www.icm.edu.pl
InfiniCortex
A Supercomputer
that encompasses the world
Marek	Michalewicz
Interdisciplinary	Centre	for	Mathematical	and	Computational	Modelling	(ICM),	University	of	Warsaw,	Poland
Institute	for	Advanced	Computational	Science,	Stony	Brook	University,	USA
EmTech	Asia,	Singapore,	14	February	2017
www.icm.edu.pl
CSIRO,
Australia
A*STAR,
Singapore
Nano-
technology
BREAK
My life - in (computing scale) numbers
1,000x >100x
>100x
Giga
Tera
Peta
1,000,000,000x memory and 100,000,000x computing speed increase!
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0
250
500
750
1000
1250
1500
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
SGI KNL
NSCC Fujitsu
IBM BlueGene Q Cumulus
IBM Power7 Cirrus
SGI Aurora
Fujitsu Fuji
HP Axle
ACRC old systems -10 computers!
TFLOPS
Growth of computational power
in Singapore
4
Level 17 at Fusionopolis
A*CRC Datacenter 1
5
A*CRC Datacenter 2
Matrix Building at Biopolis
Mellanox	Metro-X	testing	since	early	2013
goal:	to	connect	HPC	resources	at	Fusionopolis	
with	storage	and	genomics	pipeline	at	Biopolis
A*CRC		Metro-X	testing	team:
Stephen	Wong	
Tay	Teck	Wee	
Steven	Chew
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NOT GRID!
NOT CLOUD!
NOT “Internet”!
InfiniCortex is …
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The	InfiniCortex uses	a	metaphor	of	a	human	brain’s	outer	layer,	the	Cortex,	consisting	
of	highly	connected	and	dense	network	of	neurons	enabling	thinking	….	
to	deliver	concurrent supercomputing	across the globe utilising	trans-continental	
InfiniBand and	Galaxy of Supercomputers
InfiniCortex is like a living global brain
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InfiniCortex Components
1. Galaxy of Supercomputers
• Supercomputer	interconnect	topology	work	
by	Y.	Deng,	M.	Michalewicz	and	L.	Orlowski
• Obsidian	Strategics	Crossbow	InfiniBand	router
2. ACA 100 & ACE 10
• Asia	Connects	America	100	Gbps,	by	November	2014	
• Asia	Connects	Europe	10Gbps,	established	February	2015
• SingAREN-TEIN-CC	and	SingAREN-Internet2	connections
3. InfiniBand over trans-continental distances
• Using	Obsidian	Strategics	Longbow	range	extenders
• round	the	globe	InfiniBand	connectivity	established	by	2015
4. Application layer
• from	simplest	file	transfer:	dsync+	
• to	complex	workflows:	ADIOS,	multi-scale	models
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TITECH
(Tokyo)
A*STAR
(Singapore)
NCI
(Canberra)
Seattle
SC14
(New Orleans)
GA Tech
(Atlanta)
10Gbps InfiniBand
100Gbps InfiniBand
Enabling	geographically	dispersed	HPC	facilities	to	collaborate	and	function	as	ONE	concurrent	supercomputer,	
bringing	the	capability	to	address	and	solve	grand	challenges	to	the	next	level	of	efficiency	and	scale.
