The Hartree Centre A Research Collaboration in Association with IBM. Professor Terry Hewitt Project Delivery Executive

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1 The Hartree Centre A Research Collaboration in Association with IBM Professor Terry Hewitt Project Delivery Executive (terry.hewitt@stfc.ac.uk)

2 Outline What s so good about HPC? STFC SCD Hartree Centre What we do Facilities and Resources Capabilities 2 Examples

3 IDC said. Software leadership will become the New Battleground Only 1% of HPC codes can exploit 10,000 or more cores There May Be More Emphasis on Software Finally Big Data Methods Will Start to Transform the HPC Market, Including Storage HPC and commercial Big Data are starting to collide Petascale Performance on Big Systems Will Create New Business Opportunities The HPC Staffing Shortage Will Grow More Acute

4 Return on investment UK tax revenues exceed 35% of GDP Forecast tax revenue for 2016 is > 700,000M Forecast GDP for 2016 is > 2,000,000M A 0.1% increase in GDP leads to additional annual 700M in tax revenues (net taxes & NI contributions) IDC & others forecast a much greater increase in GDP than this So a 145M investment shows a pretty decent return on investment; even a 0.01% increase in GDP pays for itself after 2 years And, by the way, we paid 6.3M in VAT for our HPC systems!

5 What is HPC used for? Some examples Product design and performance Design and test of new medicines and drugs Understanding the origins of the universe Designing safer and more efficient vehicles Understanding climate change Predicting tomorrows weather, floods, Finance, insurance, investments

6 HPC in Procter & Gamble How long to make 10 9 pringles? Aerodynamics How long does it take for the oil to drain away? Competitive Advantage Free surface flow on & through compressible partially saturated porous material Braun Shaver drop it on floor Peeling of Yogurt cartons Virtual Filling Bottles on a production line

7 CFD Has Significantly Improved the Wing Development Process Increased computational capability & accuracy CFD Tools Cartesian Boeing Tools A502 A488 Grid Tech TRANAIR TRANAIR Optimization TLNS3D-MB ZEUS CFL3D/ZEUS CFD++ Unstructured adaptive grid 3D-NS Boeing Products N G 78 7 Wind Tunnel vs. CFD s t a t e o f t h e a r t M o d e r n c l o s e c o u p l e d n a c e l l e i n s t a l l a t i o n, M a c h f a s t e r t h a n Wings Tested 21 % t h i c k e r f a s t e r w i n g t h a n 757, 767 t e c h n o l o g y 18 base H i g h l y c o n s t r a i n e d w i n g d e s i g n F a s t e r w i n g t h a n x S u c c e s s f u l m u l t i p o i n t o p t i - m i z a t i o n d e s i g n CFD runs F a s t e r a n d m o r e e f f i c i e n t t h a n p r e v i o u s a i r c r a f t x C F D f o r L o a d s a n d S t a b i l i t y a n d C o n t r o l Less testing, lower cost, better products COPYRIGHT 2005 THE BOEING COMPANY

8 Business Benefits Reduce the following Time to market of a design Component costs Design and certification costs Number of destructive tests of components and engines Increase the quality of the product (via better fidelity of the simulations) Reduces service & maintenance costs Ensure the integrity of the design

9 HM Government &

10 UK National Facilities ISIS, Diamond, Central Laser Facility Research in nuclear and particle physics and astronomy International Science Facilities CERN, ESO, ESRF, ILL

11 Scientific Computing Department 160 staff supporting over 7500 users Applications development and support Compute and data facilities and services Research: > 100 publications pa Deliver >3500 training days pa Systems administration, data services, high-performance computing, numerical analysis & software engineering.

12 Capital - BIS 37.5M spent 19M (energy efficient computing) Recurrent STFC ( 2M, 3M, ) Our own efforts to gain income Adrian Wander Director SCD Cliff Brereton Director Hartree Centre A N Other Head of Applications Juan Bicarrgui Head of Data Services Peter Oliver Head of Technology Dave Corney Head of Systems Terry Hewitt Delivery Project Executive Micheal Gleaves Head of Buisiness Development John Bancroft Strategic Partner Development Laura Johnston Hartree Business Support A N Other Delivery Project Manager David Moss A N Other ~40 staff ~40 staff ~40 staff ~40 staff A N Other

13 Hartree Centre Objectives Deliver future-proof software capable of exploiting the most powerful hardware platforms To make using HPC as easy as using a laptop Build capacity

14 Douglas Rayner Hartree Hartree Fock Appleton Hartree Equation Differential Analyser Numerical Analysis Father of Computational Science He said in 1946 Douglas Hartree with Phyllis Nicolson at the Hartree Digital Analyser at Manchester University It may well be that the high-speed digital computer will have as great an influence on civilization as the advent of nuclear power.

15 Differential Analyser

16 Hartree Centre What? - Deliver Value More innovative products / Services More Sales Reduce time to value and associated R&D unit costs How? Economic Impact Creating new software and algorithms Optimizing existing software for new architectures Utilizing existing software models & Visualization in new use cases People, Technology, Partners Software assets and IP Joint research projects with IBM Research Support for marketing & business development from IBM Who for? Academia, Consumer Electronics, Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Pharma, Electricity Generators, Banking, Government Agencies

17 Hartree Centre Future Big Data Greater Insights (retrospective and real time) Exascale Volume Velocity Veracity Codes for new architectures Energy Efficient computing Major National / International research centre collaborations Grand Challenges

18 The Infrastructure Blue Wonder Blue Joule Visualization Wall Visualization Wall idataplex 3,648 cores 7.2 TB RAM 48 GPUs idataplex ScaleMP 8 x 4TB systems 8x 512 cores VEC Workstation IBM BG/Q 6 racks, 1.23PFlop/s 98,304 cores 9.8 PB RAM IBM BG/Q BGAS 1 rack, 225TFlop/s 16,384 cores 1.6 PB RAM Remote Graphics Server X50 Training Stations Merrison Lecture Theatre Visualization Wall Filestore GPFS 6PB Tape Store 15PB Infiniband Switch NICE EnginFrame High End Workstation Crosfield ipad/android DL Machine Room iphone/android User Scarf Emerald Jasmin NCCS RAL Visualization Wall DL iphone/android User ipad/android 8 Nodes High End Workstation Leverhulme Off Campus High End Workstation Atlas Visualization Wall ipad/android Visualization Wall WTH Associates Ltd ISIC 7x4 Video Wall iphone/android User 6/5/2013 Hartree Centre Architecture High End Workstation ISIC Visualization

19 Applications and Optimisation Software Development HPC On-demand Collaboration Training and Education

20 EXAMPLE 1

21 Multiple Inputs and how to make HPC easier to use Scenario: Chemists consult change experimental design, run multiple simulations from mobile device in the lab to see what best choices of chemicals. Results Parameters changed at bench on mobile device and results sent back to mobile device. Input data Overview of Running Jobs Consumable HPC 6/24/2013

22 EXAMPLE 2

23 Over a weekend Blue Wonder, was used by the VEC on behalf of a customer Run in 24 hours an analysis of 100 design cases takes 1 week to run on the customer s own system Jobs ran in hours Follow-up work on a larger problem size was also undertaken, In total 37,809 jobs were run, using 474,762 cpu hours in 90 real-time hours.

24 Track Record NW-VEC CFMS

25 Thank you for listening QUESTIONS