These are my slides for the IDC HPC User Forum meeting at Imperial College in July 2012, introducing HPC Midlands. HPC Midlands is a cloud supercomputing service for academic and industrial use, supported by a £1m grant from the EPSRC.
OSFair2017 Workshop | “EOSC meets enterprises’ needs”: A view from IBMOpen Science Fair
Haris Linardakis gives insight into the IBM viewpoint on Open Data | OSFair2017 Workshop
Workshop title: EOSC meets enterprises' needs
Workshop overview:
Do you want to know more about the view of the industry on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)? Join us to discuss on what the industry thinks about EOSCpilot and what their expectations are.
DAY 3 - PARALLEL SESSION 7
The RECAP Project: Large Scale Simulation FrameworkRECAP Project
In this presentation, Sergej Svorobej (DCU) gave a brief overview of RECAP and introduced the large scale simulation framework used in the project. The event was held in conjunction with the National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce (http://2018.nc4.ie/) and took place April 10, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.
Learn more about RECAP: https://recap-project.eu/
OSFair2017 Workshop | “EOSC meets enterprises’ needs”: A view from IBMOpen Science Fair
Haris Linardakis gives insight into the IBM viewpoint on Open Data | OSFair2017 Workshop
Workshop title: EOSC meets enterprises' needs
Workshop overview:
Do you want to know more about the view of the industry on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)? Join us to discuss on what the industry thinks about EOSCpilot and what their expectations are.
DAY 3 - PARALLEL SESSION 7
The RECAP Project: Large Scale Simulation FrameworkRECAP Project
In this presentation, Sergej Svorobej (DCU) gave a brief overview of RECAP and introduced the large scale simulation framework used in the project. The event was held in conjunction with the National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce (http://2018.nc4.ie/) and took place April 10, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.
Learn more about RECAP: https://recap-project.eu/
SPARK USE CASE- Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Electricity Market Bi...Impetus Technologies
SPARK SUMMIT SESSION -
A majority of the electricity in the U.S. is traded in independent system operator (ISO) based wholesale markets. ISO-based markets typically function in a two-step settlement process with day-ahead (DA) financial settlements followed by physical real-time (spot) market settlements for electricity. In this work, we focus on obtaining equilibrium bidding strategies for electricity generators in DA markets. Electricity prices in DA markets are determined by the ISO, which matches competing supply offers from power generators with demand bids from load serving entities. Since there are multiple generators competing with one another to supply power, this can be modeled as a competitive Markov decision problem, which we solve using a reinforcement learning approach. For power networks of realistic sizes, the state-action space could explode, making the RL procedure computationally intensive. This has motivated us to solve the above problem over Spark. The talk provides the following takeaways:
1. Modeling the day-ahead market as a Markov decision process
2. Code sketches to show the markov decision process solution over Spark and Mahout over Apache Tez
3. Performance results comparing Mahout over Apache Tez and Spark.
A project overview presented by Sergej Svorobej (Dublin City University) on March 10, 2017.
RECAP is a €4.6million EU-funded project to develop the next generation of cloud, edge and fog computing capacity provisioning via targeted research advances in cloud infrastructure optimisation, simulation and automation.
Distribuert og åpen datahåndtering for skip og landKjetil Nordby
Digital plattformer og økosystemer som Veracity spiller en viktig rolle i den globale data økonomien. Her møtes tilbydere og forbrukere av data og tjenester for å skape verdier igjennom tilgang til plattformens mange tjenester og sikre delingsfunksjoner. Basert på Industrie 4.0 og International Data Spaces (IDS) vil Forskningsråd-prosjektet Maritime Data Space (MDS) ta steget lenger ut og utvikle et åpent, maritimt økosystem for datautveksling og -deling. Dette realiseres ved bruk av Veracity som fundament i et desentralisert rom av interoperative plattformer og økosystem, muliggjort av IDS. Nye tjenestetilbydere kan legge ut sine tjenester og data, og Veracity’s markedsplass sørger for oppgjør mellom kjøper og selger. Vi vil presentere hva Veracity er idag, utvalgte brukertilfeller som illustrerer hvordan rådata leveres til plattformen, og hvordan disse kombineres med andre data og tjenester for å skaper verdi for deres eiere.
Torstein Kongshem,
Bob Jones, CERN & HNSciCloud Coordinator gives an update on the HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement which is now in its Solution Prototyping phase. The presentation includes also an overview of the prototypes under development.
In this deck from the UK HPC Conference, Paul Calleja from the University of Cambridge presents: The Cambridge Research Computing Service.
