Mateo Valero Director Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación México, April, 14th 2005

Mateo ValeroDirector

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

México, April, 14th 2005

General BSC Presentation - México, April, 14th 2005 2

• Significant contribution to advancement of Science in Spain, enabling supercomputing capacity, scientific-technical synergies, and cost rationalization thanks to economies of scale.

• Powerful tool to assist research and development centers, public and private, generating impulses for a new technological environment.

Motivation


The Consortium

• Consortium includes:

• Spanish Government (MEC).

• Catalonian Government (DURSI - Generalitat).

• Technical University of Catalunya (UPC).

• To start operations on January, 2005.

• Located at UPC North Campus.


Mission

•Investigate, develop

and manage

technology to facilitate

the advancement of

science.


Objectives

• Research in Supercomputing and Computer Architecture.

• Collaborate in R&D e-Science projects with prestigious scientific teams.

• Manage BSC supercomputers to accelerate relevant contributions to research areas where intensive computing is an enabling technology.


Structure

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Director/a Departamento Computación

Intensiva

Director/a

Departamento

Biomedicina y

Ciencias de la

Vida

Director/a Departamento Ciencias de la

Tierra

Director/a Departamento

Física e Ingeniería


Química y Ciencia de los

Materiales


Gestión del Superordenador

CONSEJO RECTOR

Presidencia

Comisión Ejecutiva PATRONATO

Director/a Asociado/aDirector/a

I+D en I.T.

e-Ciencia

Gestión

Comité de Acceso

Astronomía -Espacio

Jefe/a Equipo Métodos

Numéricos

Jefe/a Equipo Grids y Clusters

Jefe/a Equipo Programación

Paralela

Jefe/a Equipo Herramientas

de Rendimiento

Jefe/a Equipo Plataformas e-Business

Jefe/a Equipo Bases de

Datos

Jefe/a Equipo Arquitectura de Computadores

de Altas Prestaciones

Jefe/a Equipo Genómica

Jefe/a Equipo Bioinformática

Jefe/a Equipo Modelización

Molecular

Jefe/a Equipo Medio

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Multi-procesadores

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Jefe/a Equipo Administración

del Sistema

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Profesionales

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Negocio

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y Finanzas

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Comisión Científica Asesora

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fesi

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Director/a Departamento Computación

Intensiva

Director/a

Departamento

Biomedicina y

Ciencias de la

Vida

Director/a Departamento Ciencias de la

Tierra


Física e Ingeniería


Química y Ciencia de los

Materiales


Gestión del Superordenador

CONSEJO RECTOR

Presidencia

Comisión Ejecutiva PATRONATO

Director/a Asociado/aDirector/a

I+D en I.T.

e-Ciencia

Gestión

Comité de AccesoComité de Acceso

Astronomía -Espacio

Jefe/a Equipo Métodos

Numéricos

Jefe/a Equipo Grids y Clusters

Jefe/a Equipo Programación

Paralela

Jefe/a Equipo Herramientas

de Rendimiento

Jefe/a Equipo Plataformas e-Business

Jefe/a Equipo Bases de

Datos


de Altas Prestaciones

Jefe/a Equipo Genómica

Jefe/a Equipo Bioinformática

Jefe/a Equipo Modelización

Molecular

Jefe/a Equipo Medio

Ambiente

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Inv. Senior

Investigadores/as

Inv. Junior

Inv. Senior

Investigadores/as

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Multi-procesadores

Inv. Senior

Investigadores/as

Inv. Junior


Multi-procesadores

Inv. Senior

Investigadores/as

Inv. Junior

Inv. Senior

Investigadores/as

Inv. Junior

Inv. Senior

Investigadores/as

Inv. Junior


del Sistema

Prof. Senior

Profesionales

Operadores

Prof. Senior

Profesionales

Jefe/a Equipo Soporte a Usuarios


Negocio

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Profesionales


Negocio

Prof. Senior

Profesionales


y Finanzas

Prof. Senior

Profesionales

Secretarios/as


y Finanzas

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Profesionales

Secretarios/as


Multimedia

Inv. Senior

Investigadores/as

Inv. Junior


Multimedia

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Investigadores/as

Inv. Junior




Index

Introduction to BSC

Research

MareNostrum

TOP500

Some Images and Movies


IT research and development projects – Deep Computing

• Continuation of CEPBA (European Center for Parallelism in Barcelona) research lines in Deep Computing:

• Tools for performance analysis.

• Programming models.

• Operating Systems.

• Grid Computing and Clusters.

• e-Business applications.

• Parallelization of applications.


IT research and development projects – Computer Architecture

•Superscalar and VLIW processor scalability to exploit higher instruction level parallelism.

•Microarchitecture techniques to reduce power and energy consumption.

•Vector co-processors to exploit data level parallelism, and application specific co-processors.

•Quality of Service in multithreaded environments to exploit thread level parallelism.

•Profiling and optimization techniques to optimize the performance of existing applications.


Life Science projects

• Genomic analysis.

• Data mining of biological databases.

• Systems biology.

• Prediction of protein fold.

• Study of molecular interactions and enzymatic mechanisms and drug design .


