For Groups 1, 2, 4, and 5, please pick a system from the top500.org November 2019 top 500 list (the numbers next to my suggested machines below are the machines number from this list).
You can find machines types on the top500 (and the green500) list:
I've divided up my suggetions below by lab section to encourage unique systems across the two lab sections. If you deviate from my suggestion list, please check with your corresponding group in the other section to see that you are not duplicating systems (Groups 2 and 5, and Groups 1 and 4 should pick unique, and less similar, systems, focus on the type I suggest below).
Groups 1 and 4: MPP Systems You will pick systems with different architectures (Cray MPP vs. non-Cray MPP systems)
Group 1: MPP Cray Systems Pick a machine from the top500 list to present. There are a lot of other Cray MPP machines at US national labs in top500.org list if these starting suggestions don't pan out.
(top500 ranking) System:
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Some suggestions (and look on the list for others)
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6. Piz Daint - Cray XC50, ...
Swiss National Supercomputing Center
https://www.cscs.ch/computers/decommissioned/piz-daint-piz-dora/
7. Trinity - Cray XC40, ...
DOE/NNSA/LANL/SNL, US
https://www.lanl.gov/projects//trinity/index.php
13. Cori - Cray XC40, ...
DOE/SC/LBNL/NER, US
https://www.nersc.gov/systems/cori/
... and lots more
Looking at Cray's website may be useful too.
Group 4: MPP Non-Cray Systems Pick a machine from the top500 list. Here are a few to consider (and there are a lot of other BlueGene machines at US national labs in top500.org list if these don't pan out):
Some suggestions:
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3. Sunway TaihuLight - Sunway MPP, ...
National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China
http://www.nsccwx.cn/ (upper-right link to English)
12. Sequoia - BlueGene/Q, ...
DOE/NNSA/LLNL, United States
https://www.llnl.gov/
22. Mira - BlueGene/Q, ...
DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory, US
http://www.anl.gov/videos/mira-next-generation-supercomputer
Looking at IBMs website for Blue Gene information may be useful too.
Groups 2 and 5: Clusters If you pick a machine at near the top of the list, you may find more information about it. Your two groups should coordinate to make sure you select different systems.
Here are a few to consider (DO NOT pick system (8) AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure):
Lab A, Group 2: some options (focus on non-IBM Power systems)
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4. Tianhe-2A - TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon ...
National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, China
http://en.nscc-gz.cn/
(also wikipedia and google search for articles)
here is an article about Tianhe-2:
www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/tianhe-2-dongarra-report.pdf
5. Frotera - Dell C6420 ...
Intel Omni-Path , Dell EMC
Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas, US
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/
9. SuperMUC-NG - Think System ...
Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Germany
https://www.lrz.de/english/
159. A64FX prototype
Fujitsu Numazu Plant, Japan
(not sure how much info about this is out there, try google search)
Lab B, Group 5: some options (focus on IBM Power systems)
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1. Summit - IBM Power System AC922, ....
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
https://www.ornl.gov/directorate/ccsd
2. Sierra - IBM Power System AC922, ....
DOE/NNSA/LLNL, US
https://hpc.llnl.gov/hardware/platforms/sierra
10. Lassen
11. PANGEA III
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Group 3: GPUs (GPGPU focus) The GPU Architecture and GPGPU Programming Model should be the focus of your presentation. Do not present GPUs in the context of their use for graphics processing. Instead, focus on GPUs for general purpose parallel programming. Look at Nvidia's site for documentation about GPU architecture. CUDA is Nvidia's language for General-Purpose programming on a GPU (GPGPU). You may include a high-level discussion of programming language for GPGPU computing, but focus your talk on the GPU system for supporting GPGPU programming and not on the details of languages (like CUDA) for GPGPU programming It architecture is very interesting. See Chapter 11.1 of Dive into Systems for a high-level overview. Search the web. There is a lot out there.
Group 6: Cloud and Grid Systems Pick a Cloud or a Grid system to present.
Part of this presentation should involve definition(s) of Cloud (or Grid) computing (what is it? what are common features? what are goals of cloud (or grid) computing? what are the features of the system you are presenting?) The wikipedia cloud computing page may be a good place to start. Chapter 11.3 of Dive into Systems has a high-level overview of cloud computing too. You could define and talk about some or all of IaaS, Paas, SaaS.
The other part should involvin your picking a Cloud (or a grid) system to present, or you can present a software system for cloud management or cloud or grid application development. If you do the later, you should still include the definitions of a cloud system in your presentation.
Some commercial cloud systems may not have a lot of public information about their system. Try to pick one that has a reasonable amount, and try to search for articles about the system. If there isn't much out there, pick a different system with more documentation about it.
Here are few suggestions, you are free to find others:
Some Example commercial cloud systems: --------------------------------- Amazon EC2, AWS Microsoft Azure Google App Engine IBM Cloud Services ABCI AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (#8 on Top500) https://abci.ai/ (I do not know how closely this may fit into a presentation of cloud systems. If you think you may want to pick this one, I suggest looking at it briefly to see if it is a good example to discuss as you talk about Cloud computing in general. I suspect one of the above systems will be more applicable, and also an easier example system to present. Grid Systems ----------- HTCondor: research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor Globus: www.globus.org PlanetLab: www.planetlab.org Some open SW for cloud management or cloud application development: ------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenStack (software for cloud system): openstack.org Eucalyptus Rackspace Salesforce