1. LinkSCEEM-2: A computational resource for the development of Computational Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean Mostafa Zoubi SESAME SESAME – LinkSCEEM roadshow at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), 4 May 2014.

2. Content Introduction Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities 2 SESAME LinkSCEEM

3. Content Introduction - HPC Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities 3 SESAME LinkSCEEM

4. High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems source: www.computing.llnl.gov serial computationparallel computation SESAME LinkSCEEM  Scalable systems  Does your latop / PC support parallel CPU programing ?

5. 5 High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems SESAME LinkSCEEM See how Pelegant Beam dynamics simulation software is going to be distributed on a small PS3 devices cluster.

6. 6 High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems SESAME LinkSCEEM See how ET is going to be improved by increasing the number of cores to find the max. prime number in 20000000 numbers

7. High Performance Computing Supercomputers are large scale computers that use many processors and fast interconnect to solve parallel problems JUQUEEN at Juelich Supercomputing Centre in Germany (no. 8 world wide), 458,752 cores 5,872.0 Tflop/s National Supercomputer Centre of China (no. 1 world wide) 3,120,000 cores 54,902.4 TFlop/s SESAME LinkSCEEM

8. Content Introduction - LinkSCEEM Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities 8 SESAME LinkSCEEM

9. HPC in the Eastern Mediterranean LinkSCEEM-1 project run from 2008-2009 – assessment of HPC resources and users in the Eastern Mediterranean 6 countries by HPC resources (status Nov 2013, source www.top500.org) Need for additional computational resources (regional survey LinkSCEEM-1) Saudi Arabia - 0.6%, SESAME LinkSCEEM

10. HPC in the Eastern Mediterranean LinkSCEEM-1 project run from 2008-2009 – assessment of HPC resources and users in the Eastern Mediterranean 7 Conclusions: Main factors that have hindered the development of computational science in the region limited access to HPC resources limited knowledge on HPC inadequate regional connectivity limited awareness of simulation as a scientific tool SESAME LinkSCEEM

11. LinkSCEEM-2 - Establish a HPC EcoSystem in the Eastern Mediterranean 10 FP7 under Grant Agreement Number: 261600 SESAME LinkSCEEM Provide access to HPC resources Provide training in HPC Raise awareness for HPC research tools Bring international expertise into the region

12. LinkSCEEM-2: Development of a HPC ecoSystem in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean 8 HPC user community training and support Cy-Tera HPC user HPC e-infrastructure SESAME LinkSCEEM Both Cy-Tera and LinkSCEEM are under CaSToRC (Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center)

13. Project consortium Regional research institutions and international centres of excellence in high performance computing (HPC) 11 SESAME LinkSCEEM

14. Content Introduction Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities 12 SESAME LinkSCEEM

15. Cy-Tera HPC System at CyI Hybrid CPU/GPU Linux Cluster Theoretical Peak Performance (TPP) = 30.5Tflops Computational Power – 98 x 2 x Intel Westmere 6-core compute nodes (1176 CPU’s) – 18 x 2 x Intel Westmere 6-core + 4 x NVIDIA M2070 GPU nodes (216 CPU’s and 72 GPU’s) 48 GB memory per node (5.56 TB) MPI Messaging & Storage Access – 40Gbps QDR Infiniband Storage: 360TB raw disk 13 SESAME LinkSCEEM

16. 16 EUCLID Cluster System at CyI 13 SESAME LinkSCEEM 1 TFlop/s 12 eight-core compute nodes (4 * x3550, 8 * x3650M2) 2 quad-core sockets per node, each is Intel Quad Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz 16 GB memory per node Total memory.192 Tbytes 10 TB shared scratch - not backed up EUCLID is a training Cluster for LinkSCEEM Project

17. HPC System at Bibliotheca Alexandrina  SUN cluster of peak performance of 12 Tflops  130 eight-core compute nodes  2 quad-core sockets per node, each is Intel Quad Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz  8 GB memory per node, Total memory 1.05 TBytes  36 TB shared scratch  Node-node interconnect  Ethernet & 4x SDR Infiniband network for MPI 18 SESAME LinkSCEEM

18. Content Introduction Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities 19 SESAME LinkSCEEM

19. Access to HPC facilities Regionally distributed LinkSCEEM e-infrastructure is being accessed for free through a joint call CaSToRC (Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center): – Cy-Tera (CPU/GPU cluster, 30 TFlops) – EUCLID (LinkSCEEM training cluster) BA: – Sun cluster (CPU, 12 TFlops) Regional collaboration – currently: HP-SEE (High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities) pilot access for LinkSCEEM users SESAME LinkSCEEM

20. What are the different types of access? Preparatory access – up to 6 months Call always open (apply here)apply here Production access – up to 12 months (apply here)apply here 20 SESAME LinkSCEEM

21. Access to resources - process 21 Proposal submission Technical reviewScientific reviewRight to reply Resource allocation through RAC Notification of applicant Proposal submission Technical reviewScientific reviewRight to reply Resource allocation through RAC Notification of applicant Production Access (process duration 2 month) Preparatory Access (process duration 2 days!) SESAME LinkSCEEM

22. Success stories Project is in its 4 rd year now (duration of 4 + x years) LinkSCEEM e-infrastructure is established 4 production access calls allocated, 2 finished already Projects by country: 4 th call Projects by country: 3 rd call SESAME LinkSCEEM

23. Content Introduction Available computational resources Access to Resources High Performance Computing training opportunities 30 SESAME LinkSCEEM

24. HPC training opportunities LinkSCEEM aims to offer training opportunities to new and experienced users Training efforts focus on – Online training opportunities – Educational Access Program – LinkSCEEM training events 31 SESAME LinkSCEEM

25. Online training opportunities Attempts to aggregate and filter material into distinct categories Recommends content within categories Provides an environment to browse content from categories while remaining within the website 34 Portal Website SESAME LinkSCEEM

26. Educational Access Program Access to HPC resources for educational purpose LinkSCEEM offers resources dedicated to this type of access Euclid is used as the training cluster of the LinkSCEEM Project Apply via hpc-support@linksceem.eu 35 SESAME LinkSCEEM

27. LinkSCEEM training events a total of 32 to date 27 SESAME LinkSCEEM

28. Last years events 39 Training material from past events is available on the Linksceem-2 website : http://linksceem.eu/ls2/user- resources/lectures.html SESAME LinkSCEEM

29. 40 SESAME LinkSCEEM The 4th SESAME – LinkSCEEM Summer School 15 – 17 June 2014 – Amman, Jordan Deadline: Interested participants should apply before May 15th, 2014. The 4 th SESAME – LinkSCEEM Summer School

30. Mostafa A. Zoubi mostafa.zoubi@sesame.org.jo شكرا SESAME LinkSCEEM