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The IT market is at an inflection point, its main driver transitioning from technology to usage. Platforms are becoming transparent, adding value to data to enable Information-as-a-Service. Jeff Spencer introduces some aspects of HPC and Big-Data developments, and UK university partnerships to the Irish universities and colleges computer science departments within The Third Level Forum.
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The Third Level Computing Forum, Ireland
Cloud
Cyber-security
M2M
HPC
Big data
22nd May 2014 The Digital Hub Dublin
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a brief introduction to the Third Level Computing Forum
Jeff Spencer, Business Development Manager Bull UK & Ireland
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Distributed IT
IT as-a-Service
Information as-a-Service
Centralised IT
TECHNOLOGY
USAGE
Its main driver transitioning from
to
The IT market is at an inflection point:
T E C H N O L O G Y 1970 2020 USAGE 2010
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IT INFRASTRUCTURE
COMPLEX INTEGRATION
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
SECURITY
M2M
CLOUD
BIG DATA
Information as-a-Service
Distributed IT
IT as-a-Service
Centralised IT
TRANSPARENT PLATFORMS
VALUE FROM DATA
enabling
The IT market is at an inflection point:
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Bull Corporate Drivers 2014-16
Growth focus on the “Third Platform” as described by IDC with mobile devices & M2M using cloud delivery. Cloud
Cyber-security
M2M
HPC
Big data
IT Transformation underpinned by secure information management of traditional and ‘big’ data sources using the power of high performance systems – commercial and technical – and analytics software
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High Performance Computing
• High Performance Computing covers all computers that are used for advanced modelling and simulation tasks
• Increasingly the technology is being used for complex analytics
• It includes advanced modelling in Financial Services but excludes general purpose computing
Life
Sciences
Aero Mfg Energy Science Auto Mfg Financial
Services Weather
& Climate
HPC
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What is driving the increased requirement?
Entire car Organ damage E-crash dummy Bumper Increasing complexity in many areas
300km resolution 50km resolution 10km resolution
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Complexity of the Simple
Potato Chips
Images courtesy of Procter & Gamble
Nappies
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….and New markets
•50 frames per second
•90 minutes movie
•150 days on 6500 CPU cluster
•142 TB data
Step 20
Step 8
Step 12
Step 16
Step 4
Drop Impact • Analysis for a full assembly of a mobile phone
• Up to 142 million degrees of freedom
• 12 hours, 10 Tflop/s
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Structural Mechanics Implicit
Life science
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Electro-Magnetics Computational Chemistry Quantum Mechanics
400 European R&D experts in application performance and HPC systems design
Reservoir Simulation Rendering / Ray Tracing Climate / Weather Ocean Simulation Data Analytics
Computational Chemistry Molecular Dynamics
Computational Biology
Seismic Processing
Extreme Computing applications
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1.25 PetaFlops
140 000+ Xeon cores
256 TB memory
30 PB disk storage
500 GB/s IO throughput
580 m² footprint
2 PetaFlops
90 000+ Xeon cores 148 000 GPU cores
360 TB memory
10 PB disk storage
250 GB/s IO throughput
200 m² footprint
1,5 PetaFlops
70 000+ Xeon cores
280 TB memory
15 PB disk storage
120 GB/s IO throughput
200 m² footprint
3 petaflop-scale systems : TERA 100, CURIE, IFERC
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“Bull have provided a level of pro-active support not matched in our experience by any of their competitors “
Cardiff University
Needs Replacement of the bullx cluster installed in 2007
Support a diverse community of users, from experienced practitioners running applications which scale over 100’s cores to those just starting to consider HPC
Solution A dedicated MPI compute node partition (42.6 Tflops peak) 128 dual-socket bullx B510 compute nodes with Intel® Xeon® ‘Sandy Bridge’ E5-
2670 processors, for a total of 2048 cores
16 “memory-rich” nodes (8GB per core) for codes with large memory requirements
A dedicated HTC compute node partition 72 refurbished bullx B500 blades with a total of 576 cores.
InfiniBand QDR interconnect network
Lustre shared file system
bullx supercomputer suite cluster manager with bullx Linux
One of Britain’s leading teaching and research universities
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University of Liverpool
Needs Support a wide range of HPC & data management demands
Procure a new facility with a minimum of disruption
An investment with a lifespan > 5 years: flexibility, upgradability & an effective relationship with a strong HPC provider
Solution Bull proposed a system based on bullx blades, which have proved their modularity and upgradability on many sites:
126 bullx B510 compute nodes with 2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2660
18 refurbished bullx B500 compute nodes
4 bullx S6010 SMP nodes
4 bullx R423 service nodes, 2 bullx R425 visualization nodes
NetApp 2600 storage
InfiniBand QDR interconnect network
Water-cooled rear doors
Bull’s proven track record of partnerships with customers was a key success factor, besides the technical merit of the proposed solution.
