The UberCloud Experiment
TEAM 8Flash dryer simulation with ANSYS in the
CloudSam Zakrzewski, FLSMIDTH
Wim Slagter, ANSYSMay 07, 2014
The Engineer’s computing tools:workstations, servers, CAE clouds
CAE Server
CAE Cloud
3 options to use technical compute power
The Engineer’s computing tools:The challenges
The digital manufacturing engineer is facing three main challenges with these resources:
Workstation: slow, limited capacity
CAE server: expensive, complex
CAE Service in the Cloud: security, licensing, data transfer, expertise
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What is the UberCloud Experiment?
To explore these tech cloud challenges & potential solution:
We started the experiment mid-2012 as voluntary effort
Demonstrate potential of Technical Computing in the Cloud
Now with over 1200 participants, 55 cloud providers, 80+ software providers, and hundreds of experts
Round 5 is in progress, 147 teams as of today
2nd Compendium of use cases reports will appear in 2 weeks
Please submit your project ideas at the end of this webinar!
Team 8: Multiphase flows within the cement and mineral industry
End User:
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About the presenters
Sam Zakrzewski, FLSMIDTH A/S, Fluid Dynamics Specialist 2002, PhD Mechanical Engng, Univ. New South Wales,
Australia 15+ years fluid dynamics and CFD 10+ years computational clusters and HPC systems
Wim Slagter, Lead Product Manager at ANSYS 20 years experience in the biz of engineering simulation
software In charge of corporate marketing programs for HPC and Cloud
Wolfgang Gentzsch, The UberCloud, presenting slides from Resource provider Bull/Serviware (Marc Levrier) Team expert science + computing (Ingo Seipp)
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A leading one-source supplier of equipment and services to the global minerals and cement industries
FLSmidth supplies everything from single machine units to complete minerals and cement flow sheets including associated services
FLSmidth primarily focuses on the following industries: coal, iron ore, fertilizers, copper, gold and cement and has the ambition of being among the leading and preferred suppliers in each of these industries
The end-user:
Application
FLSmidth’s largest flash dryer to date is located in Morocco
Dry wet phosphate cake
Hot combustion products mixed with cooler air
Moist solids (21%) added in venturi, ~700tph
Moisture evaporated by hot gas
Remaining moisture content in solids ~6%
Challenges
Computationally expensive, multi-phase, lagrangian, mass-transfer
In-house hardware: Intel Xeon Processor X5667, 12M Cache, 3.06 GHz, 6.40 GT/s, 24 GB Ram
Geometry: 1.4 million cells, 5 species and a time step of 1 millisecond for a total time of 2 seconds
One transient run takes 5 days
Experience
Easy to upload data
Intuitive web interface, Support for extra script commands
Easy run monitoring, using web based TurboVNC,not so responsive for OpenGL applications
Great support, even when whole cluster went down
1-2 day turnaround
Large amounts of data still need to be transferred
Benefits
Hardware know-how and expense (to some extent) is outsourced
Focus on the results instead of the process
Faster turn around for our application
Useable remote visualisation
Lessons Learned
Positive experience with cloud HPC
Some concerns about remote visualisation
Data transfer at project end need to be considered
Financial analysis still need to be undertaken
Licensing
Our expectations were met
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ANSYS Cloud Services for the UberCloud Experiment ANSYS Cloud Partner ecosystem provides a flexible set of
solutions, with ready-to-go ANSYS software running on robust HPC systems
A choice of cloud solutions delivered by ANSYS partners who are experts at enterprise-level HPC, remote hosting and data security
Major Benefits The UberCloud Experiment is very useful for our customers to
explore the end-to-end process of partner-enabled cloud solutions for their simulation workload
Helped to build out ANSYS Cloud Partner ecosystem providing customers with seamless, flexible and secure access to ANSYS simulation and HPC resources
UberCloud Experiment : ANSYS’ View
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Major Challenges Engineering organizations have concerns about placing
sensitive data on a 3rd party cloud End-user productivity in an environment that provides
effective remote access to the full simulation process, as well as data and HPC job management
Challenges being solved by UberCloud Quantify end-user productivity, benchmark application
performance, test services provided by the Cloud partner
ANSYS’ recommendation Join an UberCloud HPC Experiment project with ANSYS!
UberCloud Experiment : ANSYS’ View
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Mix of Business Needs: ANSYS Cloud Scenarios & Licensing
Cloud Provider: Bull eXtreme Factory
HPC-as-a-Service bringing scientific apps to the cloud; on Bull’s hardware, web portal and remote visualization technology
Hosted and operated by Bull, comes with an HPC support team, and ready to use applications
Bull’s major benefits from the UberCloud Experiment platform UberCloud Experiment helps creating real world use
cases and gives our offers worldwide visibility
Even though the Experiment deals with serious HPC cloud challenges, it is driven in a very friendly and human way. We love how support and collaborative tools help people all over the world working together without ever meeting physically
Cloud Challenges
Major Challenges HPC ISVs are adopting the cloud (licensing) model
slowly
HPC customers' purchasing habits are not at all cloud-ready
Solving these challenges HPC market places are demonstrating this is all
possible (maybe starting with more open source apps than commercial).
This may help ISVs to take the step. Customers will then adapt/adopt I guess
Recommendation to tech computing users : just try !
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Team Expert: science + computing
science + computing ag (s+c) www.science-computing.de
s+c provides services and solutions for customers in technical and HPC environments, from system management to app support
s+c supports customers running their applications in their private or external computing environment, integrating them into the customer's workflows and adopting new technologies.
UberCloud benefits to s+c Gathering experience from real life customer problems
Showcasing examples for potential new customers
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Team Expert: science + computing
Major challenges with HPC cloud The process of setting up a customer's application in an
HPC-cloud is still quite individual Data transfer and locality. Suppliers may be constraint by
contract to keep OEM's data in house.
Market developments addressing the challenges Integrated HPCaaS and SaaS and pay-per-use app
licensing will make standard HPC-cloud usage easier. HPC-cloud provider should have the flexibility to adopt special customer requirements
Cloud providers in geographical or political "proximity" of the customer
Test the HPC Cloud offerings, see how additional computing capabilities improve products, return results earlier, without the necessity for investment in in-house HPC infrastructure
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Ready for your project!
Round 5 is in progress and will conclude at the end of May
Any end-user can create an application project in the Cloud
You can start any time with your project
We will form a team around you with software provider, cloud hardware provider, and a computing specialist
Please fill out the form at the end of this webinar
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Finally . . .
Join us at the 5th ISC Cloud Conference on Engineering and Scientific Computing in the Cloud, Heidelberg 29 – 30 Sept…
. . . . and we will lift the long-kept secret around the mysterious UberCloud Lego container ship . . .
http://www.isc-events.com/cloud14/
Question: UberCloud Workshop
One-day UberCloud Workshop prior to the 2-day ISC Cloud Conference, on Sunday Sept. 28 in Heidelberg, Germany:
Tech cloud intro and overview, hands-on cloud training, building your own portable app image and move it transparently to the cloud, and future direction of technical computing in the cloud. And wine tasting tour Saturday afternoon & evening
Are you interested in participating in this UberCloud Workshop?
Yes - Probably - No
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Any questions?
Q & A Session
More information
About Team 8:
http://www.ansys.com/staticassets/ANSYS/staticassets/resourcelibrary/article/AA-V7-I3-On-Cloud-Nine.pdf
http://tci.taborcommunications.com/UberCloud_HPC_Experiment
http://www.theubercloud.com/fluid-flow/
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