1 what is prace? hank nussbacher prace winter school, tel aviv, feb 10, 2014
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• European HPC-facilities at the top of an HPC provisioning pyramid– Tier-0: European Centres for Petaflop/s– Tier-1: National Centres– Tier-2: Regional/University Centres
• Creation of a European HPC ecosystem– HPC service providers on all tiers– Scientific and industrial user communities– The European HPC hard- and software industry– Other e-Infrastructures
Realizing the ESFRI Vision for an HPC RI
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# of systems
Tier-0European centres
Tier-1National centres
Tier-2Regional/University centres
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PRACE-2IP
HPCEUR HET
PRACE-3IP: History
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Creation of the Scientific Case
HPC part of the ESFRI Roadmap;creation of a vision involving 15 European countries
Signature of the MoU Creation of the PRACE Research Infrastructure
PRACE RI
2009 2010 2011 2012
PRACE Initiative
PRACE Preparatory Phase Project
PRACE-3IP
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2013
PRACE-1IP
PRACE in Winter 2014 … has grown up• PRACE is the European High-End HPC Infrastructure
– provides access to 6 Tier-0 systems, funded by 4 countries: DE, ES, FR, IT– has provided 5.5 Billion Core-hours to hundreds of user projects since 2010– is providing extensive training though 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centres
(PATC), seasonal schools, summer student programme, workshops, …– currently has 25 members, representing 25 countries– has secured national contributions of 450 M€ and 67 M€ EC funding– is developing its strategy for 2015-2020
• PRACE is user-demand driven– Scientific Steering Committee advises on all scientific matters,
in particular the access to PRACE resources through Peer Review– User Forum provides feedback and technical requirements from end-users– Scientific Case 2012-2020: requirements and recommendations
>100 leading European Scientists contributed to this update
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25 PRACEMembers
April, 23rd 2010 creation of the legal entity (AISBL)
PRACEwith seat location in Brussels, Belgium
67+ Million € from EC FP7 for preparatory and
implementation phasesGrants INFSO-RI-211528,
261557, 283493, and 312763Complemented by ~ 50 Million
€ from PRACE members
Interest by:Latvia,Belgium
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PRACE is building the top of the pyramid... First production system available: 1 Petaflop/s IBM BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at GCS (Gauss Centre for Supercomputing) partner FZJ (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Second production system available: Bull Bullx CURIE at GENCI partner CEA. Full capacity of 1.8 Petaflop/s reached by late 2011. - #20 in Top500
Third production system available by the end of 2011: 1 Petaflop/s Cray (HERMIT) at GCS partner HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart). - #39Fourth production system available by mid 2012:
3.1 Petaflop/s IBM (SuperMUC) at GCS partner LRZ (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum). - #10 in Top500
Tier-0
Tier-1
Tier-2
Fifth production system available by August 2011: 2 Petaflop/s IIBM BG/Q (FERMI) at CINEC - #15.
Sixth production system available by January 2013: 1 Petaflop/s IBM (MareNostrum) at BSC. - #34
Upgrade: 5.87 Petaflop/s IBM Blue Gene/Q (JUQUEEN) – #8 in Top500
The HPC European e-infrastructure (ESFRI)
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PRACE 1.0
25 members, AISBL since 2010
530 M€ for 2010-2015 (inc 70M€ from UE)
6 supercomputers in 4 hosting countries, different architectures
research and industrial access (open R&D) for all disciplines based on excellence in science, free of charge
Nearly 15 Pflop/s
5 billion hours granted since 2010
PRACE 1.0
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Name of Principal Investigator
Company/ Institution of Principal Investigator Type of Access
Total number of CPU core-hours
allocatedProject System
Avishai Dekel HUJI 2nd Regular 9000000 PRACE CURIE, GENCI/CEA
Daniel Ceverino HUJI 2nd Regular 5000000 PRACE CURIE, GENCI/CEA
Yehuda Hoffman HUJI 5th Regular 26000000 PRACE SuperMUC (GAUSS@LRZ, Germany)
Avi Cohen Bar-Ilan University Preparatory 10th 50000 PRACE Hermit, GAUSS@HLRS,
Yakov Strelniker Bar-Ilan University Preparatory 11th 50000 PRACE HERMIT, GAUSS@HLRS, Germany
Alexander Gelfgat Tel-Aviv University Preparatory 12th 50000 PRACE FERMI
Helena Vitoshkin Tel-Aviv University Preparatory 12th 50000 PRACE HERMIT, GAUSS@HLRS, Germany
Dan Mordehai Technion
Preparatory 14th 40000 PRACEHERMIT,@ GAUSS-HLRS, JUQUIN@GAUSS- FZJ; SuperMUC@ GASUSS-LRZ; CURIE@GENCI, FERMI@CINECA
Pinchas Alpert Tel Aviv University 450000 Linksceeem
Alexander Gelfgat Tel Aviv University 160000 Linksceeem
Dan Thomas Major Bar-Ilan University 400000 Linksceeem
Benjamin Svetitsky Tel Aviv University 250000 Linksceeem
Yakov Strelniker Bar-Ilan University 20000 Linksceeem
Hanoch Senderowitz Bar-Ilan Uneiversity 20000 Linksceem-2
Alexander Gelfgat Tel Aviv University 150000 Linksceem-2
Lucio Frydman Weizmann 3000 Linksceem-2
Avi Cohen Bar-Ilan University 10000 Linksceem-2
PRACE 2.0: meeting Europe‘s ambitions with HPC
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• To maintain Europe as an agenda setting science contributor• By offering access to leading edge HPC platforms• opened to all disciplines and countries in Europe
Provide an infrastructure for
science and industry
• To attract, train and retain highly skilled and innovative workforce• in science and engineering• To share knowledge and expertise
Attract, train and retain competences
• With at least one supercomputer in each major architectural class• To support world-leading science
Provide an high quality service
• Including : A) scientific and industrial communities, • B) national HPC centres and their support for the PRACE systems, • C) training and software development efforts
Lead the integration of an highly effective
HPC ecosystem
PRACE 2.0 strategy :Hypothesis for the baseline scenario (825 M€) (3/5)
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Provide an infrastructure for
science and industry
Attract, train and retain competences
Provide an high quality service
Lead the integration of an highly effective
HPC ecosystem
Unanimous approval
HPC at the agenda of the Competitiveness Council – 29-30
May, 2013
5Tier-0 of
each 50 PF for ≈150 M€ (TCO 5y)
alone or in a
consortium
Tier-0
European centers
EC funds: 25% of the contribution
over 2 phases
50 % PRACE
membres
Tier-1 services for Tier-
050 % EC
725 M€
100 M€
AmbitionsScenario
≈ 825 M€ including 275 M€ from the EC
PRACE will help the development of national ecosystems