Founded in 1881, the University of Liverpool has an impressive history of pioneering
education and research, with a particular emphasis on 'education for the professions'
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HPC Midlands Consortium
Needs Make world-class HPC facilities accessible to both academic and industrial researchers
Encourage industrially relevant research to benefit the UK economy
Provide access for smaller companies to technologies which were beyond their reach, to facilitate innovation, growth and wealth creation
Solution A supercomputer with a peak performance of 48 TF:
188 bullx B510 compute nodes (Intel® Xeon® E5-2600)
8 bullx R423 service nodes
Lustre parallel file system (with LSI/Netapp HW)
Water-cooled racks
InfiniBand QDR interconnect
bullx supercomputer suite
Loughborough University and the University of Leicester have formed the HPC-Midlands Centre, a Centre of Excellence for High Performance Computing serving regional industry and academia
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Manufacturing Technology Centre
Needs Finite-based modeling of detailed 3D time-dependent manufacturing processes
Machine usage: 64 cores up to 256 cores
Solution Bull proposed the following system:
72 bullx B510 compute nodes (Intel® Xeon® E5-2670)
1 bullx S6030 supernode
32TB usable RAID6 storage
InfiniBand QDR interconnect
3 bullx R423 E2 service nodes
Tape Library
bullx supercomputer suite
MTC opened in 2011 as the result of massive investments by regional
development agencies to create a world-class manufacturing research centre
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Bull’s HPC Cloud offer – HPC-on-Demand
To compute smart !
Perform pay-per-use HPC on bullx solutions No requirement for heavy investment Set up and operated by Bull HPC experts High level of service with total security Web portal access for full HPC workflow
Data management Job management Licensing management Remote 3D visualization Accounting
Cloud
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Information management in the cloud
With students and business incubators both at home and overseas Coventry University needs IT to match its flexible growth strategy Dynamic call upon information storage over the academic year posed capacity problems
Expanded storage infrastructure with capacity for rapid growth
Implemented Bull-designed hybrid cloud model: core on-premise for performance and variable demand off-premise
Allowing predictable growth (and cyclical shrinkage) costs with lower IT management risk
bullion X86 enterprise server: the fastest in the world
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Time to results…
Speed has Value Greater than Size
Think Fast Data more than Big Data
Big data
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We’ve already got reporting/BI/DW/…
Reports
•Oracle
•SAP
•Industry specific
Data Warehouse
•Collated Information
•Traditional Sources
High Performance BI
•What if analysis
•Smarter analytics
Adding web / device feeds
•Smarter segmentation
•Higher resolution
Drive Operations Trends & Forecasts Faster reviews Deeper analysis
But it’s all looking backwards
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The value is in going forwards
Adding web / device feeds
•Smarter segmentation
•Higher resolution
Build models of behaviour
• statistical modelling
•Test against live data
Personalise experience
•real-time classification
•Multi-channel options
Visual Dashboard
•Drill-down key indicators
•Direct operations
Deeper Analysis Predictive Analytics Real-time Reaction Executive Monitoring
We need to anticipate and monitor feedback
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SQL Hadoop In Memory
Business Intelligence
Use of unstructured data
Need for real-time
Need
Solution
Technology
Decision making Appliances
Distributions Hadoop
Analytics Dataviz Search
TECHNOLOGIES : 3 BIG FAMILIES
Cost €€ € €€€
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Find the Experts & documents – Search Workflow
Open Profile
2
1
Launch Document search from people profile
Find Similar Profiles
Ask a question on any topic
Find people or documents
6
4
5
Documents visualization
3
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THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS
Server SQL
SQOOP, FLUME.
ETL SNAP/Mirror
Solution InMemory
Analytics Dataviz
Data Integration/ Data Quality for Big Data
Data Integration Data Quality
Data Sources Production
Internet
ETL Triggers
ETLs
DataNode DataNode DataNode DataNode DataNode DataNode
Solution Bull Hadoop
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Big Data Academic Partnership
Bull has formed a strategic partnership with the University of Warwick to help UK businesses take the lead in realising the full commercial potential of big data and take advantage of the opportunities it presents.
“This kind of forward-thinking collaboration between business and universities not only brings rewards for all those involved, it also helps create a concentrated hub of significant expertise which will benefit the UK economy as a whole” – says Stephen Jarvis, University of
Warwick’s Professor of Computer Science.
The new partnership builds on Bull’s ongoing relationship with Warwick.
Bull has previously sponsored PhD studentships and supported a Master of Engineering degree course
running regular technology-based projects and a series of seminars on high performance computing for students.
Warwick also works on research projects for Intel Corp which complement the European Centre for Parallel Programming that Bull operates with Intel
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Bull in Numbers
About Bull (2)
9300 Employees – We have the capacity and capability to meet
the Council’s evolving requirements
1.3Bn EUR Turnover – We are a growing company in the UK and
internationally. We have a sustainable business plan
50+ Countries – coverage and co-operation
80 Years Old - We have credibility and experience
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Bull UK&I: Overview
Complete UK & Ireland engineer coverage for multi-vendor support
Managed services and outsourcing from Bull’s Northern Operational Centre and UK Secure Centre with international on-site engineer coverage
Business-critical digital infrastructure speciality with European leading extreme computing for R&D and research
Cloud and Big Data infrastructures built upon storage and virtualisation practise with IT consultancy and assessment services
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Bull UK In Numbers
280 Employees in the UK
Local HPC, Managed Services, Big Data & Integration
Expertise 50 people aligned to HPC in the UK
Continued investment in skills and PhDs
Examples of our UK HPC customers
Passion About creating value in the missing middle
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[email protected] @Bull_UK Bull-Information-Systems
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