Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium

Har du brugt en supercomputer i dag?

Marie Charllotte Søbye — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:18:20 +0000

Have you used a supercomputer today?

On February 29th, 2024, the SDU eScience Center and DeiC shed light on what supercomputing can do for your research.

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The supercomputers are ready to boost research at all universities in the country. But what difference can supercomputers make for your research? That was the focus when DeiC visited the SDU eScience Center in Odense.

Supercomputers can be quite a superpower to incorporate into your research. Therefore, DeiC is on a mission to help even more researchers get started with using the many digital resources available at Danish universities.

On February 29th, DeiC visited SDU to raise awareness about the national supercomputers and the significant potential they hold—regardless of the research field you work in.

The event was initiated by Dean Marianne Holmer from the Faculty of Natural Science, SDU, who is also on DeiC's board, where she briefly talked about the development of digital resources for research.

Inspiration for all researchers

She also expressed her joy that so many SDU researchers are already taking full advantage of the potential offered by the digital facilities provided by the SDU eScience Center and DeiC.

"It's incredibly impressive that more than 9000 users are already using our interactive HPC solutions here at SDU, and we hope that this event can inspire even more researchers from all corners of the university to use digital resources."

Marianne Holmer also pointed out that there is significant progress in the development of the quantum field at DeiC, where there is currently an opportunity to apply for postdoc positions in quantum algorithms and software.

Ready to help

Subsequently, Gitte Kudsk, director of DeiC, took the audience in the DIAS auditorium on a quick tour of the many different digital opportunities that researchers can access via DeiC.

For example, researchers can apply twice a year for access to computing power on the national supercomputers for their research projects via DeiC's national calls. In her presentation, Gitte Kudsk also shed light on the many international digital resources that DeiC, through strong collaborations in Europe, can help Danish researchers access.

Finally, she emphasized that both DeiC and the universities' local Front Offices are always ready to help researchers get started with using digital resources that can make a difference in their research.

Making the invisible visible

The significant difference supercomputers can make was particularly evident when SDU researchers from diverse fields such as medieval literature, chemistry, and pharmacy talked about the use of supercomputers in their research.

Himanshu Khandelia, associate professor at the Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, gave an inspiring presentation on how biomolecular simulation on supercomputers has contributed to his research in developing new cancer treatment methods and removing nanoplastics.

"My research and findings would not be possible without High-Performance Computing (HPC)," he emphasized in his presentation.

Aglae Pizzone, professor at the Department of Language and Culture Studies, subsequently talked about how supercomputers in her field can make the invisible visible. In an interdisciplinary collaboration on scanning and advanced imaging of medieval manuscripts, she and her colleagues find out what authors from that time thought and felt while writing their texts.

The DeiC visit to SDU ended with an insight into the services available via the SDU eScience Center, presented by Professor Claudio Pica, who leads the center.
DeiC says its thanks to SDU for inviting to this event, where together we focus on inspiring researchers to explore new paths and strengthen research.

Brief about available supercomputers

Currently, there are four national High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities at Danish universities. Read more.
The national services are available to all researchers in Denmark and are used in all fields of research. Traditionally, supercomputers have been largely used by natural scientists and engineers, but in recent years, users in social sciences and humanities have grown, and the potential is significant. You can apply for the national services through your local Front Office or via DeiC.
Through EuroHPC and the LUMI consortium, DeiC also has a share in international supercomputing resources, which can be applied for via DeiC.
The Danish e-infrastructure Consortium (DeiC) is a unit under the Ministry of Education and Research, tasked with developing and coordinating collaboration on digital research infrastructure between Danish universities.
DeiC allocates funds from the ministry and the 8 Danish universities every year to operate the national supercomputers for research.

More information

Would you like more inspiration about researchers' use of supercomputers? Then check out the exciting video use cases here.

Continuing with supercomputing? Then contact your local Front Office.

This article is based on the original article from SDU, written by Sudan Grønbech Kongpetsak.

DeiC Interactive HPC tilbyder NVIDIA-applikationer til udforskning af kvanteberegninger

Marie Charllotte Søbye — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:05:57 +0000

DeiC Interactive HPC offers NVIDIA applications for exploring quantum computing

Integration of 2 applications for super-efficient quantum computations and new opportunities for quantum algorithm simulations are significant contributions to the Danish quantum computing landscape.

