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CHPC Plans and Programs for the Future

CHPC Plans and Programs for the Future. Happy .M. Sithole HPCC Conference, Rhode Island, USA 25 th March 2014. Rationale for Investment. HPC is central to most modern developments globally and defines competitiveness of countries

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CHPC Plans and Programs for the Future

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  1. CHPC Plans and Programs for the Future Happy .M. Sithole HPCC Conference, Rhode Island, USA 25th March 2014

  2. Rationale for Investment • HPC is central to most modern developments globally and defines competitiveness of countries • South Africa has some key industries that drives its own economic development. • Evident success of HPC impact fromother nations

  3. Who needs HPC in South Africa? HEI Researchers Petrochemical Industries (SASOL, PetroSA) Nuclear Industry (NECSA, NNR, ESKOM) Mining industry (gold, platinum, diamond) Auto manufacturing (Optimal Energy) Animation industry Science Councils Government departments Financial sector Large Scale Science Projects (CERN, SKA, Climate Change)

  4. HPC Users in South Africa users Existing Center Planned Expansion Future Users • Proximity of the Center to most Users by road. • High concentration of potential industry users

  5. Partnerships CHPC / DIRISA Activities Flagship Projects (About 16 Projects. Total of about 60 students and postdoctoral fellows. ) Training Programs (Workshops, Short-Courses , outreach activities amounts to more than 80 events to date) Annual HPC Conference (7 successful meetings with the support from international collaborators. Integration with Main Stream Conferences) • Partners • High Education Institutions • Government Departments • Science Councils • Research Agencies • Industry • International Collaborators • Policy Makers • Outreach Organisations Special Interest Groups Advanced Computer Engineering Astronomy/Cosmology Bioinformatics Epidemiology Chemistry Computer Science/GRID Computational Finance Earth Sciences Humanities Finance Physics Remote Sensing Materials Science Visualisation

  6. Software Engineering A.C.E. Niche Research National HPC Infrastructures and Test beds Numerical Methods and Advance Mathematics Parallel Programming and Advance Linux Scripting Open-source Packages Commodity HPC Clusters Basic Programming and Basic Linux Skills Single Desktops Training Simple Packages (Emphasis on the Scientific Knowledge) Fundamental Science Outreach Formulating Training Courses • Software  Application  Hardware Working with universities to create advanced workshops, formalised modules and master degrees

  7. Flagship Projects Climate Change Collaboration with ACCESS and SAWS Energy Security (JOULE battery) Mineral Beneficiation Drug discovery CFD Code developed locally and adopted by multinationals HIV Mutation Brain Imaging improved Cardio-Vascular studies 3D animated movies produced locally SKA design to implementation.

  8. Data Intensive Research Infrastructure(DIRISA) • User portals developed • http://access.chpc.ac.za provides services to climate modeling groups. • http://saeon.chpc.ac.za  Earth observation • http://saaoads.chpc.ac.za  a mirror facility for NASA data available locally for astronomy groups. • Phase 1 replicated in Pretoria and Cape Town. • A total of 2 Petabytes of storage linked through SANReN and access HPC systems. • Final phase to built on the existing and forms the second node Rheumatic heart-disease portal developed for medical applications and to form the basis of telemedicine applications in the center

  9. HPC Infrastructure • Stable operation since 2007 • State-of-the art HPC systems ranked amongst the best in the world. • Increasing local integration capabilities. • A roadmap developed to introduce technology refreshers and upgrade of the HPC systems. • Second Node already started in Pretoria for disaster recovery and data related services. 2007: 2.5TFLOPS Test-bed machines for next generation HPC 2009 : 27.44 TFLOPS upgraded to 61 TFLOPS in 2011 20 000 liters of Diesel  8hrs of operation – 1MWatt and back-up batteries for continuity in operation 2008 : 14.9 TFLOPS Slide 9

  10. HPC Users (HEI and Industry) Research into Novel Architecture (FPGA, GPU, MIC etc..) Partnerships with Researchers at HEI Mid-Range Facilities OEM (IBM, DELL, NVIDIA, INTEL etc..) Test-Bed Teams Systems Integration Capabilities and HCD Local IT Companies HPC Systems (Production Environment)

  11. Student Cluster Competition • Undergraduate students form teams and partner with vendors to build an HPC system. • Currently on its second year and plans to expand to the rest of continent.

  12. Future Plans • Development of a National Cyber-Infrastructure body. • Strengthen HPC utilisation in universities and develop a formalised curriculum. • Decommissioned RANGER being utilised in the continent. • Implement heterogeneous system on path to Exascale. • Supporting the SKA –SDP Consortium prototyping. • Computing, Data and Science • Extend HPC activities to other African countries. • Engage industry in adopting HPC in their R&D and operations.

  13. THANK YOU • Contacts:hsithole@csir.co.za • Website: www.chpc.ac.za • Join us at the Kruger National Park on 1st -5thDecember 2014 for the 8th Annual HPC Meeting

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