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NICS Update Bruce Loftis 16 December 2009

NICS Update Bruce Loftis 16 December 2009. National Institute for Computational Sciences University of Tennessee and ORNL partnership. NICS is the 2 nd NSF Track 2 center Builds on strengths of UT and ORNL NICS operates the first academic petascale supercomputer in the world

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NICS Update Bruce Loftis 16 December 2009

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  1. NICS UpdateBruce Loftis16 December 2009

  2. National Institute for Computational Sciences University of Tennessee and ORNL partnership • NICS is the 2nd NSF Track 2 center • Builds on strengths of UT and ORNL • NICS operates the first academic petascale supercomputer in the world • Staff of 25 2 Managed by UT-Battellefor the Department of Energy

  3. NICS Timeline Delivered over 305M hours to researchers! 3

  4. Upgrade to Istanbul ProcessorsSeptember 2009

  5. An International, Dedicated High-End Computing Project to Revolutionize Climate Modeling ECMWF COLA NICS JAMSTEC U of Tokyo

  6. NICAM Satelite Observation Model Simulation • The only global atmospheric model capable of resolving clouds

  7. User Survey – Big Results • Requirements for computing capability and archival storage will continue to grow • 15 respondents expect to store as much as 1 Pbyte annually in the next 5 years • Significant interest in exploring GPGPU’s to increase computing capability • Concern about visualization and analysis of output data • moving large datasets home or elsewhere is a challenge • remote visualization is appealing

  8. Keeneland – An NSF-Funded Partnership to Enable Large-Scale Computational Science on Heterogeneous Architectures • Track-2D: Experimental HPC System of Innovative Design – Large GPU cluster • Initial delivery Fermi system – Spring 2010 • Full scale system – Spring 2012 • Partners are: Georgia Tech, NICS, U of Tennessee, Oak Ridge, NVIDIA, HP • Software tools, application development • TeraGrid Resource Provider • Operations, User Support at NICS • Education, Outreach, Training for scientists, students, industry

  9. Sean Ahern, PI • Partnership between UT, ORNL, LBNL, U of Wisconsin and NCSA • Purpose: provide TeraGrid and XD users with remote and shared memory resources for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale data • Central hardware: Nautilus, a shared memory SGI UltraViolet system with: • 1024 Intel Nehalem EX cores • 4 TB of shared memory • 16 GPUs • ~1 PB filesystem • TeraGrid and Kraken connectivity • Provide wide range of software tools for data analysis, visualization, and workflow management

  10. Timeline for Deployment

  11. NICS Education, Outreach, and Training • “Introduction to Petascale Computing” workshop for the 2009 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing • Co-sponsored and organized workshop for NIMBioS Center at UT-Knoxville. • Outreach to student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers at UT-Knoxville. • Two million CPU hours committed to Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. • Participated in student and teacher programs at TG ‘09 and SC09. • Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering: two Summer Schools hosted during summer of 2009; hosting three week-long schools in 2010. • Co-sponsored Hex-Core Cray XT5 workshops in December 2009 (ORNL) and February 2010 (UC-Berkeley) • TeraGrid/Blue Waters technical workshop, Austin, March 2010 • TeraGrid Introductory training via ReadyTalk, quarterly, online. • Introductory workshops for UTK users and undergraduate classes.

  12. Thank You !!

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