National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

IDC China 2010

Beijing

October 2010

Merle GilesPrivate Sector Program &

Economic Developmentmgiles@ncsa.illinois.edu

Imaginations unboundBeckman Institute

ECE

CSL

DigitalComputerLab

College of Engineering

Biotechnology Center

Institute forGenomic Biology

NCSA

Basic & AppliedResearch

Computer Science

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• Tsinghua University• 6-year arrangement for summer programs

• Zhejiang University• agricultural and biological engineering 2-year master’s degree

• China Agricultural University• Food sciences funding by Kraft Foods, Inc.

University of Illinois Partners in China

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Private Sector Program Partnership

• Four Categories• Fortune 100

• Fortune 1000

• Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

• Tech firms and ISVs

• Non-profits

• Governmental units

• Includes global supply chain and ISVs

• Includes collaborative researchers anytime/anywhere

Innovation occurs at the intersection of basic and applied

research.

Dr. Regina Dugan, U.S. DARPA Director, University-Industry Demonstration Partnership

NCET2 webinarMay 19, 2010

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Theoretical&

BasicResearch

Commercialization&

Production(.com or .org)

AppliedPrototyping

&Development

Optimization&

Robustification

NCSABridges the Gap

BETWEENBasic Research & Commercialization

Product Life Cycle

Phase 1Feasibility

Phase 3Prototyping

Phase 4Production/Deployment

Phase 0Concept/

Vision

Universities& Labs

PrivateIndustry

Application

Phase 2Design/

Development

Over the horizon development …

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NCSA Bridges Basic Research and Commercialization with Application

Yesterday’s Innovation Cycle

Courtesy: Tom Lange, Procter & Gamble

Design it Build it Fly it

Crash it

Fix it

Courtesy: Tom Lange, Procter & Gamble

Costs too much.

Takes too long.

Development is sequential.

Process is NOT innovative.

Kills the hired help!

Learning Loop Must Change

Theoretical&

BasicResearch

Commercialization&

Production(.com or .org)

NCSABridges

Basic Research &

Commercialization

Product Life Cycle

Phase 1Feasibility

Phase 3Prototyping

Phase 4Production/Deployment

Phase 0Concept/

Vision

Theory

Gap Between R&D and Production Workflow Must be Narrowed

CommercializationApplication

Phase 2Design/

Development

Over the horizon development …

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Circuitous Knowledge Transfer

• 3D virtual prototyping at NCSA => Caterpillar’s Global Simulation Center in Champaign

• Full-scale simulation of cell tower activity

• Reduced reliance on wet labs thru computation

• Cluster design and architecture

• HPC-capable fast-network hard drives

• World’s first Internet GUI interface

• Prototyping Windows® HPC Operating System

Value Creation and Economic Development

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• The HDF Group (pdf-equivalent for data)

• Linux OS made standard for HPC

• Apache server software

• Telnet remote access

• R-systems hosts Wolfram Alpha

• Music data analytics at One Llama

• River Glass spinout – recent Boeing buyout

• $1 Trillion per founder Larry Smarr

Economic Development

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TOTAL $$

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Industry Partners over time

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2010 PSP PARTNERS

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Industry design is informed by HPC

CAD / CAE HPC

But lacks workflow integration.

CLASSICAL HPC MISSION

• Historically, HPC has focused on science discovery

• Economic value has also been achieved in HPC derivatives

• Industrial value keys on discovery, design and optimization

• Increasingly, industry brings world-class problems

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Pre-mesh design can be 60% of the lifecycle

CAD / CAE HPC

• BladeCenter

• 1• 2• 3• 4• 5• 6• 7• 8• 9• 10• 11• 12• 13• 14

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• 1• 2• 3• 4• 5• 6• 7• 8• 9• 10• 11• 12• 13• 14

DATA

≈DATA DATA

Pre-mesh ≥ 60%

PLM

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Courtesy: Shyam Neerarambam, Rolls-Royce

FIDELITY

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Industrial Design Cycle

Courtesy: Shyam Neerarambam, Rolls-Royce

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Physics-Based Engineering Codes• Large fraction of manufacturing depends on ISV code• Challenge to scaling on 100s and 1000s of cores• Physics must match the scaling• Physical properties of materials is not well understood

• Metals, composites, liquids• Discontinuity• Crack propagation and prediction

• Multiphysics frameworks• Multiscale and multicomponent needs• Spatial vs. temporal modeling• Significant need for basic research informed/driven by

application

Competitive Advantage needs Human Expertise

Materials, fluids, mechanical, aerothermal, electrical, etc.

Parallelization, scaling, multiphysics,

algorithms, etc.

Petascale, ISV code, data management, architecture, etc.

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Strategy, process, services, partnerships, etc.

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Headlines• IBM Smarter Planet

• The biggest leaps forward in science, business and society will come from insights gleaned through perpetual, real-time analysis of data.

• World’s network traffic will soon total more than half a zettabyte.

• IDC’s Steve Conway• There is growing recognition of the close link between

supercomputing and scientific advancement as well as industrial competitiveness.

• Forbes Magazine• Consumer technology is now ahead of most industrial technology. • Data are often crazily in conflict, which means that absent

consensus about the data, political considerations will play a bigger role.

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Forbes Magazine: Publisher Rich KarlgaardDigital Rules, September 13, 2010

Smart-aggregation rules: Some forms of content will always need human curating.

Dumb-aggregation rules: And some forms of content won’t.

The trick is to figure out where algorithms beat humans, and vice versa.

Composite Ranking October 2010

Forbes Global 2000 Listed Companies#5 – ICBC#12 – PetroChina#17 – China Construction Bk#22 – Bank of China#45 – Sinopec-China Petrol#90 – China Life Insurance#96 – Bank of Communications#141 – China Merchants Bank

Standouts in Growth & Profitability• Capital Goods: BYD• Food Markets: Tingyi Holding• Software and Services: Tencent Holdings

Forbes Magazine 10MAY2010

Use Case: Danish Bioscience Firm Novozymes• Bread Freshener

• Enzymes prevent long chains of carbohydrates that make bread taste stale from forming during baking.

• Better Animal Chow• Enzymes can be added to soy-based feed to help animals absorb more of

the soy’s protein, reducing feed cost.

• More Efficient Plants• A fungus applied to crops helps them absorb phosphorus, reducing

fertilizer needs and decreasing runoff.

• Low-Carbon Fuels• Enzymes allow corn ethanol makers to reduce energy use.

• Low-Carbon Beer• Enzymes break down starches in barley so beermakers don’t have to malt

it, saving water and energy.

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THANK YOU!

http://industry.ncsa.illinois.edu

www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters