Supercomputing Impact in the Industry The BSC Experience - ANTS

Supercomputing Impact in the IndustryThe BSC ExperienceGuillaume HouzeauxJosé María CelaMariano VázquezComputer Applications in Science and Engineering(CASE) DepartmentBarcelona Supercomputing Center - CentroNacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentAround 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentAround 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentMICINN51%UPC12%Gencat37%Around 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentAround 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentAround 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentAround 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentAround 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBackgroundBSC-CNS is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – CentroNacional de Supercomputación, the Spanish nationalsupercomputing centerEstablished in 2005. Upgrades the former parallelizationresearch center CEPBAIt is a public center, co-financed by the Spanish Ministry ofScience, the regional government of Catalonia and the UPC(Technical University of Catalonia)4 research departments and 1 support departmentAround 300 researchers from several disciplinesIt hosts the MareNostrum, 3rd supercomputer in Europe inNov 2007. 76th in Nov 2008Manage the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)PRACE Project: one of the 4 top European countries inSupercomputing10PFlops in Jun 2013

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterObjectivesOperate national supercomputing facilityR&D in SupercomputingCollaborate in R&D e-Science

Synergy of infrastructuresBSC-CNS is a fundamental complement for experimental scientific infrastructuresSincrotonICFOIACCIEMAT(TJ II)

MareNostrum

MareNostrumInstalled September 2006Performance Summary4 instructions per cycle, 2,3 GHz10.240 processors94,21 TFlops20 TB Memory, 300 TB diskGoing to be updated in 2010400 TFlops

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterBSC-CNS departmentsComputer ArchitecturePerformance ToolsProgramming ModelsGrid ComputingAutonomic Systemsand e-BusinessPlatformsAir qualityMeteorologicalmodelingMineral dustClimate changeMolecular Modelingand BioInformaticsComputationalGenomicsINB-ComputationalNode 2Protein Interactionsand DockingElectronic and AtomicProtein ModelingComputationalMechanicsApplied ComputerScienceOptimizationSupport toMarenostrumServices

CASE Department - StaffJosé María CelaPhD Telecom.Guillaume HouzeauxMariano VázquezAlejandro SobaAnne-Cecile LesageRomain AubryBeatriz EguzkitzaRuth ArisMargarida Moragues Hadrien CalmetFélix RubioPierre LafortuneCristina MontañolaJelena KoldanEdgar BeaMohammad JowkarXavier RubioCristóbal SamaniegoMauricio ArayaMauricio HanzichRaúl de la CruzXavi Sáez Miquel CatalánRogeli GrimaAlbert FarresPhD Phys.PhD Phys.PhD Phys.PhD Eng.PhD Eng.MSc. Phys.MSc. Phys.MSc. Math.MSc. Phys.Eng. Telecom.MSc. Mech. Eng.Eng. Comp. Sc.Eng. Telecom.PhD Phys.Eng. Comp. Sc.Eng. Comp. Sc.MSc. Eng.PhD Comp. Sc.PhD Comp. Sc.Eng. Comp. Sc.Eng. Comp. Sc.Eng. Comp. Sc.Eng. Telecom.Eng. Comp. Sc.

CASE Department - ObjectivesComputer Applications in Scienceand Engineering (CASE) DepartmentIdentify scientific communities with supercomputing needs and help them to developsoftware- Material Science- Fusion- Spectroscopy- Atmospheric modeling- GeophysicsDevelop our own technology in Computational Mechanics- ALYA- BSIT, …Perform technology transfer with companies- REPSOL- Airbus, …

CASE Department - Technology transferCase studiesGeophysicsAeronauticsBio-Mechanics?

