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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