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© 2002 IBM Corporation
Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers “Creating a technology future worthy of Montana…” in Supercomputing Centers
June 2009 Dr. Alex Philp
Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
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The Great American Supercomputing Desert
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Why a supercomputing cyberinfrastructure?Computational Needs of Technical, Scientific, Digital Media &
Business Applications Approach or Exceed the Petaflop/s Range
CFD Wing Simulation 2.1 x 1014 FLOPS
CFD Full Plane Simulation
8.7 x 1024 FLOPS
Digital Movies &Special Effects
2.7 x 1019 FLOPS
Source: Pixar
Source: A. Jameson, et al
Modeling the optimized deployment of 10,000 part
2.4 x 1015 FLOPS
Spare Parts Inventory Planning
Source: B. Dietrich, IBM
Source: AGM, LGC, M-OSRP
M-OSRP Seismic 45 x 1015 FLOPS
Intelligent Oilfield 1.7 x 1021 FLOPS
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How fast is a Teraflop?
Teraflop or TFLOPS–1012 (a million million or trillion) floating-point operations per
second It takes 32,000 years for a trillion seconds to tick away.
For example, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) uses the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer with a peak performance of 17.2 TFLOPS. It would take a person operating a hand-held calculator more than 500,000 years to do the numeric calculations this supercomputer completes every second.
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RMSC Executive Summary
...is to establish Montana as a recognized leader in the execution of the next-generation super-computing business model as a fundamental component of Montana’s economic engine.
...is to enable next-generation discoveries, advancements and solutions for commercial, academic and governmental customers through the use of supercomputing applications and on demand services.
Public Sector– State & Local Government
– Federal Delegation
– Academia (e.g., MUS)
– Others (e.g., INL)
Federal SectorNon-Profits & NGOs
Private Sector– IBM Corporation
– Microsoft Corporation
– Cisco Systems
– (others pending)
Tribes & First Nations Centers of Excellence
Stakeholders Mission
Vision Scope
Montana Initiative: Local, Tribal, Regional,
International partnerships & collaborations
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RMSC in a Nutshell
Transactional Model
Business Model Private-public partnership
creating the new “Globally Integrated Community”
Economic Development Orgs Tribal interests linked Centers of Excellence (COEs) for
Academia, R&D, Indian Country, Private & Public Sectors
RMSC is Montana’s “Transaction & Information Broker” for HPC, Visualization & Supercomputing
State “owns” and “operates” the cyberinfrastructure resources
Customers transact via “on demand” services
Customer interact and work via a “distributed network”
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Centers of Excellence
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Computing on Demand
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Advantages to Business
Enhance Competitiveness through Affordable Computing Resources
Participate in On-Demand Model for HPC Services
Decrease Risk Associated with Capital Expenditure
Stimulate Partnership, Collaboration, and Teaming
Reinforce Montana Means Business on regional, national, and international scale
Attract and Retain High-Tech, High-Paying Jobs
Leverage as Retention and Recruitment Asset
Academic, Government, and Private Teaming Relationships
Drive Use of Telecommunications Broadband Infrastructure
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Questions ?
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Dr. Alex PhilpPresident & Board ChairRMSC, Inc.Suite 31065 E. BroadwayButte, MT 59701406-370-2262 [email protected]://www.rmscinc.org
Earl J. DoddSr. Consultant to RMSCIBM CorporationTwo RiverwayHouston, TX 77056 713-446-4963 Mobile406-533-6733 RMSC [email protected]@rmscinc.orghttp://www.rmscinc.org