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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup's May 2017 meeting will be on Linux Clusters and High Performance Computing.
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: A Brief Introduction to High-Performance Computing (HPC)
Related Topics/Keywords:
Linux, Clusters, HPC, High Performance Computing, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, Linux HPC Cluster Architecture, Cluster Network Topology, Scientific Computing Analysis.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
This talk will be an overview of High Performance Computing, also known as HPC, Scientific Computing, or Research Computing. This talk will try to define HPC, discuss what sets HPC apart from other forms of computing, why we need HPC, the architecture of a typical Linux HPC cluster, and parallel programming techniques.
Presentation Outline:
I. What is HPC?
II. How is HPC different from other forms of computing?
A. CPUs at/near 100% for long periods of time
B. Power & Cooling Concerns / Operational costs
C. Minimal context-switching
C. Throughput-oriented vs. Latency-oriented
D. Users!
III. Why we need HPC
A. Clock frequency stagnant or declining
1. Energy Density / Heat Dissipation
2. Moore's Law vs. Dennard Scaling
B. Grand Challenge problems
1. Weather Modeling
C. Scientific Discovery / Engineering
1. Protein Folding
2. Computational Chemistry
3. Structural Analysis
4. Virtual Crash-Testing
5. Faster, cheaper, safer better product design, testing
and manufacturing.
i. Automotive Crash Testing
ii. Structural analysis/aerodynamic studies of buildings
iii. Cardioid Heart Simulation
6. Simulations can provide views of things we can't observe.
IV. Programming
A. Split up work between nodes
B. MPI
C. OpenMP
D. Hybrid MPI+OpenMP
E. CUDA
IV. Architecture of a Typical Linux HPC Cluster
A. Design Considerations
1. ASCI Q Paper
2. Message-Passing Latency
3. Different Network Topologies
1. Mesh
2. Torus
3. Fat-Tree
B. Architectural Details
1. Many "cheap" nodes
A. No Redundant Hardware
B. Modest RAM (2-4 GB RAM per core)
2. Fat-tree InfiniBand Networks
3. Management Network
5. Parallel Filesystem
4. Private, isolated networks
A. Performance
B. Security
C. Software details
1. Minimal OS installation
2. As few services running as possible
3. Scheduler
A. FIFO
B. Backfill
C. Fair-share
V. Conclusion
References & Web Resources:
To-be-announced.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Prentice Bisbal has been a Unix/Linux System Administrator specializing in HPC for over 18 years. He first became interested in Scientific Computing while completing his degree in Chemical Engineering. After working almost 2 years as a Chemical Engineer, he decided to switch fields into Scientific Computing by accepting a position as a Unix Software Engineer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a DOE National Laboratory. After several years at PPPL, he left to pursue other interests. Since then has built Linux clusters for HPC and provided HPC support for a variety of disciplines (computational chemistry, computational astrophysics, genomics, engineering) and organizations (large oil & gas, small pharmaceutical, large research university, small theoretical research institution) before returning to PPPL in April of 2016.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
[Quoted from http://www.pppl.gov/about...]
The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a collaborative national center for fusion energy research. The Laboratory advances the coupled fields of fusion energy and plasma physics research, and, with collaborators, is developing the scientific understanding and key innovations needed to realize fusion as an energy source for the world. An associated mission is providing the highest quality of scientific education.
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both publishing companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.
Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to restock.
FEE SCHEDULE
Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
** However, we are planning Pizza and Soft Drinks for this meeting.
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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