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Co-designed Innovation and System for Resilient Exascale Computing in Europe: From Applications to Silicon

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Objective

To achieve the demands of extreme scale and the delivery of exascale, we embrace the computing platform as a whole, not just component optimization or fault resilience. EuroEXA brings a holistic foundation from multiple European HPC projects and partners together with the industrial SME focus of MAX for FPGA data-flow; ICE for infrastructure; ALLIN for HPC tooling and ZPT to collapse the memory bottleneck; to co-design a ground-breaking platform capable of scaling peak performance to 400 PFLOP in a peak system power envelope of 30MW; over four times the performance at four times the energy efficiency of today’s HPC platforms. Further, we target a PUE parity rating of 1.0 through use of renewables and immersion-based cooling.

We co-design a balanced architecture for both compute- and data-intensive applications using a cost-efficient, modular-integration approach enabled by novel inter-die links and the tape-out of a resulting EuroEXA processing unit with integration of FPGA for data-flow acceleration. We provide a homogenised software platform offering heterogeneous acceleration with scalable shared memory access and create a unique hybrid geographically-addressed, switching and topology interconnect within the rack while enabling the adoption of low-cost Ethernet switches offering low-Latency and high-switching bandwidth.

Working together with a rich mix of key HPC applications from across climate/weather, physics/energy and life-science/bioinformatics domains we will demonstrate the results of the project through the deployment of an integrated and operational peta-flop level prototype hosted at STFC. Supported by run-to-completion platform-wide resilience mechanisms, components will manage local failures, while communicating with higher levels of the stack. Monitored and controlled by advanced runtime capabilities, EuroEXA will demonstrate its co-design solution supporting both existing pre-exascale and project-developed exascale applications.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.1.2.2. - FET Proactive

Topic(s)

FETHPC-01-2016 - Co-design of HPC systems and applications

Call for proposal

H2020-FETHPC-2016

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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

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INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

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Patission Str. 42
10682 Athina

Greece

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU Contribution

€ 748 250

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 5 134 190

BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 1 259 937,50

FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 1 245 000

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

United Kingdom

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 951 875

INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 454 920

ZEROPOINT TECHNOLOGIES AB

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 842 500

ICEOTOPE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LTD

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 4 201 418,75

ARM LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 364 500

SYNELIXIS LYSEIS PLIROFORIKIS AUTOMATISMOU & TILEPIKOINONION ANONIMI ETAIRIA

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 516 250

MAXELER TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 1 245 000

NEURASMUS BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 520 187,50

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 726 875

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 363 250

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 669 156,25

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 705 712,50

Project information

EuroEXA

Grant agreement ID: 754337

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

28 February 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 19 949 022,50
EU contribution

€ 19 949 022,50

Coordinated by:

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Greece

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EuroEXA (Co-designed Innovation and System for Resilient Exascale Computing in Europe: From Applications to Silicon)

Reporting period: 2017-09-01 to 2018-08-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

HPC has been identified as one of the key pillars of the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy adopted by the European Commission recognising its capacity to promote science, industrial innovation and ultimately
social prosperity. Societal challenges, human curiosity and industrial innovation demand solutions to problems with higher quality, in shorter time, and at larger scales. We require the solution of new and complex challenges in global climate change, air pollution, high-frequency trading, huge social networks, personalised healthcare, energy-efficient combustion engines, optimised design of new materials and many others. Several critical research areas and problem classes such as weather prediction with fine granularity, climate change, large eddy simulation for turbulence modeling in aeronautics, the challenges in fusion research, to name a few, are beyond current computing capabilities and need exaflop-level performance and even more. Unfortunately, scaling up to exascale is far from trivial and can by no means rely upon conventional scaling approaches embraced during the last fifteen years. Current practices for building supercomputers rely on architectures, microprocessors, accelerators and memory modules that were designed and optimised to cope with the demands of different markets (desktop, server, graphics, gaming, etc.) glued together with high-performance interconnection networks. While this was a viable and cost-effective approach to drive systems up to the current scale, it cannot lead to the exascale in a straightforward way.

