HPC Midlands - Update for Bull eXtreme Computing User Group 2012 meeting
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HPC Midlands is a new high performance computing facility for academia and industry jointly operated by Loughborough University and University of Leicester. It received £1 million in funding and features a 3,000 core Bull supercomputer called Hera with 3TB of RAM and 60TB of storage. Key partners include Intel, ANSYS, and E.ON who will provide software, training, and use cases. The facility aims to provide affordable HPC resources and support the growth of HPC in the region.
HPC Midlands - Update for Bull eXtreme Computing User Group 2012 meeting
- 1. HPC Midlands Bull User Group for eXtreme Computing, 2012 Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager @martin_hamilton hpc-midlands.ac.uk
- 2. Tildesley Report – see http://goo.gl/qw2DW
- 3. e-Infrastructure funding – http://goo.gl/SKgdG
- 4. What is HPC Midlands? 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
- 6. Number One for Student Experience
- 8. Hera: The HPC Midlands Cluster • £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
- 10. HPC Midlands Timeline 8th December e-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 February Work 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
- 11. Mechanical and Electrical Work (FM)
- 12. Mechanical and Electrical Work (FM)
- 14. Inside a Sandy Bridge compute node
- 15. HPC Midlands Partners: Intel • 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
- 16. HPC Midlands Partners: ANSYS 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
- 17. HPC Midlands Partners: E.ON 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
- 18. HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
- 19. HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
- 20. HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
- 21. e-Infrastructure and JANET(UK) • 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
- 22. HPC Midlands Bull User Group for eXtreme Computing, 2012 Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager @martin_hamilton hpc-midlands.ac.uk