1. High Performance Computing at the City University of New York
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High Performance Computing at the City University of New York
Paul C. Muzio
Director
CUNY HPC Center
College of Staten Island-CUNY
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2. AGENDA Introduction City University of New York (CUNY) Background
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AGENDA
Introduction
City University of New York (CUNY)
Background
Demographics
Decade of Science
Cyber Infrastructure
Historical perspective
Future directions
Selected CUNY Domain Application Areas
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3. CUNY-Background City College of New York - 1847 Tuition-free college
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CUNY-Background
City College of New York
Tuition-free college
Based solely on merit
Economically disadvantaged and those precluded from attending the leading universities of the day because of ethnicity or gender.
Hunter College
Tuition-free teacher-training school, based solely on merit, for young women.
Incorporated an elementary and high school for gifted children.
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CUNY-Background
Public university located totally within the 300 sq miles of the City of New York
Senior Colleges
(1847) City College
(1870) Hunter College
(1919) Baruch College
(1930) Brooklyn College
(1937) Queens College
(1946) New York City College of Technology
(1955) College of Staten Island
(1964) John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(1966) York College
(1968) Lehman College
(1970) Medgar Evers College
Community Colleges
(1957) Bronx Community College
(1958) Queensborough Community College
(1963) Borough of Manhattan Community College
(1963) Kingsborough Community College
(1968) LaGuardia Community College
(1970) Hostos Community College
Graduate and Professional Schools
(1961) CUNY Graduate Center
(1973) Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
(1983) School of Law
(2005) William E. Macaulay Honors College
(2006) Graduate School of Journalism
(2006) School of Professional Studies
(2008) School of Public Health
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5. “City University of New York”
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Twentieth Century
“City University of New York”
Established in 1961 and incorporated the pre-existing City public colleges.
23 Institutions.
NYC’s 1975 financial crisis
End of free tuition
Open enrollment
Tuition - current
$4,600 per year at senior colleges
$3,200 at community colleges
CUNY college campuses do not have infrastructure facilities to support HPC
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6. Decade of Science Enhance CUNY’s position as a research university
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Decade of Science
Enhance CUNY’s position as a research university
Hire 1,200 new faculty
Upgrade admission standards while upholding CUNY’s mission of expanding educational opportunities
Ended open admissions policy for the senior colleges
Provided “immersion” programs at the Community College level
Upgrade research facilities
Cyber Infrastructure/High Performance Computing Initiative
Ab ova
Prove its worth the investment
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7. CUNY-Background Largest urban university in the United States.
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CUNY-Background
Largest urban university in the United States.
Third largest university system in the United States.
Faculty
6,700 full-time
3,500 adjunct
231,000 degree program students.
230,000 adult, continuing and professional education students.
College Now
Academic enrichment program for 32,500 high school students.
Offered at CUNY campuses and more than 300 high schools.
University Teacher Academy
Free tuition for highly motivated mathematics and science majors who commit to teach in New York City.
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8. CUNY-Background William E. Macaulay Honors College
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CUNY-Background
William E. Macaulay Honors College
Graduated its first class in 2005.
3,200 students applied for 360 slots in 2008.
630 more than 2007.
2,400 more than 2001.
First-year students have an average SAT score of 1399.
University Scholars.
Free tuition.
Laptop.
"cultural passport" for free or reduced-admission to various cultural institutions and venues in New York City.
$7,500 expense account that may be used for research and/or study abroad.
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9. CUNY Demographics Gender 61% female 39% male Ethnicity
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CUNY Demographics
Gender
61% female
39% male
Ethnicity
0.2% American Indian/Native Alaskan
15.8% Asian/Pacific Islander
27.1% Afro-American
25.7% Hispanic
31.2% White
68% attended New York City public high schools
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10. CUNY-Alumni Dr. Jonas Salk, Polio Vaccine Bernard Baruch, Financier
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CUNY-Alumni
Dr. Jonas Salk, Polio Vaccine
Bernard Baruch, Financier
Sidney 'Paddy' Chayefsky, Author
Felix Frankfurter, US Supreme Court Justice
General Colin Powell, former Commander, Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State
Upton Sinclair, Author
Robert Kahn, Co-developer of TCP/IP
Andy Grove, co-founder and former CEO, Intel Corp.
12 Nobel prize winners
Many Pulitzer Prize Winners
More CEOs and top executives in America graduated with first degrees from CUNY than any other degree-granting institution in the nation (Standard & Poors)
3 Rhodes Scholars in the last 4 years
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11. CUNY Commitment CUNY HPC Facility at College of Staten Island
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CUNY Commitment
CUNY HPC Facility at College of Staten Island
4,500 sq. ft. of warehouse space
$3 million allocated for facility renovation
2.25 MW
Chilled water
Raised floor
$6.5 million allocated for design of a 90,000 square foot Computational Science Facility
planned completion
Expected cost of $75 million
CUNYnet links all campuses
WDM between some campuses, at present
1 Gbit between HPC and CUNYnet, at present
Faculty hiring
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12. 2009 interim upgrade 2007 to the interim upgrade November 19, 2018
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2009 interim upgrade
to the interim upgrade
2007
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13. CUNY HPC Philosophy What doesn’t work One size DOES NOT fit all
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CUNY HPC Philosophy
What doesn’t work
One size DOES NOT fit all
Can’t compete for $ with the largest NSF sites
Cheap FLOPS is not necessarily the answer
Multi-core has its limitations
Power and heat
Scalability
Programmability
Is HPC going in the wrong direction (architectural issues)?
