HPC-AI Advisory Council

2018 Year-End Summary

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The HPC-AI Advisory Council

• World-wide HPC non-profit organization

• More than 400 member companies / universities / organizations

• Bridges the gap between HPC-AI usage and its potential

• Provides best practices and a support/development center

• Explores future technologies and future developments

• Leading edge solutions and technology demonstrations

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HPC Advisory Council Members

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Centers

HPC-AI ADVISORY COUNCIL CENTERS

HPCAC HQ

AUSTIN

SWISS (CSCS)

CHINA

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Cluster Center

• The Council operates and manages a cluster center

• Providing free of charge access to variety of compute, network and storage technologies

• Intel, AMD, IBM Power, ARM, NVIDIA GPUs, Mellanox and more

• For more information: http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/cluster_center.php

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Cluster Center (Examples)

• Supermicro / Foxconn 32-node cluster

• Dual Socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6138 CPU @ 2.00GHz

• Dell™ PowerEdge™ R730/R630 36-node cluster

• Dual Socket Intel® Xeon® 16-core CPUs E5-2697A V4 @ 2.60 GHz

• IBM S822LC POWER8 8-node cluster

• Dual Socket IBM POWER8 10-core CPUs @ 2.86 GHz

• GPU: NVIDIA Kepler K80 GPUs

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HPC|Works Community

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• Lattice QCD

• LAMMPS

• LS-DYNA

• miniFE

• MILC

• MSC Nastran

• MR Bayes

• MM5

• MPQC

• NAMD

• Nekbone

• NEMO

• NWChem

• Octopus

• OpenAtom

• OpenFOAM

• OpenMX

• OptiStruct

• PARATEC

• PFA

• PFLOTRAN

• Quantum ESPRESSO

• RADIOSS

• SNAP

• SPECFEM3D

• STAR-CCM+

• STAR-CD

• VASP

• VSP

• WRF

Multiple Applications Best Practices Published

• Abaqus

• ABySS

• AcuSolve

• Amber

• AMG

• AMR

• ANSYS CFX

• ANSYS FLUENT

• ANSYS Mechanical

• BQCD

• BSMBench

• CAM-SE

• CCSM

• CESM

• COSMO

• CP2K

• CPMD

• Dacapo

• Desmond

• DL-POLY

• Eclipse

• FLOW-3D

• GADGET-2

• Graph500

• GROMACS

• Himeno

• HIT3D

• HOOMD-blue

• HPCC

• HPCG

• HYCOM

• ICON

App

App

App

App

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Technical Community

• One place for all technical information – an effort of the HPC|Works working group

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Conferences

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Stanford 2018 Conference

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Swiss 2018 Conference

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Australia 2018 Conference

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Spain 2018 Conference

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HPC-AI Advisory Council China 2018 Conference

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Competitions

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ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition 2018 - Teams

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ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition 2018 – Winning Teams

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2018 HPC-AI Advisory Council Student RDMA Competition

2X-10X Performance Acceleration

Fudan UniversityGuangdong University of TechnologyUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaXi'an Post and Telecommunications UniversityRenmin University of ChinaTsinghua University

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences TeamNanjing UniversityJiangsu UniversityEast China Normal UniversityHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyNorthwestern Polytechnical University

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APAC HPC-AI University Competition

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2018 HPC-AI Advisory Council Activities

• HPC-AI Advisory Council– More then 400 members, http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/

– Application best practices, case studies

– Benchmarking center with remote access for users

– World-wide conferences

• 2018 Conferences– USA (Stanford University) – February

– Switzerland (CSCS) – April

– Student Cluster Competition (ISC) – July

– Australia - August

– Spain (BSC) – Sep

– China (HPC China) – October

• 2018 Competitions– APAC HPC-AI Competition - March

– China - 6th Annual RDMA Competition - May

– ISC Germany - 7th Annual Student Cluster Competition - June

• For more information – www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com

– info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

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