Hybrid Small Size hpcResource Project

The High-Performance Computing systems play more and more important role in our society thanks to the increasing size of processed data and the higher computational demands. These aspects could be identified in many areas of the daily life such as medicine, weather report, traffic monitoring or industrial environment. High computational power together with the high efficiency of HPC systems is effectively solved by the usage of coprocessors where there are hard limits on a number of cores. These HPC systems are widely used mostly for research purposes. Despite these effective research results applied in real applications, the problems are still quite complex to solve help by a personal computer, and there is no possibility to use HPCs. Moreover, the real-time applications are composite concerning the optimal algorithmic answer. Namely, thanks to the different architecture of the processors, you can identify different segments of the code where one type of architectures is more appropriate for the optimal performance of running the algorithm in contrast with the other types. It would be very useful a hybrid micro size HPC equipped with different type of coprocessors, but there are some other barriers to the lack of the operating conditions. The plan is to build a hybrid micro size HPC equipped with two Xeon Phi and two NVidia Cuda coprocessor cards installed in a regular size of personal computers preserving portability, where the cooling is served by the custom-designed liquid cooling solution. This hybrid micro HPC can support the research, the real-time applications, visualization, and demonstration of the results in small-roomed places without air-conditioning, when the problem complexity is still enough demanding the high performance such as in surgery. It also enables the creation of that hybrid algorithmic solution which can make a smart selection of the achievable processors based on requirements. Among the planned field of applications, there are the mathematics, bioinformatics and medical treatment which contains the research and application of the fusion models, optimizations, image-, video-processing, and visualization. The development and research are supported by Nvidia and Hungarian National Talent Program.

 

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