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Advances In Developing Computing As A Service At Riga Technical University

Advances In Developing Computing As A Service At Riga Technical University. Lauris Cikovskis Riga Technical University Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications. Outline. Introduction Development of computing infrastructure at RTU Applications and software. Introduction.

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Advances In Developing Computing As A Service At Riga Technical University

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  1. Advances In Developing Computing As A Service At Riga Technical University Lauris Cikovskis Riga Technical University Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications

  2. Outline • Introduction • Development of computing infrastructure at RTU • Applications and software

  3. Introduction Remote access 24/7 Personal computing Mainframe computing HPC Grid Cloud

  4. Timeline High Performance Computing ExperimentsinCloud computing Grid (High Throughput) computing RTU computing centre RTU IT Department Balticgrid Project(I and II phase) 2010 2008 2005 2012 2006 2007 2009 2013 2011

  5. Whatis Grid computing? CentralServices Recourse centre 1 + Middleware Researchnetwork Recourse centre 2 + Middleware Recourse centre 3 Recourse centre 4 + Middleware + Middleware

  6. Balticgridproject I phase (2005-2008) • Main objectives: sustainable Grid infrastructure in Baltic States, user attraction • Our achievements • Team of 6 people • Computing cluster: 5 CPUs (later upgrade to 21 CPUs), 1 TB storage • Certified Grid site • Hosting central Grid services for Latvia

  7. BalticgridProject II phase (2008-2010) • Main objectives: continue work started, involve Belarus • Our achievements • Cluster upgrade to 48 CPUs • MATLAB DCS licence for Grid • E-learning course in Grid computing • Users from RTU, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis

  8. After the Project • Still part of the European Grid • Provide access for users to «ex-balticgrid» infrastructure • Share computing recourses • Under Latvian NGI (supervised by NDGF) • Is it worth to stay in Grids? • European Grid Infrastructure • 270,800 Logical CPUs (cores) • 139 PB disk and 134 PB tape • 1,35 million jobs/day • 326 Resource Centres • 42 countries

  9. Our HPC recources • Local cluster • 384 cores Xeon X5670, infiniband interconnect • 32 cores Xeon E5405, high memory nodes • 16 cores Opteron 2210 • Software • Linux OS • Torque/Maui cluster management • MPI support • Who can access? • Any researcher /student from RTU • Open for collaboration with other institutions

  10. Advances in Cloud computing • Cloud ≠ Grid! • Participation in Baltic Cloud initiative • Private cloud prototype • Eucalyptus cloud platform • Virtual classroom • Research • Capacity requirements for cloud access network

  11. Applications and Software • Engineering with MATLAB • Network traffic and protocol analyses • Electrodynamics problem solving • Signal analyses • Optimization problem solving • Molecular dynamics with NAMD and GAMESS • new drug discovery • Artificial membrane modelling • Other software • Compilers: C++, Java, Fortran, Python, Free Pascal, Perl etc. • Open source: GNU Octave, Scilab, Blender • Licenced: Ansys, OPNET • Support!

  12. Conclusion • Successfully implementing computing services • Local cluster for HPC • Grid site for HTC • Cloud • Keep service diversity for different user needs • We should more benefit from being in Grids • Future perspectives • 10+ TFLOPs projects, GPGPU • Establishment of RTU Supercomputing centre • support for every application area • Subjects in computing for students

  13. Thank You! • Contacts: • Lauris Cikovskis • Riga Technical university • Faculty of Electronics and Telecomunications • lauris.cikovskis@rtu.lv

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