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George Em Karniadakis Division of Applied Mathematics The CRUNCH group: www.cfm.brown.edu/crunch Cross-Site Simulations on the TeraGrid spectral elementsMicro / Nano-fluidicsparallel computing
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Grand-Challenge Problem 1: Turbulence – Drag crisis (Tightly-Coupled Problem) Turbulence – Last frontier in classical physics Climate, environment, transport, energy,… Re=300,000 (CPU ~ Re 3 ) requires 20 Billion DOFs Memory 4 TBytes
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Wave Propagation in a Model of the Arterial Circulation (Data of 55 main arteries from J.J. Wang and K. Parker, 1997) Grand-Challenge Problem 2: Human Arterial Tree (Loosely-Coupled Problem)
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First Parallel TeraGrid Paradigm NCSA IA64 SDSC IA64 in-site communication Cross-site communication in-site communication TG Site Whole flow Domain All-to-all
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-5/3 DNS versus Experiments: max Re=10,000 DNS Experiments (Rockwell, 2004) Energy Spectrum Black – simulation Blue - experiment RMS velocity
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Turbulence: Single-Site Performance Fixed problem sizeFixed workload PSC: Compaq Alpha EV68, 1 GHz 300 Million DOFs, 2-level MPI MPICH-G2 and MPI perform similarly (SDSC/IA-64)
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Half processors from NCSA, half from SDSC Intel IA-64 processors (Itanium-2, 1.5 GHz) Slow-down factor 1.5 SDSC TG NCSA TG FFT Matrix transposition Turbulence: Cross-Site Performance Fixed problem sizeFixed workload
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P(t) W1W1 W2W2 Ascending aorta U(t) Inflow conditions U(t) P(t) Thoracic aorta Femoral P(t) U(t) W1W1 W2W2 Tibial P(t) Outflow conditions (Peripheral resistance) 1D Model – Sherwin et al. / Imperial College
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Platelet Aggregation in Arterioles and Venules FLOW Parameters: Vessel diameter - 50 µm, vessel length - 400 µm, blood velocity - 100 µm/s, platelet diameter - 3 µm, platelet concentration - 300000/mm 3, platelet density - 1.03 fluid density Simulation time - 28 s venules platelet aggregate
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Growth Rate vs. Blood Velocity Experiments: Begent and Born, Nature, Vol. 227, No. 5261, pp. 926-930, 1970
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Second Parallel TeraGrid Paradigm Multiscale Simulation of Arterial Tree
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Arterial-Tree: Cross-Site Performance (Homogeneous Network) Three arteries; 4 Million DOFs per artery 1CPU/node on ANL; 2CPUs/node on NCSA/SDSC No slown-down, full scalability SDSC TG ANL TG NCSA TG Fixed problem size Fixed workload
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SDSC TG NCSA TG PSC TG Arterial-Tree: Cross-Site Performance (Heterogeneous Network) PSC connects to TG via application gateway (qsockets) Two arteries per site PSC proc:2 GF vs 6 GF IA-64
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New Unique Capability Potentially unlimited salability; Enabling technology –Integrate “real and virtual” in projects like: –Digital human, digital ocean, digital space, … Predictability and Uncertainty –Stochastic simulations –Prediction vs. Postdiction –Risk-based/Reliability-based design –Sensitivity analysis – steering of experiments (e.g., DDDAS concept) Inverse Problems –Engineering design –Biomedical sciences –Geological/Climate Modeling
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What Users Need Debuggers for TG (a la TotalView) New topology-aware parallel algorithms Sustained network/cluster performance TG visualization capability Middleware –Robust MPICH-G2 –Co-scheduling –Network & Globus diagnostics –Authentication/Security – often in conflict Consultants/Referees with TG-Expertise
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