InfiniCortex 2014 (phase 1)
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www.icm.edu.plIn	collaboration	with	NCI	ANU	Andrew	Howard	and	Jakub	Chrzeszczyk
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10Gbps InfiniBand
100Gbps InfiniBand
100Gbps	InfiniBand	East-ward	link:	Singapore-trans-Pacific-USA-trans-Atlantic-Europe
10Gbps	InfiniBand	West-ward	link:	Singapore-Europe	(via	TEIN*CC)
InfiniCortex 2015 InfiniBand ring-around the
World
TITECH
(Tokyo)
NCI
(Canberra)
Seattle
GA Tech
(Atlanta)SC15
(Austin,TX)
PSNC
(Poznan)
A*STAR
(Singapore)
URCA
(Reims)
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largest spanning
InfiniBand network:
ring-around-the-world
with up-to100Gbps
sections Singapore-
USA
InfiniBand routing
across 7 subnets over
4 continents
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InfiniCloud 2015
True HPC Cloud around the Globe
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Running the pipeline on the virtual InfiniCloud cluster
Virtual
globally
distributed
cluster
CPU
Network
Cancer mutation calling pipeline
Output of mutations
geopipeline-compute001 | australia |
geopipeline-compute002 | australia |
geopipeline-compute003 | singapore |
geopipeline-compute004 | europe |
geopipeline-frontend001 | nova |
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7 InfiniBand sub-nets
7 countries: Singapore,	USA,	Australia,	Japan,	
Poland,	France,	Canada
100Gbps Singapore-Austin
10-30Gbps rest of network
~15 Universities and Research
entities
~40 partners and growing
HPC InfiniCloud over 4
continents
InfiniCortex demo, SC16, Salt Lake City,
UT, USA
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No. Description
Quantit
y
Unit Price
Unit Price
S$
Total Price
S$
A*CRC
Spending
s
NSCC
Spending
s
Remarks
1 100G	link	from	SG-LA 1 USD	105,000 149 100 149 100 0 74 550
50/50	Co-sharing	between	NSCC	and	Internet2-
Sponsored
2 100G	link	from	LA	to	Austin 1 USD	100,000 142 000 142 000 0 0 Sponsored	by	Centurylink/SCINET
3 100G	Cards	for	SLIX 4 66 250 SGD 66 250 265 000 0 0 Sponsored	by	Ciena/3D
4
Cross-Connect	at	Los	
Angeles
1 USD,	10	000 14 200 14 200 0 0 Sponsored	by	SCINET
5 10G	SG-Europe	Link 1 EURO	16,000 24 800 24 800 0 12 400
50-50	Co-sharing	between	NSCC	and	TEIN*CC-
Sponsored
6 30G	Poznan	to	Austin 1 USD	100,000 142 000 142 000 0 0 Sponsored	by	GEANT/Internet2/Pioneer/Poznan/Scinet
7
Connection	from	SCINET	to	
ACRC	Booth
USD	7000 9 940 9 940 9 940 0
8 100G	Network	Switches 2 300 000 SGD 300 000 600 000 0 0 Sponsored	by	Arista
9
Long	Haul	InfiniBand	
Switches	and	Routers
38 USD	135,000 191 700 7 284 600 0 0
34	InfiniBand	switches	and	1x	InfiniBand	Router	was	
sponsored	by	Obsidian
4	x	InfiniBand	switches	and	1x	InfiniBand	Router	are	
A*CRC	existing	equipments	using	FY14	funds.
10
Long	Haul	InfiniBand	
Routers
2 USD	12,500 17 750 35 500 0 0
1	x	InfiniBand	Router	was	A*CRC	existing	equipments	
using	FY14	funds
1	x	InfiniBand	Router	was	sponsored	by	Obsidian
11 40G	Infiniband	Switches 2 USD	22,500 31 950 63 900 0 0
Sponsored	by	Obsidian	Strategics	for	inter-booth	
connection
12 Servers 10 USD	15,000 21 300 213 000 0 0 Sponsored	by	HPE/Mellanox/Intel/NVIDIA
13 Storages 1 USD	52,260 74 210,00 74 210 0 0 Sponsored	by	DDN
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NGSP Sequencers at B2 (Illumina + PacBio)
NSCC Gateway
GIS
NSCC
STEP 2: Automated pipeline analysis once sequencing
completes. Processed data resides in NSCC
500Gbps Primary
link
Data Manager
STEP 3: Data manager indexes and
annotates processed data. Replicate
metadata to GIS. Allowing data to be
search ed and retrieved
Data
Manager
Compute
Tiered Storage
POLARIS, Genotyping and other
Platforms in L4~L8
Tiered Storage
STEP 1: Sequencers stream directly to NSCC
Storage (NO footprint in GIS)
Compute
1 Gbps per sequencer
10 Gbps
1 Gbps per machine
100 Gbps
10 Gbps
Genomic Institute of Singapore - National Supercomputing Centr
(GIS-NSCC) Integration
Science, Technology and Research Network (STAR-N) connects all
National Supercomputing Centre stakeholders: A*STAR, NUS, NTU and
Industrial users with 100Gbps + InfiniBand links.
