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The SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technology Program Review Rockville, MD 4/28/2009. E. Wes Bethel, LBNL Coordinating PI, co-PI. Wrap Up. Thanks for your time! We trust we have conveyed that VACET: Indeed advances SciDAC program objectives
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The SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technology Program Review Rockville, MD 4/28/2009 E. Wes Bethel, LBNL Coordinating PI, co-PI www.vacet.org
Wrap Up • Thanks for your time! • We trust we have conveyed that VACET: • Indeed advances SciDAC program objectives • Is doing a great job as a CET • Is an excellent investment for SciDAC
The End • Visualization of a one-trillion-zone dataset on 40K CrayXT4 cores.
Stakeholders Vote with their Feet • ADPEC adopts VisIt for production-quality AMR visualization
Stakeholders Vote with their Feet • John Cary (Tech-X) • Making concerted effort to migrate FACETS and numerous other Tech-X efforts to VisIt. • Generated an animation using VisIt that won an award at SciDAC 2008. • Contributing to VisIt in the form of file loaders (VORPAL loader). • Using VisIt-generated visuals in day-to-day science activities and for special events (e.g., upcoming review).
Stakeholders Vote with their Feet • Jacqueline Chen (SNL-CA) • In her SciDAC 2008 presentation: “For the first time, I can see …” • She hires a post-doc from VACET to work exclusively on continuing this project. • Bronson Messer (ORNL) (Working with Tony Mezzacappa) • All visuals in his SciDAC 2008 presentation done using VACET technology.
VACET Project Weaknesses (Our View) • Financial • Computational Resources • Long-term staffing
VACET Financial Concerns • Need 25% budget increase to avoid staff reductions dictated by 5-year flat budget. • First priority is to protect the existing investment • People are our most precious resource • Could use an additional 25% for software engineering • This activity requires a lot of effort
Computational Resources • Shortage of high speed, spinning disk • NGF allocation presently about 15TB • Stakeholder near-term plans (<12months) call for storage requirements in range 100-200TB • This type of storage costs $1K-$2K/TB • Request for more storage submitted, no guarantees • Impact of flat budget: limited local resources for research platforms
Long-term Staffing • People are our most precious resource • Want to hire, retain talent to ensure long-term project success • Flat budget makes future uncertain for 25% of our staff • Long-term programs like SciDAC (5-year award) very helpful • One primary VACET objective is to do everything possible to ensure the SciDAC program as a whole is successful. • We very much want to see a “SciDAC-3”