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What is PRACE?Hank Nussbacher

PRACE Winter School, Tel Aviv, Feb 10, 2014

• European HPC-facilities at the top of an HPC provisioning pyramid– Tier-0: European Centres for Petaflop/s– Tier-1: National Centres– Tier-2: Regional/University Centres

• Creation of a European HPC ecosystem– HPC service providers on all tiers– Scientific and industrial user communities– The European HPC hard- and software industry– Other e-Infrastructures

Realizing the ESFRI Vision for an HPC RI

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Tier-0European centres

Tier-1National centres

Tier-2Regional/University centres

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PRACE-2IP

HPCEUR HET

PRACE-3IP: History

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Creation of the Scientific Case

HPC part of the ESFRI Roadmap;creation of a vision involving 15 European countries

Signature of the MoU Creation of the PRACE Research Infrastructure

PRACE RI

2009 2010 2011 2012

PRACE Initiative

PRACE Preparatory Phase Project

PRACE-3IP

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2013

PRACE-1IP

PRACE in Winter 2014 … has grown up• PRACE is the European High-End HPC Infrastructure

– provides access to 6 Tier-0 systems, funded by 4 countries: DE, ES, FR, IT– has provided 5.5 Billion Core-hours to hundreds of user projects since 2010– is providing extensive training though 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centres

(PATC), seasonal schools, summer student programme, workshops, …– currently has 25 members, representing 25 countries– has secured national contributions of 450 M€ and 67 M€ EC funding– is developing its strategy for 2015-2020

• PRACE is user-demand driven– Scientific Steering Committee advises on all scientific matters,

in particular the access to PRACE resources through Peer Review– User Forum provides feedback and technical requirements from end-users– Scientific Case 2012-2020: requirements and recommendations

>100 leading European Scientists contributed to this update

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25 PRACEMembers

April, 23rd 2010 creation of the legal entity (AISBL)

PRACEwith seat location in Brussels, Belgium

67+ Million € from EC FP7 for preparatory and

implementation phasesGrants INFSO-RI-211528,

261557, 283493, and 312763Complemented by ~ 50 Million

€ from PRACE members

Interest by:Latvia,Belgium

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PRACE is building the top of the pyramid... First production system available: 1 Petaflop/s IBM BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at GCS (Gauss Centre for Supercomputing) partner FZJ (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Second production system available: Bull Bullx CURIE at GENCI partner CEA. Full capacity of 1.8 Petaflop/s reached by late 2011. - #20 in Top500

Third production system available by the end of 2011: 1 Petaflop/s Cray (HERMIT) at GCS partner HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart). - #39Fourth production system available by mid 2012:

3.1 Petaflop/s IBM (SuperMUC) at GCS partner LRZ (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum). - #10 in Top500

Tier-0

Tier-1

Tier-2

Fifth production system available by August 2011: 2 Petaflop/s IIBM BG/Q (FERMI) at CINEC - #15.

Sixth production system available by January 2013: 1 Petaflop/s IBM (MareNostrum) at BSC. - #34

Upgrade: 5.87 Petaflop/s IBM Blue Gene/Q (JUQUEEN) – #8 in Top500

The HPC European e-infrastructure (ESFRI)

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PRACE 1.0

25 members, AISBL since 2010

530 M€ for 2010-2015 (inc 70M€ from UE)

6 supercomputers in 4 hosting countries, different architectures

research and industrial access (open R&D) for all disciplines based on excellence in science, free of charge

Nearly 15 Pflop/s

5 billion hours granted since 2010

PRACE 1.0

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Name of Principal Investigator

Company/ Institution of Principal Investigator Type of Access

Total number of CPU core-hours

allocatedProject System

Avishai Dekel HUJI 2nd Regular 9000000 PRACE CURIE, GENCI/CEA 

Daniel Ceverino HUJI 2nd Regular 5000000 PRACE CURIE, GENCI/CEA 

Yehuda Hoffman HUJI 5th Regular 26000000 PRACE SuperMUC (GAUSS@LRZ, Germany)

Avi Cohen Bar-Ilan University Preparatory 10th 50000 PRACE Hermit, GAUSS@HLRS,

Yakov Strelniker Bar-Ilan University Preparatory 11th 50000 PRACE HERMIT, GAUSS@HLRS, Germany

Alexander Gelfgat Tel-Aviv University Preparatory 12th 50000 PRACE FERMI

Helena Vitoshkin Tel-Aviv University Preparatory 12th 50000 PRACE HERMIT, GAUSS@HLRS, Germany

Dan Mordehai Technion

Preparatory 14th 40000 PRACEHERMIT,@ GAUSS-HLRS, JUQUIN@GAUSS- FZJ; SuperMUC@ GASUSS-LRZ; CURIE@GENCI, FERMI@CINECA

Pinchas Alpert Tel Aviv University   450000 Linksceeem  

Alexander Gelfgat Tel Aviv University   160000 Linksceeem  

Dan Thomas Major Bar-Ilan University   400000 Linksceeem  

Benjamin Svetitsky Tel Aviv University   250000 Linksceeem  

Yakov Strelniker Bar-Ilan University   20000 Linksceeem  

Hanoch Senderowitz Bar-Ilan Uneiversity   20000 Linksceem-2  

Alexander Gelfgat Tel Aviv University   150000 Linksceem-2  

Lucio Frydman Weizmann   3000 Linksceem-2  

Avi Cohen Bar-Ilan University   10000 Linksceem-2  

PRACE 2.0: meeting Europe‘s ambitions with HPC

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• To maintain Europe as an agenda setting science contributor• By offering access to leading edge HPC platforms• opened to all disciplines and countries in Europe

Provide an infrastructure for

science and industry

• To attract, train and retain highly skilled and innovative workforce• in science and engineering• To share knowledge and expertise

Attract, train and retain competences

• With at least one supercomputer in each major architectural class• To support world-leading science

Provide an high quality service

• Including : A) scientific and industrial communities, • B) national HPC centres and their support for the PRACE systems, • C) training and software development efforts

Lead the integration of an highly effective

HPC ecosystem

PRACE 2.0 strategy :Hypothesis for the baseline scenario (825 M€) (3/5)

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Provide an infrastructure for

science and industry

Attract, train and retain competences

Provide an high quality service

Lead the integration of an highly effective

HPC ecosystem

Unanimous approval

HPC at the agenda of the Competitiveness Council – 29-30

May, 2013

5Tier-0 of

each 50 PF for ≈150 M€ (TCO 5y)

alone or in a

consortium

Tier-0

European centers

EC funds: 25% of the contribution

over 2 phases

50 % PRACE

membres

Tier-1 services for Tier-

050 % EC

725 M€

100 M€

AmbitionsScenario

≈ 825 M€ including 275 M€ from the EC

PRACE will help the development of national ecosystems

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PRACE in Horizon 2020

• PRACE-3IP ends in mid 2014• EC has informally indicated its intention to continue IP-type

support for PRACE - independent of the on-going PRACE 2.0 discussion

• EC needs to act on Conclusions from the Competitiveness Council– Funding level and instruments to be explored