Kelvin-2

拟议的目标是建立一个500万GB的开尔文-2高性能计算中心，涉及贝尔法斯特女王大学和阿尔斯特大学，目前正在向EPSRC申请210万GB。这将对科学产生重大影响，将高性能计算扩展到新的人才库和新的研究领域；对于北爱尔兰，通过建立在阿尔斯特和女王之间已经通过两大城市交易计划建立的强大合作基础上，以及他们与地区投资机构和商业企业的企业方式；以及对英国境内的高性能计算的坚实基础，建设进一步的能力和与关键利益相关者的互动，并链接到非商业利益相关者，以应对社会挑战。平台将提供8,000个基于AMD的CPU核心和32个GPU节点，通过高速网络互联的高性能2 PB临时存储。与其他网站不同的是，它采用了基于戴尔的技术，以较低的运营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，反映出两家机构的联合实力。在艾伦·图灵研究所最近发布的一份政府报告中，GPU最近在英国的研究能力方面排名第六。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、精确药物、代谢组学和氢安全引入高性能计算模型的新方面，其中许多符合UKRI在医疗保健和新能源方面的战略计划。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具有重要战略意义的研究中心直接相关。这将分别占CPU和GPU的2800万和5.7亿挂钟小时，占开尔文-2总资源的40%。35%的处理时间将专门用于支持国家二级服务的一般用户，其余资源分配给新项目。通过一项交流计划，这一目标是为了突出HPC对英国特定社区的潜力。该设施将由一名具有丰富商业部门经验的董事和两名在多学科研究和商业化方面拥有出色记录的主要申请者管理。将聘请两名专门的研究软件工程师来支持研究和与社区的互动。该团队将由来自每个领域的专家团队、具有相当高性能计算专业知识的工作人员、拥有丰富计算科学经验的英国学者Simon McIntosh-Smith教授和牛津大学神经计算、神经外科和数学教授牛顿·霍华德教授支持，麦金托什教授拥有丰富的计算科学经验，是牛津大学计算神经科学实验室的负责人。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。各大学将提供GB 3M资源，以管理、网络/业务人员、新硬件和数据中心的形式支持开尔文-2。我们将致力于扩大我们的国际联系，特别是通过ICHEC的13k节点/63TiB平台和弗吉尼亚理工大学的HPC设施/专业知识。和劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室，并增加我们在主要的高性能计算会议上的存在，例如超级计算。Tier-2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，这些交易侧重于经济竞争力、创新项目和创造就业机会，目标是健康/生命科学和农业食品。这些计划将于2021年开始，并将在2023/25年期间提供开尔文-2的保证更新周期，从而将随后向EPSRC提出的任何资本请求降至最低。这些大学在与行业和衍生产品打交道方面的良好记录将确保广泛的参与。

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.