

The lower bound of the top ten climbed performance from 119.9 to 160.9 Tflops, and performance of the system closing the list grew from 21.92 to 25.08 Tflops. For half a year in the list three new supercomputers and two more systems appeared were updated.

In the hardware of the systems of TOP50 list leadership is held by Intel processors: 49 systems on such processors. AMD processors are used in two systems of the list (the 43rd and 49th places), systems on processors of IBM do not appear in the list. At the same time the quantity of systems with Intel Xeon Phi accelerators in TOP50 decreased from seven to six, and the number of supercomputers with graphic accelerators increased from sixteen to seventeen as a system with AMD accelerators was added to 16 systems with accelerators of Nvidia. The number of systems with InfiniBand remained equal 31, and the number of systems with Gigabit Ethernet increased from 16 to 17.

By quantity of the systems entering the list HP (15 in the previous edition), IBM with 13 systems (the 14th half a year ago) remained the leader among producers with 14 systems. Among the Russian producers "T-Platforms" and RSK with eight systems everyone.

Industry deal on supercomputers underwent some changes: the quantity of the systems used in science and education decreased from 19 to 17, focused on specific application studies remained equal 10, used in the industry increased from six up to seven, applied in the financial sphere remained equal to three.

RSK is in the lead in the rating of Tor50 of supercomputers of Russia on number of projects

On April 3, 2015 it became known of relocation of RSK group of the first line in the rating of Top50 of the Russian producers of supercomputers^[4].

The company increased a share of self-produced supercomputers in edition of rating Top50 of the most powerful computing systems in Russia and the CIS by 80%. RSK is in the lead from shares of 40% on number of systems in the top ten of this list and among all domestic manufacturers in rating.

From 9 supercomputers of RSK in Top50 three two are set in Moscow (two in JSCC RAS, one in Roshydromet), in St. Petersburg (SPbPU), two in Chelyabinsk (SUSU), one in Dolgoprudny (MIPT) and one in Volgograd (VGTU).

In the latest revision of rating of Top500 (November, 2014) of the most powerful supercomputers of the world the RSK group was included into the top ten of producers of such systems. The Russian company for the first time took the 9th place among the leading world suppliers of supercomputers after doubling of quantity of production systems of RSK in Top500 to four. At this RSK is in the lead from shares of 44% among all Russian supercomputers in this rating. Gross peak capacity of the systems of RSK in Top500 exceeds 2 PFLOPS. In total 9 supercomputers from Russia are presented in the current version of the list.

Lomonosov-2 headed the rating of supercomputers of the Russian Federation

On March 31, 2015 it became known of achievement by the indicator Lomonosov-2 supercomputer on^[5].

The research computer center of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Interdepartmental supercomputer center RAS provided the twenty second edition of Tor50 list of the most powerful computers of the CIS.

The current version of Tor50 list reflected increase in productivity of supercomputers in the CIS. Gross performance of systems on the Linpack test for half a year increased from 4677.2 TFLOPS up to 6866.9 TFLOPS. Gross peak capacity of the systems of the list for the first time exceeded a boundary 10 PFLOPS and was 10811.2 TFLOPS (7825.5 TFLOPS in the previous edition of the list). In six months in the list there were seven new supercomputers and there was an updating of four more systems.

The Lomonosov-2 supercomputer of production of T-Platforms company installed at Lomonosov Moscow State University whose performance on the Linpack test grew from 319.8 TFLOPS to 1849 TFLOPS. His predecessor Lomonosov which is also set in MSU fell by the second place, its performance on the Linpack test is 901.9 TFLOPS. On the third place in rating - the new supercomputer "Polytechnician of the RSK Tornado" of production of RSK group installed at the St. Petersburg polytechnical university whose performance on the Linpack test is 658.1 TFLOPS.

Parameters of the Lomonosov-2 supercomputer:

• nodes: 1280 (Xeon E5-2697v3 [Acc: Tesla K40M] 2.6 GHz 64 GB RAM)

• сеть: FDR Infiniband/FDR Infiniband/Gigabit Ethernet

Tflop/s:

• Linpack - 1,849.00
• Peak - 2.575.87

2014

The new, most powerful supercomputer in Russia in MSU - 2.57 Pflops

On November 18, 2014 the Russian producer of supercomputersT-Platforms reported that it completes testing and a commissioning of the new high-performance computing system for MSU with a peak capacity of 2.57 of Pflops. In the November rating of Top-500 of the most powerful supercomputers of the world this system took the 22nd place.Details.

