MSI Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Perspective: Starting out at MSI CASC Spring Meeting 2015 © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Organization Office of the Vice President for Research Advanced Systems Operations - Common Services - HPC Systems - Storage Systems - Hosted Services Research & User Services -User Support Lead -User Training -Optimization & Benchmarking -HPC Research -Communication -Outreach Application Development Research Informatics Support Systems Administration - Custom App Dev - System Programming -Informatics education -Informatics research -Informatics services -Life Science Computing - HR - Policies & SOPs -Budget & purchasing - Building & facilities - Grants manag. - Project manag. - Inventory © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. MSI Users by Discipline © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Services Batch HPC Interactive HPC Web Portals & Databases Consulting Data Storage © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. HPC Resources • Itasca – Cores: 8,744 – Memory: 31.3 TB – Peak: 100 TF • Mesabi – Cores: 16,848 – Memory: 67 TB – Accelerators: 80 K40 gpGPUs – Peak: 675 TF • Cascade – – – – 32 Tesla gpGPUs 8 Kepler gpGPUs 2 Intel Phi 192 CPU Cores © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Interactive HPC Environments • • • • iSub: NICE: NX NoMachine Citrix for Windows • Itasca – Cores: 8,744 – Memory: 31.3 TB – Peak: 100 TF • Mesabi – Cores: 16,848 – Memory: 67 TB – Accelerators: 80 K40 gpGPUs – Peak: 675 TF • Cascade – – – – 32 Tesla gpGPUs 8 Kepler gpGPUs 2 Intel Phi 192 CPU Cores © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Storage • High Performance Storage – 2.4 PB – 25GB/s read/write – Available on HPC resources • Hadoop Cluster – 39 compute nodes – 14 TB Hadoop HDFS • Tier-2 Storage – – – 2.1 PB Available via Amazon’s S3 interface Available anywhere in the world – – 3.5 PB tape-based storage offline storage • Archive Storage © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. MSI HighPerformance Computing Clusters s3.msi.umn.edu Linux Home Directories High-Performance Scratch Interactive Systems HighPerformance Persistent Storage (PANFS) Linux Home Directories Persistent Storage (Ceph) s3.msi.umn.edu Campus and External Access s3.msi.umn.edu © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Consulting • • • • 24 -- Consulting Staff 17 -- Staff with advanced degrees 10 to 20 -- Workshops and Tutorials annually 46 -- Projects supported annually © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Portals & Databases Multiple “omics” platform Emphasis on Mass Spectrometry based Proteomics © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Portals & Databases National Center for Food Protection and Defense • • • NCFPD headquartered at UMN Vulnerability of the Nation’s food supply FIDES Dashboard • • • Focused Integration of Data for Early Signals Maps shipments to US from Exporting countries Wordpress-like discussion panel © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Challenge Analyzing Clinical Data • CLIA certification – Clinical Lab Improvement Amendments – Protocols cannot be changed without revalidation – Solution: virtual machines – Implemented in Amazon and Private MSI OpenStack Cluster © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Old Workflow New Workflow UMGC MSI Data Release Clinician’s Space Analyze Data (Variants/CNVs) UMGC MSI Data Release Analyze Data (Variants/CNVs) OpenStack Clinician’s Space Amazon Launch time reduced from ~ 12 hrs to ~2 hrs © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. AgroInformatics: An Integrated Informatics Initiative MSI and CFANS (College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences) are joining forces to launch AgroInformatics. Vision Create (and purposefully populate) the informatics platforms that integrate and synthesize data to form new knowledge and innovative ideas for sustainable agricultural productivity growth and flavorful nutritious food. © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Perspective Business Model, etc. Library Shareholder Cost Center Industry Collaboration “Business models of HPC centres in higher education in Europe” (2013) Eurich, Calleja, Boutellier. J. Comput higher Educ. © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Perspectives Business Model Advantages Disadvantages Library Model • Enables exploration of unfunded ideas • Means to steer research directions • Depends on commitment of Univ. • Everyone indirectly pays for HPC Shareholder Model • Fair, proportional distribution of services • Priority rules can be applied • Problems when shareholder leaves consortium • Non-users are not encouraged to experiment with HPC From: “Business models of HPC centres in higher education in Europe” (2013) Eurich, Calleja, Boutellier. J. Comput higher Educ. © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Perspectives Business Model Advantages Disadvantages Library Model • Enables exploration of unfunded ideas • Means to steer research directions • Depends on commitment of Univ. • Everyone indirectly pays for HPC • Challenges keeping customer service Focus* • Challenges setting research Priorities internally* Shareholder Model • Fair, proportional distribution of services • Priority rules can be applied • Problems when shareholder leaves consortium • Non-users are not encouraged to experiment with HPC From: “Business models of HPC centres in higher education in Europe” (2013) Eurich, Calleja, Boutellier. J. Comput higher Educ. * Wilgenbusch added © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Perspective © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Perspective © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Perspective Thank You February 2 March 3 © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
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