CILEA Interuniversity Consortium CILEA is a consortium of eleven universities in Italy, established in 1974. The Italian Ministry of Universities and Research also belongs to the Consortium. CILEA is among the most advanced supercomputing centres in Europe. According to its statute, CILEA has many different purposes. Among them, it promotes the use of the most advanced computing systems in scientific and technological research, both public and private. It provides high performance computing systems to the national research. It promotes the technological transfer in the field of information and communication technology. It creates, maintains and manages information systems for the national education and research system. All CILEA’s services are offered to universities, public agencies and private companies.

1. CILEA services for High
Performance Computing
Claudio Arlandini
Technical Manager
HPC competence group
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2. CILEA
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3. A TOP500 system
lagrange
•336 nodes BL460c + BL2x220
•3200 cores Intel X5472 + X5660
•6400 GB RAM
•30 TB storage (EVA4400 + MSA1500)
•SL6500 with NVIDIA Fermi M2050
•DL980 fat node (8way-512GB RAM)
•Infiniband QDR/DDR Voltaire
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4. A complete HPC environment
Over 3000 cores
40 TFlops/s peak
Optimized working
environment
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5. Services for industrial and academic research
Simulation Optimization
Visualization
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6. Services for industrial and academic research
Simulation Optimization
Visualization
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7. Excellence centre for
• CFD
• Structural analysis
• GPU computing
• Formation
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8. CFD
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9. Services for industrial and academic research
Simulation Optimization
Visualization
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10. Optimization
User
environment
optimization
Porting on different
architectures
Parallelizzation
Tuning/benchmarking
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11. Tuning/bechmarking
Benchmarking Tuning Performance
Performance is never obtained without pain
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12. Parallelizzation
Python
C++ Fortran
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13. Porting
LEGACY CODE
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14. User environment optimization
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15. Services for industrial and academic research
Simulation Optimization
Visualization
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16. Visualization
• VTK
Programming • Paraview
• High performance
Infrastructure visualization
• Ray tracing/rendering
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17. Special-purpose Hardware
CUDA development: HP SL6500
NVIDIA Fermi M2050
Visual-server: HP DL980
8 cpu QC
512 GB RAM !!!
NVIDIA Quadro 6000
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18. Visualization services
Remote Real-time rendering GPU-server
Visualization Large scale data Visual-server
processing
Tools:
 Mental images product suite (mental-ray; i-ray, reality-server)
 Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV – Nice Tech.)
Application Fields:
 Any CAD/CAE application involving pre/post-processing
 Architecture and Design
 Urban planning
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19. Research Projects
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20. LISA Initiative http://lisa.cilea.it
Collaboration Agreement between
Regione Lombardia and CILEA 2010-2012
• CPU hours (100.000-500.000/yr) and highly specialized assistance to
research projects
• Open to all universities of Lombardy
• Preference is given to projects with industrial partnership or interest
During first year:
• 29 awarded projects
• 8 millions CPU hours consumed
• 34 pubblications on scientific journals (at Feb 2011)
• Developed parallel code for atmospherical pollutants diffusion simulation
• Developed parallel code for simulation of water resource management of Po
river basin
• Accomplished the most complete reconstruction of underground water
resources of of Po river valley
• CUDA porting of a statistics code
• CUDA porting of a Lattice Boltzmann method fluidodynamics code
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21. Formation
elearning on-
on-site
demand
courses courses formation
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22. Formation services
elearning on-
on-site
demand
courses courses formation
•Fortran base and advanced
•C++ base and advanced
•Python
•High Performance Computing Techniques
(updated 2011!)
•Scientific visualization
•CUDA programming
•…
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23. Formation services
On site e- On
courses learning demand
Fortran Summer school
C++ CFD simulation
Python in esternal aerodynamics
September 2012
High performance computing
techniques Winter school
Scientific visualization Scientific visualization
With open-source tools
GPGPU programming November 2012
Profiling and debugging
OpenFOAM
+ workshops
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24. CILEA for research
CILEA: an outstanding partner
• We provide users high added value
services
• We focus on formation on high
specialization and innovation
topics
• We provide sinergy on
national and international
research projects
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25. Breaking news
Luna Rossa Challenge 2013 selected CILEA as technological
partner for the 34th America’s Cup (september 2013)
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26. Need more info?
http://www.cilea.it
email: assistenze_hpc@cilea.it
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