SSC's continuous endeavor in HPC

Tao WANG

Shanghai Supercomputer Center

August 1, 2018

The first director of SSC：Dr. Junqi Yan2

Foundation of Shanghai Supercomputer Center

Founded in 2000, invested by shanghai municipal government with 100M RMP, and supervised by Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology

As the first third-party public HPC service platform in China, SSC has promoted the application of HPC and the information technologies in various areas, and enhanced the innovation of science and technology in China

May 28th, 2000, the ground breaking ceremony for SSC.

Dec. 28th, 2000, SSC started to operate.

Jan. 4th, 2001, the opening ceremony of the main project of Shanghai

Information Port was held in Shanghai Supercomputer Center

Hardware History

2000 2003 2004

2009

~2020

Sunway I Supercomputer (2000-2007)

MPP, 384G flops

480 ALPHA 500M CPU

Sunway 64P Cluster system (2003-2009)

302.8G flops

66 Intel Xeon 2.4G

Dawning 4000A Supercomputer

(2004-2010)

Cluster, 10T flops, Ranked 10th , ISC’04

2128 AMD Opteron 2.4G

Myrinet, 95TB Storage

Magic Cube (2009-2015)

Cluster, 200T flops, Ranked 10th , ISC’09

1450 4-way blades, 64GB; 82 8-way server, 128GB

AMD 8347HE, 1.9GHz, 65W; IB DDR 20G

500TB SAN storage

Water cooling system; ~ 1MW

Hummingbird (2012-)

Cluster, 21T flops

65 2-way blades, 64GB

Intel E5-2670, 2.6GHz, 8 cores

600TB storage, IB QDR 40G

2012

Magic Cube II (2015-)

Cluster, 400T flops

416 2-way blades, 128GB

Intel E5-2680 V3, 2.5GHz, 12 cores

1PB storage, IB FDR 56G

3

2015Upgrading to 3.3PF

&

Exascale Prototype

2018Exascale Supercomputer

TBD

Hardware and Software

• Hummingbird(2012-)

– Cluster, 21T flops

– 65 2-way blades, 64GB

– Intel E5-2670, 2.6GHz, 8 cores

– 600TB storage, IB QDR 40G

• Magic Cube II(2015-)

– Cluster, 400T flops

– 416 2-way blades, 128GB

– Intel E5-2680 V3, 2.5GHz, 12 cores

– 1PB storage, IB FDR 56G

• VASP

• CASTEP

• DMOL3

• WIEN 2000

• SIESTA

• CPMD

• ESPRESSO

• SMEAGOL

• NAMD

• MOLPRO

• TURBOMOLE

• ABINIT

• QCHEM

• GAUSSIAN

• NWChem

• DOCK

• LAMMPS

• GROMACS

• LS-Dyna

• ANSYS-Multiphysics

• Dytran

• Nastran

• Marc

• Abaqus

• Cradle

• ModeFrontier

• GAMBIT

• Fluent

• Cfx

• Starcd

• Starccm+

• Hyperworks

• Madymo

• Optimus

• Dynaform

• ICEM-CFD

Science Engineering

Service provided

Computing Power:Scientific Application, Engineering Application, Cloud Computing, Big Data

Consulting: Engineering: Modeling, Simulating, Analysis

HPC system building

Big Data Analysis

Training

R&D: HPC Application: Coding, Porting, Parallelizing, Tuning and optimizing

HPC platform & environments

Around 50% of the resource is used by Shanghai users

East China has more academic activities, unbalance of development

HPC Service： users’ administrative region

Users’ administrative region distribution by CPUhoursBased on data of 2017

Shanghai, 46.8%

Zhejiang, 2.3%

Beijing,21.3%

Shaanxi, 1.2%Jiangsu, 5.8%

Liaoning, 3.5%

Anhui, 6.4%

Other regions, 7.2%Tianjin, 2.2%

Hubei, 3.4%

Shanghai

Zhejiang

Beijing

Tianjin

Shaanxi

Jiangsu

Liaoning

Anhui

Hubei

Others

HPC Service： users’ institution

Over 80% of the resource served academic users

Industrial users are as much as academic users in number, but less usage

53% 49%41%

50% 51%57%

71%

55%

27%30%

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5% 5%5%18%

11% 7%

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Testing & Consulting

Engineering Institutes

Public service

Industry

Institutes of CAS

Universities

HPC Service： source of users’ projects

About 90% of the resource served the national-level research and innovation projects

