Barcelona Supercomputing Center Josep M. Martorell, PhD Associate Director 05/2018
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacional de Supercomputación Supercomputing services to Spanish and EU researchers R&D in Computer, Life, Earth and Engineering Sciences PhD programme, technology transfer, public engagement BSC-CNS is a consortium that includes Spanish Government 60% Catalonian Government 30% Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) 10%
MareNostrum4 Total peak performance: 13,7 Pflops/s 12 times more powerful than MareNostrum 3
General Purpose for current BSC workload 11.15 Pflops/s 3,456 nodes of Intel Xeon Platinum processors 390 Terabytes of Main Memory 14PB storage
Emerging Technologies, for evaluation of 2020 Exascale systems 3 systems, each of more than 0,5 Pflops/s with KNH, Power9+NVIDIA, ARMv8
Distributed Supercomputing Infrastructure 24 members, including 5 Hosting Members (Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) JUQUEEN Hazel Hen 524 scientific projects enabled Curie SuperMUC 70 PFlops/s of peak performance on 7 world-class systems Piz Daint Marconi >10.000 people trained by 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centers and others events MareNostrum Access prace-ri.eu/hpc_acces
RES: HPC Services for Spain RES now made up of thirteen supercomputers Access bsc.es/res-intranet Finis Terrae II, Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA); Pirineus, Consorcio de Servicios Universitarios de Cataluña (CSUC); Lusitania, Fundación Computación y Tecnologías Avanzadas de Extremadura; Caléndula, Centro de Supercomputación de Castilla y León,y Cibeles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
RES: HPC Services for Spain RES is made up of 12 institutions and 13 supercomputers. MareNostrum 4 MinoTauro FinisTerrae2 Tirant3 Altamira2+ Magerit Cibeles LaPalma2 Picasso Lusitania2 Caesar Augusta Calendula Pirineus Tflops 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000
RES: HPC Services for Spain Objective: manage high performance computing technologies to promote the progress of excellent science and innovation in Spain. It offers HPC services for non-profit R&D purposes: 4 open competitive calls per year Since 2006, it has granted more than 900 Million CPU hours to 2,288 research activities. Research areas 400,000 350,000 CPU hours requested / granted Hours x 1000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 Mathematics, physics and engineering Astronomy, space and earth sciences 100,000 50,000 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Requested hours Awarded hours (A+B) Life and health sciences Chemistry and materials sciences
Collaborations with Industry Research into advanced technologies for the exploration of hydrocarbons, subterranean and subsea reserve modelling and fluid flows Research on wind farms optimization and wing energy production forecasts Collaboration agreement for the development of advanced systems of deep learning with applications to banking services BSC s dust storm forecast system licensed to be used to improve the safety of business flights. Research on the protein-drug mechanism of action in Nuclear Hormone receptors and developments on PELE method to perform protein energy landscape explorations Simulation of fluid-structure interaction problem with the multi-physics software Alya
Data Science
3 The EGA contains a variety of data The EGA in numbers > 1,400 Studies >3,600 Datasets >650 Data providers >11,500 Data Requesters The EGA in Volume >4.5 Petabytes * Updated February, 20th 2018
4 ~1,100,000 files* >4,5 PB April-2012 Jan-2018
5 A global user community January 18: We have registered 13,386 sessions from 3627 distinct users totalling 55,635 pageviews.
HPC is a global competition Our ambition is for Europe to become one of the top 3 world leaders in high-performance computing by 2020. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (27 October 2015) With the EuroHPC initiative we want to give European researchers and companies world-leading supercomputer capacity. European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip (11 January 2018)
HPC is a global competition If we don't invest in supercomputing, we won't be in a position to compete on the global stage. It's not something which is just 'good to have', it's a necessity. We need to invest in our own supercomputers because, if not, others will reap the rewards. Barcelona is very well positioned, and I hope it will be able to host the new generation of world-class exascale supercomputers. At BSC they know how to manage supercomputers, and they have gained the trust of both scientists and industry. Andrus Ansip European Commission Vice-President (Barcelona, 27 February 2018)
Some thoughts Today, conducting top notch research without advance computing & massive data management is almost impossible. From the policy making point of view, it makes no sense trying to have all the facilities available in every country, region, city Sharing is the only way. Another good idea is to leverage the existing facilities and generate strong scientific impacts with only a small amount of money on top of. The AIR Center is an extremely good opportunity to build a new large facilities alliance, and be able to address new and ambitious scientific challenges.
Air Center Data Intelligence Network (AIR_DataNet) The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, The University of Minho and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center signed a collaboration agreement on January 12 th in Barcelona for, among other thing, developing a collaborative framework leading to the Air Center Data Intelligence Framework (AIR_DataNet).
Thank you martorell@bsc.es 05/2018