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IDT and CERN openlab Mark Milestone for Data Acquisition and Data Center Analytics Applications Used for Large Hadron Collider

Andrew Robert Purcell — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:13:27 +0000

Engineers Successfully Port CERN's Analytics and Event Building Application at Line Rate with 100 ns Latency RapidIO Interconnect Hardware Platform

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) (NASDAQ: IDTI) announced today that CERN's data-processing framework has successfully been ported to a RapidIO^®-enabled low-latency network that features multiple x86 CPU nodes, a world first in the high-performance computing market. The development comes during the first phase of IDT's collaboration with CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), part of a multi-year project announced last year that is designed to speed and improve data analytics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and data center.

During this groundbreaking work, standard x86 servers in the CERN data center were equipped with 20 Gbps RapidIO network interface controller (NIC) cards and connected with a 0.75 Tbps RapidIO top of rack switch appliance designed by Prodrive Technologies. Leveraging this hardware architecture, CERN openlab researchers successfully ported CERN's ROOT framework for data processing and analytics, as well as the LHCb experiment's DAQPIPE event-building emulator, which is used to evaluate high-tech interconnects intended to be used in the collider event-building network. Full hardware line rates were sustained, and link utilization rates were competitive relative to other industry options, which is a key to more efficient data center workload optimization.

CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership that accelerates the development of cutting-edge solutions for the worldwide LHC community and wider scientific research. The collaboration with IDT is working to improve overall data acquisition and analysis for the massive volumes of data collected by the experiments on the LHC, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC produces millions of collisions every second in each detector, generating approximately one petabyte of data per second. This data is important to CERN's quest to answer fundamental questions about the universe.

In addition to high-performance computing, IDT's low-latency RapidIO products are widely used in 4G base stations. IDT has deployed over 110 million ports of 10-20 Gbps RapidIO technology and recently launched 50 Gbps silicon.

"This is an innovative achievement by CERN researchers in the HPC and analytics community," said
Alberto Di Meglio, head of CERN openlab. "The CERN openlab research team demonstrated that near native line speed could be achieved in many cases, proving that the technology is able to function at a small scale and could constitute a compelling alternative in future architectures."

"With this CERN collaboration, IDT is able to showcase how well this low-latency technology is suited for mission-critical data analytics," said
Sailesh Chittipeddi, IDT's vice president of Global Operations and chief technology officer. "The successful port of the ROOT analytics and CERN's event building use cases on the RapidIO-enabled analytics platform is a key technical achievement that can benefit all of our customers doing HPC, accelerated hyperscale cloud analytics and telecom mobile edge computing."

Results from the successful port can be found in IDT's presentation from the CERN openlab Open Day on June 9, and will also be on display at theRapidIO.org booth #622 at the International Supercomputing Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, which runs through June 23.

For more information about the RapidIO technology, contact IDT at SRIO@idt.com. For larger scaleout of the analytics platform used at CERN openlab, 1U 19-inch rack scale solutions are available from Prodrive Technologies (www.prodrive-technologies.com). More information on related RapidIO analytics projects at IDT's Open HPAC Lab can be found at http://www.idt.com/landing/open-hpac-lab.

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IDT、CERNのLHCやデータセンターにおけるデータ解析の高速化・性能向上を実現する低レイテンシRapidIOプラットフォームを、CERNオープンラボと共同開発

Petya Georgieva — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:53:06 +0000

IDT、CERNのLHCやデータセンターにおけるデータ解析の高速化・性能向上を実現する低レイテンシRapidIOプラットフォームを、CERNオープンラボと共同開発

3年計画の最初の成果として、優れた実績を誇るIDTの高性能テクノロジーをベースとする新プラットフォームが誕生

　　IDT®社（Integrated Device Technology, Inc.、本社：米国カリフォルニア州サンノゼ、NASDAQ：IDTI）は本日、欧州原子核研究機構（CERN）とのコラボレーションを通じて、同機構の大型ハドロン衝突型加速器（LHC）やデータセンターにおけるデータ管理やデータ解析の高速化・性能向上を実現する低レイテンシプラットフォームを開発したことを発表しました。IDTのRapidIO®テクノロジーをベースにIDTのOpen HPAC Labで開発された新プラットフォームは、今年3月に発表されたIDTとCERNオープンラボの3年契約のコラボレーションがもたらした最初の大きな成果となります。

　　CERNオープンラボは、個性的な官民パートナーシップで、世界規模のLHCコミュニティや広範な科学研究に向けた最先端ソリューションの開発促進を目的としています。CERNはこのオープンラボを通じて、世界をリードする情報通信技術（ICT）企業や各種研究機関とコラボレーションを進めています。

　　CERNオープンラボの代表を務めるAlberto Di Meglio氏は、次のように述べています。「データ解析の処理性能を高めるには、リアルタイム応答性に優れた低レイテンシの高性能インターコネクトが欠かせません。CERNとIDTのコラボレーションの最初の成果である新プラットフォームは、各種インターコネクトとプロセッサリソースを最適な形で利用できる基礎となるコンピューティングプラットフォームで、将来的にCERNの解析データの使い方を改善する拡張性も備えています」