NUS
NTU
A*STAR
Fusionopolis
SingAREN
Global Switch
A*STAR
Biopolis
WOODLANDS
100Gbps InfiniBand
500Gbps Infinera Cloud Express
10/40/100Gbps InfiniBand/IP
SELETAR
CHANGI
NOVENA
OUTRAM
ONE-NORTH
JURONG
Singapore InfiniBand connectivity
• A	high	bandwidth	network	
to	connect	the	distributed	
login	nodes
• Provide	high	speed	access	
to	users	(both	public	and	
private)	anywhere
• Support	transfer	of	large	
data-sets	(both	locally	and	
internationally)
• Builds	local and
international network
connectivity (Internet	2,	
TEIN*CC)	
• ASEAN, USA Europe,
Australia, Japan,
Middle East
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Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and
Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw
People at ICM:
• researchers,
• software developers,
• IT administration,
• HPC experts
Hardware
• 5 HPC installations, 2.1 PetaFlops peak
performance (CPU’s and GPU’s).
• dedicated installation for DataScience
Premises
• Supercomputer and Data center at Białołęka
• Backup installation at Kampus Ochota
A base:
www.icm.edu.pl
A selection of ICM’s services:
Computational grants allocation
• 350 active computational grants
• over 280 scientific publications in 2016
• 180 millions cpu hours in 2016
Meteo - numerical weather forecast
• 4 independent models, first service in production in Poland
• over 150 millions of visits a year
Virtural Library
• Access to the scientific publications for all academics in Poland
• In collection: Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, ACS, and others
• An access to single article within countrywide licence ~ 1€,
instead of ~ 30€
www.icm.edu.pl
• VisNow
• Generic open-source platform for data analysis and visualization, developed from
scratch at ICM
• Multiplatform, extensible, Java software
• Supporting large-scale datasets
• Image-based analysis of tissue regeneration process
• Classic approach to image-based features in MRI imaging
• Deep Learning techniques for machine learning classification
• Novel T2 mapping based imaging
• Quantitative automated assessment of tissue pathology
for Achilles tendon
Strength of ICM: projects
Strength of ICM: projects
Timothy
Timothy is a novel large scale parallel
computational model allowing 3-D simulations
of cell colonies growing and interacting with
variable environment in previously unavailable
tissue scale.
Vessel with concentration gradient
of oxygen in the surrounding tissue 3-D solic tumor development in
oxygen environment (necrotic core)
CERMINE
• Problem: Automatic extraction of information from PDFs with
scientific papers
• Learns automatically from data using modern machine learning
methods (CRF, SVM, k-means, …)
• Award winning ESWC 2015 SemPub Best Performing Approach
• Web service http://cermine.icm.edu.pl
• Used by:
Strength of ICM: projects
www.icm.edu.pl
Cosmology
• Evolution of
the Universe
Epidemiology
• Agent Based Modelling of the Influenza
Disease spread across Poland
• Census data based realistic and
georeferential society model
• Model includes many details:
- daily commuting and long-therm mobility
• - immunological distance
Computational and algorithmic support
for scientific projects:
www.icm.edu.pl
PCJ is a library for Java language that helps to
perform parallel and distributed calculations.
• Actively developed
• Local and remote memory access
• Resilience
• Program deployment
• Able to work on the multicore systems connected
with the typical interconnect such as ethernet or
infiniband providing users with the uniform view
across nodes.
