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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Visit of NIC representatives in Czech Republic30 September 2005
The John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC):
A survey of its supercomputer facilities and itsEurope-wide computational science activities
Norbert Attig, Thomas Müller, and Achim StreitJohn von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC)
Research Centre JülichGermany
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Visit of NIC representatives in Czech Republic23 May 2005
Agenda
The John von Neumann Institute for Computing Norbert Attig
Research in Computational Science Thomas Müller
Grid Computing at NIC Achim Streit
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Education and Research in Germany
Federal system
Universities are under state rule (16 Länder)
Research is under federal rule to a large extent (Bund)
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Important German Research Organisations I
Organisations for the promotion of research
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(German Research Council)
Focus: university research
AvH Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung (Foundation)
Focus: scientists from other countries
DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(German Academic Exchange Service)
Focus: students and young scientists going abroad
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Important German Research Organisations II
Research Organisations
MPG Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Society)
Basic research in science and humanities
HGF Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (Association)
Application-oriented research in science and
technology; large-scale facilities
FhG Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Society)
Research in technology
WGL Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Association)
Various smaller research units
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Centres of the Helmholtz Association
http://www.helmholtz.de
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Helmholtz Research Fields
Old: Centre-oriented research structure
New: Programme-oriented research structure in the fields
Health
Earth and Environment
Energy
Structure of Matter
Key Technologies
Transport and Space
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Research Centre Jülich R & D on 2.2 square kilometres
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Research Centre Jülich R & D on 2.2 square kilometres
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Research Centre Jülich at a glance I
Company Founded in: December 1956
Legal form: limited liability company
Partners Federal Republic of Germany (90%)
Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (10%)
Funding 360 million Euro (2004 budget)
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Research Centre Jülich at a glance II
Structure 12 departments (36 institutes) 6 central departments, e.g. ZAM 2 project management organisations
Jülich Model Heads of institutes are professorsat surrounding universities
Staff (in 2004) 4300 including 1200 scientists 400 Ph.D. students 150 students 370 trainees
Visiting scientists more than 700 p.a. from 50 countries
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Research Centre Jülich – Past, Present, Future
Founded in 1956 as a civil nuclear research centre(“Kernforschungsanlage”, KFA)
Nuclear energy research became more and more unpopularin Germany
Strengthening the multidisciplinary research character of the centre in the nineties
Budget constraints and competition between the HGF centres require to focus on a few “grand challenges”
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Research Centre JülichPerspective Committee
In 2004 an international Perspective Committee made an assessment of the future development of the Research Centre
Major recommendations:
Focus on “Condensed Matter Physics” as a basis for the investigation of• functions and diseases of the human brain• bio and nano electronics• sustained energy supply• networked environmental research
and expand the supercomputing centre NIC into a
European Centre for High-End Computing
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• Founded in 1987 by - Research Centre Jülich (FZJ), - German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), - National Research Center for Information Technology First and one of three German national High-Performance Computing Centres
• Restructured in 1998, now supported by FZJ and DESYA third partner – Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) – will join NIC soon
John von Neumann Institute for Computing
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National Centres
Topical Centres
State Centres
Universities
Supercomputing in Germany
NICJülich
HLRSStuttgart
LRZGarching
HLRNBerlin
HLRNHannover
RZGGarching
DWDOffenbach
DKRZHamburg
Wuppertal
AachenDresden
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National Supercomputing Centre John von Neumann Institute for Computing
Mission
Enable scientists to solve grand challenge problems by operating a large-scale facility (Helmholtz mission)
Provision of supercomputing service Europe-wide
Support through research in computational science, mathematics and computer science, Grid computing
Education and training
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Centre forParallel
ComputingDESY-
Zeuthen
Research GroupElementary Particle Physics
Central Institutefor
AppliedMathematics
(ZAM)
John von Neumann Institutefor Computing (NIC)
Management Boardof Directors:
Board Member of FZJBoard Member of DESYDirector of ZAM (FZJ)
ScientificCouncil
CompetenceGroups
forSupercomputing
Applications
Central Institutefor
AppliedMathematics
(ZAM)
National Supercomputing Centre
ProductionSupercomputerSystems, e.g.
IBM-SC, BG/L
Special PurposeSystems, e.g.
