Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager − hpc-midlands.ac.uk
HPC MidlandsCloud Supercomputing for Academia and Industry
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?
£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
The Delivery!
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
20th February Data centre extension now complete
24th February Work begins on the plumbing / chilled water supply
27th February Electrical Distribution Panel in place
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
Mechanical and Electrical Work (FM)
Mechanical and Electrical Work (FM)
Some Assembly Required…
Inside a Sandy Bridge compute node
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
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
E.ON New Build and Technology, Plant Modelling
Sample use cases:
Precipitator ductwork Gas turbine blade lifetime Gas turbine enclosure safety Wind farm resource assessment Steam flow in nuclear plants
HPC Midlands Partners: E.ON
HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON
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)
And Finally… We’re Hiring!
Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager − hpc-midlands.ac.uk
HPC MidlandsCloud Supercomputing for Academia and Industry
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