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Kyoto University's HPC Resources Power Japan's Research Community
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- Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
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- Electrical Grids
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
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- Inventory Management
- Smart Campus
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- System Integration
The Challenge
Kyoto University, one of the largest and highest-ranked universities in Japan, has a mission to provide high-performance computing (HPC) tools for researchers all over the country. With over 200 teams and more than 1,600 users relying on its computing resources, the university supports research in a broad variety of areas including natural science, economics, space science, genetics, and civil engineering. However, the massive data growth and demand for computing power meant that HPC is always evolving, and Kyoto University’s Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) needed to evolve with it. To elevate its HPC capabilities, the team commissioned Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to deliver three supercomputing systems. The workload management of these systems was orchestrated by Altair’s PBS Professional™, a part of the Altair PBS Works™ suite.
About The Customer
Kyoto University is one of the largest and highest-ranked universities in Japan, with a 150-year tradition of providing critical academic and scientific resources across Japan and worldwide. Its Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) provides high-performance computing (HPC) tools for researchers all over the country. The university supports research in a broad variety of areas including natural science, economics, space science, genetics, and civil engineering. With over 200 teams and more than 1,600 users relying on its computing resources — around 60% outside university walls — Kyoto University has an important mission with global reach.
The Solution
The university's supercomputing capabilities were boosted when Cray installed the Cray® XC™ “Camphor 2” supercomputer and two Cray® CS™ systems, “Laurel 2” and “Cinnamon 2.” All three systems had PBS Professional installed and the university also added the Cray® DataWarp™ application I/O accelerator, with transparent cache mode integration by Altair. Camphor 2 includes the Cray-designed Aries™ interconnect and over five petaflops of peak performance. Customization and custom development were key features of the solution. Altair did custom coding to achieve service-level agreements (SLAs) and, after the supercomputing system was installed, developed a node allocator that worked in conjunction with the scheduler to find the best times and places to schedule jobs. The Kyoto University supercomputing ecosystem was built to handle a variety of workloads, many with memory-hungry operations and highly parallel vectorized codes.
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