#sunshine2015 High Performance Computing Infrastructure as a Key Enabler to Engineering Designby Kola oyeniran @Nse conference in #thedome in #Akure #Nigeria

1. 2015 NSE CONFERENCE
16th
– 20th
NOVEMBER 2015
Akure, Ondo State-Nigeria

2. High Performance Computing
Infrastructure as a Key Enabler to
Engineering Design
By
Oladapo O. Adeniyi.#1
, Mohammed Dauda #2
,Kola Oyeniran#3
, Mohammed S. Haruna#4
, Kehinde G. Samuel #5
National Agency for Science & Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Abuja

3. Highlights…
Abstract
Introduction
HPC Facilities in Africa
Importance of HPC to industrialised economies
HPC INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATION AREAS
Benefits of HPC to Nigeria
Naseni HPC laboratory-a case study
Major challenges of HPC implementation/Our efforts at NASENI
Conclusion and Recommendations
References

4. ABSTRACT
—High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure has created a new
methodology for tackling Engineering problems as alternative to traditional
experimental and theoretical approaches. The more computing resources
available, the more simulation models that can be run and the better the
accuracy. Thus, enabling the creation of large, high-reliability, high-throughput
and real-time models that yield accurate and detailed understanding of the
performance of a proposed engineering design. HPC also adds remarkable high
speed computing processing value by enabling greater computational results.
Using HPC infrastructure, engineering researchers can analyse not just a single
design idea, but many design variations. This paper will discuss the importance
of HPC infrastructure, its application areas and benefits. Specific examples
regarding its actual utilisation including the challenges encountered will be
highlighted using the National Agency for Science and Engineering
Infrastructure (NASENI) HPC as a case study.
• Keywords— High Performance Computing (HPC), Engineering problems,
Real-Time, Simulation and Modelling

5. Introduction
 In the second half of the 20th
century, simulation and modelling have been established as the
‘third pillar of scientific discovery’, complementing theoretical analysis and experiment.
Many computational problems in Engineering Design require the most powerful supercomputers
available today.
The widespread deployment of multi-core and many-core architectures has highlighted the need
to exploit parallel computing technologies. [ 1]
High Performance Computing (HPC) can be regarded as any computer system larger than a regular
desktop PC used for modelling and simulation having more computing resources in terms of
processing speed, storage capacity.
The performance HPC hardware has since then increased rapidly, steadily driven by the ever-
increasing demands for computing power in many areas of science - Engineering Design in particular.
As the concept of High Performance Computing (HPC) begins to find its feet in developing
countries, our paper focuses on the importance of this technology, its application areas, benefits and
challenges encountered using NASENI HPC laboratory as a case study

6. HPC Facilities in Africa
S/n HPC FACILITIES IN AFRICA as at October 2010
Server Model Brands Countries
1 AMD Opteron-based IBM e1350 cluster (with eight nodes
equipped with ClearSpeed accelerator cards).
IBM South Africa
2 IBM Blue Gene/P rack IBM South Africa
3 Hybrid Sun Machine (SPARC 64 VII M7000) South Africa
4 4 Computing Nodes, 2.5 Teraflops, Linux Redhat OS Brand Unknown Tanzania
5 DELL PowerEdge 2950 Head Node and 1950 Compute
nodes (8)
DELL NASENI Abuja,
Nigeria
6 DELL PowerEdge 2950 Head Node and 1950 Compute
nodes (8)
DELL NASENI Nnewi,
Nigeria
7 DELL PowerEdge 2950 Head Node and 1950 Compute
nodes (8)
DELL NASENI, Ilesa,
Nigeria
8 4 Computing Nodes Brand Unknown African
University of
Science and
Technology,
Abuja.
9 DELL PowerEdge 2950 and 1950 Compute nodes (16) DELL NASRDA
Abuja

7. Importance of HPC to industrialised economies
Design and manufacturing are central drivers of most advanced
economy in the world.
HPC remarkably adds value to engineering design by enabling the
creation of large, high-reliability models that yield accurate and
detailed understanding into the performance of a proposed design.
Many countries world-wide are investing in HPC technology, most
notably the USA, UK, China and Japan.
HPC is a key enabler of scientific and industrial innovation today.
It is quite clear that the global economies that invest in HPC are
those that will, over time, gain the greatest competitive advantage
and reap the largest economic benefits.
There exist a current scramble to invest in large-scale leading-
edge HPC systems worldwide

