La RES: una oportunidad

XXVI Jornadas de Investigación de las Universidades Españolas

Josep M. Martorell, PhD BSC – CNS Associate Director 11/2018 The evolution of the research paradigm

• Numerical Reduce expense • Avoid suffering simulation and • Help to build knowledge where Big Data analysis experiments are impossible or not affordable HPC: An enabler for all scientific fields

Materials, Engineering Astro, Chemistry & High Energy Nanoscience & Plasma Physics

Advances leading to: Life Sciences • Improved Healthcare Earth & Medicine Sciences • Better Climate Forecasting • Superior Materials • More Competitive Industry ALYA RED Biomechanics: Respiratory system Wind Farms Simulation Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

BSC-CNS objectives

Supercomputing services R&D in Computer, PhD program, to Spanish and Life, Earth and Technology Transfer, EU researchers Engineering Sciences public engagement

Spanish Government 60% BSC-CNS is a consortium Catalan Government 30% that includes Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) 10% People

Data as of October 31, 2018 BSC Resources 2017 executed budget Distributed Supercomputing Infrastructure

26 members, including 5 Hosting Members (Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) Hazel Hen JUWELS 652 scientific projects enabled SuperMUC

110 PFlops/s of peak performance on Curie 7 world-class systems

>11.500 people trained by 6 PRACE Piz Daint Advanced Training Centers and others events Marconi

MareNostrum Access prace-ri.eu/hpc-acces RES: HPC Services for Spain RES now made up of thirteen supercomputers

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

Access www.res.es RES: HPC Services for Spain

•The RES was created in 2006. •It is coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). •It forms part of the Spanish “Map of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures” (ICTS). RES: HPC Services for Spain • Objective: coordinate and manage high performance computing services to promote the progress of excellent science and innovation in Spain. • It offers HPC services for non-profit, open R&D purposes. • Since 2006, it has granted more than 1,200 Million CPU hours to 2,628 research activities. Research areas

Hours granted per area

23% AECT 30% Mathematics, physics Astronomy, space and engineering and earth sciences BCV FI QCM 19% 28%

Life and health Chemistry and sciences materials sciences RES: HPC Services for Spain RES is made up of 12 institutions:

BSC MareNostrum CESGA FinisTerrae CSUC Pirineus & Canigo BSC MinoTauro UV Tirant UC Altamira UPM Magerit CénitS Lusitania & SandyBridge UMA Picaso IAC La Palma UZ CaesarAugusta SCAYLE Caléndula UAM Cibeles 1 10 100 1000 TFlop/s (logarithmic scale) RES supercomputers

BSC (MareNostrum 4) 165888 cores, 11400 Tflops Main processors: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8160 Memory: 390 TB Disk: 14 PB

UPM (Magerit II) 3920 cores, 103 Tflops Main processors : IBM Power7 3.3 GHz Memory: 7840 GB Disk: 1728 TB

UMA (Picasso) 4016 cores, 84Tflops Main processors: Intel SandyBridge-EP E5-2670 Memory: 22400 GB Disk: 720 TB

UV (Tirant 3) 5376 cores, 111,8 Tflops Main processors: Intel SandyBridge-EP E5-2670 Memory: 10752 GB Disk: 14 + 10 TB

CSUC (Pirineus) 2784 cores, 283,66 Tflops Main processors: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8160 Memory: 12000 GB Disk: 200 TB

CSUC (Canigo) 384 cores, 33,2 Tflops Main processors: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8160 Memory: 9000 GB Disk: 200 TB RES supercomputers

CénitS (Lusitania 2) 800 cores, 33 Tflops Main processors Intel Xeon E5-2660v3, 2.6GHz Memory: 10 GB Disk: 328 TB

CénitS (SandyBridge) 2688 cores, 56 Tflops Main processors Intel Sandybridge Xeon Memory: 5376 GB Disk: 328 TB

BSC (MinoTauro) 624 cores, 251 Tflops Main processor: 39x 2 Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 Memory: 20 TB Disk: 14PB (shared with MN4)

CESGA (FinisTerrae 2) 7712 cores, 328Tflops Main processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680v3 Memory: 40 TB Disk: 960 TB

UC (Altamira 2+) 5120 cores, 105 Tflops Main processor: Intel SandyBridge Memory: 15,4 TB Disk: 2PB

UZ (Caesaraugusta) 2014 cores, 80.5 Tflops Main processor: Intel E5-2680v3, 2.5GHz Memory: 5400 GB RAM memory Disk: 219TB RES supercomputers

SCAYLE (Caléndula) 2432 cores, 50 Tflops Main processor: Intel SandyBridge Xeon Memory: 4864 GB Disk: 600 TB