"The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding and use of data science. The Centre is funded by a series of collaborations with partners in business and industry which have an interest in using data science for the benefit of their customers and their organisations. With unprecedented access to increasing volumes of data, our research ranges from the underlying fundamentals in mathematics and computer science, to data science applications across all six University Schools of Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology. In parallel, our research addresses important issues around law, ethics and economics, in order to apply data science to solve challenging problems for society."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kYb
Learn more: https://www.hpc.cam.ac.uk/
and
http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2019/uk-conference/agenda.php
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
This presentation, given by Bob Jones, CERN & HNSciCloud Coordinator, at the ESA-ESPI Workshop on “Space Data & Cloud Computing Infrastructures: Policies and Regulations”, describes what are the challenges and needs of the cloud users and explains how an hybrid cloud model can support them.
XiTAO: an Energy - Efficient Runtime for the LEGaTO Tool ChainLEGATO project
LEGaTO project goals:
− Order of magnitude energy-efficiency on heterogeneous hardware through energy
optimized programming models and runtimes
− 5x decrease in MTTF through energy-efficient software-based fault tolerance.
− 5x increase in FPGA designer productivity using hardware dataflow languages
Webinar on Fortissimo: Call for Proposals for HPC-Cloud Application Experiments
This call for proposals seeks to broaden the portfolio of application experiments currently being carried out within Fortissimo focusing on simulation services for the benefit of manufacturing SMEs.
Here are the slides of my talk to the Loughborough University Programme Presidents group to solicit feedback on our IT Strategy and service for students. For more information, see http://www.lufbra.net/youreducation/presidents/
SPARK USE CASE- Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Electricity Market Bi...Impetus Technologies
SPARK SUMMIT SESSION -
A majority of the electricity in the U.S. is traded in independent system operator (ISO) based wholesale markets. ISO-based markets typically function in a two-step settlement process with day-ahead (DA) financial settlements followed by physical real-time (spot) market settlements for electricity. In this work, we focus on obtaining equilibrium bidding strategies for electricity generators in DA markets. Electricity prices in DA markets are determined by the ISO, which matches competing supply offers from power generators with demand bids from load serving entities. Since there are multiple generators competing with one another to supply power, this can be modeled as a competitive Markov decision problem, which we solve using a reinforcement learning approach. For power networks of realistic sizes, the state-action space could explode, making the RL procedure computationally intensive. This has motivated us to solve the above problem over Spark. The talk provides the following takeaways:
1. Modeling the day-ahead market as a Markov decision process
2. Code sketches to show the markov decision process solution over Spark and Mahout over Apache Tez
3. Performance results comparing Mahout over Apache Tez and Spark.
A project overview presented by Sergej Svorobej (Dublin City University) on March 10, 2017.
RECAP is a €4.6million EU-funded project to develop the next generation of cloud, edge and fog computing capacity provisioning via targeted research advances in cloud infrastructure optimisation, simulation and automation.
Distribuert og åpen datahåndtering for skip og landKjetil Nordby
Digital plattformer og økosystemer som Veracity spiller en viktig rolle i den globale data økonomien. Her møtes tilbydere og forbrukere av data og tjenester for å skape verdier igjennom tilgang til plattformens mange tjenester og sikre delingsfunksjoner. Basert på Industrie 4.0 og International Data Spaces (IDS) vil Forskningsråd-prosjektet Maritime Data Space (MDS) ta steget lenger ut og utvikle et åpent, maritimt økosystem for datautveksling og -deling. Dette realiseres ved bruk av Veracity som fundament i et desentralisert rom av interoperative plattformer og økosystem, muliggjort av IDS. Nye tjenestetilbydere kan legge ut sine tjenester og data, og Veracity’s markedsplass sørger for oppgjør mellom kjøper og selger. Vi vil presentere hva Veracity er idag, utvalgte brukertilfeller som illustrerer hvordan rådata leveres til plattformen, og hvordan disse kombineres med andre data og tjenester for å skaper verdi for deres eiere.
Torstein Kongshem,
Bob Jones, CERN & HNSciCloud Coordinator gives an update on the HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement which is now in its Solution Prototyping phase. The presentation includes also an overview of the prototypes under development.
In this deck from the UK HPC Conference, Paul Calleja from the University of Cambridge presents: The Cambridge Research Computing Service.
"The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding and use of data science. The Centre is funded by a series of collaborations with partners in business and industry which have an interest in using data science for the benefit of their customers and their organisations. With unprecedented access to increasing volumes of data, our research ranges from the underlying fundamentals in mathematics and computer science, to data science applications across all six University Schools of Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology. In parallel, our research addresses important issues around law, ethics and economics, in order to apply data science to solve challenging problems for society."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kYb
Learn more: https://www.hpc.cam.ac.uk/
and
http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2019/uk-conference/agenda.php
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
This presentation, given by Bob Jones, CERN & HNSciCloud Coordinator, at the ESA-ESPI Workshop on “Space Data & Cloud Computing Infrastructures: Policies and Regulations”, describes what are the challenges and needs of the cloud users and explains how an hybrid cloud model can support them.