• HPC Challenge Class 2 Best Productivity Award
• http://pcj.icm.edu.pl
PSNC: 1
Cyfronet: 2.4
WCNS: 1
ICM: 1.3
TASK: 1
PIONIER Academic Network
Consortium coordinated by
PSNC, Poznan
7,500 km own fiber
Five Academic Supercomputing
Centers, combined ~6.7 PFLOPS
Polish Academic Supercomputing and Networking Landscape, 2016
www.icm.edu.pl
Interdisciplinary Centre
for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
University of Warsaw, Poland
Poznan Supercomputing and
Networking Centre
SC16: booth
501
CYFRONET, Krakow
InfiniCortex Team
With	help	from:
SingAREN
A/Prof Francis Lee
Prof Lawrence
Wong
NTU
Stanley Goh
A*CRC
Tan Geok Lian (Networking)
Lim Seng (Networking)
Dr Jonathan Low (H/W, S/W,
Applications)
Dr Dominic Chien (S/W, Applications)
Dr Liou Sing-Wu (S/W, Applications)
Dr Gabriel Noaje (S/W, Applications)
Lukasz Orlowski (S/W, Applications)
A/Prof Tan Tin Wee (PI) Yves Poppe,
International
connectivity
Prof Yuefan DengDr Marek Michalewicz (PI) Dr David Southwell
(most) Project Partners 2014-2016
Huawei, HPE, Fujitsu, Aspera, Bright Cluster, Altair,
ByteScale, AristaFermiLab, George Washington University
Team Europe
GEANT, TEIN,
France: University of Reims,
Poland: PSNC, ICM
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Bell's law of computer classes
Roughly	every	decade	a	new,	lower	priced	computer	class	forms	based	on	a	new	
programming	platform,	network,	and	interface	resulting	in	new	usage	and	the	
establishment	of	a	new	industry.
Computer	classes	that	conform	to	the	law
• mainframes	(1960s)
• minicomputers	(1970s)[3]	These	are	essentially	replaced	by	clusters	of	PCs	for	a	twenty-year	(1965-1985)	
lifespan.	[4]
• personal	computers	and	workstations	evolving	into	a	network	enabled	by	Local	Area	Networking	or	
Ethernet	(1980s)
• web	browser	client-server	structures	enabled	by	the	Internet	(1990s)
• cloud	computing,	e.g.	Amazon	Web	Services,{2006}	or	Microsoft	Azure	(2012)
• hand	held	devices	from	media	players	and	cell	phones	to	tablets,	e.g.Creative,	iPods,	BlackBerrys,	iPhones,	
Smartphones,	Kindles,	iPads	(c.	2000-2010)
• Wireless	Sensor	Networks	that	enable	sensor	[5]	and	actuator	interconnection,	enabling	the	evolving	
Internet	of	Things.	(c.	>2005)
Can we consider InfiniCortex to be a new class of computers in Bell’s
Law sense?

PLNOG 18 - Dr Marek Michalewicz - InfiniCortex: Superkomputer wielki jak świat

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    www.icm.edu.pl InfiniCortex A Supercomputer that encompassesthe world Marek Michalewicz Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), University of Warsaw, Poland Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, USA EmTech Asia, Singapore, 14 February 2017
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    www.icm.edu.pl CSIRO, Australia A*STAR, Singapore Nano- technology BREAK My life -in (computing scale) numbers 1,000x >100x >100x Giga Tera Peta 1,000,000,000x memory and 100,000,000x computing speed increase!
