“Pacific Research PlatformSupporting Earth Sciences”

Briefing to The Quilt Visit to Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute

University of California, San DiegoFebruary 8, 2017

Dr. Larry SmarrDirector, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSDhttp://lsmarr.calit2.net

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The Pacific Research Platform’s Second Year:a Working End-to-End Science-Driven DMZ-Connector

NSF CC*DNI Grant$5M 10/2015-10/2020

PI: Larry Smarr, UC San Diego Calit2Co-Pis:• Camille Crittenden, UC Berkeley CITRIS • Tom DeFanti, UC San Diego Calit2 • Philip Papadopoulos, UC San Diego SDSC • Frank Wuerthwein, UC San Diego Physics SDSC

Science Teams:• Visualization and Virtual Reality• Biomedical• Earth Sciences• Particle Physics• Astronomy and Astrophysics• Cryo-EM• Deep Learning & Robotics• High-Performance Wireless

PRP Continues to Expand Rapidly While Increasing Connectivity:One Year of Progress – 12 Sites to 20 Sites

January 29, 2016 December 15, 2016

PRP Workshop Held in Collaboration with UC-Wide Research IT May 1, 2016

• 45 Attendees– Ten UC Campuses– Presentations from

– Prof. Mike Norman, Dept. of Physics, UC San Diego– Dr. Frank McKenna, Chief Information Officer, PEER, UC Berkeley– Prof. Ben Porter, Acting Director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

PRP Will Link the Laboratories of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

http://peer.berkeley.edu/

Slide from John DelaneyUniv. of Washington

Slide from John DelaneyUniv. of Washington

Dan Cayan USGS Water Resources Discipline

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

much support from Mary Tyree, Mike Dettinger, Guido Franco and other colleagues

NCAR Upgrading to 10Gbps Link Over Westnet from Wyoming and Boulder to CENIC/PRP

Sponsors: California Energy Commission NOAA RISA program California DWR, DOE, NSF

Planning for climate change in California substantial shifts on top of already high climate variability

UCSD Campus Climate Researchers Need to Download Results from NCAR Remote Supercomputer Simulations

to Make Regional Climate Change Forecasts

average summer afternoon temperatureaverage summer afternoon temperature

Downscaling Supercomputer Climate SimulationsTo Provide High Res Predictions for California Over Next 50 Years

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Source: Hugo Hidalgo, Tapash Das, Mike Dettinger

The Future of Supercomputing Will Blend Traditional HPC and Data Analytics Integrating Non-von Neumann Architectures

“High Performance Computing Will Evolve Towards a Hybrid Model,

Integrating Emerging Non-von Neumann Architectures, with Huge Potential in Pattern Recognition,

Streaming Data Analysis, and Unpredictable New Applications.”

Horst Simon, Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Energy’s

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute Has Established a Pattern Recognition Lab For Machine Learning on non-von Neumann Processors

“On the drawing board are collections of 64, 256, 1024, and 4096 chips.

‘It’s only limited by money, not imagination,’ Modha says.”Source: Dr. Dharmendra Modha

Founding Director, IBM Cognitive Computing Group

August 8, 2014

UCSD ECE Professor Ken Kreutz-Delgado Brings the IBM TrueNorth Chip

to Start Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute Pattern Recognition Laboratory

September 16, 2015

New Brain-Inspired Non-von Neumann Processors Are Emerging:KnuEdge Has Provided Processor to Calit2’s PRL

www.tomshardware.com/news/knuedge-announces-knuverse-and-knupath,31981.html

www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=2704

“KnuEdge and Calit2 have worked together since the early days of

the KnuEdge LambdaFabric processor, when key

personnel and technology from UC San Diego

provided the genesis for the first processor design.”

www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=2726

June 6, 2016

Building a Cognitive Hardware and Software EcosystemOn the Pacific Research Platform

• Working With 30 CSE Machine Learning Researchers– Goal is 320 game GPUs in 32-40 FIONAs at 10 PRP campuses– PRP Couples FIONAs with GPUs into a Condor-Managed Cloud

• PRP Access to Emerging Processors– IBM TrueNorth, KnuEdge, FPGA, and Qualcomm Snapdragon

• Software Including a Wide Range of Open ML Algorithms • Metrics for Performance of Processors and Algorithms

Source: Tom DeFanti, Calit2

Multiple Proposals Under Review

Our Support:

• US National Science Foundation (NSF) awards CNS 0821155 and CNS-1338192, CNS-1456638, ACI-1540112, and ACI-1541349

• University of California Office of the President CIO• UCSD Chancellor’s Integrated Digital Infrastructure Program • UCSD Next Generation Networking initiative• Calit2 and Calit2 Qualcomm Institute• CENIC, PacificWave and StarLight• DOE ESnet