The National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC) in Chile aims to: 1) Offer top-quality HPC services and training to support national research computing demands. 2) Stimulate the creation of a national high-speed research network and develop links between academic groups, industry, and the public sector. 3) Build a world-class HPC facility through innovative architectures, powerful resources, and collaboration on international projects.

1. National Laboratory for High
Performance Computing
(NLHPC)
Eduardo'Vera
Execu&ve(Director(.(NLHPC(.(www.nlhpc.cl
Center(for(Mathema&cal(Modeling((CMM)
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2. Mission & Vision
To consolidate a national facility for HPC by offering
top quality services and advanced training to answer
the national demand for scientific computing,
developing links between research groups, the
industry and the public sector
We envision the NLHPC as a competitive facility of
world-class quality for research services in HPC

3. Objectives
CRITICAL IT PARTNER TO LARGE-SCALE AND DATA INTENSIVE
RESEARCH PROJECTS BASED ON HPC
1. To develop and support 3. To use and explore
powerful and reliable innovative architectures and
computing and network techniques to accelerate
resources enabling national scientific computing.
researchers to have access
to HPC capacity to solve 4. To trigger new industrial
computing- and data- initiatives in HPC.
intensive scientific 5. To help educate the next
problems. generation of scientists and
2. To stimulate and participate engineers in HPC.
in the creation of a national 6. To increase social
high-speed network for the awareness of the role of
transmission of research HPC in contemporary
data. society and technological
development.

4. Estimated Scientific Demand for HPC:
A Key Issue for improving Chilean competitiveness
• Near to 50 Chilean research
groups (aprox. 300 researchers)
are actually demanding HPC
resources
• The expansion of Chilean research
in data-driven sciences such as
Omics, Bioinformatics and
Astronomy, requires a national
facility for HPC services
• Scientific contributions in areas
such Molecular Simulations,
Quantum chemistry and
Astrophysics are highly dependent
on the availability of HPC
capacities
• Astronomy will become a highly
demanding research field for
HPC: LSST and AURA will
produce more than 40TB of raw
data per night

5. Associative Model:
An Open Model
NLHPC Associated Institutions
Universidad Católica
del Norte (UCN)
Chile
Universidad Santa
María (USM)
Universidad de Chile
(UChile)
Sponsoring Institution
Universidad Católica
(UC)
REUNA
Connectivity
Universidad de
Santiago (USACH)
N
Universidad de Talca
(UTalca)
Universidad de la
Frontera (UFRO)
Other Chilean 200 miles
institutions to be
added ...

6. NLHPC International Network:
Global Outlook
• Access to advanced training
• Technological support network
• Collaboration agreements and joint research projects
• Participation on international HPC networks and projects: Gellato
Federation, PRAGMA, GISELA
• CMM’s technology partners: IBM, HP, Microsoft and NTT

7. The NLHPC
Supercomputing Infrastructure
UCN USM PUC UCHILE
Requested Requested Requested Requested
Storage (600 TB)
X86-64 (64 cores) Storage (48 TB)
X86-64 SSI (256 cores)
Visualization Cluster X86-64 (64 cores) Storage (20 TB)
Photonic Switch Infiniband Switch
X86-64 (2000 cores) + 64 GPUs
Counterpart Counterpart Counterpart Counterpart
X86-64 (26 cores) X86-64 (44 cores) X86-64 (62 cores) X86-64 (600 cores)
USACH UTALCA UFRO REUNA
Requested Requested Requested Requested
Photonic Switch
Photonic Router / Switch
X86-64 (64 cores) GPU-CPU (64 units) X86-64 SSI (32 cores)
Counterpart Counterpart Counterpart Counterpart
Interconnectivity
services
X86-64 (48 cores) X86-64 SSI (24 cores) X86-64 SSI (24 cores)

8. Current CMM Technology:
An Advanced Computing Cluster Open to the
Chilean Scientific Community
IBM iDataplex machine (Levque)
• 66 computing nodes
• 600 cores, Intel Xeon X5550 (nehalem)
• 3 GB per core
• Two IB ports 40 GB/s
• 100% non-blocking Infiniband interconnection
Switch Qlogic 12800-180
• Nodes for queuing, metadata storage, applications
testing, development, grid access and webservices
access
• Data gathered during last month with only 20% of potential users
• 75% of average CPU load

9. NLHPC Advanced Network
Technology:
Strengthening Academic Networks across the country
0.25x = 2.5Gbps 350M bps
REUNA REUNA REUNA
(North of Chile) (Santiago) (South of Chile)
1Gbps (Dark Fiber)
1Gbps (Dark Fiber)
CMM
HPC Infrastructure
UChile Institutional Network
Additional impact of the network Current situation
enhancement:
• e-learning
• Video-conferencing
• Accessing e-infrastructures
• Distributing knowledge

10. NLHPC Advanced Network
Technology:
Strengthening Academic Networks across the country
USM UC USACH UTALCA
10Gbps x (Dark Fiber) 1Gbps
1Gbps
REUNA
0.25x = 2.5Gbps REUNA 1Gbps REUNA
(North of Chile) (Santiago) (South of Chile)
1Gbps
1Gbps 10Gbps x (Dark Fiber)
1Gbps (Dark Fiber)
CMM
HPC Infrastructure
UCN UFRO
UCHILE
Institutional Network
Additional impact of the network NLHPC situation
enhancement:
• e-learning
• Video-conferencing
• Accessing e-infrastructures
• Distributing knowledge

11. Educating the next generation of scientists and
engineers in HPC
• To consolidate undergraduate
courses in HPC
• To offer advanced courses in HPC for
Doctoral training
• To organize periodic seminars on
HPC
• To organize the NLHPC Annual
Symposium
• To organize Industrial Workshops to
promote the adoption of HPC by the
industry

12. Outreach: Increasing the social awareness of the role of HPC
in contemporary society and technological development
• Open Innovation program in HPC
• High-school guided visits
• HPC installation at MIM (Interactive
Science Museum)
• Explora Projects
• HPC Cup
• General public lectures on the HPC
impact in Mining Industry, Astronomy,
Biotechnology, Climate Modeling,
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