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The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community hpc-ch community building BoF HPC for HPC June 24th, 2014

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The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community

hpc-ch community building

BoF HPC for HPC

June 24th, 2014

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Background

• In 2007, the ETH Board developed Switzerland’s National Strategic Plan for High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN Strategy) on behalf of the Swiss Confederation

• Resolutions adopted in 2009 by the Federal Council and Parliament

• Investment costs up to 2014 amount to 172.5m CH– New building– Supercomputers (stepwise up to Petaflop)– Networking and Co-design: HP2C (now PASC)

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• In 2009 a group of participants to ISC decided to create a HPC community in order to further develop HPC in Switzerland

– The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community.

Support and foster the knowledge exchange between providers of HPC systems at Swiss universities

–  In particular• Know the offering and organization of other Swiss HPC

providers• Exchange best practices• Co-ordinate activities• Discuss developments in HPC

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Milestones

• First gathering together– During final reception at ISC9 in Hamburg (CSCS, Uni Zh,

EPFL, Uni Basel)

• First getting together– October 2009, University of Zurich

• First forum– Spring 2010, EPF Lausanne

• Creation of industry branch– Spring 2013

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Channels

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Blogwww.hpc-ch.org

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Twittertwitter.com/hpcch

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Youtubewww.youtube.com/ethics64

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Forums

• 2009– Getting Together (University of Zurich)

• 2010– Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods (EPFL)– Parallel File Systems for HPC (ETH Zurich)

• 2011– Scheduler and Queuing Systems (PSI)– Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC (University of Basel)

• 2012– Infrastructure for HPC (EMPA)– Handling huge amount of data for HPC (CSCS & USI)

• 2013– HPC in Swiss Industry (Novartis)– Hardware Life-Cycle and User Policies for HPC systems (EPFL)

• 2014– Cloud computing and virtualisation for HPC (ETH Zurich / Uni Zurich)– Monitoring and reporting in HPC (University of Bern)

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Booths at ISC and SCFirst draft for the booth …

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ISC'11… and the resulting booth …

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