National Computational Science Alliance Coupling the Leading Edge Site with the Alliance Partners Talk given to Alliance ‘98 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign April 28, 1998

National Computational Science Alliance Welcome to Hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Your EC Questions to A98-quest.ncsa.uiuc.edu

National Computational Science Alliance Coupling the Leading-Edge Site with the Alliance Partners Alliance map and video by Robert Patterson, NCSA

National Computational Science Alliance The In-Depth Archive of the Alliance Leading Edge Site

National Computational Science Alliance Keep Up-To-Date with News of the Alliance alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu access.ncsa.uiuc.edu

National Computational Science Alliance The New Alliance Community Be Sure to Check Out the Poster at A98

National Computational Science Alliance Program Wide DoD MSRC Webmasters Meeting at NCSA What It Takes to Create Online Shared Information / Collaboration Environments Dod MSRC and PET Webmasters Meeting NCSA, Feb. 3-5, 1998 ARL CEWES Syracuse ASC NAVO NCSA

National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Emerging Technologies Course on Streaming Video After A’98, NCSA will have 20 courses Alliance Goal of 100 by end of 1998 Alliance’98 Talks Will Be Webcast and Archived

National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Researchers Using a Digital Video Computational Infrastructure = Digital Video Streams Digital Video Server Internet, vBNS Habanero Teams Create Digital Video Animation Concurrently with Supercomputing CAVE Virtual Director Individual Desktops Desktop Video Teleconferencing

National Computational Science Alliance Distance Education - Using JAVA Plug-ins to Web Browsers Source: Geoffrey Fox, NPAC/Syracuse; CEWES

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Parallel Computing Training -- November

National Computational Science Alliance Let’s Blow This Up! The Growth Rate of the National Capacity is Slowing Down again Source: Quantum Research; Lex Lane, NCSA

National Computational Science Alliance Major Gap Developing in National Usage at NSF Supercomputer Centers 70% Annual Growth Rate is the Historical Rate of National Usage Growth. It Also Slightly Greater Than the Rate of Moore’s Law, So Lesser Growth Means Desktops Gain on Supers Projection

National Computational Science Alliance Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative is Coupling DOE DP Labs to Universities Access to ASCI Leading Edge Supercomputers Academic Strategic Alliances Program Data and Visualization Corridors

National Computational Science Alliance DOE Strategic Simulation Initiative Major New FY00 Computational Initiative for DOE ER Large-scale Problems in Energy and the Environment Initial Targets Are Climate Simulation and Combustion Major Investment in Applications, Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, and Computational Facilities Pursued Jointly With Universities, Labs and Industry Will Leverage ASCI Investments Will Field Machines in the 40-50TF Range in 2003 Opportunity for Synergy with NSF PACI Courtesy of Rick Stevens, Argonne

National Computational Science Alliance The Emerging Multi-Agency Effort to Create a Persistent National Technology Grid NSF Working Closely with NPACI & Alliance –See Reagan Moore Talk at A’98 –NPACI Representatives at A’98 All Hands KDI Proposals Will Require PACI Infrastructure DoE Discussing with NSF –How to Get More Cycles –PACI ET and AT Teams Linking to ASCI, SSI NASA MOU with NSF on Computational Grids DoD Mod. PET Innovating Infrastructure NIH Potentially Critical Partner

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA’s Forest of Origins

National Computational Science Alliance Cosmology, Environ. Hydro., & Nanomaterials Applications Using Full 128-Processors of Origin Users, NCSA, SGI, and Alliance Parallel Team Working to Make Better Scaling Routine Source: Mitas, Hayes, Tafti, Saied, Balsara, NCSA -DSM

National Computational Science Alliance JP Morgan Hero Calculation HPC Strategic Business Analysis Calculations Used 128-Processor SGI Origin –Two Week Period in January 1998 –NCSA and SGI Doubled Memory in a Week Extended JPM's Risk Management Capabilities Hundreds of Market Scenarios Simulated NCSA, Strategic Vendor, Industrial Partner –Existing Relationships Facilitated Quick Startup –Win-Win-Win Result Andrew Abrahams, Jeff Saltz, JP Morgan

National Computational Science Alliance Proposed NCSA SGI/Cray Origin Array FY99 Origin Array 6x128 4x64 Processors Subject to NSF Approval of Funds

National Computational Science Alliance Alliance PACS Origin2000 Repository Kadin Tseng, BU, Gary Jensen, NCSA, Chuck Swanson, SGI John Connolly, U Kentucky Developing Repository for HP Exemplar

National Computational Science Alliance PACS Communities Computational Resources and Services –AAB, NRAC capacity for small to medium users Communities –EPSCoR –CIC –SURA Technology Deployment –Sub GRID Testbeds (Condor) –G-Force Linkage Training

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA & Alliance Parallel Computing Team Supports Portable Computing Standards MPI –Interface to the NT Supercluster HPF –CRPC Advanced Features (See Kennedy Talk) –Chien’s HPVM Supports Both HPF and MPI OpenMP –NCSA Beta Site for SGI Origin Compiler –Evaluating Kuck & Assocs. Origin Compiler –Tutorial at Alliance’98 Hybrids –OpenMP and MPI –Dynamic Load Balancing and Portability!

