Investigate Excalibur testbeds and add system configs to reframe where relevant

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• [x] Read Martin's brochure, make first guess of which testbeds are relevant for us

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ExCALIBUR HES project overviews - v2.4.pdf

We decided to rule out benchmarking any testbed that will require us to rewrite benchmarks in a new language.

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Notes on relevance of testbeds based on available information

Legend

:green_circle: : We are already using the testbed :orange_circle: : Potentially relevant testbed, needs some work :red_circle: : Not relevant

Completed Projects

:red_circle: Adaptable Cluster Project

• Not available as far as we know

:orange_circle: AMD GPU Testbed

• Durham/Cosma
• AMD EPYC CPU + AMD MI50 GPU
• Since we've already deployed benchmarks on Cosma, it would just be a matter of setting up configuration for the GPU nodes and having an application that can run on AMD GPUs. Test case for #97?

:orange_circle: Storage and RAM as a service

• Durham/Cosma
• BlueField-2 and Gen-Z technologies
• See above, integrated with Cosma so easy to access.
• [ ] What can we build and run on it?

:orange_circle: ARM+GPU Demonstrator

• Leicester
• Ampere Altra/N1 ARM CPU + NVIDIA A100 GPU
• [ ] Do we have benchmarks that build on ARM? #97 Again?

:red_circle: Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine

• EPCC
• Cerebras CS-1 Wafer Scale Engine
• Would require rewriting benchmarks

:red_circle: Graphcore

• UCL
• Graphcore IPU-M2000
• Would require rewriting benchmarks (unless @giordano is interested)

:red_circle: FPGA

• EPCC
• Xilinx
• Would require rewriting benchmarks (unless we can benefit from past work at UCL)

:white_circle: NextSilicon

• Birmingham/Baskerville
• No information available

Current Projects

:orange_circle: Exascale Data

• Cambridge
• Intel PCI-Gen-4
• [ ] Adding IO benchmarks could be useful
• [ ] Access through CSD3 nodes?

:red_circle: RISC-V

• EPCC
• Would require rewriting benchmarks

:green_circle: Rockport

• Durham/Cosma
• Rockport 100G switchless networking technology
• @giordano has already deployed and ran benchmarks

Upcoming Projects

:red_circle: Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures

:red_circle: DWAVE Quantum Computing

:orange_circle: CXL Technology Demonstrator

• Durham
• Alastair Basden
• CXL is a new standard for connectivity between CPUs and other components, and is largely expected to replace PCIe in the future.

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Waiting for #97 to test the Durham testbeds