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The Supercomputer in your Closet
the Secret to Industrial Success
Prof. J.-C. Desplat
ICHEC Director
JC
HPC, innovation and the economy
“At a macroeconomic level, it has been shown that returns on
investment in HPC are extremely high and that the companies
and countries that invest the most in HPC lead in science and
economic success”
High-Performance Computing: Europe’s place in a Global Race, EC, 2012
“…the High Performance Computing (HPC) initiative focus on
maintaining America’s leadership in science and technology –
the heart of the nation’s unmatched ability to innovate.”
Council of Competitiveness, 2011, Annual Report: Making an Impact
Computer Modelling & Innovation
Theory Experiment Computer Modelling
From the
obvious…
to the not so obvious
From Jurassic Park to Fujitsu K… and beyond
Fujitsu K Computer #1 in 2011
864 Compute racks
88,128 SPARC64 cores
Rmax 10.5 Pflops
c. 12.6MW power
TMC CM5, #1 in 1993
1,024 SPARC cores
Rmax c. 60 Gflops
Apple iPAD2 (2011)
Rmax c. 0.9 Gflops
(in Top500 until 1994)
Fujitsu Celsius H920 (2013)
Rmax c. 75 Gflops
(in Top500 until 2001)
“with the CM-5, we look
forward to being able to
solve many of the Grand
Challenge problems that
have been intractable until
now.” Andy White, Director ACL
Trends and disruptive technology
Industry
dominates!
HPC is a
parallel
Universe
Disruptive: accelerators & co-procs
Other significant trends:
• Data-driven computations
(“Big Data”)
• Green Computing
PRACE’s achievements in 3 years In 2013, PRACE is providing nearly 15 Pflop/s (Tier-0 competencies)
SuperMUC: IBM IDPX
at GCS partner LRZ,
>155 000 cores
FERMI: IBM BlueGene/Q
at CINECA, >163 000 cores
MareNostrum: IBM IDPX
at BSC, >48 000 cores
JUQUEEN: IBM BlueGene/Q
at GCS partner FZJ,
>456 000 cores
CURIE: Bull Bullx at
GENCI partner CEA
>90 000 cores.
HERMIT: Cray
at GCS partner HLRS, >113 000 cores
Open R&D model from Jan. 2012 Access to high-value services
Training and code enabling • Developing Open Source codes for industry
Information, Promotion and Networking • PRACE Industrial Seminars
Regular Calls open to industry twice a year • Access is free of charge, based on scientific excellence only,
but with commitment to publish results in publicly available media
Since 2012 a total 12 companies, mostly SMEs
Three new access models under discussion • Pre-Competitive R&D
• SHAPE : SMEs HPC Adoption Programme for Europe
• Participation on joint hardware and software prototypes
PRACE-3IP kick-off in Paris
• 04/06/2013
EDF Energy (UK) RENAULT (France) 20.8 Mh on Hermit (HLRS, Germany)
6th PRACE call (March’13 - Mach’14)
Participants :
A. Revel (U.Manchester) J. Uribe (EDF R&D UK),
C. Moulinec (STFC), T. Craf)
B. Launder (U. Manchester)
Goal: LES simulations for
simulate flows inside a Magnus
rotor (turbosails) - Could complement Diesel engines
- Rotor completed by rotating cylinders
spinning thanks to lateral wind
- Evaluation of the gain in performance
Green potential use for
sea transport
Participants :
M. Pariente, Y. Tourbier
(Renault) A. Kamoulakos (ESI Group)
and Mines St Etienne
42Mh on CURIE (TGCC, France)
6th PRACE call (March’13 - Mach’14)
Goal : Improve car safety by performing
more acurate crash optimisation - Assess new large scale optimisation methods
(200 parameters, 20 M finite elements)
- First ever in the automotive market
- Impossible with internal Renault R&D HPC facilites
Anticipate new security rules (EuroNCAP6 in 2015)
Some examples of use of PRACE by large companies
CAPABILTY SIMULATIONS CAPACITY SIMULATIONS
Challenges ahead
• Learn to think parallel… (much) harder as NCPUs
• Main obstacle: limited scalability of software
–Scale to 10,000s+ (not just 100s)
• Large-scale software initiatives urgently required
• HPC as a methodology, not a platform
–Need to address the “human factor”
–Mobile devices, accelerated desktops
HPC for all!
• Disruptive technology
–Accelerators and co-processors
–HPC does not have to be expensive
–... but high-end skills still essential!
Up to 1000 speedup
‘Most Innovative Use Of HPC in
Financial Services’
• World-class award
• Actively promoted to Industry & Academia