Tokyo, October 26, 2015

Dr. Sergio Bernardi Member of PRACE Board of Directors

PRACE: European HPC infrastructure and services for

supporting science excellence,

innovation, and competitiveness

PRACE’s history at a glance

PRACE-2IP

HPCEUR HET

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 AISBL the RI legal entity

2009 2010 2011 2012

PRACE Initiative

PRACE Preparatory Phase Project PRACE-1IP PRACE-3IP

2013 2014

PRACE RI

PRACE-4IP

2015 PCP

Mission: enabling world-class science through large scale simulations Offer: HPC resources on leading edge capability systems

Resource award: through a single and fair pan-European peer review process for open research

PRACE AISBL is a persistent pan-European supercomputing infrastructure

25 MEMBER COUNTRIES

4 hosting members: France

Germany Italy

Spain

Open R&D access for industrial users

PRACE status at a glance

412 scientific projects enabled

530 M€ of funding for the 2010-2015 period

≈ > 5000 people trained in 6 PRACE Advanced Training centers (PATC) and other events

18 Pflop/s of peak performance on 6 world-class systems

10.7 billions core hours awarded since 2010 by peer review

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Life sciences 15.4%

Chemical Sciences and Materials 25.6%

Earth System Sciences 8.4%

Engineering and Energy 15.5%

Fundamental Physics 16.2%

Universe Sciences 16.1%

Mathematics and CS 2.8%

JUQUEEN: IBM BlueGene/Q GAUSS/FZJ Jülich, Germany

SuperMUC: IBM GAUSS/LRZ Garching, Germany

HORNET: Cray GAUSS/HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany

FERMI: IBM BlueGene/Q CINECA , Bologna, Italy MareNostrum: IBM

BSC, Barcelona, Spain

CURIE: Bull Bullx GENCI/CEA Bruyères-le-Châtel, France

Distribution of awarded resources (so far)

The PRACE Governance Council

•Decision making body •One representative for

each Member State •3 meetings / year

Scientific Steering Committee (SSC)

•21 European leading scientists (of which 6 are ERC grant holders) •Provides advice and guidance on all matters of a scientific and technical nature

Access committee

•7 world-class researchers experienced in areas of science, engineering and supercomputing •Gives advice to the Board of Directors concerning the allocation of resources

Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC)

•Representatives of 11 different industrial sectors •Provides PRACE with advice on HPC usage for the benefit of European competitiveness and economic growth

User Forum •Forum for users and potential users of PRACE resources •Monitor and support the PRACE research infrastructure user community

Council

BoD

SSC

Access Committee

IAC

User Forum ETP4HPC

PRACE AISBL

Training & Skill

Develop.

User support

New services

Code Enabling support

User oriented service approach for the HPC ecosystem

Core services:

Peer review, resource

assignement

PRACE peer-review access

Free at point of use, need to publish results at the end of the award period PRACE calls are open for international projects Types of resource allocations for scientists

Project Access (call every 6 months) • For a specific project, award period 1 year • For individual researchers and research groups (no restriction of nationality for both researcher and centre)

Programmatic access (multi-year access) • purpose: to ensure a stable and reliable minimum access to the necessary computational resources for large-scale, long term projects of very high scientific quality and with a broad European scope, importance and relevance • maximum of 20% of the total resources available for programmatic access • max 3 years

Preparatory Access (continuosly open, quarterly cut-off) • Prepare proposals for Project Access • Optionally with support from PRACE experts

Peer Review process

10 10

Open Call for

Proposals

Technical Peer Review

Scientific Peer Review

Technical experts in PRACE systems and software

Access Committee

Prioritisation +

Resource Allocation

Project +

Final Report

Researcher Researchers with expertise in scientific field of proposal

~ 2 Months ~ 3 Months ~ 1 year

Right to reply

Summary table for types of Access

Preparatory Project Multi-year

Technical Assessment Yes Yes Yes

Scientific Assessment No Yes Yes

Mid-term Review No No Potentially Duration 6 months 12 months 36 months Final Report Technical General General

Astrophysics

132 million core hours

on MaresNostrum (ES)

for FR

149 million core

hours: 57 on

MareNostrum (ES) + 92 on

SuperMUC (DE) for DE

40 million core hours on CURIE

TN (FR) for France

68million core hours on FERMI

(IT) for IT

80 million core hours

on FERMI (IT) for FR

68,5 million core hours on FERMI

(IT) for NL

ITER project, led by CEA, aims to demonstrate the scientific feasibility of nuclear fusion as a future energy source.

