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Locuz HPC Services – Overview In today’s global environment, organizations need to be highly competitive to strive for better outcomes.

Whether it’s improved financial performance, shorter product development cycles, better understanding of

molecular level interactions, or more efficient ways to simulate the behavior of materials at Nano-scale, High

Performance Computing (HPC) is one of the latest tools used to resolve these complicated computing

problems.

Locuz offers high value, integrated HPC solutions based on the following strengths:

Over a decade of experience in Grid Computing, MPP's, SMP's, Enterprise storage and Parallel file

systems and Virtualization.

A broad portfolio of superior products and technologies covering different hardware and operating

platforms from OEM partners to solve complex problems.

HPC Centre for excellence for application parallelization and GPU.

Fig 1: Locuz HPC Framework

Locuz offers comprehensive solutions for High Performance Computing based on loosely coupled clusters,

SMP, accelerator based systems, High performance storage, application parallelization. We have designed

domain specific solutions considering the challenges and business requirements of respective industry

verticals. In addition, our services can help organizations to optimize and overcome obstacles to parallelism

by adopting revolutionary approaches to High Performance Computing.

HPC Practice - Service Offerings

Unique Offerings (Innovation by Locuz Labs)

Value Proposition Broad industry expertise

Field tested methodologies – HPC

Clusters projects that have National

Importance

Domain focused

Lifecycle Approach

Engineered products that are highly

customizable

Designed & deployed over 170

Clusters

Provide enterprise grade support with

24X7 Remote support operations

Architecture Consulting

Big Data Infrastructure

Services

CUDA & MIC Services

CPU & GPU Clusters

Industry domain focused

Workload Management and

Portal

Cloud Services – Onboarding &

Migration

Implementation & Remote

Management

HPC Practice – Skill Chart

HPC Application Services – Sample Offerings

The HPC Application services from Locuz, encapsulate the approach for installation, configuration and

support of various HPC Applications, both Open Source Apps and Apps which are commercially licensed.

Some sample application services from Locuz

include:

Application tuning for performance

improvement

Application benchmarking for various

comparison scenarios

Performance tuning of storage, operating

system, IB and MPIs for performance

Converting codes to parallel from serial

version

Converting CPU codes to run on

GPGPU using CUDA, PGI OpenACC

and OpenCL (Full / Partial)

Porting open source CPU applications on

GP-GPU and Intel Phi accelerator

The services cut across a range of

applications across different fields such as:

Computational Chemistry : Gaussian,

Quantum Espresso, VASP

Molecular Dynamics: NAMD ,

Gromacs, Lampps

Bioinformatics : Bioperf - Benchmark

suite with many bioinformatics

applications., mpiBLAST, FASTA

Manufacturing - Fluid dynamics :

Ansys Fluent, Ansys CFX,

OpenFOAM

Manufacturing - Structural Analysis:

Abaqus FEA, MSC Nastran

Climate and weather modelling: WRF,

MM5, MOMS

HPC Cluster Deployment - Sample Statement of Work For an HPC Cluster comprising Admin Node, Service Nodes, Rack Leader Nodes & Compute Nodes.

Hardware Configuration

System Discovery, Installation, and

Configuration

Running Cluster Configuration

Tool i.e configure-cluster.

Set NTP on Admin Node.

Service Node Discovery,

Installation, and Configuration

Rack Leader Discovery,

Installation, and configuration

Installing Software on the

Rack Leader Controllers and

Service Nodes.

Discovering Compute Nodes

InfiniBand Configuration

Setting Up an NFS Home

Server on a Service Node

(from NAS box or from Local

disk pool)

NIS /LDAP Server

configuration

Creating User Accounts

IPMI configuration

Updating Document.

Racking, Stacking, Labelling of Compute

Rack.

Inter-rack connectivity

Single-RAIL/Dual-RAIL IB connectivity

in FAT-TREE protocol.

CMC network configuration and

cabling.

Ethernet cabling for LAN access and IO

Nodes.

FC cabling to storage.

Verifying the connectivity and updating

document.

Installation, configuration and

Validation of Admin/controller server

for

RAID controller

Operating System.

Verifying Admin node and

updating document.

Creating Image of service

Node

Creating Image of leader

Nodes

Creating Image of

compute Nodes.

Software Configuration

System Maintenance, Monitoring, and

Debugging

Monitoring and Managing the

compute Blades i.e IP101,

IP103, & IP105.

GigE monitoring and

troubleshooting

IB Monitoring and

troubleshooting

Chassis monitoring through

LED, SMC console.

Installing package in image.

Cloning Image

Modifying Image

Updating Image

Pushing image in nodes.

Hardware troubleshooting, if

required.

