1. mcs/13-04-2004 HPC challenges in Switzerland Marie-Christine Sawley General Manager CSCS SOS8, Charleston April, 122003

2. mcs/13-04-2004 A short history of CSCS 1991- 1999 National service with a wide customer base Since 2000 National service with strong leadership in computational science 2004-2010 National service with strong leadership for IT and scientific computing support and development

3. mcs/13-04-2004 Outline of the presentation Brief recap on present status Strategy 2004-2007 Major choices and challenges

4. mcs/13-04-2004 CSCS Autonomy Unit of ETHZ managed under performance mandate and global budget New business models

5. mcs/13-04-2004 Driving forces Capability Ability to serve the projects of the highest scientific quality requiring intensive resources Sustainability Clear line of funding, economy of scale and total cost of ownership Scalability Streamlining a set of services from the desktop to highest end servers Flexibility Capacity to evolve according to the pace of technology

6. mcs/13-04-2004 New thrust areas for scientific computing DisciplineDescription VisualizationImaging, virtual reality, Numerics & Benchmarking Optimisation, selection and development of solvers and other mathematical methods Data Intensive Computing Data mining, knowledge management, information management and retrieval, machine learning, geographical information systems Grid and Distributed Computing Grid computing, networking, communications, agents, distributed services Visiting scientists program Organisation of courses and summer schools, visiting scientists Modelling Framework Support Hosting and fostering a software framework that is being used as the community model of a research discipline

7. mcs/13-04-2004 Expertise development at CSCS

8. mcs/13-04-2004 Scientific portfolio Application FieldCSCS Contribution Engineering, Computational Chemistry, Physics software framework and expertise in application optimisation Meteorology and Climate Modelling NCCR Klima, contract work for Meteo Swiss, Prism collaboration Material and Molecular Sciences Expertise in application optimisation, plus hosting CPMD-software & support to the Parrinello group Particle physics and HEPPSI, LCG, etc… Earth Science & Global Modellingsoftware framework for supporting community Life Sciencesdevelopment of visualization/imaging techniques Information Sciencehosting of data and development of filtering and retrieval methods reinforce gradually develop

9. mcs/13-04-2004 Usage by field, 2003 PVP NEC SX- 5 MPP IBM Power4

10. mcs/13-04-2004 CSCS configuration

11. mcs/13-04-2004 HB networks make locality less of an issue ETHZ HP Superdome 256 Opteron Cluster EPFL HP SC 45, 100 Alpha Origin 3800 128 Mips 100 P4 Cluster UNIZH zBox 288 Intel IA32 512 Opteron Cluster, myrinet PSI 64 Opteron Cluster CSCS NEC SX5 16 Vector p690 IBM 256 Power4

12. mcs/13-04-2004 Meteo and clima modelling framework Each day, MeteoSwiss produces its numerical weather predictions, including daily operational short range weather forecasts and research activities are run at CSCS.

13. mcs/13-04-2004 Biological material modelling (prof. M. Parrinello)

14. mcs/13-04-2004 Fundamental CFD (prof. L. Kleiser)

15. mcs/13-04-2004 Particle physics LHC in CH

16. mcs/13-04-2004 Roadmap 0304050607 HEP Bio Astrophys Reactor phy SMP/vectorNext generation 08 MPP Visualization Funding

17. mcs/13-04-2004 Risks and challenges Scientific group needs –Facilitate multi disciplinary collaboration –Improve operating efficiency –Tools for extracting scientific information from complex and massive data IT Needs –Optimize Infrastructure, computing on demand –Integrate distributed resources –Enable data access, integration and curation Risks –Dispersion of resources –Not enough impact –Balkanisation Weaknesses –Insufficient coordination –Resource allocation procedure Opportunities –Establish a strong collaboration platform Strengths –Scientific portfolio –Flexible organizations

18. mcs/13-04-2004 Please visit us On www.cscs.chwww.cscs.ch And for SOS9, March 2005