Makinge-Infrastructure Accessible to Industry

Martin HamiltonHPC MidlandsCentre Manager

Themes

1.About HPC Midlands

2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG

3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure

4.Actions Required

Themes

1.About HPC Midlands

2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG

3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure

4.Actions Required

About HPC Midlands@HPC_Midlands

hpc-midlands.ac.uk

– Partnership between

Loughborough and Leicester

– EPSRC funding for Regional

Centre of Excellence

– Emphasis on industrially

relevant research

– Direct access to world-class

facilities for businesses

– Support for SMEs to exploit

HPC

About HPC Midlands

About HPC Midlands

Themes

1.About HPC Midlands

2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG

3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure

4.Actions Required

TSB e-Infrastructure SIG@eInfraSIG - tinyurl.com/einfsig

Steering committee:

- ARM, Gnodal, Intel, Nvidia,Rolls-Royce, Zenotech

- KTNs, TSB- HPC Midlands, EPCC, Hartree,

HPC Wales, HPC-SIG / e-Infrastructure South, JANET

Next meeting Oct 31st at Loughborough

TSB e-Infrastructure SIG@eInfraSIG - tinyurl.com/einfsig

- Bringing industrial users, vendors & researchers together

- Links to E-Infrastructure Leadership Council / Programme Board, HPC-SIG, Hartree Centre, …

- Sharing details of training, funding and mentoring opportunities

- Supporting Catapult centre “on ramps” to HPC for SMEs & the Next Generation

- Awareness of and access toE-Infrastructure beyond HPC

Themes

1.About HPC Midlands

2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG

3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure

4.Actions Required

Industry Perspective

Industry Perspective - Coherence- Vagaries of

schedulers, Linux variants etc

- Licensing models (improving?)

- Contractual frameworks

- Information Assurance

- Connectivity

Industry Perspective –Impedance MismatchesWhat people understand

- Off the shelf packages, NASTRAN, FLUENT etc

- Want to expedite jobs- Want to run multiple jobs

at the same time- Often had prior exposure

to Linux

Industry Perspective –Impedance Mismatches

vs. Jargon Overload

- HPC- Supercomputing- MPI- E-Infrastructure- Batch scheduler- SME?

Where is the catalogue?!

What people understand

- Off the shelf packages, NASTRAN, FLUENT etc

- Want to expedite jobs- Want to run multiple jobs

at the same time- Often had prior exposure

to Linux

Industry Perspective - Training

Industry Perspective - Training

- Typically supply led- Inflexible timing- Prohibitively

expensive for SMEs- Ad-hoc engagement

with ISVs- Where is the MOOC?

E-Infrastructure >= HPC

- Bioinformatics- Diamond Light

Source, SKA etc- Major capital kit at

Institutions- But not just kit

- Open Access Pubs- Open Data- Software

Themes

1.About HPC Midlands

2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG

3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure

4.Actions Required

Actions Required – Website!

Actions Required – Marketing!

Actions Required - Awareness

equipment.data.ac.uk

Kit Catalogue™ – kit-catalogue.com

Key question:What are the boundaries of e-Infrastructure?

Actions Required - Awareness

Actions Required - Awareness

Actions Required - Awareness

Actions Required - Coherence

- Common standards + “National Grid” to plug into

- Collective license negotiations

- Common contractual frameworks cf. JANET

- CESG InfoSec advice- Connectivity

Actions Required – MOOC(s)

Actions Required – CPD -> MSc

Actions Required – Software

WearablesActions Required – Generation Pi

Photo credits: Technocamps, DesignSpark

WearablesActions Required – hpc4schools?

Martin Hamiltonmartin@hpc-midlands.ac.uk