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John von Neumann Institute for Computing

The John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC): A survey of its computer facilities and its Europe-wide computational science activities Norbert Attig NIC, Research Centre Jülich Germany. John von Neumann Institute for Computing.

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John von Neumann Institute for Computing

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  1. The John von NeumannInstitute for Computing (NIC):A survey of its computer facilitiesand its Europe-widecomputational science activities Norbert Attig NIC, Research Centre JülichGermany

  2. John von Neumann Institute for Computing • Founded in 1987 by - Research Centre Jülich (FZJ), - German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), - National Research Center for Information Technology First and one of three German national High-Performance Computing Centres • Restructured in 1998, now supported by FZJ and DESYA third partner – Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) – will join NIC soon

  3. Research Organisations in Germany • DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft • (German Research Council) • Focus: university research • MPG Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Society) • Basic research in science and humanities • HGF Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (Association) • Application-oriented research in science and • technology; large-scale facilities • FhG Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Society) • Research in technology • WGL Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Association) • Various smaller research units

  4. Centres of the Helmholtz Association http://www.helmholtz.de Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  5. Research Centre Jülich (FZJ) Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  6. German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  7. National Supercomputing Centre John von Neumann Institute for Computing • Mission • Enable scientists to solve grand challenge problems by operating a large-scale facility (Helmholtz mission) • Provision of supercomputing service  Europe-wide • Support through research in computational science, mathematics and computer science, Grid computing • Education and training

  8. National Supercomputing Centre John von Neumann Institutefor Computing (NIC) ScientificCouncil Management Boardof Directors: Board Member of FZJBoard Member of DESYDirector of ZAM (FZJ) Central InstituteforAppliedMathematics(ZAM) Central InstituteforAppliedMathematics(ZAM) Centre forParallelComputingDESY-Zeuthen CompetenceGroupsforSupercomputingApplications ProductionSupercomputerSystems, e.g. IBM-SC, BG/L Special PurposeSystems, e.g. APEmille,apeNEXT Research GroupComputational Biophysics Research GroupElementary Particle Physics

  9. 8920 GFlops IBM p690 Cluster ZAMpano 20 Cray T3E-1200 614 Cray T3E-1200 614 Cray T3E-600 307 Cray T3E-600 307 Intel Paragon 10 Intel Paragon 10 Suprenum 0.3 Suprenum 0.3 Cray T90 22 Cray J90 3 Cray J90 4 GFlops Cray M94 1.3 Cray X-MP/48 0.9 Cray Y-MP/832 2.6 Cray X-MP/22 0.4 FPS AP/190 0.02 Competence with Supercomputers SMP cluster early deployment of new technologies IBM Blue Gene 5600 Gflops massively parallel Cray SV1ex 32 vector processor 8182838485 86 8788 89 90919293 949596 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09

  10. Supercomputers at NIC Jump: Jülich Multi-Processor IBM p690 Cluster 1312 processors, 9 TeraFlops, 5.6 TeraByte memory, 50 TeraByte disks, 2.2 PetaByte tape robot IBM Blue Gene/L, 5.6 TeraFlops (since July 2005) Cray XD1, 72 processors

  11. NIC Usage and Access • ● Access • – Academia & research • –Industry • – Proposals accepted from Germany and Europe • ●Procedure • –Weblink: www.fz-juelich.de/nic • – Scientific quality counts • – Peer review by NIC Scientific Council • –International referees • –1 year grants

  12. NIC Usage by Research Fields Other Life + Environment Elementary Particle Soft Matter Many Particle Materials Science Chemistry

  13. Chemistry Many Particle Physics Elementary Particle Physics Other Origin of Users National access

  14. Rome Vienna Roskilde Coimbra Athens Origin of Users European access(Collaborations) Zagreb

  15. Edinburgh Glasgow DESY Nicosia Origin of Users European access(I3HP)

  16. Zagreb Warsaw Prague Brno Bratislava Budapest Nicosia Origin of Users European access(NIC Initiative)

  17. CSC EPCC SARA ECMWF IDRIS RZG IPP Garching LRZ CINECA BSC Origin of Users European access(DEISA partners) HLRS

  18. I3HP: NIC-TA – Offerwww.fz-juelich.de/nic/i3hp-nic-ta NIC-TA offers: • Computer time on Germany’s 2nd largest super-computer for users within the context of I3HP • User support • workshops • training courses • detailed advice on request at NIC

  19. I3HP: NIC-TA – Value of the offerwww.fz-juelich.de/nic/i3hp-nic-ta The offer means quantitatively: • 1,500 proc. hours on IBM-SC Jump per month (funded by the EU for non-German users)≤ 3,000 proc. hours on IBM-SC Jump per month (funded by NIC, mainly for German users) • Grants for non-German users visiting NIC • travel: ≤ 400 € per trip • accomodation: ≤ 70 € per day

  20. Edinburgh Glasgow DESY Nicosia Origin of Users European access(I3HP)

  21. NIC offers its supercomputing facilities to research groups in the new EU member states to an extend of50,000 proc. hours per month options for scientific collaboration training courses on supercomputing and parallel programming; participants from new EU member states will receive a grant for their travel and accommodation expensesnext course: November 2005 NIC Initiative Iwww.fz-juelich.de/nic

  22. NIC expects challenging applications sound scientific proposals parallel programs, using a substantial number of processors simultaneously participation in joint initiatives towards a future European high-end computing infrastructure NIC Initiative IIwww.fz-juelich.de/nic

  23. Zagreb Warsaw Prague Brno Bratislava Budapest Nicosia Origin of Users European access(NIC Initiative)

  24. DEISA is like I3HP an EU infrastructure project Partners: IDRIS, FZJ, RZG/IPP, CINECA, EPCC, CSC, SARA, ECMWF, LRZ, BSC, HLRS Goal: Establish a Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications Access to NIC via DEISAwww.deisa.org

  25. DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) Project partners offer computer time for DECI applications(up to 10% of the available computer time per centre) Conditions: International collaboration Extreme computing demands for challenging projects Workflow applications involving at least two platforms Coupled applications involving more than one platform Next Call for Proposals: Spring 2006 Access to NIC via DEISAwww.deisa.org

  26. remaining among the Top10 supercomputing centres worldwide with respect to - compute power - service - researchbecoming a leading site in a future European supercomputing network NIC works towards • •

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