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UB CCR's Industry Cluster Center for Computational Research

UB CCR's Industry Cluster • • • • • • •

What is HPC2? What is UB CCR? The UB CCR HPC2 team The UB CCR industry cluster Cluster access Example industry partners Where to go for more information

What is HPC2? • HPC2 is New York State’s High Performance Computing Consortium. • A network of university computing centers who partner with industries throughout the state to help foster business growth and process improvement. • An HPC2 partnership can help companies create jobs, save costs, accelerate R&D, and obtain funding. • HPC2 provides access to computational resources and world class expertise in modeling, visualization, and analytics.

What is UB CCR? • UB CCR is the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research. • A leading academic supercomputing facility that maintains an HPC machine room and a high-end visualization laboratory. • Facilities include a Linux cluster with more than 11,000 processor cores. • Remote visualization services provide high-performance graphics tunneling for GUIdriven applications. • As part of HPC2, UB CCR provides a dedicated 72 teraflop ($1.2 Million) cluster for use by industry clients.

The UB CCR HPC2 team • A team of UB faculty and staff with expertise in computational science, engineering, scientific programming, data analysis and database design, animation and visualization, and marketing. • Research interests include: genomics, bioinformatics, water resources management, molecular modeling, computational chemistry, crystallography, volcanology, disaster response and recovery, computer vision, and computational fluid dynamics.

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The UB CCR industry cluster • 216 nodes (Intel Xeon E5-2650v2) – – – – –

2.60 GHz 16 processors per node 64 GB RAM per node 333 GFLOPS per node peak 72 TFLOPS total

• 144 with Mellanox FDR IB (56 Gbps) • CentOS 7.0.1406 • SLURM 14.11.6 – Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management Industry Cluster Node Rack – Dedicated SLURM controller and database – Industry cluster separate from academic cluster (ub-hpc)

Cluster Access • Two modes of access: – Linux command line via xterm and ssh – Remote desktop via web browser client

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Connect to "front-end" Request compute nodes Load software Launch GUI or batch job

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UB on-campus compute nodes or UB VPN presto front-end machine compute nodes user’s PC (or remote desktop node)

Example Industry Partners Sentient Science • Predicting mean time between replacement (MTBR) of wind turbines • Embarrassingly parallel – Monte Carlo simulations to characterize MTBR under various conditions

Example Industry Partners Buffalo BioBlower • A BioBlower is a compressive heating system that kills micro-organisms. • It also eliminates chemical toxins and environmental pollutants. • The design of the next-generation product is being aided by simulations run on the industry cluster. Cut Away of a Trailer Containing a 5,000 CFM BioBlower Device

Example Industry Partners Econoburn • Designs and manufactures twostage gasification wood boilers. • An economical and "green" use of a renewable resource. • Reduces carbon footprint and yields substantial savings for homeowners and commercial buildings. • Using industry cluster to model turbulent mixing and improve design.

Example Industry Partners IBC Digital • Nationally recognized animation and visual effects studio • Requires a large amount of computing cycles to render and produce final animations. • Past Clients: – – – –

MTV2 Grammy Awards NHL Charlie the Tuna

Where to go for more information • Explore the HPC2 Web Site www.hpc2.org • Contact an HPC2 outreach coordinator: Shawn Matott, UB CCR Computational Scientist and Environmental Engineer [email protected] 716-881-7566

Adrian Levesque, UB CCR Urban Visualization and Multimedia Specialist [email protected] 716-881-8932

• Explore the UB CCR Web Site www.buffalo.edu/ccr • Contact UB CCR – Tom Furlani, Director, [email protected], 716-881-8939 – Matt Jones, Associate Director, [email protected], 716-881-8958 – CCR Helpdesk, [email protected], www.buffalo.edu/ccr/support/ccr-help.html