by

Abhishek Das

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Building structures we live in

Designing aircrafts that we fly in Designing vehicles that we drive

Launching satellites that beam our TV channels

Making movies that we enjoy Designing medicines that cure us

Devising national security mechanisms

Forecasting climate that help in many ways

And Many More…

Complementing theory and experimentation,

supercomputing now offers the third mode of

scientific discovery and innovation

Under a Single

Umbrella

Technologies

Systems

National Facilities

Applications

Solutions

Trainings

1991

1994

1998

2002-03

2012-13

500TF

2005-11

2007-08 54 TF

Switch

RC Accelerator

Vardha Software Stack

KSHIPRA Communication Substrate

288 Nodes, 4608 PEs, 200 TB Storage

System & Application Software

PARAMNet-3 Card

PARAM Yuva System (500 TF)

PARAM Padma System

Ministries having Scientific Research Labs

Ministry of Earth Sciences Ministry of Information Technology Ministry of Science & Technology

Ministries having Academic & Engineering

Ministry of Human Resource Development

15

Biogene

RCS Card

Biocrome System

• Facility exclusive for bioinformatics research

• An enabling platform for collaborative research in Life sciences

• National HPC Grid Infrastructure (total

compute power: 75TF/s)

• Connects geographically distributed

HPC Resources of the Nation

• HPC Resources include HPC Systems,

Storage, I/O devices, Instruments &

sensors

• Has more than 65 partners from

Academic & Research Institutions

spread across ~25 cities of the country

• Enables Scientists & Researchers to

work in collaboration

• Applications of GARUDA include Open

Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) and

Virtual Science Laboratory

• Life Sciences – Drug Discovery & More

• Ocean, Earth Surface, and Atmosphere Modelling with Forecasting

• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Disaster Management

Earthquake engineering

Flood/Cyclone/Tsunami forecasting and response

Modelling of spread of fire

• Discovery of New Materials – Nano science research

• Discovery of Natural Resources – Seismic Data Processing

• Discoveries Beyond Earth – Space Applications

• The simulations have been performed using the extended conformation as the starting structure.

• Total simulation time of 18µs has been achieved.

480 processors of Yuva used for approximately 6 months

S. Koulgi, U. Sonavane & R. Joshi Insights into the folding pathway of the Engrailed Homeodomain protein using replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations, J. Mol. Graph. Model. (2010), 29, 481-491

Publications

Objective: To forecast up to village level/point locations over India

Forecast available for 3 days advance in 6 hour interval over web as well as mobile.

Users: Agriculture Institutes, KSPB, Reuters, IAF, State Irrigation Departments, Farmers.

Pilot Simulation already done

• 4000 kW/m2 intensity fire with 4.2 m/s wind @ 45 deg

• 8 million mesh (0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4 m cell size) • ~ 120 s simulated in 40 hrs @ 18 cores of Param Yuva • Planned 30 million mesh (0.25 x 0.25 x 0.25 m cell size)

Estimated time ~ 300 s simulated in 4 days on 100 cores

• Completed using Grid pre-port processor

• Simulation of 1.2 lac elements of single pier system for

earthquake data was done on OpenSees using 96 processors of

PARAM Yuva

• Simulation of entire bridge and soil system is under progress.

• In collaboration with College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP)

• Parallel, Multicore and Manycore Programming

• System Administration & Management

• Storage Management Technologies

• Facility Operations Management and Maintenance

• GPU based Programming

• HPC User Symposiums

• C-DAC Certified HPC Professional

C-DAC HPC Solution for

Engineering Institutions

• ONAMA integrated package aids in understanding of

engineering disciplines through High Performance

Computing.

• It comprises of a well selected set of parallel as well as serial

applications, libraries and tools across various engineering

disciplines.

• Besides, it also consists of additional accelerated processing

unit (APU) enabled applications in specific domains.

• ONAMA provides the tools that have close affinity with

practical simulation, hence making the learning process a lot

more applied.

• It provides access to various APIs from several libraries viz.

parallel libraries, performance libraries.

COMPUTER

ELECTRONICS

ELECTRICAL

CHEMICAL

MECHANICAL

CIVIL

• HPC plays a vital role in almost all critical areas and considered as a

medium to increase economic competitiveness of the nation.

• In India, HPC is at a developing stage with an acute shortage of HPC

professionals.

• Today, there is a dearth of academic institutions teaching or using

HPC.

• Factors like prohibitive costs, lack of support for adopting HPC and

little awareness about importance of HPC plays a pivotal role here.

• Onama takes on these issues head-on. By providing flexibility in

selection of HPC configuration, the user is given a control over the

cost factor.

• This encourages institutions, which earlier avoided adopting HPC,

to embrace HPC in totality. As a direct effect, the

student/researcher is exposed to HPC at an early stage.

• Moreover, each HPC professional is capable of catalysing the

process of spreading the HPC culture.

• Thus, when an increasing number of institutions adopt Onama, the

right environment for producing HPC skilled manpower is created.

In such a scenario, Onama is at the centre stage.

• The society is then poised to reap immense benefits from the

proliferation of HPC technologies to all the strata of society.

• In short – CAPABILITY BUILDING – BUILDING OF SKILLED

HPC AWARE MANPOWER

Special Purpose Machines (SPMs) Should also be researched

THANK YOU

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