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DeiC and SDU eScience Center are proud to announce the implementation of two applications for advanced quantum computing on DeiC Interactive HPC: NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform and NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance. The implementation of these applications demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing groundbreaking technologies to users.

NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform bridges quantum and classical computing

The NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform is designed as a hybrid between quantum and classical computing and is unique in its ability to unify the computing power from CPUs, GPUs, and Quantum Processing Units (QPUs). The NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform offers seamless integration between these three different processing options, and key features include:

NVQ++ Compiler: Central to CUDA Quantum is the NVQ++ compiler, a tool specifically designed to optimize quantum computer workflows..
Hybrid Computing Model: This platform is unique in its ability to leverage the strengths of both quantum and classical computing and can unlock new potentials in computation efficiency.

With the integration of NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform into DeiC Interactive HPC, users achieve very high computation efficiency by combining the strengths of three types of computing power, while also optimizing quantum computer workflows.

Learn more about NVIDIA CUDA Quantum here.

NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance enhances quantum circuit simulation

If one does not have a dedicated quantum computer at hand, assistance is available on DeiC Interactive HPC with the integration of the NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance multi-GPU stack, which offers quantum circuit simulation. The NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance is a state-of-the-art, multi-GPU stack designed for simulating quantum circuits. The application is designed to enable developers to test and create quantum algorithms using classical computer systems, and key components include:

uStateVec and cuTensorNet libraries: These NVIDIA libraries are designed to optimize state vector and tensor network simulations, providing unparalleled performance in simulating quantum circuits.
Integration with Qiskit Aer and Google Cirq: This tool includes compatibility with IBM's Qiskit Aer and Google's Cirp, facilitated through NVIDIA's cusvaer and qsim, enabling multi-GPU optimized simulations.

Learn more about cuQuantum Appliance here.

Transformation of the quantum computing landscape

"With the implementation of these new applications, DeiC Interactive HPC is at the forefront of leveraging quantum computers in the real world," says Emiliano Molinaro, leader of the user support team at SDU eScience Center.

"Our platform is now uniquely equipped to support the development of quantum algorithms and simulations, offering an unprecedented level of computing power and flexibility," continues Emiliano Molinaro.

DeiC Interactive HPC is operated by a consortium consisting of AAU, AU, and SDU and is a prime example of successful collaboration with universities. From DeiC's perspective, we hope that the deployment of these NVIDIA applications will be beneficial to a wide range of users, from academic researchers to private companies looking to explore the unknown territories of quantum computing. The new applications not only enhance the capabilities of DeiC Interactive HPC but also constitute a significant contribution to the Danish quantum computing landscape.

Kvantekald for forskere ved danske universiteter

Marie Charllotte Søbye — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:02:27 +0000

Quantum Call for researchers at Danish Universities

Quantum call - DeiC now offers universities the opportunity to apply for fully funded PhD and Postdoc positions in the field of quantum algorithms and quantum software.

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As part of with the government's ambitious quantum strategy, DeiC is now issuing a call for applications for fully funded PhD and Postdoc positions at universities within the fields of quantum algorithms and quantum software. The scholarships can be awarded to research projects within the traditional STEM areas or within other areas such as health/life sciences, social sciences, and humanities. We also welcome interdisciplinary projects.

PhD Scholarship on Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Software

As a associate professor at a Danish university, you can apply for fully funded scholarships aimed at developing, studying, or testing quantum algorithms, related software, and their applications. You can find full information about the call here, and please note that the application deadline is April 4, 2024.

Postdoc Scholarship on Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Software

The National Quantum Algorithm Academy (NQAA) under DeiC offers 2 or 3 years fully funded Postdoc scholarships within the areas of Quantum Algorithms or Quantum Software. The Postdoc project should develop, study or test quantum algorithms, related software, and their applications. You can find full information about the call here, and please note that the application deadline is May 2, 2024.

Application

The application process itself opens at the beginning of March and takes place online via E-grant, but you can already access full information about the calls and application requirements here, where you will also find a direct link to the application in e-grant when the calls open.

