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UberCloud HPC Experiment Introduction for Beginners. What is the HPC Experiment How the HPC Experiment works How to participate in the HPC Experiment And an example project
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HPC Experiment for Beginners Status July 18 2013
The UberCloud HPC Experiment An open, voluntary, collaborative community
Objective:
Making HPC as a Service available, for everybody, on demand
How?
For SMEs and their engineering applications
we provide the opportunity to explore
the end-to-end process of using remote computing resources,
as a service, on demand, at your finger tip,
and learning how to resolve the roadblocks.
What is the HPC Experiment?
Started in mid-2012 as a voluntary effort
Demonstrate the potential of HPC in the Cloud
Uncover and overcome the obstacles
Now with almost 500 participants Round 3 has concluded
Approaching 95 teams as of today
Please submit your project ideas when you register at
http://www.hpcexperiment.com
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Why This Experiment?
Foster use of HPC in Digital Manufacturing
Focus on: remote resources in HPC Centers & in HPC Clouds
Support initiatives from Intel, NCMS, and many others to uncover and support the ‘missing middle’ (SMEs)
Observation: business clouds are becoming widely accepted, but acceptance of simulation clouds in industry is still in early adopter stage (CAE, Bio, Finance, Oil & Gas, …)
Some Barriers: Complexity, IP, data transfer, software licenses, performance, specific system requirements, data security, interoperability, cost, etc.
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How the Experiment works…
End-User joins the experiment
ISV joins
We select a Team Expert
We suggest a Resource Provider
Team is ready to go
… 25 steps on Basecamp virtual team office
Finally, writing the Case Study
Our recipe
Find the best matches and form the team
Step by step process
Collaborative tools
Engaged team participants
Experienced mentors
Exhibit – list of additional services to pick from
Community – get help when needed
Step by Step process
Basecamp project management platform for each team
Example: UberCloud Round 4
August – November 2013
Expecting 600 organizations, ready for 25 more teams
Extending applications: HPC, CAE, Life Sciences, Big Data
Guidance: 22-steps end-to-end process
Basecamp ‘team rooms’ for collaboration
Growing the UberCloud Exhibit services directory
3-level support: front line (within a team), 2nd level (UberCloud Mentors), 3rd level (software & hardware providers)
The UberCloud Community Platform, an internal HPC Services website with crowd-sourcing and social networking elements
How to participate
End-user: submit your project idea through info gathering form, select a special service from the Exhibit
Provider (software, resource, expertise): invite one of your customers, users, clients to register at the HPC Experiment and jointly form a team
Provider: also, consider joining the Exhibit to expose your service to the UberCloud community
HPC Expert: just provide your profile describing your expertise so we can match you to a team which needs this expertise
Example: HPC Experiment- Team 26
Simulating Stent Deployment using SIMULIA’s Abaqus/Standard and Remote Viz Software from NICE to
run Abaqus/CAE on SGI Cyclone™
Assessment of a fictitious balloon expandable stent design from the standpoint of device response to loading onto a delivery system, deployment, physiological pulsatile loading and both axial and radial compression.
Team 26- Members
End User: Anonymous. Global Designer and Manufacturer of Sterile Medical Products
CAE Software Provider: Matt Dunbar, Chief Architect, SIMULIA
Remote Viz Software: NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV)
HPC/CAE Expert: Scott Shaw, Senior Applications Engineer, SGI.
Resource Provider: SGI Cyclone. Tony DeVarco, Senior Manager for Strategic Partners and Cloud Computing at SGI. Eugene Kremenetsky, Systems Engineering Technical Lead at SGI
Team Mentor: Gregory Shirin from the HPC Experiment team
Transfer Only Pixels to Visualize
What questions were being asked?
User
Move Data; Submit; Run Job
1. Is running Abaqus production jobs in a HPC cloud feasible? 2. How hard is it to set up “cloud bursting” capability when local
resources are not available? 3. How well does remote visualization tools work?
Open up a viz session
So what was to be tested by the End User in SGI Cyclone?
Transfer Data When Finished
What Was Offered
For the experiment it was agreed the Simulia and SGI would provide the end user with Abaqus licenses for up to 128 cores in order to see if running a job on more cores could reduce the time to finish the job.
Access to NICE DCV remote graphics software to view the results with Abaqus/CAE in Northern California before downloading them to the End User office on the US East Coast.
Remote Viz Interface
Challenges, Barriers, Lessons Learned
Getting customer’s IT to open up firewall ports
Data transfer via the network was found to be slow. Final results might be better transferred through an external USB hard drive via FedEx.
Data security and privacy – assurance of the best possible data stewardship is critical from the standpoint of protecting the customer’s intellectual property.
For an Abaqus user using SGI Cyclone is a viable solution for both compute and visualization.
The remote visualization aspect of the solution was impressive
Top benefits for the End User
1. Gained increased understanding of using a cloud-based solution for doing Abaqus based FEA simulations.
2. Shifting computational work to the cloud during periods of full utilization of in-house compute resources is a viable approach to ensuring analysis throughput.
3. Participation in the experiment allowed direct assessment of speed and integrity of remote viz of computational models (both pre- and post-processing) for a variety of model and output database sizes.
4. SGI/Nice DCV provides robust solution permitting fast and accurate remote manipulation of the computational models used in the study.
Compendium of case studies
25
of our case studies
are available for download:
http://tci.taborcommunications.com/UberCloud_HPC_Experiment
Thank you for your interest
For more questions and answers please see our Q & A Session at:
http://www.hpcexperiment.com/q-and-a
And, if you are ready for registering:
http://www.hpcexperiment.com/
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