Kaleidoscope project - Geophysics - RepsolKALEIDOSCOPE ProjectSub-salt seismic imaging- Objective: Develop sub-salt seismic imaging tools that can be used inan industrial production chain- Solution: Acoustic RTM on Cell- IEEE Spectrum 2008 award to top 5 innovative technologies- Platt’s award to the commercial technology of the year 2009Partners- REPSOL- BSC

Kaleidoscope project - Geophysics - Repsol

Kaleidoscope project - Geophysics - RepsolWEM vs RTM

Kaleidoscope project - Geophysics - RepsolWEM vs RTM

Kaleidoscope project - Geophysics - RepsolWEM vs RTM

Kaleidoscope project - Geophysics - RepsolWEM vs RTM

Kaleidoscope project - Geophysics - RepsolPlatform Gflops Seep-up Power (W) Gflops/WJS21 8,3 1 267 0,03QS22 116,6 14 370 0,322 TESLA 1060 350 42 90+368,8 0,76The work of 3 months is now done in:- 1 week (speed-up 14)- 2 days (speed-up 42)

Aeronautics - AirbusAirbus 380 Design

Aeronautics - AirbusAirbus 380 DesignCapacity:# of OvernightLoads cases runLESUnsteady10 2RANS10 3RANS LowSpeed10 4RANS HighSpeed10 510 6“Smart” use of HPC power:• Algorithms• Data mining• knowledgeAvailableComputationalCapacity [Flop/s]1 Zeta (10 21 )1 Exa (10 18 )1 Peta (10 15 )1 Tera (10 12 )1 Giga (10 9 )x10 61980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030HSDesignDataSetCFD-basedLOADS& HQAeroOptimisation& CFD-CSMFull MDOCFD-basednoisesimulationReal timeCFD basedin flightsimulationCapability achieved during one night batchCourtesy AIRBUS France

Aeronautics - AirbusScaling an industrial code: ELSAMinimize the number of communication stepsIn 5 stepsIn 3 stepsIndustrial CFD code- Top: without scheduling strategy- Bottom: with scheduling strategy

Biomechanics - X

Biomechanics - XThe Brain

Biomechanics - XThe BrainThe Nose

Biomechanics - XThe BrainThe NoseThe Heart

Biomechanics - XObjective: To Develop a Bio-Mechanics High-Performance Simulation PlatformPartners:- Medical doctors- Visualization- Physiologists

Biomechanics - XObjective: To Develop a Bio-Mechanics High-Performance Simulation PlatformPartners:- Medical doctors- Visualization- Physiologists

Biomechanics - XThe brainProject in collaboration with:Juan CebralCFDLab George Mason University (USA)Giorgio AscoliKrasnow Institute for Advanced StudiesGeorge Mason University (USA)Christopher PutmanInova Fairfax Hospital, Virginia (USA)Ivo Dinov & Arthur TogaNational Center for Comput. Biology, UCLA (USA)Fernando CalamanteBrain Research Institute, Melbourne (Australia)

Biomechanics - XThe brainProject in collaboration with:Juan CebralCFDLab George Mason University (USA)Giorgio AscoliKrasnow Institute for Advanced StudiesGeorge Mason University (USA)Christopher PutmanInova Fairfax Hospital, Virginia (USA)Ivo Dinov & Arthur TogaNational Center for Comput. Biology, UCLA (USA)Fernando CalamanteBrain Research Institute, Melbourne (Australia)

Biomechanics - XThe respiratory systemProject in collaboration withD. Taylor, D.J. Doorly, R.C. Schroter, J. Peiró, V.Franke, R. Ameyda, N. TolleyImperical College London (UK)W. Gedroyc (MRI), A. Wright (CT)Radiology, St. Mary’s Hospital PaddingtonLondon (UK)D. Firmin (MRI)Royal Brompton Hospital London (UK)

Biomechanics - XThe heartElectromechanical cardiac modelElectrophysiology andcoupled mechanicalcontraction of the heartProject in collaboration with:Debora Gil and Jaume García BarnésCentro de Visión por ComputadorUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)Francesc CarrerasUnitat Imatge CardiacaHtal. de Sant Pau (Spain)Manel BallesterUniv. de Lleida (Spain)Antoine JerusalemIMDEA Materials (Spain)

Barcelona Supercomputing CenterCentro Nacional de Supercomputaciónhttp://www.bsc.esguillaume.houzeaux@bsc.esjosem.cela@bsc.esmariano.vazquez@bsc.esThank you !