The CESCA Consortium

Alfred Gil, HPC Support Scientist

Barcelona, December 4th 2013GENIUS kick off meeting

Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya

Public consortium created in 1991• Generalitat de Catalunya• Fundació Institució Catalana de Suport

a la Recerca • Universitat de Barcelona• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya• Universitat Pompeu Fabra• Universitat de Girona• Universitat Rovira i Virgili• Universitat de Lleida• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya• Universitat Ramon Llull• Spanish National Research Council 

Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (ICTS) since 2000

Until 2011, known as Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya

From supercomputing in 1991...

… to the current porfolio of services

HPC for scientific (academic) groups Drug Design Service HPC for industrial and engineering

Scientífic Computing

Our services: High Performance Computing and Drug Dessign

Supercomputing Software

Fluid Dynamics

• FDS

• OpenFOAM

Genetics• PhyloBayes

• RAxML

• TREE-PUZZLE

• TREEFINDER

Astronomy

• EPIC

• GADGET-2

Life Sciences• Adun

• Amber

• Autodock

• CPMD

• DL_POLY

• GROMACS

• NAMD• LAMMPS

Statistics

• GAUSS

• JAGS

• Octave

• R

Computational Chemistry

• ADF

• CFOUR

• GAMESS

• Gaussian

• JAGUAR

• MOPAC

• Open Babel

• POLYRATE

• SIESTA

• NWChem

• ORCA

• SAPT

• TURBOMOLE

Meteorology

• MM5

• WRF

• Gnuplot

• MOLDEN

• Molekel

Visualization

• NBOView

• NCAR

• Ncview

• ParaView

• XCrySDen

• VMD

Libraries

• ACML

• ATLAS

• FFTW

• GA

• PETSc

• ScaLAPACK

• GSL

• HDF5

• MKL

• NetCDF

Strengthening the Industry Calculation

Centre Tecnològic de Manresa

M. Dolors Riera

JG Ingenieros GroupFire simulationsVanessa Escalona

IDIADASupercalculus ProjectEnric Aramburu

MindtheByteBioinformatics Alfons Nonell

Start 1-2-2011ESI Virtual Lab, LMS, STARCM+, STAR-HPC, Radtherm, LS-DYNA, OpenFoam389,457 CH

Start 7-07-2011FDS662 CH

Start 7-07-2011Gaussian, Python14 CH

Start 18-11-2010Abaqus5,033 CH

Scientific Computing hardware

HP CP4000 (2005)• 132 Opteron 275 DC (2,2 GHz)• 528 GB; 9,41 TB; 580,80 Gflop/s

SGI Altix UV 1000 (2011)• 224 Xeon (2,66 GHz) 1.344 cores• 6,14 TB; 112 TB; 14,3 Tflop/s• Shared memory

BULL NovaScale (2008)• 88 Xeon (3,0 i 2,66 GHz) 352 cores• 1,66 TB; 52,66 TB; 4,06 Tflop/s • InfiniBand

High Performance Computing at CESCA

High Security Data Center

Fire Detection and

Extinction System• Weigh control

• Single extinction area

Panels and Self-Supporting Door• Smart Shelter Product

• Acoustic attenuation

• Physical Intrusions Protection

Wiring• Aerial reconduction of

the data wire

Others• Over Pressure Valve

• “Wall-crossing”

• Air renovation system

• Lighting new system

High Security Modular Data Center•Anti-fire protection (EN-1047-2)•Anti-flooding protection (EN-60529)•Physical intrusions protection (EN1627)•Electromagnetic fields protection (EMC)

CESCA at GENIUS

Simulations, aimed to test the system and validationsData mining, ask archive to obtain new knowledge

• Get expertise in the use of the technology– Hadoop cluster– Hive

Community portal• Design, development and hosting

Thank you for your attention!

For more information:For more information:

• www.cesca.catwww.cesca.cat

• www.tdx.catwww.tdx.cat

• www.recercat.catwww.recercat.cat

• www.raco.catwww.raco.cat

• www.padicat.catwww.padicat.cat

• www.mdx.catwww.mdx.cat

• www.catnix.catwww.catnix.cat

Contact:Contact:

Gorka RoldanGorka Roldan

Project CoordinatorProject Coordinator

groldan@cesca.catgroldan@cesca.cat

93 205 252593 205 2525

Twitter:Twitter:

@CE5CA@CE5CA