Max Planck Computing Data Facility

Manuel Panea
Max Planck Computing & Data Facility
Garching near Munich, Germany
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
• Independent, non-profit, publicly funded research
organization
• About 80 Max Planck Institutes across Germany
• Basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences,
social sciences, and the humanities
• 17,000 permanent employees, including 5,600 scientists
and 4,700 non-tenured scientists
• 18 Nobel Prize winners since 1948
Chemistry, Physics & Technology Section
Astronomy/Astrophysics
Chemistry
Solid State Research/Material Sciences
Earth Sciences and Climate Research
High Energy and Plasma Physics
Quantum Optics
Computer Science/Mathematics/Complex Systems
Biology and Medicine Section
Developmental and Evolutionary Biology/Genetics
Immunobiology and Infection Biology/Medicine
Cognitive Research
Microbiology/Ecology
Neurosciences
Plant Research
Structural and Cell Biology
Humanities Section
Cultural Studies
Jurisprudence
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Max Planck Computing & Data Facility
Formerly: „Rechenzentrum Garching“ (RZG)
Central IT facility of the Max Planck Society
Main areas of activity:
1) High Performance Computing (HPC)
+ HPC application support
2) Data Management & Storage
+ Data application support
High Performance Computer
IBM iDataPlex system HYDRA
● Intel Ivy Bridge processors (~ 3500 nodes with 20 cores @ 2.8 GHz each)
● Intel Sandy Bridge-EP processors (610 nodes with 16 cores @ 2.6 GHz each)
● 350 of the Ivy Bridge nodes are equipped with accelerator cards (338 nodes
with 2 NVIDIA K20X GPGPUs each, 12 nodes with 2 Intel Xeon Phi cards each)
● 200 nodes 128 GB RAM, standard 64 GB
➔ Roughly 4000 compute nodes (over 80.000 cores) with a
main memory of 280 TB and an aggregated peak performance
of 2.8 PFlop/s.
● In addition to the compute nodes there are 8 login nodes and 26 I/O nodes that
serve the 5 Petabytes of disk storage.
● Common interconnect: Infiniband FDR14
● Groundwater cooled system; heat transfer by water-cooled backdoors
Computer simulations
New materials
Chemistry
Quantum physics
Biochemistry
Nanotechnology
Astrophysics
Plasma physics
Data Storage
• 2 Oracle SL8500 = 20,000 tape slots
• 1 IBM TS3500 = 10,000 tape slots
• 22 LTO6 drives
• 14 LTO6 drives
• 20 LTO5 drives
• 17 LTO4 drives
Data Storage
Tivoli Storage Manager (Spectrum Protect)
High Performance Storage System
• For backups (disaster recovery)
• For archives (long-term storage)
• 16 TSM servers
• Over 30 Petabytes
• TSM Clients: ~ 300 servers + ~ 2000 desktops
• Current growth rate: about 1 PB / month
• Over 15 Petabytes
• Oldest data from 1980
Experimental data from Physical Sciences
CRESST
ATLAS
Rosetta
Wendelstein 7X
Experimental data from Biosciences
Electron microscopes
MRT
Ornithology
Humanities
Linguistics
Art History
Manuel Panea
Max Planck Computing & Data Facility
Garching near Munich, Germany
Data Storage
Garching Research Campus
Max Planck Computing & Data Facility
Technical University of Munich
Neutron source
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Foto: Artur Gerngross, Fa. FOTAG
Leibniz Computing Center
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
European Southern Observatory