Scaling MPI Applications on Aurora

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Main Authors: Ibeid, Huda, Nguyen, Anthony-Trung, Nishtala, Aditya, Sakarda, Premanand, Kaplan, Larry, Mahadevan, Nilakantan, Woodacre, Michael, Anisimov, Victor, Kumaran, Kalyan, Kwack, JaeHyuk, Morozov, Vitali, Muralidharan, Servesh, Parker, Scott
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author Ibeid, Huda
Nguyen, Anthony-Trung
Nishtala, Aditya
Sakarda, Premanand
Kaplan, Larry
Mahadevan, Nilakantan
Woodacre, Michael
Anisimov, Victor
Kumaran, Kalyan
Kwack, JaeHyuk
Morozov, Vitali
Muralidharan, Servesh
Parker, Scott
author_facet Ibeid, Huda
Nguyen, Anthony-Trung
Nishtala, Aditya
Sakarda, Premanand
Kaplan, Larry
Mahadevan, Nilakantan
Woodacre, Michael
Anisimov, Victor
Kumaran, Kalyan
Kwack, JaeHyuk
Morozov, Vitali
Muralidharan, Servesh
Parker, Scott
contents The Aurora supercomputer, which was deployed at Argonne National Laboratory in 2024, is currently one of three Exascale machines in the world on the Top500 list. The Aurora system is composed of over ten thousand nodes each of which contains six Intel Data Center Max Series GPUs, Intel's first data center-focused discrete GPU, and two Intel Xeon Max Series CPUs, Intel's first Xeon processor to contain HBM memory. To achieve Exascale performance the system utilizes the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric interconnect to connect the nodes. Aurora is currently the largest deployment of the Slingshot fabric to date with nearly 85,000 Cassini NICs and 5,600 Rosetta switches connected in a dragonfly topology. The combination of the Intel powered nodes and the Slingshot network enabled Aurora to become the second fastest system on the Top500 list in June of 2024 and the fastest system on the HPL MxP benchmark. The system is one of the most powerful systems in the world dedicated to AI and HPC simulations for open science. This paper presents details of the Aurora system design with a particular focus on the network fabric and the approach taken to validating it. The performance of the systems is demonstrated through the presentation of the results of MPI benchmarks as well as performance benchmarks including HPL, HPL-MxP, Graph500, and HPCG run on a large fraction of the system. Additionally results are presented for a diverse set of applications including HACC, AMR-Wind, LAMMPS, and FMM demonstrating that Aurora provides the throughput, latency, and bandwidth across system needed to allow applications to perform and scale to large node counts and providing new levels of capability and enabling breakthrough science.
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spellingShingle Scaling MPI Applications on Aurora
Ibeid, Huda
Nguyen, Anthony-Trung
Nishtala, Aditya
Sakarda, Premanand
Kaplan, Larry
Mahadevan, Nilakantan
Woodacre, Michael
Anisimov, Victor
Kumaran, Kalyan
Kwack, JaeHyuk
Morozov, Vitali
Muralidharan, Servesh
Parker, Scott
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
The Aurora supercomputer, which was deployed at Argonne National Laboratory in 2024, is currently one of three Exascale machines in the world on the Top500 list. The Aurora system is composed of over ten thousand nodes each of which contains six Intel Data Center Max Series GPUs, Intel's first data center-focused discrete GPU, and two Intel Xeon Max Series CPUs, Intel's first Xeon processor to contain HBM memory. To achieve Exascale performance the system utilizes the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric interconnect to connect the nodes. Aurora is currently the largest deployment of the Slingshot fabric to date with nearly 85,000 Cassini NICs and 5,600 Rosetta switches connected in a dragonfly topology. The combination of the Intel powered nodes and the Slingshot network enabled Aurora to become the second fastest system on the Top500 list in June of 2024 and the fastest system on the HPL MxP benchmark. The system is one of the most powerful systems in the world dedicated to AI and HPC simulations for open science. This paper presents details of the Aurora system design with a particular focus on the network fabric and the approach taken to validating it. The performance of the systems is demonstrated through the presentation of the results of MPI benchmarks as well as performance benchmarks including HPL, HPL-MxP, Graph500, and HPCG run on a large fraction of the system. Additionally results are presented for a diverse set of applications including HACC, AMR-Wind, LAMMPS, and FMM demonstrating that Aurora provides the throughput, latency, and bandwidth across system needed to allow applications to perform and scale to large node counts and providing new levels of capability and enabling breakthrough science.
title Scaling MPI Applications on Aurora
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04291