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

2. 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
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3. Content Introduction – HPC Technology
HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources.
Introduction – LinkSCEEM Project
Available computational resources
Access to Resources
High Performance Computing training opportunities
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4. High Performance Computing
Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems
serial computation
parallel computation
source:
Scalable systems
Does your laptop, PC or mobile support parallel CPU programing ?
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5. 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.
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6. 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 numbers
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7. 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 PFlop/s
JUQUEEN at Juelich Supercomputing Centre in Germany (no. 8 world wide), 458,752 cores 5,872.0 Tflop/s
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8. Content Introduction – HPC Technology
HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources.
Introduction – LinkSCEEM Project
Available computational resources
Access to Resources
High Performance Computing training opportunities
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9. How does SESAME \ SR work?
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10. 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
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11. Content Introduction – HPC Technology
HPC Infrastructure\applications in Light Sources.
Introduction – LinkSCEEM Project
Available computational resources
Access to Resources
High Performance Computing training opportunities
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12. LinkSCEEM1: HPC in the Eastern Mediterranean
LinkSCEEM-1 project run from
assessment of HPC resources and users in the Eastern Mediterranean
Saudi Arabia - 0.6%,
countries by HPC resources (status Nov 2013, source
Need for additional computational resources
(regional survey LinkSCEEM-1)
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13. HPC in the Eastern Mediterranean
LinkSCEEM-1 project run from
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
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14. 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:
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15. 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)
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16. Project consortium
Regional research institutions and international centres of excellence in high performance computing (HPC)
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17. 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
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18. Cy-Tera HPC System at CyI
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19. Software at Cy-Tera
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20. 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 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
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21. 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 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
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22. 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
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23. LinkSCEEM2: Success stories`
Projects by country: 4th call
Projects by country: 3rd call
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24. 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
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25. Online training opportunities
supercomputing.cyi.ac.cy
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26. 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
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27. LinkSCEEM training events a total of 38 to date
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28. Past events SESAME LinkSCEEM
Training material from past events is available on the Linksceem-2 website:
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29. شكرا
Mostafa A. Zoubi
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