Performance Test

Burn Test, Stress test, IO test,

and Benchmarking (HPL, IOR,

IOZone)

P2P (GPU)

Installing Compiler(s), Scientific & math

Libraries, MPI(s) and other software on

cluster (compute Image)

CUDA Installation

Install, configure, and/or validate

Scheduler. (PBSPro, Open Grid Engine,

UNIVA, Torque, Moab Suite)

Install, configure and/or validate

performance suite, Accelerators, MPI.

Install and configure PFS & Shared

SANFS (LUSTRE, Glustre, CXFS, SAM-

QFS, StorNextFS, PANFS)

Installation and configuration of various

backup software (Symantec, Legato /

EMC Networker, Dell Netvault,

Commvault etc.)

Updating Document.

IO Nodes

Install configure and

validate InfiniStorage.

Configure RAID and

LUNs.

MAP LUNs to MDS/OSS

Nodes.

Install and configure

LUSTRE /Gluster

Sample Deployment Scope (for All Applications)

Additional scope for Open Source Applications:

Prepare dependent environment for App to be deployed in Master / Central Node

Prepare required package / image of App to deploy on compute nodes (either thru a cluster

automation tool or manual installation)

Installation and configuration of applications on Linux-based HPC cluster / MS Windows-based

HPC Cluster, Individual Servers, and/or Workstations

Integration of applications with scheduler (e.g. Open Grid Engine, Univa, Torque, PBS Pro,

LSF, MS Scheduler)

Integration of Application to the suitable MPI & dependent library environment

Configuration of scheduler to integrate it to the License Server and license parsing resource

management feature of scheduler.

Create a separate license complex for open source schedulers e.g. OGE & Torque

Integration of applications with job portal (e.g PBS, LSF, Ganana)

Compilation of application source code according to OS kernel version, available compiler version

and required math libraries, MPIs and OFED. (e.g best suitable MPI based on application

requirement, using tuned IB parameters.)

Installation and configuration of compiled binary of application on Linux based HPC

cluster.

Fine tuning application and environment by using optimized parameters.

Reference Case Studies

Customer Need

Implementation services

of IBM Platform HPC

infra with integration of

end-user custom codes

enabling them to

seamlessly run HPC

infrastructure.

Solution - HPC Infra Services & Remote Support

Implementation of pHPC (IBM Platform HPC)

solution, including LSF scheduler, PAC (Platform

application Center, and PCM (Platform cluster

manager).

Integrating end users applications on pHPC for optimal

performance and ease of use.

Onsite end user training for effective use the HPC

infrastructure

Remote reactive support based on SLA’s

Benefits

Single point ownership for complete integration of HPC infrastructure.

Reduction in HPC setup build time

Remote reactive support for HPC troubleshooting reducing overall support cost and also

enabling faster resolution.

Govt Meteorological Agency – Central Africa

Customer Need

An extremely reliable,

high-performance

Compute & storage

monitoring &

management Service that

could easily scale to

support its growing

worldwide seismic

processing operations

Solution - 24x7 HPC Remote Monitoring & Management

Support

Implemented multiple components that include Uni-

center Framework, Custom build tools and Open

Source tools

Remote Infrastructure Management services

Benefits

Integrated view of entire cluster infrastructure

Single point ownership for complete production support of cluster infrastructure

Reduction in operations cost by 40%

Staff redeployed for strategic in-house initiatives

Oil & Gas - Seismic Processing Service Provider

Customer Need

Build a 300TF Hybrid HPC

System to run complex CFD

workloads

Test application scalability on

hybrid environments and

optimize the HPC

infrastructure for superior

application performance

Solution - HPC Infra Build, Integration & Remote Support

Locuz HPC Services – Implementation, optimization

and support services including:

Achieving 77% HPL efficiency.

Implementation of middleware tools (pHPC for

scheduler , Cluster manager and user portal) ;

Compilers (PGI and Intel) ; CUDA Libraries and

environment.

Integrating end users applications to Hybrid GPGPU

environment for optimal performance.

Implementation of GPFS based parallel file system for

4GB/Sec of write throughput on 200TB usable storage.

Benefits

Single point ownership for complete integration of HPC infrastructure

Reduction in total cost of ownership by augmenting existing datacenter for new HPC

infrastructure

Enabling End user to port their application on CUDA (GPU) environment and scale it

optimally

Scientific Research & Development Lab – India

Customer Need

Provide appropriate

management tools to

enable ease of use and

analytics on the CFD/CAE

cluster

Enable remote use and

management of the

system

Solution - HPC Infra Build, Integration & Remote Support

Locuz Ganana Portal and related implementation &

integration services

Benefits

Fully customized and integrated HPC Management Portal

Ease of use along with support for remote management

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