HPC User Forum

16th October 2008

Professor Chris Hankin

Imperial at a glance

The University’s objectives:• world class scholarship, education

and research in science, technology and medicine

• interdisciplinary collaborations• communicate and share knowledge

Established in 1907

Academic faculties: • Engineering• Natural Sciences• Medicine • plus Imperial College

Business School

Our Estate

Six London campusesCharing CrossChelsea and WestminsterHammersmithRoyal BromptonSouth KensingtonSt Mary’s

Two campuses inSouth East England

Silwood Park, AscotWye, Kent

South Kensington Campus and surrounding area

Our staff

8,200 staff and visiting staff• 3,000 academic and research staff• 3,000 support staff• 1,700 honorary staff• 700 academic visitors

and visiting researchers

Our students

13,000 students• 8,300 undergraduates• 2,200 taught postgraduates• 2,500 research postgraduates

Courses• 111 undergraduate courses• 124 postgraduate taught courses• 7:1 Ratio applications to admissions• AAB Average A-level

entry grade

Our financial strengths

£556m Turnover

6.6% Total percentage received by Imperial in national public funding of university research

Largest industrial sponsorship

in UK university sector

£230m Total research income 2006-07

Our research themes

Current HPC Provision

• SGI Altix: 32 Itanium 2 CPUs with 256 GBytes

• DELL PC Cluster: 510 nodes (1860 cores), 2-16 GBytes per node, 280 nodes connected via Infiniband interconnect

• 60 TBytes of RAID disk storage

• College commitment to annual upgrade/replacement

• Supporting dedicated sub-clusters for Research Groups (1300 cores)

Faculty involvement

• Users across all faculties

• Engineering: Turbulence, Earth modelling, Materials Modelling

• Natural Sciences: Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, data Mining, High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, Plasma Physics

• Medicine: Epidemiology, Population Genomics

Thank You