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1 HPC Progress and Response to the National Cyber-Infrastructure Happy Sithole Center for High Performance Computing Phone: Website: The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 1

2 Neotel TENET Neotel The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

3 The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 3

4 Mission and Objectives Provide relevant cutting-edge technologies to industry and academia Research leading to impact on socio-economic development Facilitate Research Foster Innovation CHPC High-end Computing Strengthen Collaboration Promote Private Public Partnership SANReN High-bandwidth Network VLDS Data Curation Accelerate Human Capital Development National Cyber-Infrastructure The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 4

5 34 th List of TOP500 The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 5

6 Projected performance The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 6

7 Why is Commodity Hot?.. Price! ASP ($K) Ave.Cores / System $K / Core Cores / $M x RISC EPIC Vector RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Source IDC, 2009 The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 7

8 CHPC Developments Performance e (TFLOPS) July 2007 Oct 2008 Oct Installations The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 8

9 Highlights for 2009 Increased number of users and flagships Winter school aimed for undergraduates Science week participation Bio-Informatics presentation at ISC 09 Workshops on parallel programming (Dongarra and Olekutun) Completion of Phase II (Building and Machine) TOP500 entrance Improved airtime and community engagement The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 9

10 Building infrastructure Cooling plant and heat exchangers 1MWatt Switch UPS and batteries Diesel generator The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 10

11 Building the cooling system - continued High efficiency water chillers arrive on site. These systems make maximum use of the cool ambient conditions at night time and during the winter for maximum efficiency. Insulation of the piping. Piping forms redundant loops for maximum availability and reliability. The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 11

12 Data Center Future expansion Water-cooled systems Conventional cooling Testing facilities The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 12

13 Launching of TSESEBE Tour by the Minister and Guests SUN Team The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 13

14 Plans for the future User management and performance monitoring Increase scientific contribution to HPC conferences Plans for iqudu (reached 3 rd year) Retirement (entry level machine, distribute around the country) Continuation (new components, maintenance) Flagship projects Few and focused on delivery General Users Increase and impact monitoring Capacity building Few workshops with follow-up From TOP500 to Gordon Bell Price The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 14

15 Second Node Infrastructure plans SANReN developments and need for DR Building preparation Procurement process of machine Architecture Relevant for the applications Heterogeneous system (Programming?) GPU test-bed cluster ready by Q1 More user participation The CHPC is an initiative funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Slide 15

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