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A U S T R a L I a Aa Uu Ss Tt Rr Aa Ll Ii Aa Annual Report 2016-2017 A USTRALIA NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE COMPUTATIONAL NATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT A U S T R A L I A AA UU SS TT RR AA LL II AA ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 2016 2017 WORLD-CLASS HIGH-END COMPUTING SERVICES FOR AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH nci.org.au AND INNOVATION © National Computational Infrastructure 2017 This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, all rights are reserved. Requests for authorisation and enquiries concerning the contents of the report should be directed to [email protected] The report is also accessible from the NCI website at www.nci.org.au Produced by National Computational Infrastructure 143 Ward Road, ANU Acton ACT 2601 Designed & typeset by Result Design. Printed by CanPrint Communications Pty Ltd. Cover Image: An overhead view of the Canberra city centre, visualised using a point cloud made with the Australian Capital Territory Government’s publicly available LiDAR dataset. The high resolution LiDAR data allows viewers to distinguish individual trees and buildings, and enables uses from environmental management to urban planning. The point cloud was visualised by Dr Ajay Limaye from NCI’s VizLab. ANNUAL REPORT A U S T R A L I A AA UU SS TT RR AA LL II AA 2016 2017 WORLD-CLASS HIGH-END COMPUTING SERVICES FOR AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTENTS Introduction 4 5. Governance 61 Our Mission 4 The NCI Board 62 Chair’s Report 7 Organisation Structure 63 Director’s Report 8 Financial Report 64 Highlights of our Year 8 6. Appendix 67 1. Research Outcomes and Impact 11 Infrastructure 68 National Benefits 12 Data 68 Impactful Science 18 HPC and Cloud 68 Growth in the NCI Partnership 21 Usage 70 Compute projects supported by 2. Innovations Enabling New Science 25 NCI in 2016-17 70 Computational Science 26 International Data Access 89 Data Science 30 NCI Links to Government Portfolios 90 Data Services 36 Outreach 92 System Enhancements 41 Tours and Events 92 3. Leadership and Engagements 47 Presentations and Publications 93 National and International Collaborations 48 Our Users 50 Our Partnerships 51 The NCI Collaboration 51 Our Vendors 53 4. Outreach 55 Educational Outreach 56 Corporate Outreach 57 Training 57 National and International Engagements 57 Presentations and Publications 58 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 3 Our Mission The National Computational Infrastructure NCI achieves its mission by bringing together (NCI) is a core part of Australia’s advanced the Australian Government and the Australian computing landscape. We are the leading research sector through a broad collaboration organisation providing nationally integrated involving the largest national science agencies, high-performance data, storage and computing universities, industry and the Australian services to Australian science, government and Research Council (ARC). industry. Driven to raise the ambition, impact The wide variety of organisations that use our and outcomes of Australian research, NCI services speaks to NCI’s national and strategic delivers on national priorities and research goals value. By combining the shared responsibilities from across the scientific disciplines. of the Australian Government and the research The National Science and Research Priorities sector in this highly integrated scientific developed by the Federal Government indicate computing facility, NCI provides world-class the key areas for the nation to focus on in services to thousands of researchers every year. facing our biggest challenges. Through the Our combination of infrastructure and expertise National Collaborative Research Infrastructure enables high-impact research and innovation Strategy (NCRIS), the Australian Government that is otherwise impossible to undertake. It also provides world-class infrastructure to the also delivers outcomes that inform and benefit research community. As an NCRIS facility, public policy, and supports an internationally and through our focus on these priorities, NCI competitive research environment that attracts supports the most valuable research activities and retains leading researchers in Australia. from across Australia. Data Data storageA U S T R A L I A services High- performance A Ucomputing S T R A L I A 4 NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTRODUCTION We are home to one of the nation’s most NCI is Australia’s leading facility for scientific powerful supercomputers, the nation’s highest computing. By integrating all the elements performance research cloud, some of its required for compute- and data-intensive fastest filesystems and its largest research data science within one organisation, we provide an repository. Our staff are renowned nationally unmatched service to the Australian research and internationally for their expertise. community. From highly compute-intensive research to the most interactive virtual data Since our early days as the Australian manipulations, NCI underpins many important Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australian scientific research advancements. established in 1999, NCI has been the leader The services we offer are continually being in Australian high-performance computing. improved, with world-leading innovations Today, our internationally recognised compute extending the possibilities for new kinds of and data services continue to support Australian research. science from theoretical development through to commercialisation. By providing high-performance computing, digital research environments and data services Our Objectives under one roof, NCI brings to the research community an all-in-one resource for Australian Our objectives drive us to deliver science. From the integration of the latest many- transformational outcomes for Australian society, core and GPU accelerator technologies into our policy, industry and the environment. operational system, to the creation of leading data access platforms, NCI caters to all kinds of • NCI is research- and outcomes-driven, scientists and all kinds of research. innovating and evolving our service portfolio to deliver on researchers’ requirements, As Australian research becomes ever more institutional research needs, and national reliant on computational methods, a reliable research priorities. and innovative high-performance computing platform is required. That is why NCI is pushing • NCI delivers a national benefit by enhancing the boundaries of what high-performance the outcomes of individual research projects computing (HPC) and high-performance data and longer run research programs undertaken (HPD) facilities can offer. The colocation of by government, science agencies, universities petabyte-scale data storage with a petaflop and industry from across the country. supercomputer is critical in making data science • NCI’s research-driven agenda is underpinned innovation possible for Australian research. by deep engagement with a broad range NCI is the backbone of many e-research tools: of research organisations, centres and bridging the gap between data and compute, communities across Australia and the world, and opening up new opportunities for research which drives the relevance, agility and value engagement from broader sections of the of its services. scientific community. As a consequence, people • NCI’s infrastructure, expertise and experience working in industry, in small organisations, and deliver transformational outcomes that are on in local councils can all make use of publicly par with the world’s best and, in some cases, available data resources for their own specific are world-leading. needs. ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 5 NCI is a highly integrated, advanced computing facility, dedicated to enabling research that benefits Australia and its national science priorities. By providing high-performance computing, data storage and data services under one roof, NCI brings an all-in-one resource for compute and data-intensive research to the Australian community. 6 NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTRODUCTION While the Australian Government’s 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap explicitly recommended the urgent replacement of the ageing supercomputers at NCI and Pawsey, no action has yet been taken to implement this recommendation. Chair’s Report Given the procurement of supercomputers can take at least a year, this hiatus is of increasing It is my pleasure to welcome you to NCI’s concern since Raijin will reach the end of its 2016–17 Annual Report. This has been a operational life at the end of 2018. significant year for NCI. The criticality of NCI to Australian research In May, we farewelled Professor Lindsay Botten, was further demonstrated this year by two who retired after seven years as Director. new Flagship Scheme partners: the ARC During that time, NCI established itself as Centres of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Australia’s most integrated high-performance Electronics Technologies and in Exciton and data research service. Fittingly, the Science. acquisition and deployment of a Lenovo cluster, funded by a $7 million grant from the NCRIS In December, NCI became the first Agility Fund, saw NCI named again the fastest Australian organisation to join the supercomputer in Australia, ranking 70th on OpenPOWER Foundation, a global open the Top500 list released in June. Lindsay’s technical community enabling collaborative legacy is not only significant for NCI but for development and industry growth. This is a Australian research that relies increasingly on testament to NCI’s world-class standing. high-performance computing and data
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