ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads The European Space Agency this week inaugurated its new supercomputing facility built with HPE. The Space HPC facility in italy The Space HPC facility in Italy – click to enlarge The aptly named "SpaceHPC" facility is billed as being "demonstrator infrastructure" designed to help Europe's space industry "mitigate risks …
A good follow up article would be how you prepare a workload to be run on this or similar beasts. I’m guessing you don’t just remote login and hack away like it’s 1985. How, for example, do you choose when a workload will no longer run efficiently on your Xeon workstation and you need more horsepower?
At its simplest you can just run a bit of Python/whatever by submitting a shell script to the scheduler (eg Slurm).
What gets more complicated is when you need to spread your code over more than one node. For this, most people use something like MPI to pass "messages" about. At its simplest you could use MPI to do something like "read file X and send back the results"; what's more complicated is doing things like simulating different bits of a protein on separate nodes and then coordinating the calculations.
You generally have to take a tutorial, workshop, webinar, or course, something like this one for spaceHPC (and need to get an account first I imagine) ...
The link to send "expressions of interest to has "The ESA Space HPC will allow you to boost your projects by performing complex computations and processing massive datasets more efficiently and rapidely"
It also says "We will come back to you shortly to 'exchange' on your needs." what’s wrong with the word discuss?
Instead of all this corporate speak, I wondered if this bore any resemblance to an older form of English (pre-pondian, if you like). Here's the Medieval translation courtesy of https://anythingtranslate.com/translators/english-medieval-translator/
"The ESA Space HPC shall enable thee to enhance thy ventures by executing intricate reckonings and handling vast troves of data with greater swiftness and efficacy." and "We shall forthwith return unto thee to 'confer' upon thy necessities."
Much more interesting!
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