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Scientific Computing Advisory Board Kickoff Meeting

Scientific Computing Advisory Board Kickoff Meeting. July 11, 2012, 11 AM Icahn L3-36. Scientific Advisory Advisory Board Proposed Mission and Logistics. Provide guidance and advice to the Scientific Computing Facility

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Scientific Computing Advisory Board Kickoff Meeting

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  1. Scientific Computing Advisory BoardKickoff Meeting July 11, 2012, 11 AM Icahn L3-36

  2. Scientific Advisory Advisory Board Proposed Mission and Logistics • Provide guidance and advice to the Scientific Computing Facility • The singular goal of the Scientific Computing facility is to boost the scientific productivity of the scientists and researchers at Mount Sinai • Meet quarterly for one hour • Agenda distributed in advance

  3. Proposed Membership • Joseph Buxbaum • Ming-Ming Zhou • Marta Filizola • Pamela Sklar • John Morrison • Hugh Sampson • Andrew Kasarskis • Ravi Iyengar • AviMaayan • Roman Osman • Barbara Murphy • Others?

  4. Minerva Usage Overview • Usage report distributed on Friday • Minerva deployed in mid-April • Summary from report • 100 usersand 20 PIs/groups • Over 5.3M hours used • 62% utilization in June (37% over entire period) • 97% uptime • Usage split equally between Genomics and Structural and Cell Biology departments

  5. Augmenting Minerva • Archival storage • Purchased four tape drives and tape library and 350 TB of tapes for $100k • Users will be able to put/get data into long-term tape storage • August 1 is the target production date • Graphics Accelerators in Minerva • Purchased four NVIDIA Tesla GPUs ($20k) • Will purchase more if users can make use of them • August 1 is target production date

  6. Augmenting Minerva, cont’d • CSM computer room update • Power and cooling being purchased for 14 cabinets • Expected completion date is Oct 2012 • 4 cabinets for 20 PB HADOOP cluster for Jeff Hammerbacher • Minerva expansion in early 2013 • Lapis future? • Scheduled for decommissioning Oct 31,2012 • $22k/year in maintenance plus space/cooling/power • Worth keeping?

  7. Other OpportunitiesIntel MIC Project • Beacon: A Strategic Path to Scientific Discovery Enabled by the Intel MIC Architecture • $1M National Science Foundation award • Partners: • U of Tennessee, Indiana U, Stony Brook U, UCSD, ORNL and Virginia Tech • Port and scale applications on new Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture • Accelerator speed-up using standards-based software (no CUDA)

  8. Other Opportunities, cont’dNSF Networking Grant • Submitted NSF networking grant for $500k in May • Increase Sinai’s Internet connection to 10 Gb/s • Install a Northeastern Network Exchange switch at 32 A of A for private traffic flows between the Broad, us, etc. • Hope to hear by end of the year • THANK YOU to many of you who helped!

  9. Other opportunities, cont’dHPC2 Consortium • Included in 2nd round of funding “ask” for NYS HPC2 consortium (http://hpc2.org) • Partnership created six years ago with $100M from NYS and deployed Blue Genes from IBM • Goal to help industrial partnerships • Partners include RPI, Stony Brook, U of Buffalo, Brookhaven NL and NYSERNet • If successful, agreed to give us $200k for a visualization facility plus one FTE for five years • We plan to do this anyway in 2013 • Proposal due Monday through the NYC regional economic development council

  10. Allocations – ComputeHow do we share equitably? • 64M hours available per year; cost is $0.05/core-hour • Want to make sure the most, best science is done • Pis/groups with straightforward, thought out computational plans are suffering from longer job turnaround time from more exploratory research efforts • Perhaps groups with articulated plans should get priority? • Proposal for allocations: • Three people to review and grant time quarterly; serve for a year • One Genomics, one Structural and Cell Biology and one Computational Scientist • One page proposal (science impact plus compute plan) • All PIs/groups get 200k hours without asking (jobs run at lower priority)

  11. Allocations – StorageHow do we share equitably and sustainably? • Scratch (GPFS) is limited to 1.5 PB • 400 TB is used already • 1 PB costs $400k • Grant each PI/group 200 TB for “free” for 3 months? • Archival Storage • 350 TB in tapes purchased already • Each 2 TB tape costs $50; probably should have two copies of every file in case of failure • Retrieval time could be seconds to days depending on where we keep the tapes and how much more we spend for an additional tape library • Grant each PI/group 200 TB indefinitely? • Allocations?

  12. Metrics for Success • Dean’s metrics – need to collect and keep updated • Direct and indirect grant $ • Publications (paper acknowledgement on hpc.mssm.edu website) • Charging – when and how? • Need science highlights for the Dean/website/NYS/slides/City Hall/other PR • Groups with larger than 1M hours (?) should produce a one page highlight • Meeting with NYT later this month; spoke with WNYC

  13. Other questions? • Thank you!!

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