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PRACE in the European HPC landscape Serge Bogaerts PRACE Managing Director NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 1 www.prace-ri.eu

Content ▶ PRACE mission and achievements ▶ Second phase just started ▶ Perspectives NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 2 www.prace-ri.eu

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe  Open access to best-of-breed HPC-systems to EU Scientists  Variety of architectures to support the different scientific communities  High standards in computational science and engineering  Peer review on European scale to foster scientific excellence  Robust and persistent funding scheme for HPC supported by the national governments and the EC  Support the development of IPR in Europe by working with industry and public services  Collaborate with European HPC industrial users and suppliers NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 3 www.prace-ri.eu

HPC Pyramid NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 4 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE Achievements to-date  524 scientific projects enabled  14 000 000 000 (thousand million) core hours awarded since 2010  Of which 63% led by another PI nationality than the HM  R&D access to industrial users with >50 companies supported  >10 000 people trained by 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centers and others events  >60 Petaflops of peak performance on 7 world-class systems  24 PRACE members, including 5 Hosting Members (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland) NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 5 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE Tier 0 Systems JUQUEEN: IBM #21 on BlueGene/Q Top500 GAUSS/FZJ Jülich, Germany SuperMUC: IBM GAUSS/LRZ NEW ENTRY 2016 Garching, Germany #40 on Top500 MareNostrum: IBM Hazel Hen: Cray BSC, Barcelona, Spain GAUSS/HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany #13 on Top500 #17 on Top500 Piz Daint : Cray XC 30 CSCS Lugano, Switzerland #3 on MARCONI: Lenovo Top500 CINECA #85 on CURIE: Bull Bullx Bologna, Italy GENCI/CEA Top500 #14 on Top500 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 6 www.prace-ri.eu

Supporting many scientific domains Fundamental Engineering Constituents 17% of matter 15% Earth System Sciences 7% Biochemistry, Bioinformatics Mathematical and and Life Sciences Computer Sciences 15% 4% Universe Sciences Chemical 16% Sciences and Materials 26% Research Domain Pie Chart up to and including Call 14, % of total core hours awarded NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 7 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE Training and Outreach activities provide a sustained, high-quality training and education service for the European HPC community 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centres Code Vault 4 PRACE Training Centres Massive Open Online Courses ( MOOCs ) Training topics PRACE Training Events : Seasonal Schools, International HPC Summer Different levels of training School, On-demand training events • Basic, intermediate, advanced HPC • Parallel programming • Accelerators Summer of HPC (Programme for undergraduate and • Performance optimization postgraduate students) Domain-specific topics • Simulation software • PRACE Training and Events portal Visualization • Data intensive computing NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 8 www.prace-ri.eu

Open access to industry since January 2012 Access to leading-edge Access to high-value services  HPC knowledge resources  Training  Calls open to industry twice a  Code enabling year  Information, Promotion and  commitment to publish Networking results  Permanent Preparatory Since 2012: >50 Access call companies supported  For scalability and porting NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 9 www.prace-ri.eu

New phase – PRACE 2 ▶ Build on the successes of the Initial Period ▶ Development and use of HPC systems by science and industry in Europe ▶ Provide access to the Tier-0 HPC systems and High Level Support Teams ▶ Enable the best science by granting access through peer review process ▶ Make it robust and sustainable ▶ Basic principle is To compute, you must contribute  PRACE 2 Programme NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 10 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE 2 Ratified on 3 March 2017 • From 2017 to 2020 with overlap with PRACE 1 PRACE 2 PRACE aisbl Operation PRACE 1 PRACE Implementation Phase (3IP, 4IP, 5IP, …) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 11 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE (2) memberships • Hosting Members (HMs): provide access to own Tier-0 systems as in-kind participation to the PRACE infrastructure • General Partners (GPs): fund high-level support teams (HLST) providing tailored user support on those Tier-0 systems • All 24 PRACE members contribute to high-value services including DECI, Implementation Projects, peer-review and communication NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 12 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE Members Hosting Members General Partners (PRACE 2) Under application • • • France Belgium Luxembourg • • Germany Bulgaria • • Italy Cyprus Former members • • • Spain Czech Republic Austria • • Switzerland Denmark • Finland Observers • • Greece Croatia • • Hungary Romania • Ireland • Israel • Netherlands • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Slovakia • Slovenia • Sweden • Turkey • United Kingdom NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 13 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE 2 key elements • Investment made by HMs • In-kind funding based Computing cycles on a fraction of a made available by national system Hosting Members Infrastructure on Tier-0 systems Common services High Level Support e.g. Peer-review, dissemination, training Teams in charge of … supporting European scientific communities in their efficient use of • Most PRACE Tier-0 systems funded • All PRACE members members provide • by General Partners EC support funding NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 14 www.prace-ri.eu

High-Level Support Teams NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 15 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE Peer Review Process NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 16 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE Governance COUNCIL Strategy (Board of Council) Board of Working Directors Group AISBL Industrial Advisory Scientific Committee Steering Committee Access Resource Allocation Session Committee NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 17 www.prace-ri.eu

PRACE Current Services Access Support Communication, Dissemination, Outreach Tier-0 systems (open R&D) Application Enabling & Support - Website - Project Access - Preparatory access Type C - PR 1-3 years - Preparatory access Type D Towards PRACE Partners - Scientific Communication - Preparatory Access - Tier-1 for Tier-0 - Summer of HPC Type A, B, C, D - SHAPE Towards End-Users - HLST support Events Tier-1 systems (open R&D) - PRACEdays - DECI Programme Training SC, ISC, ICT, … - - Training Portal - PATC, PTC Operation & Coordination of the - Seasonal Schools & on common PRACE Operational Services demand - Service Catalogue - International HPC Summer - PRACE MD-VPN network School - Security - MOOC HPC Commissioning & Prototyping - Code Vault - Technology Watch, PCP activity - Best Practice Guides - Infrastructure WS - White Papers - Best Practices - UEABS NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 18 www.prace-ri.eu

HPC - Big Data Trusted access convergence Data sharing & ECI & EDI Looking Reuse across Architectural Multidisciplines requirements HPC European ahead infrastructure Open for data Science processing Cloud e-Infrastructures in the Digital Adapting Approaching Single Market HPC exascale: solutions for landscape prototypes Exascale cloud co-design system environment Broader Integration access Co-design Convergence Procurement of HPC networking, and Clouds NorduGrid 2017 – 27-30 June 2017 – Tromso, Norway 19 www.prace-ri.eu