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Why HPC Cloud For an on‐demand access to a large amount of compute power designed to create and share your own workflow environment. HPC Cloud is an easily accessible solution for those seeking to increase their compute capacity without pre‐investment. It simply offload your current workload to a managed infrastructure, or you can use it to handle jobs requiring more advanced features like GPU hardware acceleration and high memory capabilities. What is HPC Cloud? HPC Cloud is an Infrastructure‐as‐a‐Service (IaaS) provisioning customized clusters that gives users full control of the software stack and underlying infrastructure. It has a fast private, secure, internal and external network and multiple storage types to fit your specific needs. The HPC Cloud supports:
Fast CPU cores in a single powerful node, and full multi‐core,
multi‐nodes for own use
Flexibility to install any Operating Systems and software of
your choice
Unlimited data transfers for up‐ and downloads
GPU nodes for GPU‐accelerated applications
Functionality to run MPI (Message Passing Interface) or multi‐
threaded applications
High‐memory node for analyses that require large datasets to
be loaded in memory
Additional Services The following additional services are available on request. ConsultancySURFsara’s advisors consult you on optimizing integrating and sharing your workflow. For that we have expertise on virtual HPC Cloud infrastructure. VisualizationInteractively visualize your results using the Collaboratorium, or we create visualizations for demonstrations and presentations for you. ‘SURFlichtpaden’SURFlichtpaden enables you to create ultra‐fast connections between your own network and your private network on the HPC Cloud. Light paths provide security, reliability and guaranteed high capacity. DataArchiveHPC Cloud is connected to SURFsara’s central archive, for long‐term and secure storage of your data. Contact & Support We are pleased to help you with gaining access to the HPC Cloud service, answer your questions or assist you to specific requests you may have about the service and SURFsara. Please just contact us by email via [email protected]. Specific details on obtaining accounts by affiliates of one of the Dutch Universities or Grand Technology Institutes can be found on our website. Detailed information on the HPC Cloud service is provided in the Service Level Specification. Support for HPC Cloud users may be requested via email: [email protected] or phone 020 ‐ 800 1400. Support is available during office hours, i.e. between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
HPC Cloud
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UseCasesHere are a few examples to illustrate what HPC Cloud is used for. More references can be found on the SURFsara website. UrbanFlood:early‐warningsystemsforfloods,UvA
BetterfloodprotectionthankstoHPCCloudTo predict the influence of seasonal and global changes on the stability of flood defense systems, modeling and simulation are necessary. UvA uses SURFsara’s HPC Cloud for these activities: “The key features that make Cloud technology very attractive to the UrbanFlood project are flexibility and on‐demand resource availability. For urgent computing in critical situations, the high performance aspect is also very important. That's why SURFsara's HPC Cloud is the best solution for us.” Tweettextanalysis,MeertensInstitute
TwobilliontweetsusedasresearchmaterialsWhat do we twitter about? Which words are used in which location, in which context? This information is publicly available via the twiqs.nl website. The website allows researchers to create heat maps. These geographical representations help pinpoint where specific words are used frequently in the Netherlands. The SURFsara Hadoop cluster provides computing power and the requisite storage capacity. Some calculations require a great deal of computing power, especially in cases where a researcherwantsto study theuse of specific words over a longer period of time (such as a month). SURFsara is running the twiqs.nl website on the HPC Cloud, which is also being used to store tweets. The collected tweets are then copied to the Hadoop cluster, which does the actual computing. “These are extremely large calculations”, Tjong Kim Sang explains. “Some heat maps require many hours of computing power”.HPC Cloud Technical Specifications Below is a summary of the technical specifications (August 2015).
It illustrates the quality and quantity of HPC Cloud computing
capacity.
Physical hardware 32 nodes with 32 hyperthreaded Intel Haswell processors at 2.7GHz and 256 GB RAM
1 high‐memory node with 2 TB RAM, 40 Intel Xeon processors at 2.0 GHz, 3.2 TB SSD disk
Storage 1.2 or 3.2 TB SSD disk per node 200 TB net Ceph storage
Virtual Machines up to 32 CPU cores with 250 GB RAM up to 3.2 TB SSD disk attached
High‐memory Machines up to 40 CPU cores with 2 TB RAM
up to 3.2 TB SSD disk attached