www.bsc.es

HPC Resources & Training

in the BSC, the RES and PRACE

Montse González Ferreiro

RES technical and training coordinator

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What is offered by BSC, RES and PRACE?

Support (technical.. and even moral if you wish)

Scalability tests and code portability

Data storage and transfer

Performance evaluation of applications

Training as PRACE Advanced Training Center

Training as RES coordinator

Scientific dissemination

Scientific cooperation

HPC resources

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How fit together the BSC, the RES and PRACE?

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TIER 1 National centers

TIER 2 Universities and regional centers

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BARCELONA

SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER

Solid Partnerships with

Industry

Repsol, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Iberdrola, NVIDIA... Leading role in ETP4HPC

Computer Sciences

Architecture, Programming Models, Tools, Cloud and Grid

Training Capability

UPC, PATC, BMW, Pumps

National & European

HPC Infrastructure

Spanish National HPC lab

PRACE Tier-0 Hosting Partner Bridge to Latin America

Extensive network of contacts Coordinator, RISC and OpenBio projects

Participation in 63 FP6/7 projects, 12 as coordinator

Key European Research

partner

Life Sciences

Molecular and protein modeling, computational genomics, etc.

Earth Sciences

Atmospheric processes and climate change modeling

Computer Applications

Simulation of complex problems on High Performance Computers

Established in 2005 Over 400 staff from 41 countries

48,896 Intel SandyBridge cores at 2,6 GHz

84 Intel Xeon Phi

1.1 Petaflops Peak Performance

100.8 TB of Main Memory

2 PB of Disk Storage

8.5 PB of Archive Storage

9th Supercomputer in Europe, 29th in the World (TOP500, June 2013)

SPANISH SUPERCOMPUTING

NETWORK

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2014 P2 is not fully accounted regarding cosumed hours (It finishes the 31st October)

PARTNERSHIP FOR

ADVANCED COMPUTING IN EUROPE

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Preparatory Access

Regular Access

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Application website:

https://prace-peer-review.cines.fr

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CURIE

Bull Bullx

at GENCI, partner CEA

>90 000 cores.

JUQUEEN

IBM BlueGene/Q

at GCS partner FZJ,

>458 000 cores

FERMI

IBM BlueGene/Q

at CINECA, >163 000 cores

MareNostrum

IBM IDPX

at BSC, >48 000 cores

HERMIT

Cray

at GCS partner HLRS,

>113 000 cores

SuperMUC

IBM IDPX

at GCS, partner LRZ

>155 000 cores

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Earth System

Sciences Astrophysics Materials Chemistry Seismology Life Sciences

88 Mio core hours

on MareNostrum (SP)

for Spanish research

98 Mio core hours on

CURIE (FR) & 49 Mio

core hours on

SuperMUC (DE) for

Germany

53.4 Mio core hrs on

SuperMUC (DE) for

Italy

56 Mio core hours on

CURIE (FR)

& 82 Mio core hours on

SuperMUC for France

10 Mio core

hours on CURIE( FR)

for Finland

59,8 Mio core

hours on JUQUEEN

(DE) for Switzerland

Develop new

climate models for

preparing the 6th

IPCC campaign in

relation with ENES.

Understand the

explosion of

massive stars into

supernovae and the

origin of the heaviest

of the chemical

elements.

Study using DFT

simulations the

effects of irradiation

on Graphene

nanostructures,

especially vacancies

and their

coalescence into

holes/defects.

Catch CO2 in a

solvent before it is

released into the air,

making the exhausts

from e.g. power plants

significantly cleaner

Understand how a

nervous impulse is

transported with

neurons, and

especially the function

of the ion channels, to

contribute to the

design of drugs that

will modulate their

activity.

This allocation is 30

times larger than a

typical allocation.

Explore the non-

linearity involved in

the dependence of

local ground

shaking on

geological structure.

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Publication Scientific talks Thesis

Until call n°5 PRACE has supported:

158 PhD Thesis

507 publications

719 scientific talks

2 patents

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Accumulated trained person-day by PRACE

PRACE provided 9079 training person-days in 5 years.

PRACE has increased the European HPC know-how of 2874 people.

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Increasing trend both in: participation and amount of awarded resources.

SHAPE (SME HPC Adoption Programme in Europe) pilot provided 10 success

cases of SMEs from 6 different countries benefitting from PRACE resources and

the know-how of the PRACE centers.

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