These are the slides from my talk on supercomputing to DARC in January 2014. The talk covers everything from the UK's "missing million" young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) to engaging with the Raspberry Pi generation, and also provides an introduction to supercomputing and our HPC Midlands facility.
4. Topics
1. HPC as Catalyst
2. Case Study: HPC
Midlands
3. Eight Great Technologies
4. Grand Challenges
5. Topics
1. HPC as Catalyst
2. Case Study: HPC
Midlands
3. Eight Great Technologies
4. Grand Challenges
6. 1. HPC as Catalyst Virtual prototyping:
“Make” and test 1,000
prototypes before
committing any atoms
Pharma: Drug
discovery,
computational chemistry
and clinical trial
simulations
7. 1. HPC as Catalyst Render farms:
Graphics for gaming,
film and television
industries
Environmental
modelling:
Flooding, climate
change and weather
systems
8. 1. HPC as Catalyst Safety and risk
modeling: Industrial
processes, e.g. gas and
radiation dispersal
Machine learning:
Recommendation engines
real time translation and
virtual assistants
9. 1. HPC as Catalyst Genomics and
bioinformatics:
— Which interventions
will yield the best
outcomes?
— What am I genetically
predisposed to?
— 100,000 Genomes
— 23andme
10. Topics
1. HPC as Catalyst
2. Case Study: HPC
Midlands
3. Eight Great Technologies
4. Grand Challenges
11. 2. Case Study
HPC Midlands
— Supercomputing for
research and industry
— Software from leading
ISVs
— Flexible usage model for
use by research and
industry
— Expertise from
Loughborough University &
University of Leicester
12. 2. Case Study
HPC Midlands
— Supercomputing for
research and industry
— Software from leading
ISVs
— Flexible usage model for
use by research and
industry
— Expertise from
Loughborough University &
University of Leicester
13. 2. Case Study
HPC Midlands
— 3,008 core Linux based
supercomputer
— 15TB RAM, 120TB Lustre
storage
— Non-blocking QDR
Infiniband interconnect
— 188 compute nodes
— 2 x 2.0GHz 8 core Sandy
Bridge CPUs per node
— 140 nodes with 64GB RAM
— 48 nodes with 128GB RAM
14. 2. Case Study
HPC Midlands
— Popular scientific and
engineering packages
— Commercial and open
source
— Examples:
— ANSYS CFX, FLUENT
— CD-adapco Star-CCM+
— MSC Marc, NASTRAN etc
— OpenFOAM
— Intel MKL, compiler suite
— PETSc, Quantum Espresso
29. 3. Eight Great
Technologies
Role of e-Infrastructure:
- Academic context:
HPC, SKA, LHC, DLS,
NGS and other TLAs
- Industrial context:
TSB, Catapults, “on
ramps” for SMEs
- Not just kit:
- Open Access Pubs
- Open Data + Software
- People!
30. 3. Eight Great
Technologies
Role of e-Infrastructure:
- Academic context:
HPC, SKA, LHC, DLS,
NGS and other TLAs
- Industrial context:
TSB, Catapults, “on
ramps” for SMEs
- Not just kit:
- Open Access Pubs
- Open Data + Software
- People!
31.
32. Topics
1. HPC as Catalyst
2. Case Study: HPC
Midlands
3. Eight Great Technologies
4. Grand Challenges
34. 4. Grand Challenges Challenging
preconceptions:
—Common off-the-shelf
packages have HPC solver
capability, e.g. FLUENT,
NASTRAN, MATLAB
—ISO 27002, CESG InfoSec,
physical security (e.g. LPS
1175), CIS audit tool
—FTSE100 firms’ have
similar requirements to
research and education
organizations
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37. 4. Grand Challenges Training and Skills:
—The Missing Million:
—100,000 unfilled tech
vacancies
—1m young unemployed
(NEETs)
—CPD into CFD
—(Parallel) Coding
—UG/PG level training in bite
sized chunks
—FutureLearn?
—Generation Pi