APEmille,apeNEXT
Research GroupComputational Biophysics
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Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM)
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Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM)
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81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09
FPS AP/190 0.02
Cray M94 1.3Cray X-MP/48 0.9
Cray Y-MP/832 2.6Cray X-MP/22 0.4
Cray J90 3Cray J90 4 GFlops
Cray T90 22Cray SV1ex 32
Cray T3E-600 307
Intel Paragon 10
Suprenum 0.3
Cray T3E-1200 614
ZAMpano 20
IBM p690 Cluster 8920 GFlops
massively parallel
vector processor
SMP cluster
Cray T3E-600 307
Intel Paragon 10
Suprenum 0.3
Cray T3E-1200 614
IBM Blue Gene 5600 Gflops
Competence with Supercomputers
early deployment of new technologies
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1312 processors, 8.9 TeraFlops, 5.6 TeraByte memory, 50 TeraByte disks, 2.2 PetaByte tape robot
jumpdoc.fz-juelich.de
Supercomputers at NIC
Jump: Juelich Multi-Processor IBM p690 Cluster
Cray XD1, 72+ processors
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Supercomputers at NIC
Jubl: Juelich Blue Gene/L System (since July 2005)
2048 processors POWER PC440, 5.7 TeraFlopsLow power and floor space requirements highly scalable
system!Limited memory per node
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NIC Usage and Access
● Access
– Academia & research
– Industry
– Proposals accepted from Germany and Europe
● Procedure
– Weblink: www.fz-juelich.de/nic
– Scientific quality counts
– Peer review by NIC Scientific Council
– International referees
– 1 year grants
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NIC Usage by Research Fields
Elementary Particle
Many Particle
Chemistry
OtherLife + Environment
Soft Matter
Materials Science
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Origin of Users
Chemistry Many Particle Physics Elementary Particle Physics Other
National access
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Origin of Users
European access(Collaborations)
Zagreb
Rome
Vienna
Roskilde
Coimbra
Athens
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Origin of Users
European access(I3HP)
DESY
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Nicosia
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Origin of Users
European access(DEISA partners)
CSC
RZG IPP Garching
SARA
EPCC
ECMWF
IDRIS
CINECA
BSC
LRZ
HLRS
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Origin of Users
European access(NIC Initiative)
Nicosia
Warsaw
Prague
Bratislava
Budapest
Brno
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NIC offers
– its supercomputing facilities to research groups
in the new EU member states to an extend of
50,000 proc. hours per month
– options for scientific collaboration
– training courses on supercomputing and parallel
programming; participants from new EU member states will
receive a grant for their travel and accommodation expenses
next course: November 2005
NIC Initiative I www.fz-juelich.de/nic
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NIC expects
– challenging applications
– sound scientific proposals
– parallel programs, using a substantial number of
processors simultaneously
– participation in joint initiatives towards a future
European high-end computing infrastructure
NIC Initiative II www.fz-juelich.de/nic
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ZAM Research Fields
• Computational science• Complex atomistic modelling and simulation Thomas Müller• Lattice quantum field theory, QCD • Simulation of quantum computers
• Applied mathematics• Parallel algorithms: linear algebra, long-range interactions• Stochastic methods, data mining
• Computer science• Performance optimisation • Visualisation, virtual reality• Cluster computing
• Grid Computing Achim Streit• Easy and secure access to Grid resources and data• High-speed data communication
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helpdesk
specialist
advisor
technical support,standby team
methods and optimisation
scientific partnership
Support Pyramid
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Education and Training
• International schools, workshops, conferences
• Summer student programme
• Seminars and courses
• Education of mathematical- technical assistants, cooperation with the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, about 100 students and trainees
• Chair of Computational Physics at Wuppertal University
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remaining among the Top10 supercomputing centres worldwide with respect to - compute power - service - research
becoming a leading site in a future European supercomputing network
NIC works towards
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Thank you for your attention!
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International Development in HPC
• USA
– Push extremely fast systems Performance boost Scientific leadership in
nearly all fields of science
• EUROPE
– Compete with USA, Japan !
– German science council: Three European
Supercomputer centres
NIC one of these ?!
Lawrence Livermore: Blue Gene/L
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European Perspective
• Compete with USA and Japan !
• Statements of the German Science Council 11/2004:
- The acquisition of supercomputers of the highest performance class is necessary to keep Europe [...] in the competition with Japan, the US and China.
- The establishment of three European super- computers is necessary with an operating life of a computer of about five to six years.
- The supercomputers available within Europe should be replaced cyclically in regular intervals.
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National Centres
Topical Centres
State Centres
Universities
Supercomputing in Germany
NICJülich
HLRSStuttgart
LRZGarching
HLRNBerlin
HLRNHannover
RZGGarching
DWDOffenbach
DKRZHamburg
Wuppertal
AachenDresden
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German Continual Investment Model- Science Council 1995, 2000, 2004 -
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000LRZ
DWD
RZG
NICHLRS
LRZ
DKRZ
National Centres at the top of the Performance Pyramid
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Topical CenterAWI
Multi-Gigabit
Backend Network
Global ParallelFile System
High-End System>50 TeraFlops
Leadership System>250 TeraFlops
Multi-PetaByteTape Archive
Topical CenterDESY
Topical CenterGSI
SLQCD
SLNanoscience
+MolecularMaterials
SLGeosphere
Future Helmholtz Capability Computing Complex (2007)
SLBiology
Topical CenterNIC/FZJ
Topical CenterGridKa
……
…
SLNeuroscience
Topical CenterFZJ
NICTeams
SupportCapability Computing
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Forschungszentrum Jülichin der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Helmholtz AssociationCharacteristics of Large-scale Research
Cooperation between disciplines (example medicine, environment) between institutions (example structure of matter) between nations (example fusion, neutron research)
Concentrationhigh-performance, versatile infrastructure
Continuity of workcontinuous added value from basic know-how to economic applications
Complexity of the missionrelevant contributions to solving the challenges posed by society;long-term orientation, sustainable solutions