Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager − hpc-midlands.ac.uk HPC Midlands Cloud Supercomputing for Academia and Industry

 New High Performance Computing facility for academia and industry  Jointly operated by Loughborough University and University of Leicester  £1m funding from EPSRC/BIS e-Infrastructure programme  Building on relationships with existing industrial partners and software providers  Opportunity to “operationalize” HPC spending What is HPC Midlands?

 £1m EPSRC investment + institutional contributions  3,000 core Bull supercomputer (48 Teraflops)  11 x chassis (18 blades per chassis)  188 compute node blades, each with  2 x 2.0GHz (8 core) Sandy Bridge CPUs  15TB RAM  140 blades with 64GB RAM (4GB/core)  48 blades with 128GB RAM (8GB/core)  60TB Lustre storage  QDR Infiniband interconnect Hera: The HPC Midlands Cluster

The Delivery!

8 th Decembere-Infrastructure call received 5 th JanuaryHPC Midlands proposal submitted 19 th JanuaryFunding awarded 23 rd JanuaryTender issued against RM721 framework 24 th JanuaryMechanical and Electrical work commissioned 30 th JanuaryTenders received and scored, contract awarded to Bull 9 th FebruaryWork begins to prepare the HPC Midlands site 20 th FebruaryData centre extension now complete 24 th FebruaryWork begins on the plumbing / chilled water supply 27 th FebruaryElectrical Distribution Panel in place 1 st MarchSpace being prepared for new chiller unit 9 th March63A circuits now mostly in place 15 th MarchRaised floor installed 21 st MarchDedicated chiller unit arrives and craned into place 26 th MarchDelivery of HPC Midlands hardware HPC Midlands Timeline

Mechanical and Electrical Work (FM)

Some Assembly Required…

Inside a Sandy Bridge compute node

 Cutting edge hardware innovations  Nehalem/Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge  Increase in cores/threads per socket, I/O bandwidth etc  >2bn transistors per CPU!  Many Integrated Core (MIC)  Leading player in HPC compilers  Intel Cluster Studio Intel will contribute training on parallel programming and their HPC tools HPC Midlands Partners: Intel

 Market leading HPC software (CFX, FLUENT etc)  But significant capital investment required for licenses  Locks out SMEs and spinoffs  Inflexible in today’s challenging climate New model: “Pay As You Go” access to the ANSYS suite of products HPC Midlands Partners: ANSYS

E.ON New Build and Technology, Plant Modelling Sample use cases:  Precipitator ductwork  Gas turbine blade lifetime  Gas turbine enclosure safety  Wind farm resource assessment  Steam flow in nuclear plants HPC Midlands Partners: E.ON

HPC Midlands Partners – E.ON

 JANET upgrades planned for e-Infrastructure  £26m capital investment  Potential for e.g. new primary connections / dedicated bandwidth for key research centres / instruments  What would people like from JANET?  Can we develop a model for JANET interconnects with industrial partners?  JANET as _peer_ not backhaul  Build on existing partnerships  Move beyond Sneakernet scenario e-Infrastructure and JANET(UK)

And Finally… We’re Hiring!

Martin Hamilton, Centre Manager − hpc-midlands.ac.uk HPC Midlands Cloud Supercomputing for Academia and Industry