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    www.icm.edu.pl 0 250 500 750 1000 1250 1500 2009 2010 20112012 2013 2014 2015 2016 SGI KNL NSCC Fujitsu IBM BlueGene Q Cumulus IBM Power7 Cirrus SGI Aurora Fujitsu Fuji HP Axle ACRC old systems -10 computers! TFLOPS Growth of computational power in Singapore
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    4 Level 17 atFusionopolis A*CRC Datacenter 1
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    5 A*CRC Datacenter 2 MatrixBuilding at Biopolis
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    www.icm.edu.pl NOT GRID! NOT CLOUD! NOT“Internet”! InfiniCortex is …
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    www.icm.edu.pl InfiniCortex Components 1. Galaxyof Supercomputers • Supercomputer interconnect topology work by Y. Deng, M. Michalewicz and L. Orlowski • Obsidian Strategics Crossbow InfiniBand router 2. ACA 100 & ACE 10 • Asia Connects America 100 Gbps, by November 2014 • Asia Connects Europe 10Gbps, established February 2015 • SingAREN-TEIN-CC and SingAREN-Internet2 connections 3. InfiniBand over trans-continental distances • Using Obsidian Strategics Longbow range extenders • round the globe InfiniBand connectivity established by 2015 4. Application layer • from simplest file transfer: dsync+ • to complex workflows: ADIOS, multi-scale models
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    www.icm.edu.pl TITECH (Tokyo) A*STAR (Singapore) NCI (Canberra) Seattle SC14 (New Orleans) GA Tech (Atlanta) 10GbpsInfiniBand 100Gbps InfiniBand Enabling geographically dispersed HPC facilities to collaborate and function as ONE concurrent supercomputer, bringing the capability to address and solve grand challenges to the next level of efficiency and scale. InfiniCortex 2014 (phase 1)
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    www.icm.edu.pl 10Gbps InfiniBand 100Gbps InfiniBand 100Gbps InfiniBand East-ward link: Singapore-trans-Pacific-USA-trans-Atlantic-Europe 10Gbps InfiniBand West-ward link: Singapore-Europe (via TEIN*CC) InfiniCortex2015 InfiniBand ring-around the World TITECH (Tokyo) NCI (Canberra) Seattle GA Tech (Atlanta)SC15 (Austin,TX) PSNC (Poznan) A*STAR (Singapore) URCA (Reims)
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    www.icm.edu.pl largest spanning InfiniBand network: ring-around-the-world withup-to100Gbps sections Singapore- USA InfiniBand routing across 7 subnets over 4 continents
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    www.icm.edu.pl Running the pipelineon the virtual InfiniCloud cluster Virtual globally distributed cluster CPU Network Cancer mutation calling pipeline Output of mutations geopipeline-compute001 | australia | geopipeline-compute002 | australia | geopipeline-compute003 | singapore | geopipeline-compute004 | europe | geopipeline-frontend001 | nova |
  • 18.
    www.icm.edu.pl 7 InfiniBand sub-nets 7countries: Singapore, USA, Australia, Japan, Poland, France, Canada 100Gbps Singapore-Austin 10-30Gbps rest of network ~15 Universities and Research entities ~40 partners and growing HPC InfiniCloud over 4 continents
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    InfiniCortex demo, SC16,Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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    www.icm.edu.pl No. Description Quantit y Unit Price UnitPrice S$ Total Price S$ A*CRC Spending s NSCC Spending s Remarks 1 100G link from SG-LA 1 USD 105,000 149 100 149 100 0 74 550 50/50 Co-sharing between NSCC and Internet2- Sponsored 2 100G link from LA to Austin 1 USD 100,000 142 000 142 000 0 0 Sponsored by Centurylink/SCINET 3 100G Cards for SLIX 4 66 250 SGD 66 250 265 000 0 0 Sponsored by Ciena/3D 4 Cross-Connect at Los Angeles 1 USD, 10 000 14 200 14 200 0 0 Sponsored by SCINET 5 10G SG-Europe Link 1 EURO 16,000 24 800 24 800 0 12 400 50-50 Co-sharing between NSCC and TEIN*CC- Sponsored 6 30G Poznan to Austin 1 USD 100,000 142 000 142 000 0 0 Sponsored by GEANT/Internet2/Pioneer/Poznan/Scinet 7 Connection from SCINET to ACRC Booth USD 7000 9 940 9 940 9 940 0 8 100G Network Switches 2 300 000 SGD 300 000 600 000 0 0 Sponsored by Arista 9 Long Haul InfiniBand Switches and Routers 38 USD 135,000 191 700 7 284 600 0 0 34 InfiniBand switches and 1x InfiniBand Router was sponsored by Obsidian 4 x InfiniBand switches and 1x InfiniBand Router are A*CRC existing equipments using FY14 funds. 