What is PRACE Hank Nussbacher PRACE Winter School

What is PRACE? Hank Nussbacher PRACE Winter School, Tel Aviv, Feb 10, 2014 1

Realizing the ESFRI Vision for an HPC RI – Tier-0: European Centres for Petaflop/s – Tier-1: National Centres – Tier-2: Regional/University Centres • Creation of a European HPC ecosystem – – HPC service providers on all tiers Scientific and industrial user communities The European HPC hard- and software industry Other e-Infrastructures Tier-0 European centres Tier-1 National centres Tier-2 capability • European HPC-facilities at the top of an HPC provisioning pyramid Regional/University centres # of systems 2

PRACE-3 IP: History HPC part of the ESFRI Roadmap; creation of a vision involving 15 European countries Signature of the Mo. U Creation of the Scientific Case HPCEUR 2004 2005 HET 2006 PRACE Initiative 2007 Creation of the PRACE Research Infrastructure PRACE RI 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 PRACE Preparatory PRACE-3 IP PRACE-1 IP Phase Project PRACE-2 IP 3

PRACE in Winter 2014 … has grown up • PRACE is the European High-End HPC Infrastructure – provides access to 6 Tier-0 systems, funded by 4 countries: DE, ES, FR, IT – has provided 5. 5 Billion Core-hours to hundreds of user projects since 2010 – is providing extensive training though 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATC), seasonal schools, summer student programme, workshops, … – currently has 25 members, representing 25 countries – has secured national contributions of 450 M€ and 67 M€ EC funding – is developing its strategy for 2015 -2020 • PRACE is user-demand driven – Scientific Steering Committee advises on all scientific matters, in particular the access to PRACE resources through Peer Review – User Forum provides feedback and technical requirements from end-users – Scientific Case 2012 -2020: requirements and recommendations >100 leading European Scientists contributed to this update 4

April, 23 rd 2010 creation of the legal entity (AISBL) PRACE with seat location in Brussels, Belgium 25 PRACE Members Interest by: Latvia, Belgium 67+ Million € from EC FP 7 for preparatory and implementation phases Grants INFSO-RI-211528, 261557, 283493, and 312763 Complemented by ~ 50 Million € from PRACE members 5

PRACE is building the top of the pyramid. . . Tier-0 Tier-1 Sixth production system available by January 2013: 1 Petaflop/s IBM (Mare. Nostrum) at BSC. - #34 Tier-2 Upgrade: 5. 87 Petaflop/s IBM Blue Gene/Q (JUQUEEN) – #8 in Top 500 First production system available: 1 Petaflop/s IBM Blue. Gene/P (JUGENE) at GCS (Gauss Centre for Supercomputing) partner FZJ (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Fifth production system available by August 2011: 2 Petaflop/s IIBM BG/Q (FERMI) at CINEC - #15. Second production system available: Bullx CURIE at GENCI partner CEA. Full capacity of 1. 8 Petaflop/s reached by late 2011. - #20 in Top 500 Fourth production system available by mid 2012: 3. 1 Petaflop/s IBM (Super. MUC) at GCS partner LRZ (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum). - #10 in Top 500 Third production system available by the end of 2011: 1 Petaflop/s Cray (HERMIT) at GCS partner HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart). - #39

The HPC European e-infrastructure (ESFRI) PRACE 1. 0 25 members, AISBL since 2010 530 M€ for 2010 -2015 (inc 70 M€ from UE) 6 supercomputers in 4 hosting countries, different architectures research and industrial access (open R&D) for all disciplines based on excellence in science, free of charge Nearly 15 Pflop/s 5 billion hours granted since 2010 7

Total number of CPU core-hours allocated Name of Principal Investigator Company/ Institution of Principal Investigator Avishai Dekel HUJI 2 nd Regular 9000000 PRACE CURIE, GENCI/CEA Daniel Ceverino HUJI 2 nd Regular 5000000 PRACE CURIE, GENCI/CEA Yehuda Hoffman HUJI 5 th Regular 26000000 PRACE Super. MUC (GAUSS@LRZ, Germany) Avi Cohen Bar-Ilan University Preparatory 10 th 50000 PRACE Hermit, GAUSS@HLRS, Yakov Strelniker Bar-Ilan University Preparatory 11 th 50000 PRACE HERMIT, GAUSS@HLRS, Germany Alexander Gelfgat Tel-Aviv University Preparatory 12 th 50000 PRACE FERMI Helena Vitoshkin Tel-Aviv University Preparatory 12 th 50000 PRACE HERMIT, GAUSS@HLRS, Germany Preparatory 14 th 40000 PRACE HERMIT, @ GAUSS-HLRS, JUQUIN@GAUSS- FZJ; Super. MUC@ GASUSS-LRZ; CURIE@GENCI, FERMI@CINECA Type of Access Project Dan Mordehai Technion Pinchas Alpert Tel Aviv University 450000 Linksceeem Alexander Gelfgat Tel Aviv University 160000 Linksceeem Dan Thomas Major Bar-Ilan University 400000 Linksceeem Benjamin Svetitsky Tel Aviv University 250000 Linksceeem Yakov Strelniker Bar-Ilan University 20000 Linksceeem Hanoch Senderowitz Bar-Ilan Uneiversity 20000 Linksceem-2 Alexander Gelfgat Tel Aviv University 150000 Linksceem-2 Lucio Frydman Weizmann 3000 Linksceem-2 Avi Cohen Bar-Ilan University 10000 Linksceem-2 System 8

PRACE 2. 0: meeting Europe‘s ambitions with HPC Provide an infrastructure for science and industry • To maintain Europe as an agenda setting science contributor • By offering access to leading edge HPC platforms • opened to all disciplines and countries in Europe Attract, train and retain competences • To attract, train and retain highly skilled and innovative workforce • in science and engineering • To share knowledge and expertise Provide an high quality service • With at least one supercomputer in each major architectural class • To support world-leading science Lead the integration of an highly effective HPC ecosystem • Including : A) scientific and industrial communities, • B) national HPC centres and their support for the PRACE systems, • C) training and software development efforts 9

PRACE 2. 0 strategy : Ambitions Hypothesis for the baseline scenario (825 M€) (3/5) Provide an infrastructure for science and industry Scenario ≈ 825 M€ including 275 M€ from the EC Unanimous approval 5 725 M€ Tier-0 of each 50 PF for ≈150 M€ (TCO 5 y) Attract, train and retain competences Tier-0 European centers Provide an high quality service Lead the integration of an highly effective HPC ecosystem PRACE will he of natio lp the develo pment nal eco system s alone or in a consortium EC funds: 25% of the contribution over 2 phases Tier-1 HPC at the agenda of the Competitiveness Council – 29 -30 May, 2013 services for Tier 0 50 % PRACE membres 100 M€ EC 10

PRACE in Horizon 2020 • PRACE-3 IP ends in mid 2014 • EC has informally indicated its intention to continue IP-type support for PRACE - independent of the on-going PRACE 2. 0 discussion • EC needs to act on Conclusions from the Competitiveness Council – Funding level and instruments to be explored 11