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Visit of NIC representatives in Czech Republic 30 September 2005

Visit of NIC representatives in Czech Republic 30 September 2005. The John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC): A survey of its supercomputer facilities and its Europe-wide computational science activities

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Visit of NIC representatives in Czech Republic 30 September 2005

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  1. Visit of NIC representatives in Czech Republic30 September 2005 • The John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC): • A survey of its supercomputer facilities and itsEurope-wide computational science activities • Norbert Attig, Thomas Müller, and Achim StreitJohn von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC)Research Centre JülichGermany Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  2. Visit of NIC representatives in Czech Republic23 May 2005 • Agenda • The John von Neumann Institute for Computing Norbert Attig • Research in Computational Science Thomas Müller • Grid Computing at NIC Achim Streit Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  3. Education and Research in Germany • Federal system • Universities are under state rule (16 Länder) • Research is under federal rule to a large extent (Bund) Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  4. Important German Research Organisations I • Organisations for the promotion of research • DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft • (German Research Council) • Focus: university research • AvH Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung (Foundation) • Focus: scientists from other countries • DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst • (German Academic Exchange Service) • Focus: students and young scientists going abroad Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  5. Important German Research Organisations II • Research Organisations • 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 Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

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

  7. Helmholtz Research Fields • Old: Centre-oriented research structure • New: Programme-oriented research structure in the fields • Health • Earth and Environment • Energy • Structure of Matter • Key Technologies • Transport and Space Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  8. Research Centre Jülich R & D on 2.2 square kilometres Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  9. Research Centre Jülich R & D on 2.2 square kilometres Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  10. Research Centre Jülich at a glance I • Company Founded in:December 1956 • Legal form:limited liability company • Partners Federal Republic of Germany (90%) • Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (10%) • Funding 360 million Euro (2004 budget) Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  11. Research Centre Jülich at a glance II • Structure 12 departments (36 institutes) • 6 central departments, e.g. ZAM • 2 project management organisations • Jülich Model Heads of institutes are professors • at surrounding universities • Staff (in 2004) 4300 including • 1200 scientists • 400 Ph.D. students • 150 students • 370 trainees • Visiting scientists more than 700 p.a. from 50 countries Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  12. Research Centre Jülich – Past, Present, Future • Founded in 1956 as a civil nuclear research centre(“Kernforschungsanlage”, KFA) • Nuclear energy research became more and more unpopularin Germany • Strengthening the multidisciplinary research character of the centre in the nineties • Budget constraints and competition between the HGF centres require to focus on a few “grand challenges” Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  13. Research Centre JülichPerspective Committee • In 2004 an international Perspective Committee made an assessment of the future development of the Research Centre • Major recommendations: • Focus on “Condensed Matter Physics” as a basis for the investigation of • functions and diseases of the human brain • bio and nano electronics • sustained energy supply • networked environmental research • and expand the supercomputing centre NIC into a • European Centre for High-End Computing Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  14. 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

  15. DKRZ Hamburg HLRN Berlin HLRN Hannover Wuppertal NIC Jülich Dresden Aachen National Centres DWD Offenbach StateCentres Topical Centres HLRS Stuttgart Universities RZG Garching LRZ Garching Supercomputing in Germany

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM)

  19. Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM)

  20. 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

  21. Supercomputers at NIC Jump: Juelich Multi-Processor IBM p690 Cluster 1312 processors, 8.9 TeraFlops, 5.6 TeraByte memory, 50 TeraByte disks, 2.2 PetaByte tape robot jumpdoc.fz-juelich.de Cray XD1, 72+ processors

  22. Supercomputers at NIC Jubl: Juelich Blue Gene/L System (since July 2005) 2048 processors POWER PC440, 5.7 TeraFlops Low power and floor space requirements highly scalable system! Limited memory per node

  23. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. Computational science Complex atomistic modelling and simulation  Thomas Müller Lattice quantum field theory, QCD Simulation of quantum computers Applied mathematics Parallel algorithms: linear algebra, long-range interactions Stochastic methods, data mining Computer science Performance optimisation Visualisation, virtual reality Cluster computing Grid Computing  Achim Streit Easy and secure access to Grid resources and data High-speed data communication ZAM Research Fields

  33. Support Pyramid advisor scientific partnership methods and optimisation specialist technical support, standby team helpdesk

  34. Education and Training • International schools, workshops, conferences • Summer student programme• Seminars and courses• Education of mathematical- technical assistants, cooperation with the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, about 100 students and trainees• Chair of Computational Physics at Wuppertal University

  35. 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 • •

  36. Thank you for your attention!

  37. International Development in HPC • USA • Push extremely fast systems •  Performance boost •  Scientific leadership in nearly all fields of science • EUROPE • Compete with USA, Japan ! • German science council: • Three European Supercomputer centres • NIC one of these ?! Lawrence Livermore: Blue Gene/L

  38. European Perspective • Compete with USA and Japan ! • Statements of the German Science Council 11/2004: • - The acquisition of supercomputers of the highest performance class is necessary to keep Europe [...] in the competition with Japan, the US and China. • - The establishment of three European super- computers is necessary with an operating life of a computer of about five to six years. • - The supercomputers available within Europe should be replaced cyclically in regular intervals. • h

  39. DKRZ Hamburg HLRN Berlin HLRN Hannover Wuppertal NIC Jülich Dresden Aachen National Centres DWD Offenbach StateCentres Topical Centres HLRS Stuttgart Universities RZG Garching LRZ Garching Supercomputing in Germany

  40. German Continual Investment Model- Science Council 1995, 2000, 2004 - 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 DKRZ LRZ NIC HLRS RZG DWD LRZ National Centres at the top of the Performance Pyramid

  41. … … Future Helmholtz Capability Computing Complex (2007) High-End System >50 TeraFlops Leadership System >250 TeraFlops Multi- Gigabit Backend Network Topical Center GridKa Global ParallelFile System Teams NIC Multi-PetaByte Tape Archive SL QCD SL Geosphere Capability Support Computing Topical Center DESY SL Neuroscience Topical Center AWI SL Nanoscience + Molecular Materials Topical Center GSI SL Biology … Topical Center FZJ Topical Center NIC/FZJ Simulation Laboratories

  42. Complexity of the mission relevant contributions to solving the challenges posed by society; long-term orientation, sustainable solutions Continuity of workcontinuous added value from basic know-how to economic applications Helmholtz AssociationCharacteristics of Large-scale Research Cooperation between disciplines (example medicine, environment) between institutions (example structure of matter) between nations (example fusion, neutron research) Concentration high-performance, versatile infrastructure Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

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