National Computational Science Alliance NT Workstation Shipments Rapidly Surpassing UNIX Source: IDC, Wall Street Journal, 3/6/98

National Computational Science Alliance The Road to Merced

National Computational Science Alliance First Scientific Code Using Alliance NT / Intel HP-Compaq Cluster Processors Speedup Spring ‘98 Winter ‘99 Summer ‘98 “Supercomputer performance at mail-order prices”-- Jim Gray, Microsoft Zeus-MP Hydro Code Running Under MPI access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CoverStories/SuperCluster/super.html Rob Pennington, NCSA LCA, UIUC, Alliance Cosmology Team Andrew Chien, UIUC Alliance Parallel Team Be Sure to Check Out the Demo at A98

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Symbio - A Distributed Object Framework Bringing Scalable Computing to NT Desktops Parallel Computing on NT Clusters –Briand Sanderson, NCSA –Microsoft Co-Funds Development Features –Based on Microsoft DCOM –Batch or Interactive Modes –Application Development Wizards Current Status & Future Plans –Symbio Developer Preview 2 Released –Princeton University Testbed

National Computational Science Alliance Java Grande: Java for HPC Research Java Extensions and Frameworks for –High Performance GRID Computation –CS&E Distributed Modeling and Simulation –Data Intensive Computing –Computational and Communications-Intensive Applications –Commercial Computing –Scientific Research Applications –Alliance Leadership –Fox (NPAC/Syracuse), Gannon (Indiana), Ceperley (NCSA) –Sun funding for Syracuse / Indiana / NCSA project Java Grande Forum is Community Standards Effort

National Computational Science Alliance FY98 NCSA Enhanced Mass Storage - Testbed for Alliance Data Team Performance Analysis Working to Increase Reliability to 99+% New Machine - HP SPP-2000 Exemplar –More Memory and I/O Channels New Software - HP Unitree 3.1 –Uses Parallel I/O Internally New EMC RAID and Data Sharing –3 TB Rotating Storage New Library - STK Powderhorn –Holds 6000 Cartridges New Tape Drives - Still to Come Fibre Channel Testbed

National Computational Science Alliance The Coming Integration of Technical and Commercial Computing The Emergence of High Performance Commercial Computing –Computational Knowledge Management –Focus on: –Large Data Sets and Information Visualization –AI Techniques for Data Mining –Optimization and Decision Support –Financial “Rocket Science” NT / UNIX Interoperability and Scalability –HP and SGI UNIX DSMs –Scalable Microsoft NT Clusters and NCSA Symbio –Merced Processor in FY99-00

National Computational Science Alliance Knowledge Discovery Applications Source: Michael Welge, Tilt Thompkins, NCSA

National Computational Science Alliance Sears Pioneers Data Mining and Information Visualization at NCSA 1998 VLDB Survey Program Grand Prize Winner –Largest Database –4.7 Terabytes of Data –10 Terabyte Total Disk Space Capacity –Storage Provided by EMC Image Courtesy of Michael Welge, NCSA and Sears

National Computational Science Alliance MREN and STAR-TAP MREN - America’s First Operational GigaPOP - Midwest Sites OC12 vBNS Indiana Hub Indiana Univ Purdue Wisconsin Minnesota/LCSE NCSA Michigan Hub U Michigan Michigan State Notre Dame Ohio State Univ.

National Computational Science Alliance vBNS Connected Alliance Site vBNS Alliance Site Scheduled for Connection NCSA FY98 Assembling the Links in the Grid with NSF’s vBNS Connections ProgramStarTAP 27 Alliance sites running... …16 more in progress. vBNS Backbone Node 1999: Expansion via Abilene vBNS & Abilene at 2.4 Gbit/s Source: Charlie Catlett, Randy Butler, NCSA

National Computational Science Alliance FY99 Qwest Nationwide Network - Backbone for Internet2 Abilene - More Links Source: Randy Butler, NCSA Qwest Partnering with Cisco and Nortel

National Computational Science Alliance National Laboratory for Applied Network Research Supports the Grid Links Distributed Applications Support (NCSA) Engineering (CMU) Measurement/Analysis (SDSC)

National Computational Science Alliance Grid Task Force: G-Force Integration, Leverage, & Coordination of Multiple Efforts –PACS Advanced Computational Resources –PACS/ET/AT Testbeds & Technology Deployment –EOT Deployment and Coupling With PACS/ET/AT Grass Roots Alliance Technical Community –Volunteer-driven, Inclusive/open –Working Groups for Specific Deployment Projects –Grid Working Document (GWD) Series –Technical Advisory Committee –Stevens, Catlett, Butler, Evard, Bresnehan

