Overview of EPCC's HPC facilities and services for industry

1. EPCC OVERVIEW
Thomas Blyth, Commercial Manager
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2. EPCC: The Novel Supercomputing Centre at the
University of Edinburgh
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Self-funded:
• >28 years
• ~110 staff
• £5m+ turnover
Multi-disciplinary and multi-funded:
• Large spectrum of activities
• Critical mass of expertise
• Distributed systems
• High-performance computing
• Data engineering
• Research software engineering
• Working with industrial partners through technology
transfer
Supports research through:
• Access to facilities
• Training courses
• Collaborative projects

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EPCC Supercomputing Facilities
• EPCC houses a variety of leading
edge systems and infrastructures
• ARCHER 118,080 cores (Cray XC30)
• DiRAC 20,256 (HPE 8600)
• UK Research Data Facility (25Pb Disk / 50Pb Tape)
• Cirrus 13,248 cores – EPSRC Tier 2 / Industry machine
• Ultra
• Scottish National Data Safe Haven (NHS/SG/NRS)
• Alan Turing Institute HPC cluster
• WCDI

4. Technology transfer via Industrial Collaborations
Working with industry since founded
Over 1000 companies in past 25+ years
Domains:
• Numerical modelling and simulation
• Code design, parallelisation, optimisation and re-
engineering
• Large scale data integration and data mining
• Cloud computing, software architecture
• Data processing, machine learning
• Facilities Access, Consultancy and Training
Strong research dimension
• Distributed & Cloud Computing
• Data Science
• Energy Efficient Processors
• GPUs, FPGAs
• Parallel programming languages & tools
• Exascale
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5. Rolls-Royce Prosperity Partnership
• EPCC leading on 5-year £15M project
• Develop a world-first high-fidelity virtual
simulation of a complete gas-turbine
engine
• Research is hoped to lead to the virtual
certification of gas turbine engines.
• Partners:
− Bristol University,
− Cambridge University,
− Oxford University,
− Warwick University
− CFMS Ltd.
− Zenotech Ltd.
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6. Local SME support
• Rock Solid Images
− Applying ML to petrophysical software to optimise product (7 days to
matter of minutes)
• Sustainably
− Data & Software architecture support.
• DeepMiner
− Software development for product launch
• Artificial Lift Performance
− Applying ML to enable ESP performance to be predicted
• Global Surface Intelligence (GSI)
− Data & product hosting on Cirrus HPC infrastructure
• DJ Alexander
− Data & Software architecture / development support for new online
product offering (Apropos)
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7. • USA/UK Satellite & Data firm
− partnered with Lockheed, Colorado University & the UoE
• High-speed global weather data
− GEMS – The Global Environmental Monitoring System
• Earth’s highest resolution CubeSat weather data ever (15 minute global refresh).
• Enable near real-time monitoring and improved forecasts for sectors such as insurance,
agriculture, aviation, and shipping.
− ICED – The International Center for Earth Data
• a global data marketplace platform delivering the world’s fastest to market Earth
observation data
• EPCC is providing large data analytics & HPC expertise to manage
large satellite-based data sets (Petabytes) & develop associated
models.
• OMS is aiming to be first satellite to be launched from A’Mhoine
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Orbital Microsystems (OMS)

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World Class Data Infrastructure (WCDI)
• City Region Deal – DDI
− £80M Investment in new 160 rack computer
room at ACF with 6MW capacity
− New high resiliency data centre room,
computers, storage, networking and
software
− All City Region Deal sectors will access
WCDI
• Private & Public Sectors
• Building a data hub, creating new technologies,
applications & companies
• Manage complex, high volume, real-time datasets
− New opportunity for companies
• Adopt data driven innovation into their businesses
• Supported by state-of-the-art data and compute
infrastructure
• Utilise data science skills from across the
University and region
• Host equipment & data in the WCDI

9. • Data Hosting and Management – ingest, storage,
curation, access
• Data Discovery – metadata cataloguing, search
• Data Analytics – CPUs and GPUs (ML & AI applications).
User environments & standard platforms for data applications:
− Python, R dev. environments; Jupyter Notebooks, TensorFlow, Hadoop, Spark
• Data Training – data science learning environment
• Regional Data Haven – an assured, secure version of
Data Hosting for sensitive data
• Data Engineering – project-based contract engineering,
collaboration with EPCC technical expertise
WCDI Service Portfolio
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Contact us
EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh, EH8 9BT
+44 131 650 5030
info@epcc.ed.ac.uk