XiTAO: an Energy - Efficient Runtime for the LEGaTO Tool ChainLEGATO project
LEGaTO project goals:
− Order of magnitude energy-efficiency on heterogeneous hardware through energy
optimized programming models and runtimes
− 5x decrease in MTTF through energy-efficient software-based fault tolerance.
− 5x increase in FPGA designer productivity using hardware dataflow languages
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This call for proposals seeks to broaden the portfolio of application experiments currently being carried out within Fortissimo focusing on simulation services for the benefit of manufacturing SMEs.
Here are the slides of my talk to the Loughborough University Programme Presidents group to solicit feedback on our IT Strategy and service for students. For more information, see http://www.lufbra.net/youreducation/presidents/
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These are the slides from my talk on Google+ with Google’s William Florance at the UCISA Using Social Media to Communicate workshop. You can find out more and watch a video of the talk at http://blog.martinh.net/2012/01/making-most-of-google.html
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HPC Midlands is a new £1.4m High Performance Computing facility jointly operated by Loughborough University and the University of Leicester. HPC Midlands will provide supercomputing services to both academic and industrial users in the region and beyond.
In this deck from the HPC User Forum in Detroit, Bob Sorensen from Hyperion Research presents: Exascale Update. As a research firm, Hyperion is tracking the development of Exascale supercomputers worldwide.
"The four geographies actively developing Exascale machines are: USA, China, Europe, and Japan. While it is important to emphasize that this is not a race, the first machine to achieve Exascale in terms of sustained LINPACK should be the A21 Aurora system at Argonne in 2021. It will be followed soon after by machines from all the other active projects."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-j1U
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
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Every business is increasing the use of artificial intelligence to gain efficiency and to make better decisions. These new demands for data processing are not well delivered by traditional computer architectures. Enterprises, developers, data scientists, and researchers need new platforms that unify all AI workloads, simplifying infrastructure and accelerating ROI. This has led to the development of high performance and specialised hardware devices to meet these new demands.
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2. What is HPC Midlands?
New High Performance Computing facility for
academia and industry
Jointly operated by Loughborough University and
University of Leicester
£1m funding from EPSRC/BIS e-Infrastructure
programme
Building on relationships with existing industrial
partners and software providers
Opportunity to “operationalize” HPC spending
3. Hera: The HPC Midlands Cluster
£1m EPSRC investment + institutional contributions
3,000 core Bull supercomputer (48 Teraflops)
11 x chassis (18 blades per chassis)
188 compute node blades, each with
2 x 2.0GHz (8 core) Sandy Bridge CPUs
15TB RAM
140 blades with 64GB RAM (4GB/core)
48 blades with 128GB RAM (8GB/core)
60TB Lustre storage
QDR Infiniband interconnect
5. HPC Midlands Timeline
8th December e-Infrastructure call received
5th January HPC Midlands proposal submitted
19th January Funding awarded
23rd January Tender issued against RM721 framework
24th January Mechanical and Electrical work commissioned
30th January Tenders received and scored, contract awarded to Bull
9th February Work begins to prepare the HPC Midlands site
20th February Data centre extension now complete
24th February Work begins on the plumbing / chilled water supply
27th February Electrical Distribution Panel in place
1st March Space being prepared for new chiller unit
9th March 63A circuits now mostly in place
15th March Raised floor installed
21st March Dedicated chiller unit arrives and craned into place
26th March Delivery of HPC Midlands hardware
10. HPC Midlands Partners: Intel
Cutting edge hardware innovations
Nehalem/Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge
Increase in cores/threads per socket, I/O bandwidth etc
>2bn transistors per CPU!
Many Integrated Core (MIC)
Leading player in HPC compilers
Intel Cluster Studio
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programming and their HPC tools
11. HPC Midlands Partners: ANSYS
Market leading HPC software (CFX, FLUENT etc)
But significant capital investment required for licenses
Locks out SMEs and spinoffs
Inflexible in today’s challenging climate
New model: “Pay As You Go” access to the ANSYS
suite of products
12. HPC Midlands Partners: E.ON
E.ON New Build and Technology, Plant Modelling
Sample use cases:
Precipitator ductwork
Gas turbine blade lifetime
Gas turbine enclosure safety
Wind farm resource assessment
Steam flow in nuclear plants
16. e-Infrastructure and JANET(UK)
JANET upgrades planned for e-Infrastructure
£26m capital investment
Potential for e.g. new primary connections / dedicated
bandwidth for key research centres / instruments
What would people like from JANET?
Can we develop a model for JANET interconnects with
industrial partners?
JANET as _peer_ not backhaul
Build on existing partnerships
Move beyond Sneakernet scenario