1. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 1 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 State of the Labs: NERSC Update Juan Meza Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 2 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 NERSC Center Overview  Funded by DOE, annual budget $28M, about 65 staff  Supports open, unclassified, basic research  Located in the hills next to University of California, Berkeley campus  Close collaborations between university and NERSC in computer science and computational science  Close collaboration with about 125 scientists in the Computational Research Division at LBNL

3. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 3 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 NERSC System Architecture SYMBOLIC MANIPULATION SERVER ETHERNET 10/100 Megabit FC Disk STK Robots ESnet HPSS Gigabit Ethernet Jumbo Gigabit Ethernet SGI HPSS OC 48 – 2400 Mbps HPSS 12 IBM SP servers 15 TB of cache disk, 8 STK robots, 44,000 tape slots, 20 200 GB drives, 60 20 GB drives,max capacity 5-8 PB PDSF 400 processors (Peak 375 GFlop/s)/ 360 GB of Memory/ 35 TB of Disk/Gigabit and Fast Ethernet Ratio = (1,93) IBM SP NERSC-3 – “Seaborg” 6,656 Processors (Peak 10 TFlop/s)/ 7.8 Terabyte Memory/44Terabytes of Disk Ratio = (8,7) LBNL “Alvarez” Cluster 174 processors (Peak 150 GFlop/s)/ 87 GB of Memory/1.5 terabytes of Disk/ Myrinet 2000 Ratio - (.6,100) Ratio = (RAM Bytes per Flop, Disk Bytes per Flop) Testbeds and servers Visualization Server – “escher” SGI Onyx 3400 – 12 Processors/ 2 Infinite Reality 4 graphics pipes 24 Gigabyte Memory/4Terabytes Disk

4. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 4 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 2003 Accomplishments  High End Systems —NERSC 3 (“Seaborg”) 10 Tflop/s system in full production —Increased HPSS storage capacity to > 8 Pbytes —Evaluation of alternative architectures (SX-6, X-1, ES, BG/L) —Initiated procurement of NCS (New Computational System)  Comprehensive Scientific Support —Reached >95% utilization on Seaborg —Excellent results in User Survey  Intensive Support for Scientific Challenge Teams —INCITE allocations and SciDAC projects  Unified Science Environment —All NERSC systems on the grid (2/2004)

5. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 5 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 Immediate High Utilization of “Seaborg” 90%

6. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 6 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 NERSC FY 03 Usage by Institution Type

7. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 7 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 FY03 Leading DOE laboratory usage (>500,000 processor hours)

8. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 8 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 FY 03 Usage by Scientific Discipline

9. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 9 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 Terascale Simulations of Supernovae  PI: Tony Mezzacappa, ORNL  Allocation Category: SciDAC  Code: neutrino scattering on lattices (OAK3D)  Kernel: complex linear equations  Performance: 537 Mflop/s per processor (35% of peak)  Scalability: 1.1 Tflop/s on 2,048 processors  Allocation: 565,000 MPP hours; requested and needs 1.52 million

10. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 10 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 Simulation Matches Gamma Ray Burst SciDAC Project by Stan Woosley et al., UC Santa Cruz In March 2003 HETE satellite observed unusually close and bright GRB “Rosetta stone” of GRBs, because it conclusively established that at least some long GRBs come from supernovas By 1993, 135 different theories on the origin of GRBs had been published in scientific journals NERSC simulations show that “collapsar” model best describes data [1] J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman, P. Møller, J. P. U. Fynbo, S. E. Woosley, et al., “A very energetic supernova associated with the  -ray burst of 29 March 2003,” Nature 423, 847 (2003).

11. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 11 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 ProteinShop: Computational Steering of Protein Folding Teresa Head-Gordon et al., UC Berkeley (optimization and protein folding), and Silvia Crivelli, LBNL et al. (visualization) ProteinShop incorporates inverse kinematics from robotics or video gaming to permit biologist to manipulate protein interactively Optimization finds local energy minimum on Seaborg Permits much larger search space, and integration of intuitive knowledge Best paper award at IEEE Visualization Conference, and “most innovative” at CASP submitted for R&D 100 award

12. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 12 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 INCITE  INCITE - Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment - devotes 10% (4.9M hours) of NERSC resources to the most significant science regardless of DOE affiliation  Proposal Demographics —52 proposals received —130,508,660 CPU hours requested (1 proposal asked for 71,761,920 hours – the rest were well justified – less than 5M hours)  An oversubscription of 13 to 29 times.

13. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 13 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 FY04 INCITE Awards  Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Photosynthetic Centers; William Lester, Berkeley Lab  Stellar Explosions in Three Dimensions; Tomasz Plewa, University of Chicago  Fluid Turbulence; P.K. Yeung, Georgia Institute of Technology Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE)

14. NERSC Policy Board Meeting, February 19, 2003 14 SOS8, Charleston, SC, April 12-14, 2004 Thank you