10 Long Haul InfiniBand Routers 2 USD 12,500 17 750 35 500 0 0 1 x InfiniBand Router was A*CRC existing equipments using FY14 funds 1 x InfiniBand Router was sponsored by Obsidian 11 40G Infiniband Switches 2 USD 22,500 31 950 63 900 0 0 Sponsored by Obsidian Strategics for inter-booth connection 12 Servers 10 USD 15,000 21 300 213 000 0 0 Sponsored by HPE/Mellanox/Intel/NVIDIA 13 Storages 1 USD 52,260 74 210,00 74 210 0 0 Sponsored by DDN
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    www.icm.edu.pl NGSP Sequencers atB2 (Illumina + PacBio) NSCC Gateway GIS NSCC STEP 2: Automated pipeline analysis once sequencing completes. Processed data resides in NSCC 500Gbps Primary link Data Manager STEP 3: Data manager indexes and annotates processed data. Replicate metadata to GIS. Allowing data to be search ed and retrieved Data Manager Compute Tiered Storage POLARIS, Genotyping and other Platforms in L4~L8 Tiered Storage STEP 1: Sequencers stream directly to NSCC Storage (NO footprint in GIS) Compute 1 Gbps per sequencer 10 Gbps 1 Gbps per machine 100 Gbps 10 Gbps Genomic Institute of Singapore - National Supercomputing Centr (GIS-NSCC) Integration
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    Science, Technology andResearch Network (STAR-N) connects all National Supercomputing Centre stakeholders: A*STAR, NUS, NTU and Industrial users with 100Gbps + InfiniBand links. NUS NTU A*STAR Fusionopolis SingAREN Global Switch A*STAR Biopolis WOODLANDS 100Gbps InfiniBand 500Gbps Infinera Cloud Express 10/40/100Gbps InfiniBand/IP SELETAR CHANGI NOVENA OUTRAM ONE-NORTH JURONG Singapore InfiniBand connectivity • A high bandwidth network to connect the distributed login nodes • Provide high speed access to users (both public and private) anywhere • Support transfer of large data-sets (both locally and internationally) • Builds local and international network connectivity (Internet 2, TEIN*CC) • ASEAN, USA Europe, Australia, Japan, Middle East
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    www.icm.edu.pl Interdisciplinary Centre forMathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw People at ICM: • researchers, • software developers, • IT administration, • HPC experts Hardware • 5 HPC installations, 2.1 PetaFlops peak performance (CPU’s and GPU’s). • dedicated installation for DataScience Premises • Supercomputer and Data center at Białołęka • Backup installation at Kampus Ochota A base:
  • 26.
    www.icm.edu.pl A selection ofICM’s services: Computational grants allocation • 350 active computational grants • over 280 scientific publications in 2016 • 180 millions cpu hours in 2016 Meteo - numerical weather forecast • 4 independent models, first service in production in Poland • over 150 millions of visits a year Virtural Library • Access to the scientific publications for all academics in Poland • In collection: Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, ACS, and others • An access to single article within countrywide licence ~ 1€, instead of ~ 30€
  • 27.
    www.icm.edu.pl • VisNow • Genericopen-source platform for data analysis and visualization, developed from scratch at ICM • Multiplatform, extensible, Java software • Supporting large-scale datasets • Image-based analysis of tissue regeneration process • Classic approach to image-based features in MRI imaging • Deep Learning techniques for machine learning classification • Novel T2 mapping based imaging • Quantitative automated assessment of tissue pathology for Achilles tendon Strength of ICM: projects
  • 28.
