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Irish Centre for High-End Computing
A 10-minutes Overview Kashif Iqbal (B.IT, PhD)
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
• Na#onal Technology Centre – Established in 2005 – Hosted by the university – 28 staff in Dublin & Galway offices
• Mandate includes: – HPC & Data (Big) analy#cs – Industry & Public Sector engagement
• Leverage ⅓ core funding from industry • Best characterised as:
– technologists, opera#ons people & domain scien#sts
What is ICHEC?
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Life science collabora#ons
High-throughput DNA sequencing data analyses & training
Many-core performance - Smith-Waterman - SVD
Commercial engagements Genomics and cancer research
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Medical device R&D CVD1 (cardiovascular disease) strand, 1 FTE @ ICHEC since Sep 2011
• Development of medical diagnos#cs device (involves workflow automa#on, analysis algorithms, data mining, health informa#cs)
• Analysis algorithm à inven#on disclosure form filed
• Commercialisa#on opportunity (under NDA)
Upload images to ICHEC portal
Flow Assay Acquisition
Collate results
Receive results
24 hr / analysis
5 mins / analysis
Mul8-‐step manual protocol on computer
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Earth/Env. Sciences • Met Eireann Partnership (since 2007)
- Research collaboration & service
- Weather model development (using Harmonie)
- 16km to 0.5km improvements - Operational forecast (backups, 24/7 support, SLA)
• Climate model input to UN IPCC : EC-Earth, Downscaling - Perform simulations & develop model code: scaling - Coupling, Biogeochemical ocean integration
- Data Management & Processing - Published 260 TB EC-Earth data on ICHEC’s ESG Federation node - Downscaling to Irish and European scales (4 km) for policy
• Wind Energy Forecasting • Volcanic, Air Pollution Forecasting: with NUI Galway
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Earth Observa#on Portal
• Operated by ICHEC – Starting with ESA Sentinel also SMOS, MODIS,
later EarthCare, ...
• Data and Exploitation portal – Make data available nationally, archive
important Irish and Atlantic data – Operate on data in real time, derive products for
commercial, public sector partners: – OPW testbed for flooding, Teagasc for grass
growth, SMEs …
• Wave data assimilation, forecasting: collaboration with MarEI, UCD – Ocean energy, rogue waves
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Social Sciences • Tourist Travel PaAerns (for CSO)
– Based on the analysis of the mobile phone transac#ons & loca#on data
– Synthe#c data (group iden#fica#on) – Increasing data volume and resolu#on -‐> Commu#ng pa]erns/traffic analysis
• ESRI – Capacity building – Op#misa#on -‐> Con#nental Dataset Processing* – Workflow paralleliza#on (using R) – Synthe#c Data to ensure data confiden#ality
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Exa-‐scale Research/Industry • IPCC
• Harmonie & DL_POLY enablement on Xeon Phi
• H2020 ◦ ESCAPE - Energy-efficient SCalable Algorithms for weather
Prediction at Exascale (led by ECMWF)◦ READEX - Runtime Exploitation of Application Dynamism for
Energy-efficient eXascale computing
◦ SFI Research Centre ◦ Extreme Scale Data Management and I/O Performance in the Oil & Gas sector – “We’re hiring!”
◦ Xilinix Partnership ◦ OpenCL Tool Chain (FPGAs)
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Ques#ons???
Life Sciences: [email protected] Earth & Environment Sciences: [email protected]
Social Sciences: [email protected] Novel Technologies: [email protected]
Thank you for your a]en#on!