1. Martin Hamilton, Centre Managerhpc-midlands.ac.uk

2. Contents UK e-Infrastructure initiative HPC Midlands Industrial engagement Lessons learned & opportunities 3. UK e-Infrastructure Programme OSI e-Infrastructure Working Group RCUK e-Infrastructure Advisory Group 158m BIS e-Infrastructure investment Tildesley Report: http://goo.gl/VSw4x Regional HPC consortia funded via EPSRC 4. UK e-Infrastructure Programme OSI e-Infrastructure Working Group RCUK e-Infrastructure Advisory Group 158m BIS e-Infrastructure investment Tildesley Report: http://goo.gl/VSw4x Regional HPC consortia funded via EPSRC Eight Great Technologies, including 189mfor Big Data & Energy Efficient Computing 5. What is HPC Midlands? HPC on demand, delivered via JANET Consortium of Loughborough University &University of Leicester Managed service delivered by Bull ISV support, e.g. ANSYS and CD-adapco Funded by EPSRC/BIS e-Infrastructureinitiative (1m hardware grant + recurrent) 6. Hera, the HPC Midlands cluster 3,000 cores (48 Teraflops) 11 chassis (18 blades each) 15TB RAM 120TB Lustre storage Non-blocking QDR Infiniband 188 compute node blades 2 x 2.0GHz (8 core) Sandy Bridge 140 with 64GB RAM (4GB/core) 48 with 128GB RAM (8GB/core) 7. HPC Midlands Applications Large Eddy Simulation of Premixed Combustion in Spark Ignition Engines. Prof. W. Malalasekera Dr. A. Clarke C. Ranasinghe 8. HPC Midlands Applications 9. HPC Midlands Applications Large Eddy Simulation of Crossflow Vortices on an Infinite Swept Wing V. I. Mistry G .J. Page J. J. McGuirk 42nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference DOI: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2011.12.002 10. HPC Midlands Applications 11. HPC Midlands ApplicationsCFD Based Study of UnconventionalAeroengine Exhaust SystemsT. CoatesG. J. Page30th AIAA Applied AerodynamicsConferenceDOI: 10.2514/6.2012-2775 12. Industrial Engagement 13. Industrial EngagementStrategic partnershipsLocal / Regional firms & initiativesScience Parks and Incubators 14. HPC Midlands Case Study E.ONKey points: Steady state, complex geometry,simple physics. Simulations with 24 to 128 cores 6 different meshes used from4.5 to 80 million cells Speed-ups from 30 to 145 timesobserved vs. in-house systemANSYS CFX simulation ofleak in gas turbine enclosure 15. HPC Midlands Case Study E.ON Normalized Timings for HPC Runs CPU core time per million cells 180 169.31Grid 1 4.5M elements 24 cores 160 per 100 iterations (s)Grid 2 8M elements 48 cores140 120Grid 3 15M elements48 cores93.18 100 84.81Grid 4 25M elements60 cores 80 67.62Grid 560 39.18 45M elements128 cores 36.8140Grid 6 80M elements128 cores20 0Grid 1 Straightforward to use, secure and fast Biggest advantage is for jobs that: Have large parameter spaces Are time dependent Have complex geometry Have very complex physics A combination of the above 16. Lessons Learned Making the connection Paperwork Software licensing IPR, NDA and other TLAs Plumbing Sneakernet Connectivity Moonshot 17. Paperwork Software Licensinguser@hpc-midlands.ac.uk 18. Plumbing - Connectivity 19. Plumbing - Connectivity 20. Plumbing - Connectivity 21. Plumbing - Project Moonshot JANET(UK) initiative Like eduroam, but for any protocol Use your existing credentials everywhere Securely tunnelled back to home RADIUS server Applicable to academia and industry? 18 month pilot, kickoff in April https://www.ja.net/products-services/janet-futures/moonshot 22. Martin Hamilton, Centre Managerhpc-midlands.ac.uk