Report from Computing Advisory Panel Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College London) 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

Computing Advisory Panel The purpose of the Computing Advisory Panel (CAP) is to advise the STFC Executive on the strategy for, and management of, provision for computing resources (including data handling, data storage, software and hard provisions, skills, and developments in high performance and high throughput computing) in support of programmes either funded or delivered by STFC. 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel CAP Membership Professor Stephen Fairhurst – Cardiff University (Chair) Professor David Colling – Imperial College London Professor Martin Dove – Queen Mary University of London Dr David Fergusson – The Francis Crick Institute Dr John Pasley – University of York Professor Arttu Rajantie – Imperial College London Dr Debora Sijacki – University of Cambridge Dr Stuart Sim – Queen’s University Belfast Mr Ash Vadgama – AWE Professor Daniel Watts – University of Edinburgh 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

STFC Computing Strategy Computing Strategic Review, December 2015 http://www.stfc.ac.uk/files/corp orate-publications/computing- strategic-review-december- 2015/ 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel STFC Computing PPAN (Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics) Research STFC Facilities (Central Laser Facility, ISIS, Diamond,..) Computing Facilities Hosted by STFC Hartree Centre (Collaborative R&D with industry) 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel PPAN Computing Rapidly increasing computing requirements Included in the ongoing Balance of Programmes exercise Experiments: GridPP (LHC), SKA, LSST, CTA DiRAC (Distributed Research using Advanced Computing) Grant-funded computing 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

Particle Theory Computing Lattice QCD Particle Phenomenology Particle Cosmology Other areas? 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel DiRAC HPC (High Performance Computing) Facility for particle physics, astronomy and nuclear physics DiRAC 1 launched in 2009 - £12M Government funding DiRAC 2 in 2012 - £15M Government funding Supports over 400 researchers at 35 UK HEIs, £50M of funded research grants across PPAN (DiRAC Annual Report 2013) Time awarded by DiRAC Resource Allocation Committee 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel DiRAC 2 Five systems designed for different physics problems Cambridge HPCS Data Analytic Cluster (9600 cores, 4GB RAM/core, 0.75PB) Cambridge COSMOS Shared Memory Service (1856 cores, 14.8TB RAM, 146TB) Leicester Complexity Cluster (4352 cores, 8GB RAM/core , 0.8PB) Durham Data Centric Cluster (6740 cores, 8 GB RAM/core, 2PB) Edinburgh BlueGene/Q (98304 cores, 1GB RAM/core, 1.2PB) Now over four years old 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel Future of DiRAC DiRAC 3? Roughly 10x increase in computing power Hoped for 2015 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel Future of DiRAC DiRAC 2.5: Keep systems operational for now Upgrade to Cambridge, ex-Hartree hardware to Edinburgh, Durham DiRAC 3? Dependent on government funding 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel Other Issues Open Data: Data Management Plans Data storage, sharing, curation People: Training, software engineers and data scientists to make the best use of hardware 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel

A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel Your Input Let us know your views, ideas, concerns regarding STFC computing My email: a.rajantie@imperial.ac.uk 21/12/2016 A. Rajantie, Report from Computing Advisory Panel