Don’t put all one’s eggs in one basket
MPI?
Learning curve
Limitations
Better alternatives in the future?
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14. CUNY HPC Philosophy Be unique
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CUNY HPC Philosophy
Be unique
Establish a capability and reputation for work in key disciplines
Bring in new architectures with external funding
Demonstrate that investment in HPC is worthwhile
Produce external funding for research and students
CUNY Central will fund O&M, replenishment and upgrades (including generic cluster systems)
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15. CUNY HPC Philosophy Why MPI+GPU?
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CUNY HPC Philosophy
MPI+GPU **
Spring 2010 delivery
NSF funded
PGAS
Fall 2010 (hopefully)
2011
Others-to be determined
**Note: Adds 384 nehalem cores and 24 Nvidia Fermi GPUs to an existing 384 core nehalem SGI ICE system
Why MPI+GPU?
Certain key algorithms require minimal communications and map well to GPUs
Familiarity with vectors
Anticipating future HPC chip directions
X86 plus vectors on a chip
Anticipating future compiler technology
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MPI-GPU Cluster
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MPI-GPU Cluster
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18. MPI-GPU Cluster Environmental science WRF and WRF-chem
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MPI-GPU Cluster
Environmental science
WRF and WRF-chem
NCAR + PGI development
Urban traffic and air pollution issues
Monte Carlo simulations
Finance
Condensed matter
Photonics
Creative media
Genomics
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19. MPI-GPU Application Areas
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MPI-GPU Application Areas
Weather, climate, and pollution studies (CCNY-NOAA CREST Center)
Study of air pollution in urban areas including:
Development of algorithms for sensing atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles, surface temperature, cloud geometric and optical properties, and aerosol and ozone and CO2 concentrations.
Analyze sensor noise to facilitate a cost-benefit analysis of lossless versus near-lossless compression and develop suitable analysis metrics, which balance cost, speed, and accuracy.
Existing facilities include:
Satellite downlinks from weather observational satellites including NOAA EAST GEO Satellite, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS9 on TERRA and AQUA platforms), CloudSat, and Cloud-Aerosol Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observatory (CALIPSO).
Developmental activities:
Development of advanced data collection and data analysis capabilities.
Visualization.
Electrical engineering, FPGAs, etc.
An important beginning, but we must recognize that it is a modest beginning.
In the 1980s, San Diego was the fastest growing city in the US. Business office space was increasing at a rate of 26% per year. New York City had a percentage growth of under 5%, but New York City’s growth was more than the equivalent of building an entirely new San Diego each year.
CUNY is, to some extent, in the same position as San Diego. The difference is that, if it wishes, it can exploit funding resources to catapult it into a leadership position in one or more areas.
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20. MPI-GPU Application Areas
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MPI-GPU Application Areas
Computational Finance, Economics, and Mathematics (Baruch and Brooklyn Colleges, College of Staten Island)
Critical technologies for New York City’s economic base
Wall Street
Computational Finance and Economics
Baruch College is the largest Business School in the United States
Programs in Computational Finance
Strong Working Relationships with Wall Street
Mathematics
Highly Ranked Program in Mathematics
An important beginning, but we must recognize that it is a modest beginning.
In the 1980s, San Diego was the fastest growing city in the US. Business office space was increasing at a rate of 26% per year. New York City had a percentage growth of under 5%, but New York City’s growth was more than the equivalent of building an entirely new San Diego each year.
CUNY is, to some extent, in the same position as San Diego. The difference is that, if it wishes, it can exploit funding resources to catapult it into a leadership position in one or more areas.
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21. MPI-GPU Application Areas
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MPI-GPU Application Areas
Creative Media and Computational Arts (New York City College of Technology)
Critical technologies for New York City’s economic base
Performing Arts
Media Arts
Advertising Industry
Comprehensive programs at the Senior College and Community College Level
Architecture
3-D Visualization (including Scientific Visualization)
Computer Engineering and Advanced Programming Techniques
Digital Multi-media
Motion Capture
Autism Studies (with the Institute for Basic Research into Behavioral Disabilities)
Kinesiology (Physical Therapy, Sports Programs, Performing Arts)
An important beginning, but we must recognize that it is a modest beginning.
In the 1980s, San Diego was the fastest growing city in the US. Business office space was increasing at a rate of 26% per year. New York City had a percentage growth of under 5%, but New York City’s growth was more than the equivalent of building an entirely new San Diego each year.
CUNY is, to some extent, in the same position as San Diego. The difference is that, if it wishes, it can exploit funding resources to catapult it into a leadership position in one or more areas.
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22. Native PGAS System Expected Fall 2010 delivery
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Native PGAS System
Expected Fall 2010 delivery
Native support in hardware for PGAS languages
Co-arrays in Fortran
Unified parallel C
Engineering applications
Heart modeling
Blast damage
Computational fluid dynamics
Why?
Easier to program
Facilitates new approaches/solutions
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Why PGAS?
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Why PGAS?
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