The European HPC cloud platformFor the deployment, management and on-demand usage of simulation software.Tamas Kiss – Chair of Advisory BoardAndreas Ocklenburg - CEO

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cloudSME Project• Funded by the European Commission FP7 programme –

Factories of the Future initiative• Duration time: July 2013 – March 2016• EUR 4.5 million overall funding• Coordinated by the University of Westminster• 16 initial project partners – including 12 SMEs• 13 new partners (12 SMEs) joined in January 2015 as

result of an Open Call• Focus: foster the uptake of simulation software especially

among small and medium-sized enterprises by offering software as a Service (SaaS) on a scalable platform.

• Founded as a company in January 2016

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cloudSME commercial offerings• simulation applications that can be published and directly executed

from the CloudSME App Center based on the software as a service (SaaS) model.

• awarded platform technology with powerful capabilities that smoothly enables computationally intensive Fluid Dynamics Simulations (MPI support).

• fast-track deployment & a great variety of cloud integration methods (various APIs, PaaS, Docker).

• the provision of access to heterogeneous commercial and private cloud resources (IaaS)as well as European supercomputing centres (i.e. German HLRS, Italian CINECA or French Romeo Center)

• HPC as a service (HPCaaS).• Security: Data operation in European data centres and industrial

security level. Operation mode “Europe only” possible.• Advanced and proven technology to model workflow solutions.• The provision of expert consulting services at each step of software

integration.

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cloudSME Stakeholders• Simulation end-users

from manufacturing and engineering, mainly.

• ISVs/VARS consultancies to implement their software in the cloudSME App Center or use cloud integration via API.

• Infrastructure and Service providers (commercial & academic providers & supercomputing centres)

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Main technological components• cloudSME App Center, including

– a public landing page– a web shop, and – a set of commercial services that are available via APIs and can be integrated

into marketplaces or vendor products.

• CloudBroker Platform– enables the deployment and execution of compute-intensive applications on

different clouds– widely automates user, software, resource, job, and invoice management.– has been ranked as No. 1 regarding its innovation potential by the Joint

Research Centre of the European Commission in a latest study comparing 517 innovations in information and communication technology (ICT) from 279 FP7 and H2020 EU projects regarding their innovation readiness, innovation management and market potential.

• WS-PGRADE/gUSE Framework– supports the development and deployment of HPC application workflows

across different types of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs)

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cloudSME platform architecture

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Interaction of tiers

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Implemented cloud adapters• Computing:

– Amazon EC2– CloudSigma– OpenStack EC2– OpenStack Nova– OpenNebula– Eucalyptus– HLRS NEC cluster– HLRS CRAY (considered)– CINECA Galileo Cluster– ROMEO Cluster– ETH Euler Cluster– …

• Storage:- Amazon S3- OpenStack S3- OpenStack Swift- Ceph RADOS- Eucalytpus Walrus- SCP- …

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Infrastructure Resources• Commercial clouds:

– CloudSigma (CH/DE) & – Amazon (different regions)

• OpenStack clouds: – University of Westminster (UK) &– University of Zaragoza (ES)

• OpenNebula cloud: – MTA SZTAKI (HU)

• HPC: – HLRS (DE), CINECA (IT), ROMEO (FR), ETH (CH)

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Application software• Application requirements:

– Scientific and technical applications from any domain, commercial or free / open source

– Linux or Windows – Usually compute-intensive, batch and command line-

oriented, but interactivity will be constantly improved.– Single-core or multi-core, single-node or multi-node (MPI,

NFS, …)

• Application areas: – Engineering and manufacturing (ASCOMP TransAT,

OpenFOAM, Simul8, …)– Biology, pharma and chemistry (Rosetta, BLAST, AutoDock,

Gromacs, …)– Generic (shell scripts, R, …) … and many more to follow.

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cloudSME AppCenter

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Example applications• cloudSME use cases and application

areas currently include – computational fluid dynamics– engine simulation, and – manufacturing process optimization.

• Example 1: ASCOMP/Eurobios – TransAT

• Example 2: DHCAE/ProcEng Moser - DHCAE OpenFOAM® Solver

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setup upload simulate download visualize

(GUI)

(Solvers)

CloudSigma, Amazon...

Platform

GUI downloaded from the AppCenter

RuntimeMonitoring

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Representative business scenario 1 – TransAT CFD simulation by Ascomp

Or direct visualisation via Paraview in the cloud without downloading result files

Representative business scenario 1 – TransAT CFD simulation by Ascomp

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Representative business scenario 2 - DHCAE OpenFOAM® Solver

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Thanks for your interest!

cloudSMEplatform for cloud architects

CloudSME UGTecTowerBismarckstr. 14247057 DuisburgGermanycloudsme-apps.com+49 203 3639 9955Andreas@cloudsme.eu