HPC Midlands Launch - Introduction to HPC Midlands

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Introduction to HPC Midlan Dr Steven Kenny, Director HPC Midlands Loughborough University

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HPC Midlands Centre Director Dr Steven Kenny provides a brief overview of the supercomputing centre of excellence, from Loughborough University and the University of Leicester, co-funded by EPSRC. For more information, please see http://hpc-midlands.ac.uk

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Introduction to HPC MidlandsDr Steven Kenny, Director HPC MidlandsLoughborough University

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Introduction• Loughborough has been running its own HPC

systems for the last 12 years.

• Largely academic systems, but have also supported industrial projects.

• EPSRC-BIS call in December 2011 was aimed at creating regional centres.

• One of the remits was to drive industrial usage of HPC.

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Vision• Establish a regional Centre of Excellence for HPC

with emphasis on industrially relevant research.

• Enable direct access to World-class facilities to

businesses, including SMEs to benefit the UK

economy.

• Form a partnership between Loughborough and

Leicester Universities to deliver HPC to HEIs

across the Midlands.

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Aims and Objectives• Support “research that matters”.

• Provide direct access to industry.

• Be flexible and adaptable in meeting the needs of

our industrial partners.

• Populate the centre with engineering analysis

software to address key challenges.

• Give priority to excellent research with direct

economic benefit.

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Collaborate• Work directly with experts in Science and

Engineering at Loughborough and Leicester Universities.

• HPC Midlands will underpin that work by providing access to World-class facilities.

• Opportunity at the end of the sessions for discussions.

• Case studies highlight on-going work.

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Why make a huge capital investment in HPC when you can pay for the capacity you need, when you need it? HPC Midlands provides cost-effective supercomputing on demand for research and industry, delivered via the JANET network.

Supercomputing on demand

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Use our state-of-the-art hardware and expert support to: - Expedite jobs that could take

weeks or months to run in-house

- Enhance your existing HPC capability when you need to

- Run commercial off-the-shelf software from leading vendors

- Turn HPC from a capital to an operating expense

Supercomputing on demand

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3,000 cores (48 Teraflops)11 chassis (18 blades each)15TB RAM120TB Lustre storageNon-blocking QDR Infiniband188 compute node blades:

2 x 2.0GHz (8 core) Sandy Bridge 140 with 64GB RAM (4GB/core)48 with 128GB RAM (8GB/core)

Soul of the new machine

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Commercial software:- CD-adapco Star-CCM+- ANSYS CFX- MSC Marc- Intel Cluster Studio / MKL

Open Source:- OpenFOAM- NETCDF- pHDF5- PETSc (and more!)

Soul of the new machine

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Progress• Machine already being heavily utilised.

• Awarded cpu time to a number of industrially driven projects.

• Developed a SLA working in conjunction with a number of partners.

• Developed agreements with independent software vendors for the supply of commercial software.

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