Boston IT Solutions From India Showcased HPC Solutions

Boston IT Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd, at 23rd IEEE international conference on HPC, HiPC Hyderabad 2016, showcased a selection of HPC solutions including deep learning, cloud and Lustre systems.

Solutions exhibited include:

vScaler
vScaler is a hyper-converged solution for simplifying data center infrastructure, integrating and delivering server, storage, and networking resources at the click of a mouse. Within 15 minutes, a variety of applications at any scale can be tested and deployed on this appliance. Powered by the OpenStack technology, the vScaler platform enables organizations to quickly deploy scalable and production-ready private cloud environments that can inter-operate with other public clouds.

Venom 1501-0T (KNL development kit)
Keeping the requirements of developers in mind, the company, in partnership with Super Micro Computer, Inc., designed the Venom 1501-0T, KNL development kit. This kit comes integrated with an Xeon Phi x200 processor, supporting up to a staggering 72 cores in a single socket, each performing at up to 1.7Ghz (with turbo boost). One such scalable processor could provide three trillion floating points operations a second. It also includes 16GB of high speed MCDRAM on package memory, which can act as cache or could be used in conjunction to legacy DDR4 DRAM enabling enhanced performance. Further capacity can be added by traditional DDR4 ECC LRDIMMs, enabling a total of up to 384GB for memory hungry applications. An integrated liquid cooling solution and six low noise cooling fans help to keep the processor and other components at optimal temperature and the working environment quiet.

ANNA Pascal

ANNA Pascal (Artificial Neural Network Accelerator)
This latest deep learning platform from Boston Limited is a latest-generation GPU based server and a master class of server design and innovation. NVIDIA Corp.‘ Tesla P100 GPUs power the ANNA Pascal to deliver performance for HPC and deep learning workloads with infinite computing needs.

The design eliminates complex cabling and GPU pre-heat for maximum airflow, cooling and high level of performance per watt The high-density 1U server includes 2xPCIe Gen three slots for IB to enable RDMA performance and can support up to 4xGPUs, making it a system for scalable GPU accelerator bound applications where density matters.

NVLink provides a speed 80Gb/s interconnect path devoted to peer GPU-to-GPU connections. Combining this with RDMA via IB or Omnipath provides an powerful possible parallel computing environment, with the increase in performance compared to the previous generation K80 GPUs.

The re-imagined appliance is crafted with innovation at each level from silicon to software, with over five technologies providing a jump in performance up to a 12X leap in neural network training, thus reducing training time from weeks to just hours.

DataScaler-L SSF

DataScaler-L SSF (Lustre appliance)
The DataScaler-L SFF appliance brings all the features of Intel Enterprise Lustre into 4U form factor. This provides a lower cost/capacity entry point for Lustre* storage systems. It is optimized for the small or mid-sized clusters with capacities as low as 18TB (and scaling to 720TB).

The appliance has been developed and engineered in response to customer demands for performance HPC solutions at an attractive price point.

Manoj Nayee, MD, Boston IT Solutions, says: “Attending HiPC is an opportunity for Boston to showcase and launch our newest solutions, in partnership with Supermicro, to the HPC, data and analytics markets. All of the solutions on show are available and have a variety of use-cases. I encourage attendees to visit our booth to discover more.“