From Old-School to New-School Operation of HPC
SpeakerAnil Thapa
Track
DescriptionThe concept of traditional system administration of large High performance Computing operation, where all hardware is close to users and administrators, has changed in recent years.With the evolving high-speed network connection between the countries, such hardware can be hosted away from users and system administrators, which are transparent to the system.
National High Performance Computing centres of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland own and have operated jointly a supercomputer in Iceland to share computational resources across country boundaries since 2011. The main objective of the joint ownership is to make the investment and cost of operation cost efficient without sacrificing service to users. The system consists of 3456 cores, 71TB storage, 7TB memory and is run by four system administrators from four different countries.
Nordic High Performance Computing has set an example of an innovative concept for the HPC operation where technical administrators reside in different parts of the world and yet the HPC operation is optimal, secure and reliable. This presentation will give an overview of the project and lessons learned.
National High Performance Computing centres of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland own and have operated jointly a supercomputer in Iceland to share computational resources across country boundaries since 2011. The main objective of the joint ownership is to make the investment and cost of operation cost efficient without sacrificing service to users. The system consists of 3456 cores, 71TB storage, 7TB memory and is run by four system administrators from four different countries.
Nordic High Performance Computing has set an example of an innovative concept for the HPC operation where technical administrators reside in different parts of the world and yet the HPC operation is optimal, secure and reliable. This presentation will give an overview of the project and lessons learned.
Presentation documents
All talks
- A Vision for Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration
- A national archive for digital research data
- ATLAS Computing: status and plans
- Advanced User Support in the Swedish National HPC Infrastructure
- BBMRI requirements and use of the e-Infrastructure
- Bioinformatics
- Building and maintaining services for Sensitive Data
- Closing Keynote
- Co-chair for WS Security I
- Co-chair for WS Security II
- Co-chair for WS Security III
- Co-chair for WS Security IV
- Conference conclusions and closing
- Design and implementation of an energy efficient high density data center
- Developing Global Data Infrastructures: Trends and Requirements
- EGI: Going beyond support for WLCG
- EISCAT requirements and use of the e-Infrastructure
- EUDAT - Towards a Collaborative Data Infrastructure - A Nordic Perspective?
- EUDAT: Towards a European Collaborative Data Infrastructure
- Enabling excellent science through High-Performance Computing
- Fido - Providing a secure and convenient gateway to packaged HPC jobs
- From Old-School to New-School Operation of HPC
- Future e-Infrastructure Requirements for the EISCAT facilities
- Kajaani Data Center - case study
- Meteorological Co-operation on Operational NWP (Numerical weather prediction) between Sweden and Norway
- NDGF - lessons learned
- NorStore – Managing Digital Research Data in Norway
- Nordic Contributions to Developing a European Digital Services Infrastructure for Social Sciences and Humanities
- Nordic Opportunities for Cloud Software Collaboration
- Nordic Opportunities for Digital Humanities
- Nordic Storage Opportunities
- Official opening
- Panel discussion
- Panel discussion
- Panel discussion
- Panel discussion
- Plans for the Large Hadron Collider
- Reproduce and share: the key to the new generation scientific portal at UiO based on the Galaxy framework
- Research Data Initiatives in Sweden
- ScalaLife Competence Center - Providing tailored made support to the computational Life Science communities
- Science Gateways and their enabling technologies from EGI and SCI-BUS
- Science Gateways in climate research
- TTA – National Research Data Project in Finland
- The energy cost of compressing sparse matrices for performance
- Tidying up the Basement: A Tale of Large-Scale Parsing on National eInfrastructure
- Towards the clouds, together. Collaboration on cloud services in research and education
- WS Analysis and Actions
- Welcome
- Welcome from NTNU
- What business are we in? Data-centric research, service requirements and national responses
- Ws Introduction to IaaS in Life Science in the Nordics
- ~okeanos and Synnefo: The public cloud service and the open source software that powers it