8. HPC INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATION
AREAS Computer Aided Engineering: Crash and safety test simulations, Structural analysis,
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Design optimization.
 Automotive: for designing efficient and safe vehicles
 Aerospace: for designing aircraft engines that can fulfil the envisaged reductions in air
pollution and noise.
 Digital media:
 Financial Services (Insurance/Retail Banks/Capital Market): Actuarial calculations,
Fraud analysis and detection, Monte Carlo simulations, Risk and portfolio analysis.
 Life Sciences (Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Computational Biology): Database
queries, Genomics, Proteomics, Drug design clinical studies, Business processes,
Molecular dynamics. Environmental Science: Climate Modelling, weather forecast,
Ocean modelling.
 Oil and Gas Exploration (Energy): Seismic processing, Geological data analysis,
Reservoir simulation and visualization.
 Imaging and Rendering: Game rendering, Medical Imaging, High-end visualization.
 Government: Information extraction , Decryption , Defence testing and monitoring

9. Benefits of HPC to Nigeria
 Drives faster processing speed for the most demanding applications including
Engineering Designs so as to complete more computations per second and power
through the most complex analysis.
 Empowers young and upcoming engineering students at all levels - by enabling them to
visualize and practically start working on engineering designs and models that have
been taught theoretically in the classrooms.
 Initiates a new era of parallel computing and computational science education
nationwide.
 Stirs up prime engineering inventions within the nation when experts within the
science and engineering community have access to the HPC facility for performing
time-saving, robust, and detailed simulations during their investigation.
 It's a cost effective solution to previous engineering approaches that have caused
critical machine parts and electronic components to fail due to making the designed
equipment to work in unforeseen practical conditions, e.g. environmental effects
(Temperature, Pressure etc).
 Enables local technology adaptation to prevalent economic challenges.
 It will position Nigeria as the second country in Africa after South Africa that will enable
its research community with such large-scale HPC infrastructure.
 It will form the basis for our future migration to cloud computing - a new cost-effective
service-oriented architecture

10. Naseni HPC laboratory-a case study
Head Node Cluster nodes
CPU Host Dell PowerEdge 2900 Dell PowerEdge 1950
CPU Dual-core Intel Xeon 5130 64 bit processor,
4MB L2 cache
Dual-core Intel Xeon 5130 64 bit processor, 4MB L2 cache
CPU frequency (GHz) 2.0 2.0
CPU cores per node 4 4
CPU memory host(GB) 4 4
HDD(GB) 500( 2 X 250GB) 73 ( 1 X 73GB)
Interconnect G Ethernet through Dell PowerConnect Switch
# of Cluster nodes 1 7
# of CPU cores 4 28
Form Factor Tower 7 x 1U Blade server

11. NASENI HPC Architecture

12. Major challenges of HPC Implementation
 The rise in performance and capability of HPC is now threatened by
technological factors, in particular energy requirements and the fact that
microprocessor speeds are no longer expected to increase in the way they
have in the past.
 HPC solutions typically utilize a tremendous amount of energy, to a point
that is often difficult to provide or justify.
 Existing compatible applications that can run on HPC systems and storage
capacity to store the output (result) of simulations that run on HPC
systems simultaneously.

13. Our efforts at NASENI
At NASENI, in order to reduce the above problem
among others, we recently designed and
developed a small hydro power (SHP) plant in
Keffi which supplies about 10kW of energy.
The operational range for a DELL 2950 and 1950
server is 900W and 803W respectively.

14. Conclusion and Recommendations
 Innovative research in the areas of Renewable Energy should be looked into,
this will also avail the opportunity to solve some of the challenges of HPC
especially power.
 Focussing only at the highest or lowest level of HPC carries the risk of market
failure.
 Due to the convergence of Computing disciplines, HPC infrastructure
investment must be seen in the context of overall investment in R&D and
Innovation in computing and its applications in general, including possibility to
work across all disciplines.
 With NASENI pioneering move in Nigeria to implementation of HPC
technology and the development to alternative energy sources (the recently
designed Small Hydro Power (SHP) plant by NASENI which currently supplies
about 10kW of energy), HPC is a key technology which can contribute to
industrial and economical growth of Nigeria

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16. Thanks…
oyenirankola@naseni.org