Research on supernovae and heavy chemical elements. This PRACE grant is one of the biggest worldwide allocation in this domain.

PRACE resources enable the development of modelling and simulation strategies concerning combustion instabilities in high performance engines.

The project focuses on the study of on one paradigmatic system used in fluid dynamics, namely Rayleigh Bernard convection. The goal: to extend availability on Lagrangian data.

Research on the quantitative

description of hydration and

water kinetics in the orthosteric

binding site of the adenosinic receptor.

PRACE resources are used to explore earthquakes and how to prevent their effects. IMAGINE_IT project aims to build up a 3D seismic velocity model for Italy at unprecedented high resolution.

Engineering Chemistry Earth Science Life Sciences Physics

Examples of top allocations of resources…

… and latest success stories Thanks to their PRACE allocation of 12 million core hours, awarded between March 2014 and March 2015 on Curie, a team of French researchers have reproduced dislocations’ movements and shown that they could have two different configurations: one moving easily and the other with difficulty – the first prevailing in zirconium and the second in titanium. Published on Nature, September 2015 edition.

Even if they have very close electronic structures, titanium and zirconium deform differently contrary to what was acknowledged until now.

Different length and time scale domains provide different levels of information, but little is currently known about how these levels of information are connected. Professor Peter Coveney of University College London, in collaboration with his colleagues Dr James Suter and Dr Derek Groen, made extensive use of Tier-0 PRACE supercomputers, including 40.5 million core hours on JUGENE BlueGene/P at FZJ to carry out multiscale simulations using a new method. The work has been published in Advanced Materials, December 2015 edition.

Supercomputers can be used to simulate materials at vastly diverse scales.

Access open to industrial users since January 2012 Access to leading-edge resources

The regular calls open to industry twice a year •free at point of use •based on scientific excellence only •commitment to publish results in publicly available media

Permanent Preparatory Access call •Assess the scalability and port the codes preparation for future regular calls •Large companies & SMEs

Access to high-value services

Access to new knowledge enabled through PRACE Training Code enabling Information, Promotion and Networking

Since 2012: 56 companies awarded

200 million CPU hours allocated so far More than half of them: SMEs

Industrial impacts : OPEN R&D examples

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IMPROVING CAR SAFETY A world premiere in the automotive industry

→ Performing more accurate crash optimization 42 million hours on Curie (France) Assess new large scale optimization methods: 200

parameters, 20 million finite elements Anticipate new security rules (EuroNCAP6, 2015) Impossible with internal Renault R&D HPC resources

IMPROVING SHIP SURVIVABILITY UNDER WAVE IMPACT AND AQUAPLANING FOR AUTOMOTIVE

→ Major step: 32k cores simulations – Increased EU visibility and competitiveness 5 million core hours on Hermit (Germany)

8.2 million hours on CURIE (France)

ASSESSING NATURAL RISKS ZONES

Provide better insights to EU insurance companies 3D large scale simulations applied to earthquakes in

Chile, China, New Zeland or Italy Assess potential damages to the infrastructures 40 million core hours on Fermi (CINECA)

•The objective is to work one-to-one with SMEs willing to adopt some new HPC-supported solution •Based on an integrated set of services:

•networking, •training in PRACE Centres, •expertise provided by HPC and domain-specific experts, •access to PRACE HPC systems (Open R&D model)

•Support SMEs up to a proof-of-concept •SMEs will be co-developing a concrete industrial project with PRACE experts and demonstrate it using PRACE HPC resources.

•After the SHAPE demonstration, companies will have a clear view about: • the potential of HPC, • the investments to make and the skills to hire/develop, • the software or the methodologies to develop, • the HPC services to use: PRACE services for Open R&D, purchase of HPC facilities, access to HPC services based on commercial offers (hosting, cloud, etc.).

SHAPE Programme

PRACE Training 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATC): •Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) •CINECA – Consorzio Interuniversitario (Italy) •CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd (Finland) •EPCC at the University of Edinburgh (UK) •Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (Germany) •Maison de la Simulation (France.

