Kelvin-2

拟议的目标是建立一个500万英镑的开尔文-2高性能计算中心，包括贝尔法斯特女王大学和阿尔斯特大学，其中210万英镑正在从EPSRC寻求。它将对科学产生重大影响，将高性能计算的使用扩展到新的人才库和新的研究领域；在北爱尔兰，通过建立阿尔斯特和女王大学之间的强有力合作，通过两项主要的城市交易倡议，以及他们与区域投资机构和商业企业的合作方式；在英国为HPC打下坚实的基础，进一步建立与关键利益相关者的能力和互动，并与非商业利益相关者建立联系，以应对社会挑战。该平台将提供8000个基于amd的CPU内核和32个GPU节点，并通过高速网络连接高性能2pb的刮刮存储。与其他网站不同，它采用了基于戴尔的技术，以较低的运行成本提供了令人印象深刻的性能。GPU的加入将支持基于人工智能的研究，反映出这些机构的联合实力，在艾伦·图灵研究所（Alan Turing Institute）最近发布的一份政府报告中，人工智能的研究能力在英国排名第六。女王大学将提供40万英镑的补贴。Kelvin-2专注于为神经技术和计算神经科学、先进化学、创新药物输送、精准医学、代谢组学和氢安全引入HPC建模的新方面，其中许多与UKRI在医疗保健和新能源方面的战略计划相适应。提出了六个雄心勃勃的研究示范项目，这些项目与这两个机构的战略重要研究中心直接相关。这将分别占28M和570M的CPU和GPU的挂钟小时，这将占总开尔文-2资源的40%。35%的处理时间将专门用于支持国家Tier-2服务的一般用户，剩余的资源分配给新项目。通过一项交流计划，其目的是向英国的特定社区突出高性能计算的潜力。该设施将由一名具有丰富商业部门经验的主任和两名在多学科研究和商业化方面有良好记录的主要申请人管理。两名专门的研究软件工程师将被雇用来支持研究和参与社区。该团队将得到来自各个领域的专家团队的支持，其中包括具有相当高的高性能计算专业知识的工作人员、西蒙·麦金托什-史密斯教授（Simon McIntosh-Smith）和牛顿·霍华德教授(Newton Howard教授，牛津大学神经计算、神经外科和数学教授，他在牛津大学指导计算神经科学实验室，西蒙·麦金托什-史密斯教授是一位拥有丰富计算科学经验的英国学者。将设立一个资源分配小组，审查和分配资源，每季度举行一次会议。大学将提供300万英镑的资源，以管理、网络/操作人员、新硬件和数据中心的形式支持Kelvin-2。我们的目标是扩大我们的国际联系，特别是通过ICHEC的13k-node/63TiB平台和弗吉尼亚理工大学和劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室的高性能计算设施/专业知识，并增加我们在超级计算等主要高性能计算会议上的参与度。二级计算基础设施是北爱尔兰两个独立的主要城市交易的核心，重点是经济竞争力、创新项目和以健康/生命科学和农业食品为目标的就业创造。这些将于2021年开始，并将在2023/25年期间保证开尔文-2的更新周期，从而最大限度地减少后续对EPSRC的资金要求。大学在与行业和衍生产品合作方面的良好记录将确保广泛参与。

The proposed aims are to establish a £5M Kelvin-2 HPC centre involving Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University for which £2.1M is being sought from EPSRC. It will have significant impact for science, by expanding the use of HPC to new pools of talent and new areas of investigation; for Northern Ireland, by building on the strong collaboration between Ulster and Queen's already established through two major city deal initiatives, and their approach to enterprise with regional investment agencies and commercial enterprises; and a strong foundation for HPC within the UK, building further capacity and interactions with critical stakeholders and linking to non-commercial stake-holders to address societal challenges.The platform will offer 8000 AMD-based CPU cores and 32 GPU nodes with a high performance 2 Petabyte of scratch storage interconnected via a high-speed network. Different to other sites, it employs Dell-based technology which offers impressive performance with low running costs. The inclusion of GPU will support AI-based research reflecting the institutions' joint strength, recently ranked as 6th in the UK in terms of research power in the a recent government report produced by the Alan Turing Institute. Queen's are subsidising the cost by £400k.Kelvin-2 is focused on introducing new aspects of HPC modelling for neurotechnology and computational neuroscience, advanced chemistry, innovative drug delivery, precision medicine, metabolomics and hydrogen safety, many of which fit with UKRI's strategic plans in healthcare and new energy. Six ambitious research exemplar projects that are directly associated with strategically important research centres in both institutions, are proposed. These will account for 28M and 570M wall-clock hours of CPU and GPU respectively which will constitute 40% of the total Kelvin-2 resource. 35% of the processing time will be dedicated to supporting general users for the national Tier-2 service, with the remaining resource allocation for new projects. By a programme of communication, this aim is to highlight the potential of HPC to the specific communities in the UK. The facility will be managed by a director with strong commercial sector experience and two principal applicants with excellent track record in multidisciplinary research and commercialization. Two dedicated research software engineers will be employed to support the research and engagement with the community. The team will be supported by a team of experts from each domain, staff with considerable HPC expertise and Prof. Simon McIntosh-Smith, a UK academic with considerable computational science experience from running an existing EPSRC HPC Tier-2 site, and Professor Newton Howard, Professor of Neurocomputation, Neurosurgery and Mathematics at the University of Oxford where he directs the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory. A Resource Allocation Panel will be established to review and allocate the resources, meeting on a quarterly basis. A £3M resource will be provided by the universities to support Kelvin-2 in the form of management, network/operational staff, new hardware and data centre. We will aim to expand our international links specifically with the 13k-node/63TiB platform at ICHEC and HPC facilities/expertise at Virginia Tech. and Lawrence Livermore National Lab and increase our presence at the main HPC conferences, e.g. Supercomputing. The Tier-2 Computing infrastructure is central to two separate, major city deals in Northern Ireland focused on economic competitiveness, innovative projects and job creation targeted at health/life sciences and agri-food. These are due to start in 2021 and will provide a guaranteed refresh cycle of Kelvin-2 in the 2023/25 period, thus minimising any subsequent capital requests to EPSRC. Broad engagement will be ensured from the universities' strong track record in engagement with industry and spin-outs.