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Frictionless Supercomputing MEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014 Photo credit: Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy Martin Hamilton [email protected] Futurist @martin_hamilton

Frictionless Supercomputing - MEW25

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The slides for my talk on "HPC as a service" at the 25th anniversary Machine Evaluation Workshop in December 2014. I cover Jisc's HPC brokerage and related initiatives including our shared data centre, industry connectivity to Janet, our VAT cost sharing group, and our pilot of the Kit-Catalogue equipment sharing database.

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Frictionless SupercomputingMEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014

Photo credit: Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy

Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton

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1. About Jisc2. Efficiency agenda3. HPC brokerage4. Where next?

Frictionless SupercomputingMEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014

Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton

Image credit: Courtesy of EPSRC

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1. About Jisc2. Efficiency agenda3. HPC brokerage4. Where next?

Frictionless SupercomputingMEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014

Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton

Image credit: Courtesy of EPSRC

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:: About Jisc :: What we do» Registered charity championing the use of digital technologies in

research and education

» Range of shared services for UK Universities and Colleges, e.g.

- Janet, world leading research network

- eduroam global wireless roaming

- Groundbreaking content deals with publishers

- Cloud brokerage with Amazon, Google, Microsoft

» Aiming to complement RCUK and Innovate UK / Catapults

- Open Educational Resources, Open Access and Open Data

- Just launched asset sharing initiative

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:: About Jisc :: What we do» Registered charity championing the use of digital technologies in

research and education

» Range of shared services for UK Universities and Colleges, e.g.

- Janet, world leading research network

- eduroam global wireless roaming

- Groundbreaking content deals with publishers

- Cloud brokerage with Amazon, Google, Microsoft

» Aiming to complement RCUK and Innovate UK / Catapults

- Open Educational Resources, Open Access and Open Data

- Just launched asset sharing initiative

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:: About Jisc :: What we do» Registered charity championing the use of digital technologies in

research and education

» Range of shared services for UK Universities and Colleges, e.g.

- Janet, world leading research network

- eduroam global wireless roaming

- Groundbreaking content deals with publishers

- Cloud brokerage with Amazon, Google, Microsoft

» Aiming to complement RCUK and Innovate UK / Catapults

- Open Educational Resources, Open Access and Open Data

- Just launched asset sharing initiative

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:: About Jisc :: The Janet network

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1. About Jisc2. Efficiency agenda3. HPC brokerage4. Where next?

Frictionless SupercomputingMEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014

Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton

Image credit: Courtesy of EPSRC

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:: Efficiency Agenda :: Shared Data Centre

Anchor tenants:

- Francis Crick Institute- King’s College- LSE- QMUL- Sanger Institute- UCL

More at:www.ja.net/cloud

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:: Efficiency Agenda :: Cloud Brokerage

National deals for e.g.

- Arkivum- Box- Dropbox- Google Apps- Office 365

More at:www.ja.net/cloud

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:: Efficiency Agenda :: ESISS

Infosec advice:

- Pen testing- Reporting for audit

compliance- Security consultancy- Led by Tiger Team

accredited Senior Security Tester

More at: goo.gl/6Jz5I7

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:: Efficiency Agenda :: Cost Sharing Group

Largest VAT cost sharing group in UK:

93% of HEIs

256 institutions participating

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1. About Jisc2. Efficiency agenda3. HPC brokerage4. Where next?

Frictionless SupercomputingMEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014

Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton

Image credit: Courtesy of EPSRC

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See www.jisc.ac.uk/research/projects/equipment-sharing

:: HPC Brokerage :: Service Providers

Image credit: CC BY-NC-ND HPC Midlands

» £60m public investment in HPC

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:: HPC Brokerage :: The Rationale

» Reduce friction of sharing between institutions & with industry

– “Pay as you go” model, no upfront capital costs

– Makes HPC accessible to those who could not previously

contemplate it

» How does it work?

– Standardized terms and conditions including information

assurance, intellectual property, termination etc

– Trialling this approach initially with HPC brokerage

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:: HPC Brokerage :: The Jisc Agreement

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» Kit-Catalogue equipment sharing database “as a service”

» Kit-Catalogue feeds into EPSRC’s

› 10,000 items of equipment available for sharing

:: HPC Brokerage :: Equipment sharing

See www.jisc.ac.uk/research/projects/equipment-sharing

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1. About Jisc2. Efficiency agenda3. HPC brokerage4. Where next?

Frictionless SupercomputingMEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014

Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton

Image credit: Courtesy of EPSRC

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:: Where next? :: Sweating the assets

» Leveraging public investment in the Janet network

– Connecting industry: www.ja.net/janet-reach

– Where next - e.g. 10Gbit/s links to Science Parks?

– Testbeds for new technologies, e.g. UHD streaming from Tokyo

Olympics, Surrey 5G testbed, Catapult centres

» Where else can we add value?

– Exploit cost sharing group (256 institutions, 93% of HEIs)

– Support for research clusters that want to share services

– Anticipating “Austerity 2.0” efficiency savings

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Frictionless SupercomputingMEW25 / HPC in Industry, December 2014

Photo credit: Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy

Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton