High Performance Computing:The Future is Here

Martin Hamilton(invited presentation to DARC)

Topics

1. HPC as Catalyst

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

3. Eight Great Technologies

4. Grand Challenges

Topics

1. HPC as Catalyst

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

3. Eight Great Technologies

4. Grand Challenges

Virtual prototyping:“Make” and test 1,000 prototypes before committing any atoms

Pharma: Drug discovery, computational chemistry and clinical trial simulations

1. HPC as Catalyst

Render farms:Graphics for gaming,film and television industries

Environmental modelling:Flooding, climate change and weather systems

1. HPC as Catalyst

Safety and risk modeling: Industrial processes, e.g. gas and radiation dispersal

Machine learning: Recommendation engines real time translation and virtual assistants

1. HPC as Catalyst

Genomics and bioinformatics:—Which

interventions will yield the best outcomes?

—What am I genetically predisposed to?

—100,000 Genomes—23andme

1. HPC as Catalyst

Topics

1. HPC as Catalyst

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

3. Eight Great Technologies

4. Grand Challenges

HPC Midlands—Supercomputing for

research and industry—Software from leading

ISVs—Flexible usage model

for use by research and industry

—Expertise from Loughborough University & University of Leicester

2. Case Study

HPC Midlands—Supercomputing for

research and industry—Software from leading

ISVs—Flexible usage model

for use by research and industry

—Expertise from Loughborough University & University of Leicester

2. Case Study

HPC Midlands—3,008 core Linux based

supercomputer—15TB RAM, 120TB

Lustre storage—Non-blocking QDR

Infiniband interconnect—188 compute nodes

—2 x 2.0GHz 8 core Sandy Bridge CPUs per node

—140 nodes with 64GB RAM

—48 nodes with 128GB RAM

2. Case Study

HPC Midlands—Popular scientific and

engineering packages—Commercial and open

source—Examples:

—ANSYS CFX, FLUENT—CD-adapco Star-CCM+—MSC Marc, NASTRAN etc—OpenFOAM—Intel MKL, compiler suite—PETSc, Quantum

Espresso

2. Case Study

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

Topics

1. HPC as Catalyst

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

3. Eight Great Technologies

4. Grand Challenges

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

OGL 2.0 from www.gov.uk/bis/industrial-strategy

Role of e-Infrastructure:- Academic context:

HPC, SKA, LHC, DLS, NGS and other TLAs

- Industrial context: TSB, Catapults, “on ramps” for SMEs

- Not just kit:- Open Access Pubs- Open Data + Software- People!

3. Eight GreatTechnologies

Role of e-Infrastructure:- Academic context:

HPC, SKA, LHC, DLS, NGS and other TLAs

- Industrial context: TSB, Catapults, “on ramps” for SMEs

- Not just kit:- Open Access Pubs- Open Data + Software- People!

3. Eight GreatTechnologies

Topics

1. HPC as Catalyst

2. Case Study: HPC Midlands

3. Eight Great Technologies

4. Grand Challenges

Challenging preconceptions:—“Supercomputing is just

for rocket scientists”—“Academic services are

inherently insecure”—“Legal would never sign

off on anything like this”—“It’s just too hard to

satisfy assurance requirements”

4. Grand Challenges

Photo credit: CC-BY-NC Flickr user justin_case

4. Grand Challenges Challenging preconceptions:—Common off-the-shelf

packages have HPC solver capability, e.g. FLUENT, NASTRAN, MATLAB

—ISO 27002, CESG InfoSec, physical security (e.g. LPS 1175), CIS audit tool

—FTSE100 firms’ have similar requirements to research and education organizations

4. Grand Challenges: Awareness

4. Grand Challenges: Awareness

4. Grand Challenges Training and Skills:—The Missing Million:

—100,000 unfilled tech vacancies

—1m young unemployed (NEETs)

—CPD into CFD —(Parallel) Coding—UG/PG level training in bite

sized chunks—FutureLearn?

—Generation Pi

4. Grand Challenges: Parallel Coding

4. Grand Challenges: Next Gen Computing

From Mont Blanc project - www.montblanc-project.eu

From Mont Blanc project - www.montblanc-project.eu

4. Grand Challenges: The Missing Million

4. Grand Challenges: The Missing Million

Wearables4. Grand Challenges: Generation Pi

Photo credits: Technocamps, DesignSpark

Wearables4. Grand Challenges: Generation Pi

Wearables4. Grand Challenges: Generation Pi

Wearables4. Grand Challenges: Generation Pi

From codeclub.org.uk

Wearables4. Grand Challenges: Generation Pi

From codeclub.org.uk

Martin Hamiltonm.t.hamilton@lboro.ac.uk

@martin_hamilton