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2. Slide 2 Driving Force? Pharmaceutical Petroleum Scientific Designs Environmental Mechanical Mining Material Science Movies Financial Labour-based Economy? Knowledge-based Economy? Successful Examples India ( > 20 years ) South Korea ( > 10 years )

3. Slide 3 Oceanography PhysicsChemistry / biochemistry Comp. Sci. / GRID Astronomy / Cosmology Bioinformatics / Epidemiology Climatology / Remote Sensing Mechanics / electromagnetics Adv. Comp. Engineering Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Researchers self-assembled into 9 communities New SIG(s) 

4. Slide 4 History 2000: Collaborative HPC initiative among computational scientists. 2001: DST recognised potential and importance and invited CSIR as a partner. 2004: DST appoints scientific advisory committee and develop business plan. 2005: The CHPC incorporated into CSIR's Meraka Institute. 2006: Refurbishment of Rosebank Campus. 2007: Official launch by the Minister in June.

5. Slide 5 National Facility Shared Facility (University and Research Organisations) Commodity HPC Clusters Single Desktops Integrated Effort with Universities Assist the users to utilise more computational resource in their research  University-based computational facility forms an important link. Assist the developers to popularise their innovation

6. Slide 6 Promoting HPC Network Overall Scheme CHPC UCT-HPCUUCT-HPCU - - - SUN-HPCUSUN-HPCUSUN-HPCU - - - Individual Research Group TEI High Performance Unit Individual Research Group TEI High Performance Unit CHPC -HPCU- - UP-HPCUUP-HPCUUP-HPCU UKZN-HPCUUKZN-HPCUUKZN-HPCU Large scale problems Medium scale problems/ bridging trail runs prior using CHPC machines Large scale problems Medium scale problems/ bridging trail runs prior using CHPC machines -HPCU- - SANReN GRID Application Joint training UFS University TUT NWU

7. Slide 7 National eInfrastructure CHPC SANReN Data Repository Centres Computational research projects requires computational resource and high bandwidth connectivity. But a large number of projects require all three eInfrastructures

8. Slide 8 Integrate Computational Resource HPC Resource GRID Cloud Computing Climate-GRID? Bio-GRID? Chem-GRID? High Energy Physics-GRID? SIGs Applications Computational Applications Other-GRID? Publications, patents and commercial products Skilled Researchers

9. Slide 9 Platform - Phase I  Eight of the cluster nodes are equipped with ClearSpeed accelerator cards;  Each cluster node is equipped with 16GB of DDR2 667MHz random access memory;  The cluster's high speed interconnect is Infiniband 4X SDR via HTX, with equipment from Voltaire and PathScale;  Shared storage capacity of 54TB.  Clustered 165 compute nodes - each with two duo core AMD Opteron 2.6GHz Rev. F processors (i.e 660 CPUs in total, Approx 2.5 TF):  Two P690 SMP machines:  32 x 1.9GHz Power4+ CPUs and at least 32GB of RAM each

10. Slide 10 “Blue Gene 4 Africa” oResolving grand challenges found within Africa. oEnhance Africa computational research output. (In principle, no cost involved for academia research) oIBM donate a Blue Gene L (1024 CPUs, Approx. 14 TF). IBM – CHPC Partnership oCHPC provides sustainability.

11. Slide 11 Mission and Objectives of the CHPC CHPC Own Research Units Affiliated Research Units

12. Slide 12 Key to Success: Partnership with the SIGs Creating Support and Common Ground Assisting the researchers to resolve scientific and technical hurdles. Enabling the communities to help each others. National License SIGs prioritize the software requirements and advice the CHPC on implementing national license. National Mirror Site Storage for selected SET projects (currently under feasibility study). Computational Cycle Providing CPU cycles and other eInfrastructure to the researchers.

13. Slide 13 Training and Education Teaching/ conferencing room: Teleconferencing audio-visual facility Training lab: Linux Ubuntu platforms Workshops: SIG workshop sponsorships CHPC core workshops Exchange Programmes: Visiting researchers (Sabbaticals) Student/research exchange programmes

14. Slide 14 Visualisation Lab Visualization Lab: Currently under construction (procurement finalised) Visualization Research: Scientific visualisation, outreach and filming industry

15. www.beliefproject.org 15 The BELIEF-II Project Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers II Join the BELIEF Community at http://www.beliefproject.org/createMember

16. www.beliefproject.org 16 Project objectives Provide a communications platform (Portal & Digital Library) for e-Infrastructures initiatives –Supports your messaging, dissemination, content management Facilitate international networking between e-Infrastructures projects and end-users –Discussing common priorities and issues and On & offline networking Explain and promotes global e-Infrastructures among researchers and general public –Communications to reinforce e-Infrastructure relevance & sustainability

17. www.beliefproject.org 17 New Portal look & feel – Homepage (1/2)

18. www.beliefproject.org 18 New DL User Inteface

19. www.beliefproject.org 19 DL integration with external portals

20. www.beliefproject.org 20 Currently integrated repositories Automatic Harvesting –EELA –EGEE –DANTE with: ALICE EUMEDCONNECT GEANT, GEANT2 TEIN2 –PRACE –DILIGENT –ETICS –ICEAGE –iSGTW –OASIS –OGF –SEE-GRID, SEE-GRID2 –W3C Batch submission via XML- Schema –EuQoS –AIM@SHAPE –MUPBED Native integration –DELOS –DILIGENT –D4Science On-line submission –6DISS –BioinfoGRID –eConcertation –CONDOR –DRIVER –e-IRGSP –EUChinaGRID –EUIndiaGRID –EUMEDGRID –Grid@Asia –GridCC –int.eu.grid –ISSeG –LOBSTER –GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit

21. www.beliefproject.org 21 Communications and Partnership eInfrastructure DVD –Continuation from Creative Connections – focus on new major projects and international scope eInfrastructure Magazine: –4 editions of magazine of expert analysis, visions, news. –Inclusive concept: all e-Infrastructures, all regions Supporting content of EC Publications and Events –Success stories –Next steps and sustainability Advocate eScience to the globe community –Working with Non-EU countries to promote the development of eScience and eInfrastructure –Hosting symposiums to facilitate collaboration between EU partners and local stakeholders

22. www.beliefproject.org 22 Thank you jyjchen@csir.co.za info@chpc.ac.za 021-658-2774 021-658-2758