The rating of 50 largest supercomputers in Russia

At the "Scientific Service on the Internet" conference the declaration of the next edition of the list of 50 most high-performance computers in Russia took place. The conference is held from September 22 to September 27, 2014 in Abrau-Durso.

Five fastest computers created the companies T-Platforms Hewlett-Packard RSK group.

TOP rating of 50 fastest supercomputers of Russia. the 21st edition of rating of September 23, 2014.

5 supercomputers of HP entered new edition TOP-50 of the most high-performance systems of Russia. The company was ahead of all vendors by quantity of its systems which entered the latest revision of the list. In rating 19 systems are stated.

• HP System X is the second place in rating. The supercomputer consists of 150 nodes, each of which – a HP server of ProLiant SL270 G8 with two processors Intel Xeon E5-2660 and three GPU of nVidia Tesla K20. A communication network of MPI – GbEthernet. Most reached performance (Rmax) according to the Linpack test was 408,980 TFLOPS. Efficiency of 71.9%.

• HP System Z - 16 line of rating. The supercomputer is created from 60 nodes of a configuration similar to HP System X, but are used by GPU of nVidia M2070Q. Communication network of MPI GbEthernet. Maximum capacity – 60,643 TFLOPS.

• HP System Y - the third system took the 18th place. The supercomputer is constructed of 30 similar previous nodes with GPU of nVidia M2090. A communication network of MPI – GbEthernet. Maximum capacity of the machine – 52,783 TFLOPS.

The listed systems are installed for the benefit of one IT service provider and are applied to work of software which is actively using possibilities of vector calculations.

• PTG HP Seismic 3 took the 44th place. The supercomputer contains 128 dual-processor nodes without use of accelerators. Maximum capacity – 23,344 TFLOPS. The foundation of this supercomputer is laid a few years ago and after a series of upgrades, last of which is complete in the summer of 2014, the machine reached the level of high-speed performance of the most high-performance systems of Russia. The supercomputer is installed at the Moscow office of Petrotreys Global company and is used for processing and the analysis of seismic data by search of oil and gas.

• Cherry takes the 49th place. The fifth system of HP in rating. As a part of the supercomputer 64 nodes, each of them are a HP server of ProLiant SL230 with the installed two Intel Xeon processors E5-2670 without use of accelerators. This system showed maximum capacity in 18,085 TFLOPS. The supercomputer is installed in National University of Science and Technology " MISIS ".

All systems of HP which entered rating are created using standard technologies and use air for cooling.

2013: The rating of 50 largest supercomputers in Russia

2009

September, 2009

In September, 2009 the research computer center of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center RAS provided the eleventh edition Top-50 of supercomputers of the CIS countries. The list, as well as last time, headed the MVS-100K supercomputer with a power of 71.28 teraflop installed in the Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center RAS. 1980 4-core Intel Xeon processors with the total number of cores of 7920 are its part. The computer is developed by Hewlett-Packard company. Peak capacity of a system is 95.04 teraflop.

On the second place — the SCYTHIAN supercomputer of MSU Chebyshev constructed based on a blade servers of T-Platforms company. This system including 1250 4-core Intel Xeon processors is set in Research computer center of MSU, its performance is 47.32 teraflop (the 60th teraflop — peak). From the moment of installation in 2008, computing powers of the supercomputer are completely loaded and even their shortage is noted.

The first twenty was left without changes. The fifth time in a row the T-Platforms company with 16 supercomputers presented in the list became the leader of the rating by quantity of systems. Children of Hewlett-Packard are 12 systems, IBM — 10.

The eleventh edition of the list showed the minimum gain of capacity of supercomputers for lifetime of rating. Overall performance of systems on the Linpack test for half a year grew from 382.6 teraflop to 387.1 teraflop. Five systems which entered the list are new or upgraded.

Among the new and upgraded systems – the 1.51 teraflop supercomputer installed in the Center of cluster technologies of T-Platforms company. In the new edition he took the 39th place, having risen by 7 positions up comparison with the previous edition. It is the only system in Russia which is completely constructed based on 9-core PowerXCell 8i processors. In total them in system 64, and number of cores — 576 pieces.

