University of Missouri Research ComputingTimothy Middelkoop, Ph.D. – Director of MU Research Computing Support Services (RCSS) Fall

2018

RCSS Infrastructure

Lewis by the Numbers

912 users; ~170 active in any one month 4+ Compute clusters; 9+ node types; 7+ networks

12+ Racks; 230+ nodes, 6120+ cores (HPC) 595TB parallel storage (HPC/Lustre) 1218TB Bulk storage allocated (HTC).

349 software packages (568 with versions) 4.5 million core⋅hours per month capacity 4 million core⋅hours Aug. 2018, 89% utilization;

32 million core⋅hours in 2017, 75% utilization; 7.8 million core⋅hours in 2016

100 Gigabit Science DMZ (IPv6 I2, GPN, R&E) 4+ Full time staff, 2 Students (Hiring! GA’s avail) 8,011,332 jobs run and counting

RCSS35%

MRI28%

BioCommunity12%

Investor25%

Investment in Lewis

HPC Compute and HPC Storage Services (New!)

Grant friendly investment in nodes ~$13,000/node Fairshare priority, on average 29,200 core∙hours/month

Ability to bust jobs to the entire cluster.

Use the newest cores for 5 years.

3TB of HPC group storage.

Setup engagement to help migrate workflows

Provide space, power, cooling, networking andmanages the hardware, software, security and scientific applications in exchange for idle time.

Large community based investment at scale Team with researchers and vendors to optimize

configuration to maximize research output.

Assistance with proposals Facilities, budgeting, and letters of commitment

Now Rack Scale!

Fall 2018 Upgrade33 Nodes, 1320 cores

100Gbps EDR Infinband,

25/100Gbps Ethernet storage

RCSS Services

Community High Performance Computing (HPC) – No charge

HPC Compute Service [$2,600/10 cores/5 years]

HPC Investor [grant friendly funding, ~$13,000/node]

HTC Storage [$120/TB/60Months] – economical, large, low compute intensity

HPC Storage [$15.50/TB/Month] – High Performance Parallel Storage

General Purpose Research Storage (GPRS) [$7/TB/Month] (Columbia, KC)

Researcher Managed Backup (ssh/rsync) in Kansas City [$120/TB/60Months]

Secure4: DCL4 compute cluster [$1,200/Project/Year, $560/User/Year]

100Gbps Science-DMZ for large transfers, AL2S and regional VLANs.

Teaching Cluster. 13 Nodes; 332 cores; MPI. clark.rnet.missouri.edu

Science Gateways (Limited Access)

User training and help sessions (Wednesdays, seminars, workshops)

Grant writing consultation (letters of support, quotes, configuration)

Shared Infrastructure

Workstation » Campus » National

Building community and capability through shared infrastructure

Shared infrastructure allows for bursting

Share software, tools, and data easily

Shared training and collaboration

Specialized Capabilities (BioCompute)

“The Lewis infrastructure allowed me to process over 2500 cattle genomes through GATK Best Practices in under 8 weeks (2.1M core hours) enabling genomic research at a scale few other Universities are capable of.” – Bob Schnabel

Campus, Regional, and National CI

MU Cyberinfrastructure Council. “… committed to providing and supporting the cyberinfrastructure necessary to excel in the discovery, dissemination, and application of knowledge in an environment of rapidly changing technologies so we may optimally fulfill our research, education, outreach, and economic development missions.” (https://doit.missouri.edu/ci)

Show Me CI – State Wide Cyberinfrastructure Group “Sharing Cyberinfrastructure information, education, and resources across the Show Me State” (http://ShowMeCI.org)

GPN Research Platform (GPN-RP) – connecting research across the region and the nation.

XSEDE Level 3 service provider (http://xsede.org)

Research Computing Campus Champions (https://xsede.org/campus-champions)

“Campus Research Computing (CaRC) Infrastructure Consortium” – national network of cyberinfrastructure professionals

Current Events

Planning future large GPU investment for Deep Learning

– contact to be a part of this! Two seed nodes (6xV100)

Open CI Engineer position

Open CI Facilitator position

CI-Day on May 7th 2018

SC18 next week/Scinet

Research Computing

Planning Meeting

Questions?

MU Research Computing Support Services

web: http://doit.missouri.edu/research

docs: http://docs.rnet.missouri.edu

email: rcss-support@missouri.edu

Timothy Middelkoop, Ph.D., MiddelkoopT@missouri.edu

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