Main source of funding

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Enterprise Project

National Major Engineering Project

863 Program

973 Program

China NFS

HPC Service： application domain

Cover most HPC application fields in China

A good index for academic research interests in China

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Mapping

Energy

Earth and Environment

Industry

Astronomy

Mechanics

Bio & Drug

Nano & Mater Sci

Physics

Chemistry

HPC Scenarios: Science

Nano, Chemistry, Physics, Material Science, Biology, Gene, etc.

Scientific papers indexed by SCI which used SSC resource

79

114131 121

144

203 204217

187 192176

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

• Science 342, 611-614 (2013)

• Science 344, 495-499 (2014)

• Nature 460, 345-352 (2009)

• Nature 527, 118-122 (2015)

• Nature 546, 312-313 (2017)

• Nature 550, 380-383 (2017)

• Nature Chem 3, 634-641 (2011)

• Nature Genet 45, 1168-1175 (2013)

• Nature Nanotech 2, 709-712 (2007)

• Nature Nanotech 6, 714-719 (2011)

• Nature Nanotech 8, 594-601 (2013)

• Nature Commun 4, 2214 (2013)

• Nature Commun 4, 2223 (2013)

• Nature Commun 4, 2642 (2013)

• Nature Commun 5, 3093 (2014)

• Nature Commun 5, 4021 (2014)

• Nature Commun 5, 4475 (2014)

• Nature Commun 6, 6293 (2015)

• Nature Commun 6, 6331 (2015)

• Nature Commun 7, 11488 (2016)

• Nature Commun 7, 13574 (2016)

• Nature Commun 8, 1407 (2017)

• Nature Commun 8, 15266 (2017)

• JACS, PRL, PNAS, Angew Chem …

SSC supported 1/2 papers published in Science or Nature using China’s HPC facilities in 2013, 1/3 corresponding papers

in 2014, considering only having some thousandths of HPC resource of China

1/10 newly-elected academicians of China in 2017 are SSC users

Industry applications are focused on hot topic of China’s independent R&D

2010~2012, jet planes design; from 2012, car design; 2014 and 2015, big ship;

from 2015, nuclear power safety, etc.

HPC Scenarios: Industry

72%63% 65%

29%22% 26%

17%12%

5% 20%

26%

11%

48%

51%57%

12%29%

14%

46%

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15%8% 9%

5%

5%

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5% 10%

11%7%

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Green Energy

Integrated Circuit

Nuclear Power

Steel Industry

Marine Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Auto Industry

Aviation Industry

HPC Scenarios: Industry

Aviation Industry: Regional Plane ARJ21, Large Aircraft C919, Wide Body

Aircraft, Aircraft Engine

• Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute

• AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co., Ltd.

• AVIC Xi’an Aeronautics Computing Technique Research Institute…

Auto Industry: Safety Evaluation, Car Design, Parts Design

• Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation

• BMW Brilliance Automotive

• Chery Automobile Corporation

• Geely Automobile Corporation

HPC Scenarios: Industry

Steel Industry: Equipment Modification, Equipment Design, Process

Optimization

• Research Institute of Baosteel Co., Ltd.

• SMS Siemag Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

Marine Industry: Ship Optimization, Energy Saving, Engine design• China State Shipbuilding Corporation

• Hudong Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.

• Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute

HPC Scenarios: Industry

Nuclear Power: Security Evaluation, Anti Earthquake, Steam Generator

• Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute

• Shanghai Branch of China Nuclear Power Design Co., Ltd (Shenzhen)

• China Institute of Atomic Energy

Civil Engineering: Tunnel Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Safety Analysis

• Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., LTD.

• Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute

• Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute (Group) Co., Ltd.

Service: Focus on HPC service for 18 years, most experienced and mature HPC service

provider in China, outstanding reputation in users’ community

Application: cover most application fields in China, lots of industrial applications are another

major feature

Development: national-level mainframe projects as well as local government investment in

hardware upgrade

Summary