National Computational Science Alliance Globus Ubiquitous Supercomputing Testbed (GUSTO) Alliance Middleware for the Grid-Distributed Computing Team GII Next Generation Winner SF Express -- NPACI / Alliance DoD Mod. Demonstration –Largest Distributed Interactive Simulation Ever Performed The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure –Edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, July 1998 IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing –July 29-31, 1998 Chicago Illinois NASA IPG Most Recent Funding Addition

National Computational Science Alliance Caterpillar’s Distributed Virtual Prototyping Environment Real Time Linked VR and Audio-Video Between NCSA and Germany & Using vBNS Between NCSA and Univ. of Houston Using SGI Indy/Onyx and HP Workstations Be Sure to Check Out the Demo at A98

National Computational Science Alliance 7000 square feet in the Wash D.C. metropolitan area - Construction completed Sept ‘98  Remote and local access to Alliance technologies, leaders, researchers, and partners  Collaborative Demonstrations, Training, Digital Video Teleconferencing, and Visitors  ImmersaDesk, Power Wall, projected advanced high bandwidth applications Part of the network of Alliance Distributed Computational Centers throughout the Nation New Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science, and Software (ACCESS) Alliance map by Robert Patterson, NCSA

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA CRUMBS Volumetric Analysis Tools - From Drosophila Sperm to Molecular Hydrogen CRUMBS Software by Rachael Brady, video by Jeff Carpenter NCSA Path Integral Monte Carlo (1000 Origin CPU-Hours) Burkhard Militzer, David Ceperley, NCSA Confocal Microscopy by Tim Carr, UChicago Coupling NCSA with Scientific Instruments and Nanomaterials Teams Visualize Volumes, Paths, Extract Curves as Splines

National Computational Science Alliance Linking CAVE to Vis5D = CAVE5D Then Use Virtual Director to Analyze Simulations Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team

National Computational Science Alliance Digital Video Created by Virtual Director Supporting Analysis of Chesapeake Simulations Alliance Environmental Hydrology Applications Team Glen Wheless and Cathy Lascara, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSA Virtual Director Team Fish Larvae at Mouth of the Bay 15 Day Period Salinity (Red-High, Yellow-Low)

National Computational Science Alliance Java 3D API HPC Application: VisAD Environ. Hydrology Team, (Bill Hibbard, Wisconsin) Steve Pietrowicz, NCSA Java Team Standalone or CAVE-to-Laptop-Collaborative Environmental Hydrology: Java3D + VisAD NASA IPG is Adding Funding To Collaborative Java3D Be Sure to Check Out the Demo at A98

National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Chemical Engineering Team - Multi-scale Computational Science Be Sure to Check Out the Demo at A’98

National Computational Science Alliance ARL Preventing Tanker Truck Roll Over - HPC & Visualization Supporting Test and Evaluation See ASC and CEWES talks, ARL Moderator on Weds 10 AM Participants: ARL T&E Command ARL MSRC-PET NCSA Sci Viz UMN AHPCRC Clark Atlanta University West Virginia University Georgia Tech 68 Sensors Attached to Truck to Define Dynamics HPC Simulation to Match Sensor Readings

National Computational Science Alliance Radio Astronomy Habanero Prototype -- Bringing Scientific Collaboration to the Grid

National Computational Science Alliance EOT - Coupling Alliance / NPACI Efforts into a National Program Building an Undergraduate Research Student Community –PACI Research Experiences for Undergraduates –Undergrads Linked to PACI Computational Science Teams Customizing AT Technologies for Learning –Chickscope –RiverWeb –Hayden, Adler Planetariums Designing the Digital Government of the 21st Century –CTG, NCSA Hosting in DC Fall ‘98 –NSF Funded

National Computational Science Alliance Member Agencies: –Bureau of Census –Central Intelligence Agency –Defense Technical Information Center –Rural Development, Department of Agriculture –Department of Education –Department of Housing and Urban Development –National Biological Service –National Institutes of Health –National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration –NASA –National Science Foundation –National Security Agency –Nuclear Regulatory Commission NCSA Federal Consortium Funding IT Development –Security –Universal Access –Distance Learning –Intranet Technology Staff Training Electronic Meeting Spaces

National Computational Science Alliance TRACE - Advancing Access to Technology

National Computational Science Alliance Global Collaboration and Tele-Immersion Enabled by EVL CAVERNsoft Supercomputing ’97 NICE Persistent Simulation Avatars Doing Hokey Pokey 17 sites Alliance ‘99 in Cyberspace ?? Source: Jason Leigh, Andy Johnson, EVL, Tom Coffin, NCSA