Rethinking high performance computing system architecture for scientific big data applications

Yong Chen, Chao Chen, Yanlong Yin, Xian He Sun, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp

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Abstract

The increasingly important data-intensive scientific discovery presents a critical question to the high performance computing (HPC) community-how to efficiently support these growing scientific big data applications with HPC systems that are traditionally designed for big compute applications? The conventional HPC systems are computing-centric and designed for computation-intensive applications. Scientific big data applications have growlingly different characteristics compared to big compute applications. These scientific applications, however, will still largely rely on HPC systems to be solved. In this research, we try to answer this question with a rethinking of HPC system architecture. We study and analyze the potential of a new decoupled HPC system architecture for data-intensive scientific applications. The fundamental idea is to decouple conventional compute nodes and dynamically provision as data processing nodes that focus on data processing capability. We present studies and analyses for such decoupled HPC system architecture. The current results have shown its promising potential. Its data-centric architecture can have an impact in designing and developing future HPC systems for growingly important data-intensive scientific discovery and innovation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1605-1612
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781509032051
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventJoint 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016 - Tianjin, China
Duration: Aug 23 2016Aug 26 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016

Other

OtherJoint 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period8/23/168/26/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Information Systems
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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