making e-infrastructure accessible to industry
DESCRIPTION
These are my slides from the UK E-Infrastructure Academic User Community Forum meeting in Oxford on September 10th 2013. I introduce HPC Midlands and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) e-Infrastructure SIG, and discuss feedback from industry on engaging with e-Infrastructure. The talk closes with some thoughts on how we can nuture the next generation.TRANSCRIPT
Makinge-Infrastructure Accessible to Industry
Martin HamiltonHPC MidlandsCentre Manager
Themes
1.About HPC Midlands
2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG
3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure
4.Actions Required
Themes
1.About HPC Midlands
2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG
3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure
4.Actions Required
About HPC Midlands@HPC_Midlands
hpc-midlands.ac.uk
– Partnership between
Loughborough and Leicester
– EPSRC funding for Regional
Centre of Excellence
– Emphasis on industrially
relevant research
– Direct access to world-class
facilities for businesses
– Support for SMEs to exploit
HPC
About HPC Midlands
About HPC Midlands
Themes
1.About HPC Midlands
2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG
3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure
4.Actions Required
TSB e-Infrastructure SIG@eInfraSIG - tinyurl.com/einfsig
Steering committee:
- ARM, Gnodal, Intel, Nvidia,Rolls-Royce, Zenotech
- KTNs, TSB- HPC Midlands, EPCC, Hartree,
HPC Wales, HPC-SIG / e-Infrastructure South, JANET
Next meeting Oct 31st at Loughborough
TSB e-Infrastructure SIG@eInfraSIG - tinyurl.com/einfsig
- Bringing industrial users, vendors & researchers together
- Links to E-Infrastructure Leadership Council / Programme Board, HPC-SIG, Hartree Centre, …
- Sharing details of training, funding and mentoring opportunities
- Supporting Catapult centre “on ramps” to HPC for SMEs & the Next Generation
- Awareness of and access toE-Infrastructure beyond HPC
Themes
1.About HPC Midlands
2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG
3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure
4.Actions Required
Industry Perspective
Industry Perspective - Coherence- Vagaries of
schedulers, Linux variants etc
- Licensing models (improving?)
- Contractual frameworks
- Information Assurance
- Connectivity
Industry Perspective –Impedance MismatchesWhat people understand
- Off the shelf packages, NASTRAN, FLUENT etc
- Want to expedite jobs- Want to run multiple jobs
at the same time- Often had prior exposure
to Linux
Industry Perspective –Impedance Mismatches
vs. Jargon Overload
- HPC- Supercomputing- MPI- E-Infrastructure- Batch scheduler- SME?
Where is the catalogue?!
What people understand
- Off the shelf packages, NASTRAN, FLUENT etc
- Want to expedite jobs- Want to run multiple jobs
at the same time- Often had prior exposure
to Linux
Industry Perspective - Training
Industry Perspective - Training
- Typically supply led- Inflexible timing- Prohibitively
expensive for SMEs- Ad-hoc engagement
with ISVs- Where is the MOOC?
E-Infrastructure >= HPC
- Bioinformatics- Diamond Light
Source, SKA etc- Major capital kit at
Institutions- But not just kit
- Open Access Pubs- Open Data- Software
Themes
1.About HPC Midlands
2.TSB e-Infrastructure SIG
3.Industry Perspectiveon e-Infrastructure
4.Actions Required
Actions Required – Website!
Actions Required – Marketing!
Actions Required - Awareness
equipment.data.ac.uk
Kit Catalogue™ – kit-catalogue.com
Key question:What are the boundaries of e-Infrastructure?
Actions Required - Awareness
Actions Required - Awareness
Actions Required - Awareness
Actions Required - Coherence
- Common standards + “National Grid” to plug into
- Collective license negotiations
- Common contractual frameworks cf. JANET
- CESG InfoSec advice- Connectivity
Actions Required – MOOC(s)
Actions Required – CPD -> MSc
Actions Required – Software
WearablesActions Required – Generation Pi
Photo credits: Technocamps, DesignSpark
WearablesActions Required – hpc4schools?
Martin [email protected]