The number of computers with an actual performance more than 1 TFLOPS in the new list grew from 47 to 49, and the lower bound of the top ten on performance remained at the level of 12.36 teraflop. In the new list the number of the systems used in science and education – with 30 to 31 increased, and the number of the systems used for application studies decreased from 10 to 9. Getting into Top-50 list requires higher performance now — not less than 978 gigaflop (924.4 gigaflop in the previous edition).

Shares of producers of processors in new rating did not change: 37 systems are constructed based on Intel processors, 7 systems – on AMD processors, 5 systems – IBM and one – based on processors of Hewlett-Packard.

March, 2009

10 most powerful computers of Russia according to Supercomputers.ru for March, 2009

The rating of Top500 to put it mildly not just over truly displays the valid state of affairs in the Russian market. An exit was found the Russian company "T-Platforms", MSTs of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Research Computer Center (RCC) of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Having connected the efforts, they created the rating of the most powerful supercomputers of Russia and the CIS which is also updated each half a year and is based on the same LinPack test reflecting the speed of the solution of a bulky linear equation system. This rating supports 50 most productive (in terms of the solution of linear equations) systems in Russia and helps to estimate development of the industry of high-performance computing in our country.

It is in details possible to study this rating onthe website www.supercomputers.ru. But already by the first consideration of Tor50 it is possible to reveal those trends which directly demonstrate development of HPC in Russia. For example, the interesting fact is that the HP company delivering today to Russia the greatest number of the high-performance systems does only 22% of installations while the Russian producer "T-Platforms" executes 20%. Of course, financially these indicators are incomparable (considering a difference in quotations of the companies stated above). But the quantitative factor demonstrates that our country can assemble supercomputers independently. The latest revision Tor50 showed that the number of the supercomputers which are used in the financial sector grew from 18% to 30%, and in relation to industrial enterprises this indicator changed from 34% to 44% that speaks about good dynamics in mastering of high technologies by the Russian companies.

The supercomputer with a performance of 100 trillion transactions from a floating comma per second (100 Tflops) made by HP company and Open Technologies integrator began to be built in JSCC RAS in 2007.

The MVS-100K supercomputer reached the peak capacity of 95 Tflops (real, according to the Linpack test, made 71.2), became the most powerful computer of Russia and took the 33rd place of the world ranking of Top500. It is interesting that building of a cluster up to 45 Tflops was carried out without stopping calculations. MVS-100K is brought together from 470 blade servers of production of HP, each of which contains two 4-core Intel Xeon processors 5365. RAM of the computer — about 2.3TB, the disk array — about 50 TB. The 45-Tflopsny cluster under control of CentOS, a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux works. Look at Russian the supercomputer Tflops with a performance of 45 the press were allowed for the first time. In due time the management RAS ISC (Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center) "did not find it necessary" to organize the public presentation to this cluster. First, from modesty inherent in scientific community, and secondly, to carry out to it the press it was difficult. Computer center of RAS — an object, after all, regime. According to CNews, in its walls the website www.kremlin.ru is hosted, for example. However, though MSTs does not sell machine time, providing it to non-paid academic institutes, the need for expansion of a cluster is already now. There are also empty cabinets for installation of new blade servers costing in one line with working racks, however to complete confidence that this year they will be filled while is not present. In spite of the fact that does not pursue records of MSTs, along its corridors certificates of rating of Top500 are hanging. How many them at MSTs, his employees offhand cannot tell, but on walls of the center they can be counted 12 (the rating of Top500 confirms that there are so much them and should be there).

(And at once on the 74th place), in November, 2002 MBC1000 having Tflops with a performance of 1.024 (0.735 Tflops according to Linpack) became the first computer JSCC RAS which got to Top500. He was brought together on 768 DEC овских Alpha processors, and in the graph "producer" at it Self-made appeared. MBC15000 (performance of 10.1 Tflops in dive, real — 6.6) was a predecessor of a present cluster in the list of Ranovsky supercomputers in 2006. After construction MVS-100K scattered it on regions. Racks of once uniform, and nowadays distributed cluster stand in 5 cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Vladivostok and Chernogolovke.

Links

• TOP rating of 50 fastest supercomputers of Russia

See Also

• Supercomputers
• Supercomputers (world market)

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