www.bsc.es Barcelona, 5 noviembre 2015

Prof. Mateo ValeroBSC Director

BSC-CNS

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

BSC-CNS objectives:– R&D in Computer, Life, Earth and Engineering Sciences– Supercomputing services to Spanish and EU researchers– PhD programme, technology transfer, public engagement

BSC-CNS is a consortium that includes:– Spanish Government 60%– Catalonian Government 30%– Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) 10%

425 people, 40 countries

The MareNostrum 3 Supercomputer

70% distributed through PRACE24% distributed through RES

6% for BSC-CNS use

Over 1015 Floating Point Operations per second

Nearly 50,000 cores100.8 TB of main memory

2 PB of disk storage

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% Pflops available to RES

MareNostrum 3 MinoTauro Finisterrae II Magerit 2 Altamira 2 Tirant 2 Picaso 2 Calendula Caesar Augusta 2 La Palma 2 Cibeles Pirineus Lusitania Atlante

RES: HPC Services for Spain

RES now made up of fourteen supercomputersFive new incorporations from March 29 2015:

•Finis Terrae II, Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA);

•Pirineus, Consorcio de Servicios Universitarios de Cataluña (CSUC);

•Lusitania, Fundación Computación y Tecnologías Avanzadas de Extremadura;

•Caléndula, Centro de Supercomputación de Castilla y León, y

•Cibeles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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Universe Sciences21%

Mathematics and Computer Sciences

4%

Fundamental Physics18%

Engineering and Energy

13%

Earth SystemSciences

10%

Chemical Sciences and Materials

21%

BioChemistry, Bioinformatics and

Life Sciences13%

MareNostrum: IBMBSC, Barcelona, Spain JUQUEEN: IBM

BlueGene/Q GAUSS/FZJJülich, Germany

CURIE: Bull Bullx GENCI/CEABruyères-le-Châtel, France

SuperMUC: IBM GAUSS/LRZ Garching, Germany

FERMI: IBM BlueGene/QCINECA , Bologna, Italy

HORNET: Cray GAUSS/HLRS,Stuttgart, Germany

4 Hosting Members offering core hours on6 world-class machines

PRACE

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RISC Project

1. Identified research clusters for targeted research collaboration;

2. Produced a Green Paper on HPC Drivers and Needs in Latin America;

3. Produced a Roadmap for HPC strategic R&D in Latin America;

4. Enhanced HPC R&D policy dialogue between policymakers and stakeholders

Latin America

• Universidad Veracruzana

• Universidad de Chile

• Universidad de Buenos Aires

• Universidad Autónoma de Manizales

• Coppetec Fundaçao do Río de Janeiro

Europe

• BSC

• CINECA

• UPM

• Menon

• Uni Coimbra

Performance Development of HPC over the Last 23 Years from the Top500

59.7 GFlop/s59.7 GFlop/s

400 MFlop/s400 MFlop/s

1.17 TFlop/s1.17 TFlop/s

33.9 PFlop/s33.9 PFlop/s

166 TFlop/s166 TFlop/s

362 PFlop/s362 PFlop/s

SUM

N=1

N=500

1 Gflop/s

1 Tflop/s

100 Mflop/s

100 Gflop/s

100 Tflop/s

10 Gflop/s

10 Tflop/s

1 Pflop/s

100 Pflop/s

10 Pflop/s

1 Eflop/s

My Laptop 70 Gflop/s

My iPhone 4 Gflop/s

J. Dongarra

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Mission of BSC Scientific Departments

EARTH SCIENCES To develop and implement global and regional state-of-the-art models for short-term air quality forecast and long-term climate applications

LIFE SCIENCES To understand living organisms by means of theoretical and computational methods (molecular modeling, genomics, proteomics)

CASETo develop scientific and engineering software to efficiently exploit super-computing capabilities (biomedical, geophysics,

COMPUTER SCIENCES To influence the way machines are built, programmed and used: programming models, performance tools, Big Data, computer

atmospheric, energy,social and economic simulations)

architecture, energy efficiency

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The Example of Personalised Medicine

Big Data generators 

Drug Development

Data transfer

Pharmaceutical Companies

Precise Medicine

Enabling a healthier society and economic growth

Health SystemsPersonalised Healthcare

Storage

Processing & analysis

Access

Overwhelming IT infrastructures, forcing us to reinvent them

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GEAGAM H2020 Project

MAX H2020 Project

Consolider Syec Project

EUDAT FP7 Project

(LIFEWATCH)

Consolider Syec

Blueprint & Elixir FP7 Projects

Alya Red Project

Joint Research Programme, Consolider Syec

Blueprint, MUG, Elixir

Joint Research Programme, Consolider

SyecBlueprint,

MUG, Elixir

Properties of DNA

SO Centres doing collaborative research with BSC

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SO Centres who use the MareNostrum Supercomputer

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BSC Scientific Advisory Board Members

Prof Dr Achim BachemFormer Chairman of the Board of DirectorsForschungszentrum Jülich

Dr Catherine RivièrePrésidente Directrice GénéraleGrand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif

Dr Paul MessinaDirector of ScienceArgonne Leadership Computing Facility

Dr Satoshi Matsuoka Professor of the High Performance Computing Systems Group, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Dr Horst D. Simon Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Prof Dr Guy Brasseur Senior ScientistMax Planck Institute for Meteorology

Prof Janet Thornton Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton

Dr Thomas Zacharia Executive Vice President of Research and Development Qatar Foundation

Prof Manuel Peitsch Chairman of Board of DirectorsSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Prof Jack Dongarra Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Tennessee

Prof Leonard Barrie Bolin Centre for Climate Research Stockholm University

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Severo Ochoa

• Results of the 1st phase (2012-2015):

• Cutting edge multidisciplinary research program developing novel components in thehardware and software stacks in the Exascale / BigData convergence.

