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