HPC is well known for the gap between the theoretical peak performance of an actual platform and the achieved performance when running real applications. To reduce this disparity, a platform must be designed based on a thorough understanding of the applications and the system software, while the applications themselves must leverage the full capabilities of the underlying hardware and software stack. EuroEXA will design and implement an instantiation of a new groundbreaking system architecture that better balances the required computing resources compared to today’s systems, supporting the acceleration of key applications. To accomplish this, we will follow a system-level co-design approach with appropriate employment of a wide range of typical and non-conventional HPC codes.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Project information

EuroEXA

Grant agreement ID: 754337

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

28 February 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 19 949 022,50
EU contribution

€ 19 949 022,50

Coordinated by:

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Documents, reports (2)

Communication & Dissemination Strategy

This deliverable will identify the key decision makers from industry as well as from academic institutions, whom will most benefit from the dissemination of the project. The document will also define the appropriate communication channels, describe all dissemination materials and determine the level of web presence for the project. The document will detail targeted events and conferences for scientific and technical presentations. The strategy will be updated on a regular basis (e.g. yearly) based on the feedback from T6.4.

Communication & Dissemination Activities Report v1

Reports the communication and dissemination activities performed during the reporting period, together with their impact/feedback.

Publications

Other (1)

Supercomputing in the EU, An Introduction to EuroEXA

Author(s): Peter Hopton

Published in: 2017

Conference proceedings (3)

Application Acceleration on FPGAs with OmpSs@FPGA

Author(s): Jaume Bosch, Xubin Tan, Antonio Filgueras, Miquel Vidal, Marc Mateu, Daniel Jiménez-González, Carlos Álvarez, Xavier Martorell, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesus Labarta

Published in: 2018

Toward Developing a Unimem OFI Provider for MPI Support

Author(s): Kyunghun Kim, Antonio J. Peña, Paul Carpenter, Polydoros Petrakis, Manolis Ploumidits, Nikolaos Dimou, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti and Pavan Balaji

Published in: 2018

From Knights Corner to Landing: A Case Study Based on a Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron Simulator

Author(s): George Chatzikonstantis, Diego Jiménez, Esteban Meneses, Christos Strydis, Harry Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Soudris

Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10524), 2017, Page(s) 363-375

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67630-2_27

Peer reviewed articles (3)

A Real-Time Reconfigurable Multichip Architecture for Large-Scale Biophysically Accurate Neuron Simulation

Author(s): Amir Zjajo, Jaco Hofmann, Gerrit Jan Christiaanse, Martijn van Eijk, Georgios Smaragdos, Christos Strydis, Alexander de Graaf, Carlo Galuzzi, Rene van Leuken

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Issue 12/2, 2018, Page(s) 326-337, ISSN 1932-4545

DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2780287

BrainFrame: a node-level heterogeneous accelerator platform for neuron simulations

Author(s): Georgios Smaragdos, Georgios Chatzikonstantis, Rahul Kukreja, Harry Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Rodopoulos, Ioannis Sourdis, Zaid Al-Ars, Christoforos Kachris, Dimitrios Soudris, Chris I De Zeeuw, Christos Strydis

Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 14/6, 2017, Page(s) 066008, ISSN 1741-2560

DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aa7fc5

Optimizing Extended Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron Model Simulations for a Xeon/Xeon Phi Node

Author(s): George Chatzikonstantis, Dimitrios Rodopoulos, Christos Strydis, Chris I. De Zeeuw, Dimitrios Soudris

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Issue 28/9, 2017, Page(s) 2581-2594, ISSN 1045-9219

DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2017.2686389

Project information

EuroEXA

Grant agreement ID: 754337

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

28 February 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 19 949 022,50
EU contribution

€ 19 949 022,50

Coordinated by:

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Project information

EuroEXA

Grant agreement ID: 754337

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

28 February 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 19 949 022,50
EU contribution

€ 19 949 022,50

Coordinated by:

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

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