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Scaling People, Not Just Systems, to Take On Big Data ChallengesMatthew Vaughn @mattdotvaughnDirector, Life Sciences Computing, TACCCo-PI Cyverse, Araport, Jetstream Cloud2/1/161

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TACC AT A GLANCE2/1/162Personnel160 Full time staff (~70 PhD)Facilities10 MW Data center capacityNew office facility to be completed by start of 2016Systems and ServicesA Billion compute hours per year5 Billion files, 50 Petabytes of Data, Hundreds of Public DatasetsCapacity & ServicesHPC, HTC, Visualization, Large scale data storage, Cloud computingConsulting, Curation and analysis, Code optimization, Portals and Gateways, Web service APIs, Training and Outreach

Stampede #7 HPC system in the world for computation 500k CPU core 9.7 PFLonestar 5 Texas-focused Cray XC40 30,000 Intel Haswell cores 1.25 PFWrangler 0.6 PB usable DSSD flash storage w 1 TB/s read rate + 10 PB LustreMaverick132 Fat nodes w dual 10 core Ivy Bridge + NVIDIA Kepler K40 GPGPUChameleon & Jetstream Cloud1400 nodes OpenStackDisk and Tape Storage 100+ PB storage in HIPAA-aligned data center

Extreme Scale Supercomputing

Coming Soon: HikariGreen computing system parternship with NEDO and NTT. 10k Haswell cores. HVDC and Solar (partial)Support for container ecosystem2/1/163

Talk a little about what we mean by BIG INNOVATIVE SYSTEMSThen, spend the rest of my time talking about how we are HELPING PEOPLE GO FASTCloud systems weave all this togetherWe also have testbed systems online or coming in next 6 moAltera FPGA, POWER/NVIDIA, HP APOLLO powered by solar HVDC

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TACCs Stampede supports an Incredible Amount & DIVERSITY of ResearchThrough