Baskerville: a national accelerated compute resource

巴斯克维尔：国家加速计算资源

• 批准号: EP/T022221/1
• 负责人: Andrew Morris
• 金额: $ 665.86万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT022221%2F1
• 关键词: Baskerville; national; accelerated; compute; resource

Modern science demands high-performance computing platforms that support a diverse range of activities, from quantum mechanical simulations of high-performance electronic materials, large scale molecular dynamics simulations, to data-driven machine learning-based analysis of high-resolution, high-content scientific images. We propose a science-based, service oriented, flexible, and fully-featured mid-level national facility for high performance computing - Baskerville (named for John Baskerville, the enlightenment-era Birmingham industrialist) - that supports a wide range of applications and interaction modes using a new technological platform featuring the new generation of NVIDIA A100 GPUs to provide a state-of-art-accelerated facility that will facilitate new types of research that are impractical or impossible on the existing national infrastructure. We will be amongst the first to receive the next generation multi-GPU systems with NVLINK interconnect through a commitment from our technology partners to supply us on their early shipment programme.Our consortium of partners, led by the University of Birmingham, brings together three major research facilities- the Rosalind Franklin Institute, the Alan Turing Institute, and Diamond Light Source. Collectively the partners are involved in EPSRC activity worth more than £550m. Birmingham hosts several national centres and facilities including the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics, the National Buried Infrastructure Facility, and the UK National Quantum Technology Hubs for Sensors and Metrology, and Sensing and Timing. The Franklin and its partners are developing next generation technologies for studying life, building a new generation of scientific instruments. The Turing is the UK national centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, coordinating and catalysing research across the country. Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron light source, and is an essential tool in a huge range of scientific applications, from the development of the next generation of advanced materials for aerospace, to studies of the structure of proteins. This new system will therefore benefit a broad range of EPSRC researchers working with these facilities and beyond, with the system available to all EPSRC-funded researchers.The new facility will be hosted in Birmingham's purpose-built, water-cooled datacentre which enables the entire system to be kept at optimal temperatures without needing air conditioning, dramatically reducing its running costs and energy usage. High-speed links to the Harwell campus where Diamond and the Franklin are based will enable rapid transfer of large datasets and we will put in place automated pipelines for data transfer and processing that allow researchers to take full advantage of the technology.

现代科学要求高性能计算平台支持潜水活动的活动范围，从高性能电子材料的量子机械模拟，大型分子动力学模拟到基于数据驱动的机器学习的高分辨率，高分辨率科学图像的分析。我们提出了一个基于科学的，以服务为基础的，以服务为基础的，灵活的，功能丰富的中级国家高性能计算中的中级国家设施-Baskerville-Baskerville（以John Baskerville的名字命名，启蒙运动时代的伯明翰行业名单） - 支持广泛的应用和互动模式，以新的技术平台为New Gerational of New Ceration the New Gerational of New Geration-fornation the New Geration-fornation the Neveration a-fividia Anvidia a100 gpus a100 gpus- a100 gpus a100 gpus a100 gpus-在现有的国家基础设施上是不切实际或不可能的研究。通过我们的技术合作伙伴的承诺，我们将成为第一个通过NVLink Interonnect接收下一代Multi-GPU系统的人之一，该系统由伯明翰大学领导的合作伙伴联盟提供给我们的早期发货伙伴，汇集了三个主要的研究设施 - Rosalind Franklin Institute，Alan Turing Institute，Alan Turing Institute，Alan Institute，Alan Turing Institute和Diamend Light Source。合作伙伴共同参与了价值超过5.5亿英镑的EPSRC活动。伯明翰拥有几个国家中心和设施，包括国家核机器人中心，国家埋葬基础设施设施以及英国国家量子技术枢纽，用于传感器和计量学以及传感和时机。富兰克林及其合作伙伴正在开发下一代技术来研究生活，建立新一代的科学仪器。图灵（Turing）是英国国家数据科学和人工智能中心，在全国各地进行了协调和催化研究。 Diamond Light Source是英国的国家同步器光源，在大量科学应用中，它是从下一代航空航天的高级材料到蛋白质结构的研究中的重要工具。因此，这种新系统将受益于与这些设施及其他设施合作的广泛的EPSRC研究人员，所有EPSRC资助的研究人员都可以使用该系统。新设施将托管在伯明翰的专用，冷却的数据中心中，这将使整个系统能够保持最佳温度，而无需进行空调，而无需进行运行的成本和能源的成本，并可以使整个系统保持最佳状态。钻石和富兰克林所在的Harwell校园的高速链接将使大型数据集快速传输，我们将建立自动化管道，以进行数据传输和处理，以使研究人员充分利用该技术。