　　世界で最も大きく強力な粒子加速器であるLHCは、さまざまな実験を通じて大量のデータを収集します。そのため、あらゆる面でデータの収集能力と解析能力を高める必要があり、それが今回のコラボレーションの原動力となっています。LHCでは、検出器ごとに1秒あたり億単位の衝突が発生し、1秒あたりおよそ1PB（ペタバイト）のデータが生成されます。このデータは、宇宙の根源的な謎を解き明かそうと取り組むCERNにとって極めて重要な意味を持ちます。

　　RapidIOテクノロジーは、低レイテンシの接続を実現し、コンピュータプロセッサのクラスタ間でリアルタイム応答性に優れたデータ転送を可能にします。そのため、データの移動と処理が劇的にスピードアップします。新プラットフォームは、x86プロセッシング、200GBaud RapidIOインターコネクトファブリック、IDTの低消費電力RapidIOネットワークインターフェースカード、CERNのROOT解析フレームワークを基礎としています。最初の成果となる今回のプラットフォームは、ノードが少ない場合を対象に開発されていますが、はるかに大量のノードを含むラックスケールの規模にも拡張可能です。

　　3年計画の今後のフェーズにおいて、IDTとCERNは、最適化された性能を備えた大規模なコンピューティングシステムを開発し、ラックスケールの低レイテンシ処理能力システムを使用したデータ解析を実現する予定です。

　　IDTの最高技術責任者（CTO）兼グローバルオペレーションズ部門担当バイスプレジデントであるSailesh Chittipeddiは、次のように述べています。「IDTは、CERNオープンラボとのコラボレーションを通じて、プログラマブルなリアルタイムのミッションクリティカルなデータ解析の実装を目指しています。今回開発されたRapidIO対応データ解析プラットフォームは、CERNで実施されている重要な研究で生まれるすべてのデータを最大限に活用するための最初の大きな一歩です」

　　4G基地局で広く利用されているIDTの低レイテンシRapidIO製品は、ハイパフォーマンスコンピューティング（HPC）やデータセンターの分野においても、リアルタイムのデータ解析とデータ管理を実現します。

　　RapidIO対応小規模ノード向け解析プラットフォームの詳細は、2016年第1四半期に提供を開始する予定です。詳細については、SRIO@idt.comまでメールでお問い合わせください。大規模ノード向けの解析プラットフォームについては、1U 19インチラックスケールソリューションが2016年第1四半期にProdrive Technologies（www.prodrive-technologies.com）から提供される予定です。Open HPAC Labの解析技術や各種プロジェクトの詳細については、http://www.idt.com/landing/open-hpac-labをご覧ください。

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IDT and CERN openlab Engineer Low-Latency RapidIO Platform to Speed and Improve Analytics at Large Hadron Collider and Data Center

Andrew Robert Purcell — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:00:58 +0000

The First Deliverable of a 3-Year Arrangement, the Platform is Built Around IDT's Proven High-Performance Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Device Technology, Inc. ® (IDT®) (NASDAQ:IDTI) announced today that it has developed with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) a low-latency platform to speed and improve the management of analytics at the organization's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and data center. Developed at IDT's Open HPAC Lab and built upon the company's RapidIO® technology, the platform marks the first major milestone in the three-year collaboration IDT and CERN openlab announced in March.

"The key to achieving better data analytics performance is having superior real-time interconnect with low, deterministic latency," said Alberto Di Meglio, head of CERN openlab. "With its optimized usage of interconnects and processor resources, this first deliverable in our collaboration with IDT will provide us with the baseline computing platform that will scale to enable better usage of our analytics data."

The collaboration was driven by the need to improve overall data acquisition and analysis for the massive volumes of data collected by the experiments on the LHC, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC produces millions of collisions every second in each detector, generating approximately one petabyte of data per second. This data is vital to CERN's quest to answer fundamental questions about the universe.

RapidIO technology provides a low-latency connection with deterministic transfer between clusters of computer processors, dramatically speeding the movement and processing of data. The new platform is based on x86 processing, a 200 GBaud RapidIO interconnect fabric, IDT's low-power RapidIO network interface card and CERN's root analytics framework. The initial development is based on a small number of nodes that can be scaled to a much larger number of nodes at rack scale.

In subsequent phases of the three-year program, IDT and CERN engineers will build out larger scale computing systems with optimized performance and begin using the low latency rack scale processing power system to analyze data.

"This collaboration with CERN openlab is about implementing programmable real-time mission-critical data analytics," said Sailesh Chittipeddi, IDT's vice president of Global Operations and chief technology officer. "The development of the RapidIO-enabled analytics platform is the first big step toward maximizing the use of all the data generated by the important work conducted at CERN."

Widely used for 4G base stations, IDT's low-latency RapidIO products also enable real-time data analytics and data management for high-performance computing (HPC) and data centers.

For more information about the RapidIO small node analytics platform available in Q1 2016, contact IDT at SRIO@idt.com. For larger scale out of the analytics platform, 1U 19-inch rack scale solutions will be available from Prodrive Technologies (www.prodrive-technologies.com) in Q1 2016. More information related to open HPAC Lab analytics technology and projects can be found at http://www.idt.com/landing/open-hpac-lab.