More information

Here you will find full information about the 2 calls.

Here you will find more information about DeiC's quantum activities.

HPC årshjul Demo Element 3

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HPC årshjul Demo Element 2

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Nyt opslag om regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg

Cecilie Maagaard Winther — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:15:57 +0000

Call for applications for National HPC resources

As a researcher or Ph.d. Student at a Danish university you can now apply for resources on the national HPC centers, including the Danish part of EuroHPC LUMI.

Cecilie Maagaa… Tue, 08/02/2022 - 11:06

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The second call for applications for regular access to resources on the national HPC centers is now open. This includes applications for the Danish part of EuroHPC LUMI. The call is open for applications from all research areas.

You can find the call here.

As part of the use of the national e-infrastructures DeiC issues calls for applications on the use of the national resources. The projects are granted resources after application and on basis of assessment of research quality and technical feasibility.

The applications are evaluated by the appointed e-ressource committe and the grants are approved by the DeiC board.

Deadline for applications are 4th of October 2022 midnight, and the resources will be available for use forn 1. January 2023. The applications must be send by secure email to: e-kald-ansoegning@deic.dk.

If you have any questions, you can contact your local Front Office or send an email to e-kald-support@listserv.deic.dk.

Read about the background and proces for calls for applications for national e-resources.

Dansk support til LUMI-brugere er klar til at løsne kode-knuder

Cecilie Maagaard Winther — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:11:27 +0000

Danish support for LUMI is ready to help solve code issues

Two HPC specialists from DeiC are ready to help researchers adapt their code to the LUMI supercomputer.

Cecilie Maagaa… Mon, 04/04/2022 - 15:14

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Danish researchers now have the opportunity to access LUMI, which is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. And if there are start-up difficulties, there is also help to be found, because the supercomputer LUMI has its own support team, called LUMI LUST for LUMI User Support Team. All participants in the LUMI consortium are represented in the support team with a full-time employee per. country. This applies to Finland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and of course Denmark. LUMI LUST provides joint technical support to LUMI users, including those who come on board via open resource calls from the European EuroHPC. LUMI LUST also handles the preparation of LUMI documentation, that is instructions, manuals and tutorials, just as the team is also responsible for quality assurance of the software on the machine, and has established interest groups in relation to specific technical solutions for LUMI. All to solve technical problems before they occur and make the use of LUMI smoother for its users.

Danish LUMI support at DeiC Back Office

Since October 2021, LUMI LUST has received a total of approximately 400 inquiries from all countries in the consortium. In Denmark, the support is handled by two HPC specialists who work at the national Back Office at DeiC. Among other things, they collaborate with researchers who have specific code problems that require adaptation to the hardware architecture at LUMI.

Two HPC specialists at DeiC Back Office

René Løwe Jacobsen is an HPC specialist and handles support for the classic HPC disciplines such as problems with Message Passing Interface (MPI), which is the communication between parallel computer nodes and available hardware for optimal performance. He also helps to get the most out of the hardware by using code optimization within C, C ++ and Fortran, as well as utilizing GPUs for computing via the code languages CUDA and HIP.

Christian Schou Oxvig is an HPC specialist and provides support for computer science in the programming language Python at LUMI, including tools for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The learning curve for Python for HPC is not as steep as for classical programming in C ++ or Fortran, and can thus be a way to attract new users to the HPC field.

Both experienced and beginners should be able to get access

The Danish strategy is that both experienced and newer HPC users should be able to access LUMI. If a researcher is familiar with a computer terminal, and wants to take the step further from an interactive HPC to a classic HPC system with queuing systems, then they can get started on LUMI-C, which is the CPU part of LUMI.

LUMI-C is ranked No. 76 on the Top500 list, which is a recognized ranking list of the largest HPC facilities in the world. One machine at LUMI alone has significantly more computing capacity than what researchers are used to using at their own universities. A LUMI-C node contains two CPUs with 64 cores (128 in total), while a standard laptop for comparison contains four to eight cores.

