National Level Computing at UTK. Jim Ferguson NICS Director of Education, Outreach & Training August 19, 2011

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1 National Level Computing at UTK Jim Ferguson NICS Director of Education, Outreach & Training August 19, 2011

2 National Institute for Computational Sciences University of Tennessee and ORNL partnership q NICS is the 2nd NSF Track 2 center Building on strengths of UT and ORNL Systems are now in production q Series of computers culminating in a 1.2 PF system in

3 Other significant NSF Awards at NICS q NSF TeraGrid XD center: Remote Data Analysis & Visualization (RDAV). $10M/3-year award to UT, main computing resource is an SGI Ultraviolet machine named Nautilus. Sean Ahern, Principal Investigator q NSF Track 2D Experimental system: Main computing resource is a GPU-based hybrid system. Award through Georgia Tech, Principal Investigator is Jeffrey Vetter q XSEDE Program: funding to support NSF highperformance computing around the country. Five years funding for staff. NICS leads national Operations function. 3

4 #11 TG/XSEDE

5 NICS Staff

6 How Big is The Kraken? q 112,896 compute cores residing on 9,408 nodes. q 147 terabytes of compute memory. q 3.3 raw petabytes of parallel file system. q Theoretical peak performance of 1.17 petaflops (FLoating point OPerations per second). q 1,170,000,000,000,000 q If Neyland Stadium were full, and every person could do one calculation per second, it would take ~380 years to do what Kraken can do in 1 second.

7 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 G 6 cores 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 G 6 cores 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 G 6 cores 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 GB RAM 6 cores 6 cores 16 G 6 cores

8 4 TB RAM 1024 cores

9 UT EECS undergrads tour Kraken & Jaguar

10 TeraGrid Booth at the US Science & Engineering Festival

11 EU-US Summer School in HPC

12 Class and Lab Time, EU-US Summer School

13 Birds of a Feather Session, EU-US Summer School

14 Out for a Hike, EU-US Summer School

15 JICS/IGMCS Seminar Series" Thursdays, 233 Claxton, 2:00 p.m. Date Speaker Title 8 Sept Jim Ferguson UTK's NICS and the NSF's high-performance computing program 15 Sept Bob Meunchen The Analytics RRRevolution 22 Sept Scott Simmerman Eden--Managing Your Analysis on Nautilus 29 Sept None (FALL BREAK) 6 Oct Geri Ragghianti Computing on UTK's Newton Cluster 13 Oct Christian Halloy Scientific Computing Using Up to 112,000 Cores on Kraken 20 Oct Pragnesh Patel Parallel Computing and 'R'. 27 Oct Christian Halloy Maximizing Performance of Scientific Computing Codes on HPC Systems 3 Nov Mark Fahey Computational Science on NICS computational resources 10 Nov Shirley Moore Cloud Computing at FutureGrid Series will continue in the Spring, with anticipated talks from Jack Dongarra (ICL), Ryan Braby (NICS) and others.

16 What is the Newton HPC Program? Research community collaboration Supporting High Performance Computing Infrastructure management Consultation Training Objectives Increase Effectiveness Reduce duplication Enhance Capability User applications Computational environment (OS, cluster management, software) Computing hardware Computing infrastructure (space, network, power, cooling) Community organization (policies, membership)

17 Newton HPC Program Features Technical Offerings Distributed memory Linux cluster 4200 processors, 8TB RAM, 40 Gbit/sec network 50 TB High-performance storage Remote data backup Services Technical support Research consultation Training Learn more at

18 Thank You! Jim Ferguson 18

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