Earth Science projects

• Forecasting of air quality and concentrations of gaseous photochemical pollutants (e.g. tropospheric ozone) and particulate matter.

• Transport of Saharan dust (outbreaks) from North Africa toward the European continent and its contribution to PM levels.

• Modeling the climate change. This area of research is divided into:

• Interaction of air quality and climate change issues (forcing of climate change).

• Impact and consequences of climate change on a European scale.


Services

• Computational Services: Offering our parallel machines computational power.

• Training: Organizing technical seminars, conferences and focused courses.

• Technology Transfer: Carrying out projects for industry as well as to cover our academic research and internal service needs.


Index

Introduction to BSC

Research

MareNostrum

TOP500



MareNostrum

• 4564 PowerPC 970 FX processors (dual processors).

• 4GB ECC 333 DDR memory per node. Total: 9 TB Main Memory.

• 233 TB disk.

• 3 networks:

• Myrinet.

• Gigabit.

• 10/100 Ethernet.

• Diskless network support.

• Linux cluster.


27 Compute Racks (RC01-RC27)• 162 BC chassis w/OPM and gigabit ether switch• 2268 JS20+ nodes w/myrinet daughter card

7 Storage Server Racks (RS01-RS07)• 40 p615 storage servers 6/rack• 20 FastT 100 3/rack• 20 EXP100 3/rack

4 Myrinet Racks (RM01-RM04)• 10 clos256+256 myrinet switches• 2 Myrinet spines 1280s

1 Gigabit Network Racks• 1 Force10 E600 for Gb network• 4 Cisco 3550 48-port for 10/100 network

1 Operations Rack (RH01)• 7316-TF3 display• 2 p615 mgmt nodes• 2 HMC model 7315-CR2• 3 Remote Async Nodes• 3 Cisco 3550• 1 BC chassis (BCIO)

MareNostrum: Overall system description


Index

Introduction to BSC

Research

MareNostrum

TOP500



TOP500 Performance Development


TOP500 BSC Certificate


TOP5 Supercomputer Sites


• 6 centres:

HPC-Europe


• CEPBA, CINECA and EPCC have been operating EC-funded visitor programmes since the early to mid-90s

• Emphasis on:

• Access to the Infrastructure

• Quality of scientific interaction with local community

• Guidelines issued by the EC

• Target “new” users of the infrastructure… especially if similar resources are not available within their own country

HPC-Europe


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30%

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P hysics

M athematics

Life sciences

Human Sciences

Engineering

Earth sciences

Computing

Chemistry

Astrophysics

Life sciences7%

Mathematics4%

Human Sciences

1%

Engineering19%

Earth sciences

5%

Computing12%

Chemistry29%

Astrophysics4%

Physics19%

HPC-Europe


Proyect Period Funding Visitors UPCHCM 1993-1997 950 112 49

PECO 1995-1996 160 17 15

TMR 1996-2000 935 133 46

IHP 2000-2003 700 28 8

2745 290 118Total

• Joint CEPBA - CESCA projects

• Stays and access to resources

HPCN, Mobility Program


New members from May 1st, 2005:BSC, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, SpainHLRS, Stuttgart, GermanyLRZ, Munich, Germany

DEISA Consortium


•To deploy and operate a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment with continental scope

•To enable scientific discovery across a broad spectrum of science and technology. Scientific impact (enabling new science) is the only criterion for success.

•DEISA is an European supercomputing service built on top of existing national services.

•DEISA contributes to a significant enhancement of capabilities and capacities of high performance computing (HPC) in Europe, by the integration of leading national supercomputing infrastructures.

DEISA Objectives


• The project deployed from the start a number of User Support activities in order to enable specific applications for the supercomputing Grid.

• Initial application areas: Materials Sciences, Plasma Physics, Life Sciences, Cosmology, industrial CFD, coupled applications

• Interoperability with TeraGrid infrastructure in USA

• Joint applications with EGEE.

Applications


EIROforum

• CERN: European laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, (nuclear and particle physics)

• EFDA: European Fusion Development Agreement, Oxfordshire, (fusion research)

• EMBL: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, several places, (molecular biology)

• ESA: European Space Agency (space research)

• ESO: European Southern Laboratory, Garching, (observational astronomy)

• ESRF: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, (biology, materials and physic research employing synchrotron X-rays)

• ILL: Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, (biology, chemistry, materials and physics research employing neutron beams)


Future Challenges in Large Research Infrastructures

• Critical mass

• Equal opportunities

• Stable long-term financial support

• International dimension

• Retention/satisfaction of the personal

• Mobility of researchers

• Multidisciplinary research

• Collaboration with the industry

• Social perspectives


What can we offer?

• Mobility programs for doctoral

candidates, postdoctoral and

senior researchers:

•EC funded HPC- Europa project.

•Spanish Ramón y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva programs.

•Catalan ICREA.

•Open BSC positions.

• Latin American – BSC join

projects (scientific institutions,

as well as industrial private

companies).

•Current and future EC funded projects (HPC-Europa, DEISA, …).

•Specific cooperation agreements.

•Access to BSC resources.

• Areas of cooperation include

Deep Computing, Computer

Architecture, Life Science,

Earth Science, ...


Thank you !

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Mateo Valero Director Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación México, April, 14th 2005