Computing Group SAC 2013 Scientific Sector Salman Matalgah & Mostafa Zoubi

1. Computing Group SAC 2013Scientific Sector Salman Matalgah & Mostafa Zoubi Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

2. Outline • Our group • Highlights of Computing group • Computing - Control updates and concerns • LinkSCEEM update • Challenges& needs Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

3. Our group Computing group is under the Scientific Sector • IT infrastructure and services: • Salman Matalgah: System & Network Admin. Group Leader • Mostafa Zoubi: System Eng. • Zubair Nawaz: LinkSCEEM WP12 (10 Months) • Helpdesk/technician is needed ??? • Scientific Computing: • SR applications • LinkSCEEM project resources. • Collaborations with ESRF and other SR. • ASREN • JUNET Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

4. Highlights of Computing Group • Start Enterprise resource planning ERP Project for administration and other sectors • Scientific Linux upgrade to 6.4 distribution (Kickstart) • Website upgrade and migration to Joomla 2.5 • Network (Active and Passive components) installation for Booster network. • New NAS storage installation (12 TB) • Upgrade SESAME intranet CMS to the latest released version (Plone 4) • Implement secures SSH gateway to SESAME staff with public/private authentication. • Software and licensing: Opera Software, Matlab, CAD license server. • SESAME-ESRF collaboration on scientific computing, visits for SCORE, train the trainer and Advances HPC applications. • New CPU/GPU hardware Tesla K20 • LinkSCEEM: • Completed a successful 3rd year of LinkSCEEM project covering disseminations and outreach, website and 3rd SESAME-LinkSCEEM summer school. • WP12: Hiring of Zubair Nawaz to develop SR applications. Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

5. Computing - Control updates & concerns • We do meet with control group twice a month • Provided the needed IT infrastructure on demands and addressing the lack of technical needs • New Linux distribution of SL6.4 ( next slide) Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

6. New Linux distribution (SL6.4) KS for both SL5.2 and 6.4 is there Moving the old SL5.2 system to SL6.4 Closed repository with customization No updates allowed Validation from control group under the process Plan to move on LINUX disruis necessary Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

7. LinkSCEEM • Project is on track, 3nd EC review Done, SESAME is strategic partner as WP5 leader. • Many outreach activities done on HPC and SR. • International Conference on Scientific Computing 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, 3 - 6 December 2013. • Successful third SESAME-LinkSCEEM summer school (SR+DFT+HPC). • ESRF visit, SCORE program is started (next slide) Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

8. Extension Suggested by ESRF & LinkSCEEM-PMO • Porting Spline method to GPU • Its main objective is to reduce the data transfer from CPU to GPU which will lead to fast performance • Reduction of Memory transfer time • By exploiting the coalesced memory access from the global memory • Automatic detection of diffraction rings • Currently, it is semi-automatic, • By doing it fully automatically will reduce the processing time and accuracy. Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

9. Current Status • Porting Spline method to GPU • Work in progress on the OpenCL code for Spline method • Automatic detection of diffraction rings • Some new algorithms to detect the diffraction rings fully automatically are being tried with the help of a PhD student. Once successful, it will be ported to GPU. Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

10. Challenges & needs • New servers/cloud-solution, SLA it not sufficient • Technician • ERP implementations. • Connectivity with fiber/good bandwidth • Building capacity in SC computing • Storagering/BLs active, passive and computing resources & hardware. Salman Matalgah SAC 2013

11. Questions?Thank YouSalman MatalgahComputing Group Salman Matalgah SAC 2013