About IDT

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers' applications. IDT's market-leading products in timing, serial switching and interfaces are among the company's broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol "IDTI." Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.

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Petya Georgieva — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:14:23 +0000

March 31, 2015

IDT Collaborates With CERN to Speed and Improve Data Analytics at Large Hadron Collider and Data Center

In a Three-Year Arrangement, IDT’s Low-Latency RapidIO Interconnect Technology Will Be Used for More Efficient and Effective Analysis of Massive Data at CERN

SAN JOSE, Calif. —Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) (NASDAQ:IDTI) announced today that it has entered a three-year collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to use IDT’s RapidIO technology to help improve data acquisition and analysis in some of the world’s most advanced fundamental physics research. Massive volumes of data are collected by the experiments on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Teams from IDT and CERN will use the IDT technology to improve the quality and timeliness of this data collection, as well as the initial analysis and reconstruction work at the experiments’ data farms and the CERN Data Centre.

The LHC produces millions of collisions every second in each detector, generating approximately one petabyte of data per second. This data is vital to CERN’s quest to answer fundamental questions about the universe. The RapidIO technology provides a low-latency connection between clusters of computer processors, dramatically speeding the movement of data. Widely used for 4G base stations, IDT’s low-latency RapidIO products can also enable real-time data analytics and data management for high-performance computing (HPC) and data centers.

As part of the mandate for the fifth phase of the CERN openlab partnership, several of the LHC experiments are exploring the possibility of moving from custom-built hardware and backplanes to fully programmable heterogeneous computing with low-latency interconnect between large clusters of processors. IDT’s current RapidIO 20 Gbps interconnect products will be used in the first stage of the collaboration with an upgrade path to RapidIO 10xN 40 Gbps technology in the future as research at CERN progresses.

“This CERN collaboration is about enabling programmable real-time mission critical data analytics,” said Sailesh Chittipeddi, IDT’s vice president of Global Operations and chief technology officer. “Since the job spans multiple processors, the interconnect between them has to be ultra-low latency, and our technology—already used across 4G wireless base station deployments worldwide—is ideally suited to CERN’s real-time interconnect needs.”

Because of the volume of real-time data CERN collects, current implementations are done in custom-build ASIC hardware. Using algorithms implemented in hardware, the data is sampled, and only 1 percent is selected for further analysis.

“The bottleneck for better data acquisition, selection and analytics is superior real-time interconnect,” said Alberto Di Meglio, head of CERN openlab. “Our collaboration with IDT to develop a RapidIO-based computing architecture should help solve CERN’s real-time data filtering problem, enabling us to select and utilize more meaningful events from the LHC and improve efficiency of analytics in our data center monitoring and operations.”

The collaboration is based on industry standard IT form factor solutions suitable for deployment in HPC clusters and data centers. Engineers will use heterogeneous servers based on specifications from RapidIO.org that are targeted towards the Open Compute Project High Performance Computing initiative that IDT co-chairs.

“We established the HPC initiative to service the unique needs of those end users with the highest compute-centric workloads in the industry,” said Corey Bell, CEO of the Open Compute Project. “CERN has some of the most stringent workloads for low- latency computing, so this collaboration is a great opportunity to see the benefits of RapidIO in action.”

The computing platform used for the collaboration is based on commercially available RapidIO-enabled IU heterogeneous servers capable of supporting industry-standard servers, GPU, FPGA and low-power 64 bit SoCs, as well as top-of-rack RapidIO switches available from Prodrive Technologies.

About CERN openlab

CERN openlab, which is now entering its fifth three-year phase, is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICTcompanies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of innovative new solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community. CERN openlab provides companies with a framework to test and validate cutting-edge information technologies and services in partnership with CERN.

About CERN

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world’s leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At CERN, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles.

About IDT

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers’ applications. IDT uses its market leadership in timing, serial switching and interfaces, and adds analog and system expertise to provide complete application-optimized, mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing and consumer segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol “IDTI.” Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com.

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IDT and CERN openlab Mark Milestone for Data Acquisition and Data Center Analytics Applications Used for Large Hadron Collider

IDT、CERNのLHCやデータセンターにおける データ解析の高速化・性能向上を実現する 低レイテンシRapidIOプラットフォームを、CERNオープンラボと共同開発

IDT、CERNのLHCやデータセンターにおける データ解析の高速化・性能向上を実現する 低レイテンシRapidIOプラットフォームを、CERNオープンラボと共同開発

IDT and CERN openlab Engineer Low-Latency RapidIO Platform to Speed and Improve Analytics at Large Hadron Collider and Data Center

IDT joins CERN openlab

IDT、CERNのLHCやデータセンターにおけるデータ解析の高速化・性能向上を実現する低レイテンシRapidIOプラットフォームを、CERNオープンラボと共同開発

IDT、CERNのLHCやデータセンターにおけるデータ解析の高速化・性能向上を実現する低レイテンシRapidIOプラットフォームを、CERNオープンラボと共同開発