LinkSCEEM-2: A computational resource for the development of Computational Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean Mostafa Zoubi SESAME Outreach SESAME, LinkSCEEM & IMAN1 Projects at The University of Jordan, 10 February, 2015.

Content Introduction (HPC, HPC apps in SR, LinkSCEEM) HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources. Introduction – LinkSCEEM Project Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities SESAME LinkSCEEM

Content Introduction – HPC Technology HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources. Introduction – LinkSCEEM Project Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities SESAME LinkSCEEM

High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems serial computation parallel computation source: www.computing.llnl.gov Scalable systems Does your laptop, PC or mobile support parallel CPU programing ? SESAME LinkSCEEM

High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems See how Pelegant Beam dynamics simulation software is going to be distributed on a small PS3 devices cluster. SESAME LinkSCEEM

High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems See how ET is going to be improved by increasing the number of cores to find the max. prime number in 20000000 numbers SESAME LinkSCEEM

High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems National Supercomputer Centre of China (no. 1 world wide) 3,120,000 cores 33.86 PFlop/s JUQUEEN at Juelich Supercomputing Centre in Germany (no. 8 world wide), 458,752 cores 5,872.0 Tflop/s SESAME LinkSCEEM

Content Introduction – HPC Technology HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources. Introduction – LinkSCEEM Project Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities SESAME LinkSCEEM

How does SESAME \ SR work? SESAME LinkSCEEM

Infiniband/fibber connection Data Processing/visualization HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources High Throughput Data Data Transfer Infiniband/fibber connection Data Store Data Processing/visualization Output Data Processing SAN Storage SESAME LinkSCEEM

Content Introduction – HPC Technology HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources. Introduction – LinkSCEEM Project Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities SESAME LinkSCEEM

LinkSCEEM1: HPC in the Eastern Mediterranean LinkSCEEM-1 project run from 2008-2009 assessment of HPC resources and users in the Eastern Mediterranean Saudi Arabia - 0.6%, countries by HPC resources (status Nov 2013, source www.top500.org) Need for additional computational resources (regional survey LinkSCEEM-1) SESAME LinkSCEEM

HPC in the Eastern Mediterranean LinkSCEEM-1 project run from 2008-2009 assessment of HPC resources and users in the Eastern Mediterranean Conclusions: Main factors that have hindered the development of computational science in the region limited access to HPC resources limited knowledge on HPC inadequate regional connectivity limited awareness of simulation as a scientific tool SESAME LinkSCEEM

LinkSCEEM-2 - Establish a HPC EcoSystem in the Eastern Mediterranean Provide access to HPC resources Provide training in HPC Raise awareness for HPC research tools Bring international expertise into the region FP7 under Grant Agreement Number: 261600 SESAME LinkSCEEM

HPC user community training and support LinkSCEEM-2: Development of a HPC ecoSystem in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean Cy-Tera HPC e-infrastructure HPC user community training and support HPC user Both Cy-Tera and LinkSCEEM are under CaSToRC (Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center) SESAME LinkSCEEM

Project consortium Regional research institutions and international centres of excellence in high performance computing (HPC) SESAME LinkSCEEM

Cy-Tera HPC System at CyI Hybrid CPU/GPU Linux Cluster Theoretical Peak Performance (TPP) = 35 Tflops Computational Power 98 x 2 x Intel Westmere 6-core compute nodes (1176 CPU’s) 18 x 2 x Intel Westmere 6-core + 4 x NVIDIA M2070 GPU nodes (216 CPU’s and 72 GPU’s) 48 GB memory per node (5.56 TB) MPI Messaging & Storage Access 40Gbps QDR Infiniband Storage: 360TB raw disk SESAME LinkSCEEM

Cy-Tera HPC System at CyI SESAME LinkSCEEM 18

Software at Cy-Tera SESAME LinkSCEEM

EUCLID Cluster System at CyI 1 TFlop/s 12 eight-core compute nodes (4 * x3550, 8 * x3650M2) 2 quad-core sockets per node, each is Intel Quad Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz (96 cores as a total) 16 GB memory per node Total memory .192 Gbytes 10 TB shared scratch - not backed up EUCLID is a training Cluster for LinkSCEEM Project SESAME LinkSCEEM 13

HPC System at Bibliotheca Alexandrina SUN cluster of peak performance of 12 Tflops 130 eight-core compute nodes 2 quad-core sockets per node, each is Intel Quad Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz 8 GB memory per node, Total memory 1.05 TBytes 36 TB shared scratch Node-node interconnect Ethernet & 4x SDR Infiniband network for MPI SESAME LinkSCEEM

Access to resources - process Production Access (process duration 2 month) Preparatory Access (process duration 2 days!) Proposal submission Technical review Scientific review Right to reply Resource allocation through RAC Notification of applicant Proposal submission Technical review Scientific review Right to reply Resource allocation through RAC Notification of applicant SESAME LinkSCEEM

LinkSCEEM2: Success stories ` Projects by country: 4th call Projects by country: 3rd call SESAME LinkSCEEM

HPC training opportunities LinkSCEEM aims to offer training opportunities to new and experienced users Training efforts focus on Online training opportunities Educational Access Program LinkSCEEM training events SESAME LinkSCEEM

Online training opportunities www.linksceem.eu supercomputing.cyi.ac.cy SESAME LinkSCEEM

Educational Access Program Access to HPC resources for educational purpose LinkSCEEM offers resources dedicated to this type of access Euclid is used as the training cluster of the LinkSCEEM Project Apply via hpc-support@linksceem.eu SESAME LinkSCEEM

LinkSCEEM training events a total of 38 to date SESAME LinkSCEEM 27

Past events SESAME LinkSCEEM Training material from past events is available on the Linksceem-2 website: http://linksceem.eu/ls2/user-resources/lectures.html SESAME LinkSCEEM

شكرا Mostafa A. Zoubi mostafa.zoubi@sesame.org.jo SESAME LinkSCEEM