PATC events: from March 2012 until February 2015 (PATCs started in 2012)

248 events 5526 participants

712 PATC training days

ALL PRACE training events (including PATC courses, seasonal schools, workshops, International HPC Summer School, etc), since 2008/09:

6956 participants 277 training events 823 training days

International training event on HPC

Access to EU, U.S., Japanese and Canadian HPC-infrastructures HPC challenges by discipline (e.g., bioinformatics, computer science, physics…) HPC Programming Proficiencies Performance analysis & profiling Algorithmic approaches & numerical libraries Data-intensive computing Scientific visualization

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Leading computational scientists and HPC technologists offer instruction on a variety of topics since 2010:

Summer of HPC & Seasonal schools

• Summer of HPC: It is a PRACE programme that offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe to late stage undergraduates and early stage postgraduate students. Applicants from across Europe will be selected to participate. Participants will spend two months working on projects related to PRACE technical or industrial work and ideally produce a visualisation or video of their results.

• PRACE Seasonal schools: Autumn school/ Winter school address existing and potential users of High Performance Computing systems in Europe. Researchers and students from Europe will receive advanced training in programming models and optimization techniques, MPI/OpenMP and hybrid programming, profiling and benchmarking.

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PRACE Brochure Newsletter Women in HPC Magazine Special Report Scientific Case Annual Report

PRACE publications http://www.prace-ri.eu/press-materials

FUTURE CHALLENGES

•Higher resolution, longer timescale, multi-scale, multi-physics coupled models •Validation, verification and uncertainty quantification •Big data management, novel workflows • (re)development of applications, algorithms and software to efficiently exploit capabilities •Co-design by multidisciplinary integrated teams • Increasing capability, capacity, diversity of architectures •Training and user support

Needs

Personalised Medicines

•Beyond the Omics revolution

•Rational drug design and systems biology

•Reduce drug development costs (1.2B$/drug), make test with humans safer and avoid animal testing (REACH)

energy supply

•Design reliable and performant fusion reactors (ITER in 2019)

• Improve combustion and reduce greenhouse gases

•Perform viable H2 generation, storage and use on cars

Managing the environmental

change •Towards a full global earth system for high resolution climate and weather / air quality forecast

•Early warning systems for earthquake ground motion simulation and seismic hazard

Understanding the human brain •Toward a full model of brain behaviour

•Better understanding of the rise of serious diseases - Alzheimer - Parkinson

•New chips and networks « brain inspired » economic impact on the ICT market

Improving Industrial processes

•breakthrough insights that dramatically accelerate and streamline R&D and engineering

• Improvement of business processes

•Shorter product development duration, reduced total cost

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Agenda setting leading edge HPC capability

Renewable/sustainable

The road (race) to Exascale is a challenge in itself:

Delayed goal: approaching the 2020-2024 time frame (at least one or more pre-exascale generation will appear)

Some very serious issues still to be solved:

Power consumption challenge I/O challenge Heterogeneity challenge

The biggest challenge of all in the end: The best possible use of such a computing power (and the next to come) Perhaps, as IDC points out, we should consider moving from linpack-oriented systems to a more user application oriented approach to meet the real needs

The technological challenge: enabling Exascale

PRACE AISBL: strategy for persistency and long term sustainability

• Provision of seamless and efficient Tier-0 services adapted to the needs of different user classes

• Activities that build on national Tier-1 capabilities (training, service prototyping, software development etc.)

• Governance, business models

and long term financial sustainability

• Strategy for deployment of world-class HPC environment

• New user communities, new

applications, and Industrial take-up of HPC services (focus SME)

• Work in synergy with major initiatives (CoE, ETP4HPC)

• Training and skills development

Infrastructure based on 50 Pflop/s systems (minimum)

100 M€ minimum TCO

Scope of the EC H2020 HPC support

Services/Ecosystem Training Mobility program to

users Code porting,

application enabling Communication,

dissemination New types of access

Lead the integration of a highly effective HPC ecosystem

Provide an HPC infrastructure for science and industry

Nurture and develop skills Attract, train and retain competences

Enabling HPC access for excellence in science and competitiveness of industry

Conclusion

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