Title: HPC R
1HPC RD and applications in Chinas High-tech
Programme
- Depei Qian
- Beihang University
- June. 11, 2007, Edinburgh
2863 effort on HPC
- Early 1990s from intelligent computers to
parallel computers - Intelligent Computer RD Center established
- 1993 Dawning 1, 640MIPS, SMP
- 1995 Dawning 1000, 2.5GFlops, MPP
- 1996 Dawning 1000A, cluster system
- 1998 Dawning 2000, 100GFlops, cluster
- 2000 Dawning 3000, 400GFlops, cluster,
comercialized
3863 effort on HPC
- 2002 Lenovo DeepComp 1800, 1TFlops, cluster
- 2003 Lenovo DeepComp 6800, 5.324TFlops, cluster,
14th in TOP500 - 2004 Dawning 4000A, 11.2TFlops, 10th in TOP500
- 2004 Inspur high end enterprise servers T20000,
up to 4TFlops
4Other efforts on HPC
- Blade cluster (Galactic Computing)
- Clusters in universities
- Tsinghua University
- Shanghai University
5Shift of emphasis
- From pursuing peak performance to pursuing
scalability, usability, maintainability, and
availability (SUMA) - Commercialization
- Compatibility to main steam systems, supporting
commercial software
6Growing applications
- Applications from traditional areas (weather
forecast, petro exploration) to much wider range
of applications - Bioinformatics
- Drug discovery
- Computational chemistry
- Materials
- Environment
- Manufacturing
- Simulation
7Fast increase in HPC installations
- 2002 0.6 TFlops in TOP500
- End of 2006 94 TFlops in TOP500
- Terascale systems in major universities,
institutes, and enterprises
8Education/Training
- Training programme introduced in universities
- Practical training in application organizations
- Textbooks (translations) on parallel computing,
algorithms and applications
9HPC Environment
- 1999-2000 National High Performance Computing
Environment (NHPCE) - 2002-present CNGrid
- 10 sites
- 18 TFlops
- gt200TB storage
- 2003-present ChinaGrid (20 universities)
10CNGrid nodes locations
11Complementary RD in HPC Grid
- HPCs provide major resources to Grid
- Grid enables easy access to HPC resources and
makes HPC available to a much wide user population
12Complementary RD in HPC Grid
- Since 1998, 863 programme begin effort in HPC
environment, resulting NHPCE, Grid term was first
introduced - 2002-2005 863 key project on HPC and core
software, focused on Grid, resulting in CNGird - 2006-present 863 key project on HPC and Grid
service environment, significant upgrading of
CNGrid resources, software, and applications
13CAS Supercomputing Center (SCCAS)
- Equipped with Lenovo DeepComp 6800, 5.324TFlops
- Average utilization 86
- Applications
- gt180 registered users
- Supporting more than 120 important projects
- Important achievements
14SCCAS User disciplines
15SCCAS User distribution
16SCCAS Projects supported
17SCCAS simulation software OpenCFD
18SCCAS bioinformation analysis toolkit
19SCCAS Geo Science software GrADS
GrADS,providing interactive operation to the
geographical data. Applied in meteorological
applications.
20SCCAS CNGrid Operation Center
21Shanghai Supercomputing Center (SSC)
- Equipped with Dawning 4000A, 10.2 TFlops, disk
95TB, - Utilization 82.58
22SSC Shared software
Software name source purpose
1 LS-DYNA com General purpose dynamics analysis
2 Fluent com CFD
3 MSC.Nastran com structural mechanics abalysis
4 MSC.Marc com advanced finite element
5 Feko com electromagnetics analysis
6 Pam-Crash com Crash and safety simulation
7 ANSYS Multi-physics com Finite element dynamics analysis
8 CFX com Flow dynamics
9 Grapes Self Global/regional weather forecast
10 NWChem OS Parallel computational chemistry
11 Siesta OS Molecule dynamics
12 Ego OS Molecule dynamics
13 CPMD OS
14 Abinit OS
15 Gromacs OS
23SSC Users
- About 250 users
- Major portion Shanghai local
- But also from other parts of the country
- Users from university, institutes and
enterprises, 1/3 each
24SSC user distribution
25SCC projects supported
- More than 200
- 863?973?NSF?Shanghai STC projects, etc.
- ARJ21 aircraft, outer ring tunnel aseismatic
assessment, automobile industry
26SSC Cross-Yangtze tunnel construction simulation
- Tunnel length 8.9 km,Diameter 15.2m
27SSC Cross-Yangtze tunnel construction simulation
T20s
T40s
28SSC Car safety analysis
LS-DYNA simulates car crash at 56km/h for 100ms
process, on Dawning 4000A, 32CPU, 3 hours
29The new 863 key project
- Period 2006-2010, launched in Oct. 2006
- 640 million (RMB) from the MOST and at least
equal amount of matching funding from different
organizations - Major efforts
- High productivity Computer development
- CNGrid development
- CNGrid GOS continuous development
- 12-15 Grid applications
30Goal of the new 863 Key Project on HPC
- Developing petascale high productivity computer
- Innovation in HPC technologies, reaching the
world level - Advance in HPC design, manufacturing and
applications
31Major Challenges
- Novel architectures
- Memory/cache
- Parallel I/O
- Interconnect
- High performance computing node
- Low power consumption
- Reliability and robustness
32Major Challenges
- Programming supporting
- Runtime support
- Scheduling of massive threads
- Multi-core related issues
- Algorithms for petascale systems
- System infrastructure
- Installation/configuration
- Cooling
- Fast deployment
- Application support
33Two phase development of HPCs
- Two 100TFlops machines in the first phase (By the
end of 2008) - One 1000Tflops in the second phase (TBD)
- User?
- Investment
- Installation in CNGrid Major sites
- Promoting HPC and grid applications
34Cooperation with UK/EU
- Cooperation with UK and EU HPC projects
- Researchers exchange
- Application experiences exchange
- Conferences/workshops
- Education/training
- Joint RD projects?
35Thank you!