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Introducing the Alliance

Introducing the Alliance. Talk to the Assistant Director of the NSF CISE Directorate on his visit to NCSA September 18, 1997. The Alliance National Technology Grid. The Alliance is Prototyping the National Technology Grid. Leading Edge Centers Supernodes of the Grid

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Introducing the Alliance

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  1. Introducing the Alliance • Talk to the Assistant Director of the NSF CISE Directorate on his visit to NCSA • September 18, 1997

  2. The Alliance National Technology Grid

  3. The Alliance is Prototyping the National Technology Grid • Leading Edge Centers • Supernodes of the Grid • Enabling Technology Teams • Architects of the Grid • Applications Technologies Teams • Specifications for the Grid • Education, Outreach, and Training Teams • Access to the Grid • Partners for Advanced Computational Services • Support for the Grid • Industrial Partners and Strategic Vendors • Technology Transfer for the Grid

  4. Larry Smarr, Chair Phil Smith, External Chair Charlie Bender, OSC Bob Berdine, Caterpillar David Ceperley, UIUC John Connolly, Kentucky Tom DeFanti, UIC Roscoe Giles, Boston U John Hennessy, Stanford Ken Kennedy, Rice Greg McRae, MIT Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton Dan Reed, UIUC Rick Stevens, Argonne Mary Vernon, Wisconsin Paul Woodward, Minnesota Alliance Executive Committee

  5. Alliance Enabling Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads • Parallel Computing (16) • Ken Kennedy, Rice U • Greg McRae, MIT • Distributed Computing (15) • Rick Stevens, Argonne • Paul Woodward, U Minnesota • Data and Collaboration (14) • Dan Reed, UIUC • Roscoe Giles, Boston U

  6. Alliance Applications Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads and UIUC (NCSA) Anchors • Cosmology (5) • Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton U • Mike Norman, UIUC (NCSA) • Environment Hydrology (11) • John Anderson, U Wisconsin • Robert Wilhelmson, UIUC (NCSA) • V.C. Patel, U Iowa • Doug Johnston, UIUC (NCSA) • Chemical Engineering (7) • Greg McRae, MIT • Richard Braatz, UIUC (NCSA)

  7. Alliance Applications Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads and UIUC (NCSA) Anchors • Bioinformatics (9) • Santae Kim, U Wisconsin • Shankar Subramaniam, UIUC (NCSA) • Nanomaterials (11) • John Wilkins, OSU • David Ceperley, UIUC (NCSA) • Robert Dutton, Stanford U • Karl Hess, UIUC (NCSA) • Scientific Instruments (8) • David Agard, UCSF • Clint Potter, UIUC (NCSA) • Paul Vanden Bout, NRAO • Richard Crutcher, UIUC (NCSA)

  8. Education, Outreach, and TrainingAlliance Focus Areas • Education: • K-12 • Undergraduate • Graduate • Lifetime Learning • Underrepresented Participants • Women • Minorities • People with Disabilities • Government • Local (CCnet) • State (Albany) • Federal (FedCon, DoD Mod)

  9. Education, Outreach, and TrainingFY98 Projects National Education Community Chickscope Biology Workbench WW2010 Chemistry Visualization EOT-PACI Project Activities Molecular Biology Cosmology Scientific Instruments Applications Technologies Digital Libraries Collaboration Tech. Distance Learning VR/Simulations Enabling Technologies

  10. Cosmology Metacomputing Environmental Hydrology Immersive Collaboration Chemical Engineering Virtual Prototyping Bioinformatics Distributed Data Nanomaterials Remote Microengineering Scientific Instruments Virtual Observatories How Application Teams Drive the Grid

  11. Enabling Technologies Deliverables Distributed Computing Desktop Collaboration High Performance Storage and Information Mgmt Vis. & Collab. Virtual Environments Advanced Tools for Supercomputing The Biology Workbench Model for Chem Eng WB Genome infomatics tools Structural analysis tools Tools for analysis of experimental data K-12 access to simulations, databases, demonstrations Alliance Bioinformatics Team

  12. BIMA Distributed Observatory, Digital Library, and Collaboratory http://bima-server.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib/VRMLHighlights.html BIMA, Courtesy Richard Crutcher, UIUC

  13. Replacement of Shared Memory Vector Supercomputers by Microprocessor SMPs

  14. 100,000 180% Annual Cluster Growth Rate 10,000 1,000 X-MP Processor Equivalents Available 100 10 1 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 NCSA Combines Shared Memory With Massive Parallelism 75% Annual DSM Growth Rate SN2 (1024) SN1 (1024) Origin (1024) Power Challenge (158) 24% Annual Vector Growth Rate Actual PCA Monthly Usage Y-MP X-MP/48 Cray-2 X-MP/24 Future Upgrade Under Negotiation with NSF

  15. Simulation of Liquid Helium - Path Integral Monte Carlo Particle Code Single Processor Performance 101 MF Code Parallelizes Linearly with Number of Nodes David Ceperley, Nanomaterials AT Team - NCSA, UIUC

  16. Multidiscipline Domains Multiscale Interactions Complex Geometries Full-up Virtual Prototyping Large System Optimizations Frontier Problems in Computational Science and Engineering

