Institute for High Performance Computing and Information Systems

St.Petersburg, Russia

Vladimir KorkhovVladimir Korkhovvladimir@csa.ruvladimir@csa.ru

A bit of history

• International Institute for Interphase Interactions, founded in 1991

• 1996: Institute for High Performance Computing and Data Bases

• Center for Supercomputing Applications

IHPC&IS activities

• Solutions for design and installation of supercomputer centers

• Fundamental and applied scientific research requiring HPC and complex mathematical modeling e.g. forecast of the consequences of anthropogenous impact on a local climate, simulation of the semiconductor materials and carbon nanostructures, modeling of bioactive compounds properties, simulation and design of drugs, etc.

• Simulation of gas dynamic processes in different problems of aerospace, machinery, vehicle and technological equipment design

• Development of complex solutions in the area of information system technologies

CSA – Center for Supercomputing Applications

• Since 1996 providing supercomputing facilities to researchers

• Remote access node for researchers from SPbSU PTC

• Various computing platforms available: vector, vector-parallel, parallel (SMP and MPP systems)

• In 1999 one of the first Linux clusters in Russia created using Myrinet links

CSA facilities

• Computer “zoo”: • vector system Convex C-120,

• vector-parallel C-3820 and C-3440

• parallel Parsytecs CC/16, CCe20, CCiD

• SMP system Convex SPP-1600

• Linux cluster on Myrinet

• Sun Ultra Enterprise servers

C-3820C-3820 Parsytec Parsytec CCiCCi

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Parsytec CC/16Parsytec CC/16

SPP-1600SPP-1600

Selected applications

• Virtual Plasma Reactor (PECVD)

• Marine decision support systems: seaworthiness, helicopter landing, unsinkability

• Telemedicine

• Computational Fluid Dynamics applications

• Parallel DBMS

Software for numerical simulation of plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition reactors (PECVD). PECVD is one of the most wide-spread technologies for production of silicon-based films, the important material in microelectronics.

Requires the significant computational resources:

• complex geometry of industrial reactors• complicated hydrodynamic processes• dozens of chemical species and hundreds

of chemical reactions

Russia + Belorussia

supercomputing initiative(SKIF project)

Virtual plasma reactor

Distributed computing activities in CSA

• First try of Grid technologies in 2001: testbed with SPb Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) based on Globus 1.1.3

• Currently testbed with SPbSU PTC based on GT3 is being deployed

• Collaboration with University of Amsterdam in a number of grid-related projects:

- Virtual Laboratory for e-Science, since 2001

- Dynamite, 2002-2003

- NWO project, starting now

Virtual Laboratory

• A collaborative analysis environment for applied experimental science

• Middleware to bridge the gap between fundamental services of Grid and application layer

• Offers effective and transparent utilization of distributed resources

• Support scientists in building meta-applications by providing ready-to-use application components and means for developers to create such components

Virtual Laboratory Layer

Application Layer

Grid Layer

Dynamite

• Dynamic load balancing and fault tolerance of parallel programs (PVM/MPI) using distributed checkpointing, migration and restart of sub-tasks

• Transparent on application code level• Usage of remote system idle-time (Condor-style)• Cluster solution developed, targeting to Grid porting

High Performance Simulation (NWO/RFBR)

• High Performance Simulation on the Grid

• Russia - Netherlands Grid testbed

• The Virtual Reactor application - to drive and validate the development

• Final system - a distributed collaborative environment with advanced interaction and visualization facilities

• Participants: UvA, IHPC&DB, IHED-IVTAN (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Institute of Computational Mathematics (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk), SPb State University

NWO – Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

RFBR – Russian Fund for Basic Research

Collaboration

IHPC&IS collaborates with national and international partners, in particular:

• SPb State University• SPb Nuclear Physics Institute• University of Amsterdam• Software AG