Aalborg University / Aalborg Supercomputer Klub
Diagram
Hardware
All SBC’s will communicate over the switch, a raspberry pi will be used as a DHCP server. We access the SBC’s through the same switch over SSH.
| Name | Description | Price | Amount | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit | Single-board computer | $249.00 | 8 | $1,992.00 |
| Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB | DHCP server and NAT | $60.00 | 1 | $60.00 |
| 2x Amazon Basics microSDXC - 64 GB | SD card (2x per unit) | $1885 | 2 | 37.70 |
| SanDisk Extreme microSDXC - 64GB | SD card | $11.27 | 4 | $45.08 |
| UniFi Standard 24 PoE | Networking switch | $370.00 | 1 | $370.00 |
| Total | $2504.78 |
Software
MPI: mpich LINALG: cuBLAS (GPU primary), blis (CPU backup). COMPILERS: nvcc / mpicc / clang MGMT SOFTWARE: Ansible, OpenSSH Operating System: NVIDIA JetPack 6.x (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS-based)
Strategy
We seek to take advantage of the powerful GPUs on the Jetson boards. Use cuBLAS over CPU-BLAS libraries wherever possible. Work on rewriting challenges to be cuBLAS compatible memory allocations and calls (hopefully). Ensure these implementations are correct + document.
HPL: Use NVIDIA cuBLAS implementation of HPL 2.3. STREAM: Run according to the official run rules using MPI. D-LLAMA 3 8B: Distributed Llama can run on any amount of nodes that is a power of 2, which makes our 8 nodes quite suitable. Hashcat: Hashcat has built-in support for GPU acceleration using CUDA. We plan to split the passwords equally across the 8 nodes, and crack them whenever the nodes are not busy with anything else.
Team Details
Brian Ellingsgaard: 2nd-semester Software student. First year participating in SBCC.
Sofie Finnes Øvreild: 4th semester Software student. Second year participating in SBCC.
Thomas Møller Jensen: 10th semester Software student with a bachelor in Computer Engineering. Second year of participating in SBCC.
Tobias Sønder Nielsen: 4th-semester Software student. Second year participating in SBCC.