    Strength of ICM:projects Timothy Timothy is a novel large scale parallel computational model allowing 3-D simulations of cell colonies growing and interacting with variable environment in previously unavailable tissue scale. Vessel with concentration gradient of oxygen in the surrounding tissue 3-D solic tumor development in oxygen environment (necrotic core)
  • 29.
    CERMINE • Problem: Automaticextraction of information from PDFs with scientific papers • Learns automatically from data using modern machine learning methods (CRF, SVM, k-means, …) • Award winning ESWC 2015 SemPub Best Performing Approach • Web service http://cermine.icm.edu.pl • Used by: Strength of ICM: projects
  • 30.
    www.icm.edu.pl Cosmology • Evolution of theUniverse Epidemiology • Agent Based Modelling of the Influenza Disease spread across Poland • Census data based realistic and georeferential society model • Model includes many details: - daily commuting and long-therm mobility • - immunological distance Computational and algorithmic support for scientific projects:
  • 31.
    www.icm.edu.pl PCJ is alibrary for Java language that helps to perform parallel and distributed calculations. • Actively developed • Local and remote memory access • Resilience • Program deployment • Able to work on the multicore systems connected with the typical interconnect such as ethernet or infiniband providing users with the uniform view across nodes. • HPC Challenge Class 2 Best Productivity Award • http://pcj.icm.edu.pl
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    PSNC: 1 Cyfronet: 2.4 WCNS:1 ICM: 1.3 TASK: 1 PIONIER Academic Network Consortium coordinated by PSNC, Poznan 7,500 km own fiber Five Academic Supercomputing Centers, combined ~6.7 PFLOPS Polish Academic Supercomputing and Networking Landscape, 2016
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    www.icm.edu.pl Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematicaland Computational Modelling University of Warsaw, Poland
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    Poznan Supercomputing and NetworkingCentre SC16: booth 501 CYFRONET, Krakow
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    InfiniCortex Team With help from: SingAREN A/Prof FrancisLee Prof Lawrence Wong NTU Stanley Goh A*CRC Tan Geok Lian (Networking) Lim Seng (Networking) Dr Jonathan Low (H/W, S/W, Applications) Dr Dominic Chien (S/W, Applications) Dr Liou Sing-Wu (S/W, Applications) Dr Gabriel Noaje (S/W, Applications) Lukasz Orlowski (S/W, Applications) A/Prof Tan Tin Wee (PI) Yves Poppe, International connectivity Prof Yuefan DengDr Marek Michalewicz (PI) Dr David Southwell
  • 36.
    (most) Project Partners2014-2016 Huawei, HPE, Fujitsu, Aspera, Bright Cluster, Altair, ByteScale, AristaFermiLab, George Washington University Team Europe GEANT, TEIN, France: University of Reims, Poland: PSNC, ICM
  • 37.
    www.icm.edu.pl Bell's law ofcomputer classes Roughly every decade a new, lower priced computer class forms based on a new programming platform, network, and interface resulting in new usage and the establishment of a new industry. Computer classes that conform to the law • mainframes (1960s) • minicomputers (1970s)[3] These are essentially replaced by clusters of PCs for a twenty-year (1965-1985) lifespan. [4] • personal computers and workstations evolving into a network enabled by Local Area Networking or Ethernet (1980s) • web browser client-server structures enabled by the Internet (1990s) • cloud computing, e.g. Amazon Web Services,{2006} or Microsoft Azure (2012) • hand held devices from media players and cell phones to tablets, e.g.Creative, iPods, BlackBerrys, iPhones, Smartphones, Kindles, iPads (c. 2000-2010) • Wireless Sensor Networks that enable sensor [5] and actuator interconnection, enabling the evolving Internet of Things. (c. >2005) Can we consider InfiniCortex to be a new class of computers in Bell’s Law sense?