UPDATE MASSACHUSETTS GREEN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER. Amherst Campus Faculty Senate Meeting 10/14

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1 UPDATE MASSACHUSETTS GREEN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER Amherst Campus Faculty Senate Meeting 10/14 Jim Kurose Distinguished Professor, CS Dept. Exec. Assoc. Dean, CNS Senior Faculty Advisor to the VCRE VISION world-class Green High Performance Computing Center (1 st in the Northeast) academic research computing partners: UMass (entire system), MIT, BU, Harvard, Northeastern, Commonwealth of MA, Cisco, EMC collaboration in R&D that will strengthen MA R&D leadership in computing applications catalyst for economic & workforce development in the state, region and Holyoke (Innovation District) most significant state/industry/university partnership in state history

computers in advanced applications 3 rd leg of science,

important infrastructure to support R&D in broad array of

UMassMed Ocean Mixing, Miles Sundermeyer UMass/Dartmouth

2 WHAT IS HPC? use of large clusters of computers or specialpurpose computers in advanced applications 3 rd leg of science, engineering, social sciences, humanities increasingly important infrastructure to support R&D in broad array of fields E = mc 2 theory experimentation computation WHAT DOES UMASS DO IN HPC? Faculty at all UMass campuses use HPC resources Cosmology simulations, N. Katz, UMass/Amherst Protein-Protein Docking Zhiping Weng, UMassMed Ocean Mixing, Miles Sundermeyer UMass/Dartmouth Proton Hopping in Organic Molecules S. Auerbach, UMassAmherst Protein Unfolding, Valeri Barsegov, UMass/Lowell Cooling a Single Atom in an Optical Cavity, Kurt Jacobs, UMass/Boston Climate change models, R. Decanto UMass/Amherst

3 WHY IMPORTANT (ACADEMICALLY) HPC no longer nice-tohave, but a competitive requirement meets growing faculty needs help retain, recruit faculty more competitive for future R&D funding both federal and industrial new collaboration opportunities (e.g., $130M MIT-UMass DOE Hub proposal) racked computers window ACs not this fans. this WHY IMPORTANT (BUSINESS-WISE) cost savings both capital and operating thru shared infrastructure, economies of scale, lower energy costs free-up valuable campus space researchers can focus on research meet green objectives: facility design, operating plan, clean energy source, R&D in green computing potential for carrying out our regional development mission

cross-roads of New England economic development

4 WHY HOLYOKE? low-cost, clean energy (primarily hydro, potentially wind) very low carbon footprint superior network connectivity, located at the IT cross-roads of New England economic development incentives for developing in downtown canal district FACILITY, SITE SELECTION Chosen site: former Mastex facility

Where are we? - Current status 501(c)3 corporation formed to develop/manage facility $95 M from universities, state, industry, tax credits site selected, design underway interim Exec.

5 groundbreaking opening 2012 Research - collaboration, funding Goal: large-scale collaborative proposals not achievable by any single institution alone NSF STCs, ERCs, CISE Expeditions, DOE

5 Where are we? - Current status 501(c)3 corporation formed to develop/manage facility $95 M from universities, state, industry, tax credits site selected, design underway interim Exec. Director $600 K NSF ed proposal Oct. 5 groundbreaking opening 2012 Research - collaboration, funding Goal: large-scale collaborative proposals not achievable by any single institution alone NSF STCs, ERCs, CISE Expeditions, DOE EFRCs, innovation-hub-like an opportunity industry partners will want to participate in Seed funds: foundation for largerscale collaborative proposals: model: MA John Adams Innovation Institute, UMass PO S&T Collaboration mechanisms: joint seminar series, CRIBB seminar joint courses (starting Fall 2009: green computing) joint workshops joint proposals: MRI, OCI?

carrots for federating Challenge: supporting computing research infrastructure research

6 What s the business model? five universities, some multi-campus computing resources obtained as usual (at least initially) different schools, different models opt-in for faculty business model under development, my guesses: operating costs allocated back to universities in % incurred carrots for federating Challenge: supporting computing research infrastructure research infrastructure, similar to wet labs one-off, ad hoc solutions expensive, timely space allocation/renovation, operation window ACs racked computers fans not this. this

7 What is the G in GHPCC? Green energy sources Renewable 78.0% Nuclear 15.2% Other 6.8% Green facility operations state-of-the-art efficiency federated computing Figure 1: HG&E 2008 Energy Sources (2008) Green computational science and engineering energy sciences environmental sciences green computing smart grid / demand response

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