• The SO program allowed BSC to perform research which had a direct effect on theCenter’s ability to achieve H2020 funding.

• Improvement of the BSC training and mobility actions and Human Resourcesmanagement, resulting in achievement of the HR Excellence in Research Badge(HRS4R).

• Intensification of the communication of the Center’s activities and results.• Increased participation in the leading international supercomputing initiatives such as

BDEC, JLESC, policy forums such as RDA, and cutting-edge HPC application initiativessuch as SKA, PanCancer and IS-ENES.

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EU HPC Ecosystem

Centers of Excellence in HPC applications

• Specifications of exascale prototypes

• Technological options for future systems

• Identify applications for co‐design of exascale systems

• Innovative methods and algorithms for extreme parallelism of traditional & emerging applications

• Collaboration of HPC Supercomputing Centres and application CoEs

• Provision of HPC capabilities and expertise 

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The Codesign Challenge

EoCoEEnergy oriented

Centre of Excellence (led by CEA)

ESiWACEExcellence in SImulation of

Weather and Climate in Europe (Led by DKRZ)

BioExcelCentre of Excellence for Biomolecular Research

(Led by KTH)

NOMAD The Novel Materials

Discovery Laboratory (Led by Max Planck)

MAX Materials design at

the eXascale(Led by CNR)

PoPPerformance Optimization

and Productivity(Led by BSC)

COEGSS Center of Excellence for Global Systems Science

(Led by Potsdam Uni)

E-CAM Software, training and

consultancy in simulation and modelling

(Uni College Dublin)

participates participates

participates participates participatesleads

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R&D projects with IT Companies

BSC-Microsoft Research Centre

BSC-IBM Technology Center for Supercomputing

BSC-NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence

Intel-BSC Exascale Lab

Current project: 1,2M€FTE: 10

End date: 31/12/2015New project: under negotiation

Current project: 473.600€FTE: 3

End date: 31/12/2016

Current project: 467.433€FTE: 4,5

End date: 31/03/2017Current project: 2,0M€FTE: 12

End date: 30/09/2017

Current project: 558.681€FTE: 6

End date: 31/12/2016

Current project: 172.890€FTE: 6

End date: 26/10/2015

Currently negotiating possible research project of 1,5M€

over 3 years.

Currently negotiating project on education; also possibility

of research project.

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Competitive Funding since 2015

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41 H2020 projects approved or in negotiation for combined BSC grant of 17.1M€. (85 proposals rejected.)

Success rate of 32.5% considering nº of projects, and 27.85% considering funding requested.

Average success rate for H2020 (for nº of projects) is between 12 and 14%.

H2020 Results so far

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Education and Professional Training

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There is a shortage of HPC professionals Users must also be trained

This fast moving technology area needs a multidisciplinary educational approach

• Master & PhD programmes

• Summer schools• Workshops• Seminars• Retreats

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• Scientific community • Media• Industry• Politicians• General Public• BSC staff

Channels

Target

Six person Communication team

• Media Relations and Protocol • Corporate Image and Events • Online and Internal Communication • Project Dissemination • Visits

…plus Scientific Visualisation area

Communication at BSC

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BSC Current Website

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Communication at BSC

Barcelona Supercomputer ARMed for Assault on World’s Fastest Machines

Barcelona Center Makes Super Bet on Cellphone Chips

Cutting edge tech plays key role for Repsol in hunt for oil

Internal Communication

Web & Social Media

Media EventsVisits & Outreach

Project Dissemination

Winner: 2013 International Visualisation Challenge

Visualisation

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• Professional Training Program• PRACE Advanced Training Center (14 courses currently offered).• RES training sessions (for researchers, technicians and scientists).• CUDA Center of Excellence courses (over 600 trainees in three years).• Seasonal Schools (3-4 annually).• BSC International Doctoral Symposium (2014 and 2015).

• Severo Ochoa• Research Seminars (52 seminars in the last 3 years).• Exchange and Mobility Program (32 incoming and 31 outgoing mobility

grants in 2013-2015).

• Commitment with the University• MSc Degree in High Performance Computing FIB-UPC.• Master and Bachelor scholarships and internships.• PhD and Postdoc opportunities (currently 75 PhD Students and 51

PostDoc Researchers).

Education & Training

In the last 3 years, over 80 courses taught, with 3.200 attendees (900 in Latin America) tothe Professional Trainings, Workshops and Seasonal Schools.

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Helping to define the future of global HPC

International Roadmapping Leadership in Exascale

Enabling the Data Revolution

Contributing to Standardisation

Research Infrastructures

MoU with CINECA, CEA & Jülich 2nd MoU with CEA

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Severo Ochoa

• Proposal delivered for the 2nd phase (2016-2019):

• Takes into account BSC’s three main strategic objectives:

• be the backbone of e-science in Europe and Spain.• achieve research excellence at the international level.• have a positive impact on society and the economy.

• Prioritization of the application areas of cognitive computing, energy, environment andhealth.

• BSC’s flagship software solutions and new technologies will continue to be developed tosupport the compute-and data-intensive workloads as HPC and Big Data converge.

• Technology Transfer at BSC will be consolidated with additional staff.• Participation in strategic international forums will be increased.• Attraction and development of talent will continue.

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Thank you!