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HPC NEWS


Contents HPC News


The latest news in


high-performance computing HPC Products


A brief update of the latest HPC software and hardware


Building biology 22


Greg Blackman on the use of HPC in biological modelling


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ACLF awards five projects with 200m processing hours


Five researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded almost 200 million processor-hours of computing time at Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). The ALCF is home to an IBM Blue Gene/P, running at 557 teraflops. ‘By providing millions of hours of computing time on this powerful system, these awards allow us to address some of the nation’s most challenging scientific problems,’ said Pete Beckman, director of ALCF. Chosen through a peer review process, the following Argonne


The mysteries of multiphysics


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Paul Schreier on how HPC is cutting research time in multi- disciplinary projects


Power at your feet 32


Stephen Mounsey assesses developments in deskside HPC


projects have been selected by DOE to run at the ALCF as part of the new ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC): Andrew Siegel, a computational scientist and leader of Argonne’s nuclear simulation activities, was awarded 75 million hours to investigate vibrations caused by turbulent flow in the core of light-water reactors; Micheal Smith, an Argonne nuclear engineer, was awarded 38 million hours for the analysis and design of sodium-cooled fast reactors; Michael Borland of Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) was awarded 36 million hours to optimise the


University of Cambridge unveils Solution Centre


SC10 preview


A look ahead to the latest HPC products due to be launched at SC10 in New Orleans this November


HPC Director 42


Helge Meinhard, group leader platform and engineering servives, CERN


Cover montage: Dean Farrow 18 36


The University of Cambridge has partnered with Dell to unveil a new HPC Solution Centre, which aims to be EMEA’s leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community, whether academic or commercial. The centre will combine large- scale, commodity-based HPC infrastructure with experienced and specialised research know- how, to overcome the traditional barriers of entry to HPC, providing academic and private sector research organisations with cost- effective, readily accessible HPC solutions designed to meet ‘real life’ HPC challenges. Teams from Dell, The University of Cambridge and a network of third-party HPC technology vendors will build and test research-specific HPC solutions, contributing operational excellence and best in class HPC technical blueprints back to the HPC community through a series of freely available whitepapers, technical bulletins and targeted outreach activities.


SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WORLD OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2010 The University of Cambridge


is a world-leading teaching and research institution, consistently ranked within the top three universities worldwide. The university also forms the central hub of Europe’s largest technology centre with more than 1,200 technology companies located in science parks surrounding the city and boasting Europe’s largest bio- technology centre. The Solution Centre will be based out of the existing Cambridge HPC Service building, a facility already being used for delivering HPC services via a cloud computing model. The HPC cluster supports around 400 internal users spread across 70 research groups ranging from traditional hard sciences such as chemistry, physics and biology, through to areas rapidly growing in popularity for HPC-based research such as bio-medicine, clinical-medicine and social sciences. Dr Paul Calleja, director of the


HPC service at the University of Cambridge, said: ‘The Solutions


Centre has been founded with the overriding mandate of providing accessible research computing services and technology to organisations that would otherwise not have the money or expertise to benefit from such advantages, whether they are from academic or private sector backgrounds. We have amassed a considerable and focused pool of expertise and compute power that we hope will help speed up research within a wide range of fields. For researchers taking their first steps into HPC, we can provide the perfect platform to trial applications and for those looking to take things to a new level, we have the necessary support and understanding to really get research off the ground. By partnering with Dell we have been able to launch a new concept in HPC solution development and we’re looking forward to helping organisations overcome the initial barriers to entry by contributing operational excellence and best in class HPC blueprints back to the HPC community.’


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configuration of magnets as part of a planned upgrade to the APS – a world-class source of high-energy, tunable X-rays for scientific research; Benoit Roux, a senior computational biologist at Argonne and senior fellow of the Computation Institute, was awarded over 28 million hours to develop new computational approaches for studying complex biological macromolecular systems; and Larry Curtiss of Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials was awarded 20 million hours for the design and discovery of new materials critical to our energy future.


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