Research project from AU got help from LUMI LUST

Although the official inauguration for LUMI has not yet taken place, the first Danish pilot projects have already used the machine. Therefore, the support team has also already been up and running. In the autumn, a quantum chemistry project from Aarhus University ran a series of calculations on LUMI, and received support from the Swedish part of LUMI LUST, when their code suddenly did not work on LUMI-C, despite the fact that it worked fine at a local facility.

“It is far from guaranteed that a large and non-standard computer code, meaning 300,000+ lines C ++, that uses various libraries and MPI, will automatically work on a new computer system. We were thus strongly challenged at one point, but we made it work with highly qualified assistance from LUMI LUST, and we ended up being able to run a collection of calculations on LUMI we otherwise would not have been able to complete,” says Ove Christiansen, professor of chemistry at Aarhus University.

More knowledge sharing with Front Office

DeiC is part of the LUMI LUST consortium and will in 2022 work to increase the knowledge sharing with the Front Offices at the eight Danish universities.

“We have had a small distribution of 15,000,000 CPU core hours to six projects. And we have also given four projects the opportunity to have some computational time to develop and adapt their program to LUMI,” says Eske Christiansen, Head of HPC at DeiC.

If you want to know more about LLUMI LUST, feel free to contact Head of HPC at DeiC, Eske Christiansen, via e-mail.

Furthermore, you can always contact the Front Office at your local university for more information on access and resources, and the LUMI User Support directly for more specific code inquiries.

Information about LUMI LUST

Første kald om regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg er nu åbent

Cecilie Maagaard Winther — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:10:51 +0000

The first call for resources on the national HPC facilities is now open

NB: New application procedure!
If you are a researcher or PhD student at a Danish university, you can now apply for access to resources at the national HPC facilities, including the Danish part of EuroHPC LUMI. The call is open to all research areas.

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The call for applications for access to computing resources at the national HPC facilities are open. This also applies to the Danish part of EuroHPC LUMI.

See the call H2-2022 here.

"We are incredibly pleased that the extensive collaboration on the national HPC landscape is now resulting in the fact that we can open the first call for applications for the national resources. And we are very much looking forward to receiving exciting applications from all universities and research areas," says Gitte Kudsk, Director of DeiC.

As part of the employment of the national e-infrastructure landscape, DeiC allocates a part of the national resources upon application and on the basis of an assessment of research quality and the technical feasibility of the project.

The applications are evaluated by the appointed e-resource committee, and the allocation is approved by the board of directors of DeiC.

The deadline for the applications is on the 3rd of May 2022, and the resources will be available from the 1st of September 2022. In the future the applications must be submitted via e-grant, but unfortunately that will not be possible at this first call, instead applications must be sent by secure e-mail to: e-kald-ansoegning@deic.dk.

Questions must be directed to the universities' local Front Offices or via e-mail to: e-kald-support@listserv.deic.dk.

Read much more about the background and the process for calls for compute resources on the national e-resources.

DeiC ønsker alle en glædelig jul

Nicolai Devantier — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:37:25 +0000

DeiC wishes everyone a Merry Christmas

DeiC wishes all users, partners and suppliers a merry Christmas.

Nicolai Devantier Wed, 12/01/2021 - 10:46

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Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium

Har du brugt en supercomputer i dag?

Inspiration for all researchers

Ready to help

Making the invisible visible

Brief about available supercomputers

DeiC Interactive HPC tilbyder NVIDIA-applikationer til udforskning af kvanteberegninger

NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform bridges quantum and classical computing

NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance enhances quantum circuit simulation

Transformation of the quantum computing landscape

Kvantekald for forskere ved danske universiteter

PhD Scholarship on Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Software

Postdoc Scholarship on Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Software

Application

More information

HPC årshjul Demo Element 3

HPC årshjul Demo Element 2

HPC årshjul Demo Element

Nyt opslag om regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg

Dansk support til LUMI-brugere er klar til at løsne kode-knuder

Danish LUMI support at DeiC Back Office

Two HPC specialists at DeiC Back Office

Both experienced and beginners should be able to get access

Research project from AU got help from LUMI LUST

More knowledge sharing with Front Office

Read more:

Første kald om regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg er nu åbent

DeiC ønsker alle en glædelig jul