HPC Midlands - Update for Bull eXtreme Computing User Group 2012 meeting
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Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager@martin_hamilton hpc-midlands.ac.uk
HPC MidlandsBull User Group for eXtreme Computing, 2012
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Tildesley Report – see http://goo.gl/qw2DW
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e-Infrastructure funding – http://goo.gl/SKgdG
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New High Performance Computing facility for academia and industry
Jointly operated by Loughborough University and University of Leicester
£1m funding from EPSRC/BIS e-Infrastructure programme Building on relationships with existing industrial partners and
software providers Opportunity to “operationalize” HPC spending
What is HPC Midlands?
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About Loughborough University
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Number One for Student Experience
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“Research That Matters”
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• £1m EPSRC investment + institutional contributions• 3,000 core Bull supercomputer (48 Teraflops)• 11 x chassis (18 blades per chassis)• 188 compute node blades, each with
– 2 x 2.0GHz (8 core) Sandy Bridge CPUs• 15TB RAM
– 140 blades with 64GB RAM (4GB/core)– 48 blades with 128GB RAM (8GB/core)
• 60TB Lustre storage• QDR Infiniband interconnect
Hera: The HPC Midlands Cluster
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The Delivery!
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8th Decembere-Infrastructure call received
5th January HPC Midlands proposal submitted
19th January Funding awarded
23rd January Tender issued against RM721 framework
24th January Mechanical and Electrical work commissioned
30th January Tenders received and scored, contract awarded to Bull
9th February Work begins to prepare the HPC Midlands site
24th FebruaryWork begins on the plumbing / chilled water supply
1st March Space being prepared for new chiller unit
9th March 63A circuits now mostly in place
15th March Raised floor installed
21st March Dedicated chiller unit arrives and craned into place
26th March Delivery of HPC Midlands hardware
HPC Midlands Timeline
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Mechanical and Electrical Work (FM)
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Mechanical and Electrical Work (FM)
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Some Assembly Required…
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Inside a Sandy Bridge compute node
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• Cutting edge hardware innovations Nehalem/Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge
Increase in cores/threads per socket, I/O bandwidth etc >2bn transistors per CPU!
Many Integrated Core (MIC)
Leading player in HPC compilers Intel Cluster Studio
Intel will contribute training on parallel
programming and their HPC tools
HPC Midlands Partners: Intel
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Market leading HPC software (CFX, FLUENT etc)But significant capital investment required for licenses
Locks out SMEs and spinoffs Inflexible in today’s challenging climate
New model: “Pay As You Go” access to the ANSYS suite of products
HPC Midlands Partners: ANSYS
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E.ON New Build and Technology, Software & Modelling
Sample use cases:
Precipitator ductwork Gas turbine blade lifetime Gas turbine enclosure safety Wind farm resource assessment Steam flow in power plants
HPC Midlands Partners: E.ON
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HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
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HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
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HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
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• JANET upgrades planned for e-Infrastructure £26m capital investment Potential for e.g. new primary connections / dedicated bandwidth for key research
centres / instruments
What would people like from JANET? Can we develop a model for JANET interconnects with industrial partners?
JANET as _peer_ not backhaul Build on existing partnerships Move beyond Sneakernet scenario
e-Infrastructure and JANET(UK)
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Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager@martin_hamilton hpc-midlands.ac.uk
HPC MidlandsBull User Group for eXtreme Computing, 2012