  17. Building the Visual Supercomputer • Rotating Turbulent Gas Ball Model of the Sun • Nine Day Run on NCSA Origin (128-processors) • Generated 2 Terabytes of Data, LCSE Visualized in 3 Days Dave Porter, Paul Woodward, et al., LCSE, Univ of Minnesota, June 1997

  18. Computing on the University of Wisconsin Condor Pool Condor Cycles CondorView, Courtesy of Miron Livny, Todd Tannenbaum(UWisc)

  19. PACS Focus Area Regional Access to Workshops Distributed Training and User Services Mid-Level Computational Resources Specialized Technology Development Sites PACS Members 4 Mid-Level Centers BU (Origin), OSC (Triton, T3E), Kentucky (HP SPP), Maui (SP-2) 6 Tech Development Sites Minn, Wisc, Rice, ANL, Wash, UVa 3 Outreach Consortia (CIC, SURA, EPSCoR) Regional Partners toPartners for Advanced Computational Services

  20. NCSA - HP Relationship • Started 1990 with Convex Computer • Goals • Focus on Industrial Third Party Applications • Integration of Technical and Data Computing • NT / UNIX Interoperability • HP- Intel Create Merced Processor in FY99-00 • full binary compatibility with both • HP PA-RISC and • Intel processor families • NCSA / UIUC has Microsoft / Intel / HP Testbed • NCSA SPP-2000 to -3000 Upgrade Path

  21. Standard Software Environment Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook / Exchange Internet Explorer Windows NT Desktop / Server for Intel Platforms Oracle Database Technology CA Unicenter (TNG) TCP/IP Network T3 Backbone Sonet Ring Technology Partnering with NCSA as Microsoft / HP Testbed Partnering with NCSA and Computer Associates Allstate Pioneering an NT Intranet

  22. Tele- immersion Real- time Data- intensive Distributed supercomputing T e s t b e d s Applns Prog. tools Compilers, languages, libs Web technologies Application- specific tools Object technologies Resource manag. High-thruput scheduling High-performance scheduling Network QoS Common services Security, Assurance, etc. Instrumentation & measurement Perf. viz & evaluation Services Infra- structure Network Technologies Advanced Protocols Computing platforms Interfaces and OS Building Blocks of a Computational Grid From Ian Foster, Argonne Nat. Lab.

  23. OC12 vBNS MREN - America’s First Operational Gigapop - Chicago Area Sites Ameritech NAP houses STAR-TAP and MREN Hub Northwestern Ameritech Fermi Nat’l Lab MCI EVL/UI Chicago U Chicago Argonne Nat’l Lab

  24. OC12 vBNS MREN - America’s First Operational Gigapop - Midwest Sites Minnesota/LCSE Wisconsin MREN and STAR-TAP Purdue Indiana Hub NCSA Indiana Univ = Planned

  25. NSF vBNS and PACI - Mutually Interdependent NCSA Alliance NPACI Both NCSA Alliance and NPACI Other High Performance Connection sites Current vBNS “Backbone” sites

  26. EPSCoR and the State Participation Problem

  27. International Connections Through STAR TAP

  28. 155 Mbps vBNS Image from EVL National Technology GridWorkshop and Training Facilities

  29. Integrating Scalable Computing WithVirtual Environments and Large Data Sets Formation of Large Scale Structure in the Universe Bryan and Norman, NCSA, GC3 Team http://zeus.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/chdm_script.html

  30. Working DoD Modernization Collaborative Virtual Enviornment • Environmental Modeling in Shared VR-space • Chesapeake Bay Simulations and Databases DREN SGI Onyx (CEWES) vBNS SGI Onyx (NCSA) SGI Onyx (U. Wisc) ImmersaDesks SGI Onyx (Old Dominion) Integrated M-Bone Videoteleconferencing Data courtesy Old Dominion University Images produced by John Shalf, NCSA

  31. Using Intranet Technologies to Form Alliance Electronic Communities • CAVE and ImmersaDesk Systems • Hypernews Forums • User Lists • Application Galleries • Shared Programs http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Indices/Spotlight/ Features/feature_CAVERNUS.html

  32. Caterpillar’s Distributed Virtual Reality Data courtesy of Valerie Lehner, NCSA, 1996

  33. Sears Virtual Store Prototype

  34. Application Technology Teams BIMA Observations of Hale-Bopp Lyman Alpha Forest in Cosmology Explained Biology Workbench Acceptance Kansas Couples Habanero to Chem Eng Enabling Technologies Team Princeton May Become NCSA Symbio Testbed Chesapeake Bay I-Desk to I-Desk Demo MREN Hooks up to ANL, EVL, NCSA STAR TAP Funded for International vBNS LCSE Deploys Power Wall at NCSA Early Alliance Success Stories

  35. Launching the Alliance - What We Will Do This Fall • Infrastructure Foundations • Build the Alliance Intranet Framework • Create the Origin Repository • Rough Out Intranet Interfaces • Set up the High Performance Networks • Link the CAVE Devices • Define the Alliance Work Plan • Timelines and Deliverables for First Year • Interweaving of ET/AT/EOT/RP and NCSA • Identifiy Early Success Goals • Define Alliance Software Set for AT/EOT • Review Alliance Collaborative Software Plans • Requires Strong ET/AT/EOT Brainstorming

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