UAM (Cibeles) 368 cores, 14 Tflops Main processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3, 2.40GHz Memory: 896 GB Disk: 80 TB

UAM (SandyBridge) – coming soon – 2688 cores, 56Tflops Main processor: Intel SandyBridge Xeon, 2.60GHz Memory: 5376 GB Disk: 80 TB

IAC (LaPalma) 4032 cores, 83 Tflops Main processor: Intel SandyBrigde Memory: 8064 GB Disk: 60 TB

BSC (CTE - Power) 52 cores, 1485 Tflops Main processor: IBM Power 9 with 20 cores & 4 GPU V100 Memory: 27 TB Disk: 14PB (shared with MN4)

More information in https://www.res.es/en/res-sites Resources granted: CPU hours

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Requested hours Awarded hours (A+B) How to apply?

• RES resources are open to researchers and spin-offs:

o Computing resources: CPU hours and storage o Technical support: application analysis, porting of applications, search for the best algorithm… to improve performance and ensure the most effective use of HPC resources. o Free of cost

• Three open competitive calls per year.

Deadline for Period Starting date applications P1 January 1st March P2 May 1st July P3 September 1st November How to apply?

RES intranet: https://www.bsc.es/res-intranet

• Researchers present a proposal which includes research project description, technical requirements and research group experience.

• Accepted proposals have access to RES supercomputers for 4 months.

• Granted time can be: hours with priority (hours A) or without priority (hours B) Who can apply?

• RES resources are aimed at open R+D+I activities:

o Researchers from academia and public R&D institutions o Spin-offs during their first 3 years from its creation o Collaboration projects between private companies and research groups from academia or public institutions o Open to international applicants, but we recommend the collaboration with researchers from Spanish institutions Proposal evaluation

Formal Technical evaluation evaluation Submit

Access committee Scientific experts panel

Final report of accepted activities Activity length

• Accepted proposals have access to RES supercomputers for 4 months. If your activity needs more time to be properly developed, you can ask for a continuation activity:

New activity Report dissemination (4 months) information

Continuation activity Report dissemination (4 months) information

• The application form is simplified • Are preferably allocated to the same machine Continuation activities • In the evaluation, one reviewer is kept from the previous activity and the second reviewer changes Tips to write a strong proposal

• Read carefully all the protocols, guides and FAQs in:

https://www.res.es/en/access-to-res

• Project description section: highlight the importance of your project, not only from the scientific point of view but also from the return to society.

 Why do you think that your project should deserve the resources requested? Tips to write a strong proposal

• Activity description section: specify clearly why do you need supercomputing resources. Write as accurate as possible the flowchart of the simulations. Indicate that you have your own human resources in your group to run and process the output of all the simulations you propose.

 Why do you need to carry out the simulations in the selected machine?

 Is the amount of computing resources requested adjusted to your needs and properly justified?

• Doubts about software/HPC resources: ask support team!

 Are your jobs adequate for parallel computing?

[email protected] RES events: technical training

These workshops are organized by the RES nodes and aim to provide the knowledge and skills needed to use and manage the supercomputing facilities.

• Check the agenda in RES website: https://www.res.es/en/events?event_type=technical_training

• PATC courses in BSC (PRACE Advanced Training Center): https://www.bsc.es/education/training/patc-courses RES events: networking opportunities

Scientific seminars

The RES promotes scientific seminars which address supercomputing technology applications in specific scientific areas. These events are mainly organized by RES users and are open to the entire research community.

Annual Users’ Meeting

This event is a discussion forum to share experiences about the use of supercomputing technologies and to promote the dissemination of research results. Next year edition will be held in Zaragoza.

Agenda 2018: www.res.es/en/events  Mobility grants for researchers using HPC resources  Short stays to visit scientific hosts (3 weeks – 3 months)  Eligibility: open to researchers from academia or industry whose research needs HPC  Funds for travel and living allowance  Access to European HPC facilities

http://www.hpc-europa.eu/ Funded by the EC: 2017 - 2021

What is HPC-Europa 3 ?

• HPC- Europa3 is a partnership of 9 leading HPC centres and 1 centre of excellence. • The project is funded by Horizon 2020: from May 2017 until April 2021. • Aims to support 1220 international research visits in 4 years. • Around 100 million CPU hours are available in total. • Applications can be created at any time: 4 closing dates / year. • Researchers can visit partner countries (transnational access). • Scientific groups can invite research visitors from other EU countries or Associated States. RES: HPC Services for Spain

•The RES was created in 2006. •It is coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). •It forms part of the Spanish “Map of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures” (ICTS). Visit our website: www.res.es

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