Overview of the Alliance Kickoff Course in Alliance

Overview of the Alliance • Kickoff Course in Alliance Streaming Video Series • January 22, 1998 National Computational Science Alliance

The Alliance Emerges From the NSF Supercomputing Center • National Center for Supercomputing Applications – Unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Founded 1985 – Becomes the Alliance Leading Edge Center • Information and Computational Infrastructure Arises – NSFnet Develops from Center’s Backbone – Macs and PCs Hook in Using NCSA Telnet – Web Browsing Grows out of NCSA Mosaic • Partnerships in Advanced Computational Infrastructure – New NSF Program – Two Winners: Alliance and NPACI National Computational Science Alliance

NSFNET 56 Kb/s Backbone (1986 -8) NCSA National Computational Science Alliance

Infrastructure Leaves its Mark -a Century Later Railroads National Computational Science Alliance

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 – Content for the Grid • Partners for Advanced Computational Services – Support for the Grid • Industrial Partners and Strategic Vendors – Technology Transfer for the Grid National Computational Science Alliance

The Alliance National Technology Grid Prototyping the 21 st Century Infrastructure National Computational Science Alliance

NCSA Industrial Partners • • Allstate Insurance Co. Boeing Company Caterpillar Inc. Eastman Kodak Co. Eli Lilly and Company FMC Corporation Ford Motor Company J. P. Morgan • • Motorola, Inc. Phillips Petroleum Co. SABRE Group, Inc. Schlumberger Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shell Oil Company Tribune Company National Computational Science Alliance

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

How Application Teams Drive the Grid • Cosmology – Multi-scale Resolution • Environmental Hydrology – Immersive Collaboration • Chemical Engineering – Virtual Prototyping • Bioinformatics – Distributed Data • Nanomaterials – Remote Microengineering • Scientific Instruments – Virtual Observatories National Computational Science Alliance

Alliance Enabling Technologies Teams Faculty Leads • Parallel Computing (16) – Kennedy, Rice U – Greg Mc. Rae, MIT • Distributed Computing (15) – Rick Stevens, Argonne – Paul Woodward, U Minnesota • Data and Collaboration (14) – Dan Reed, UIUC – Roscoe Giles, Boston U National Computational Science Alliance

NSF v. BNS and PACI Mutually Interdependent NCSA Alliance NPACI Both NCSA Alliance and NPACI Other High Performance Connection sites Current v. BNS “Backbone” sites National Computational Science Alliance

EPSCo. R --Increasing the Participation in Supercomputing, v. BNS, and CAVE Technologies National Computational Science Alliance

The Illinois Century Network: Illinois Board of Higher Ed. Technology Task Force • Proposal calls for the creation of a high-speed state backbone 155 -622 Mbps. (Internet 2 Type speeds) • Higher education institutions would connect at 45 -155 Mbps National Computational Science Alliance

MREN - America’s First Operational Gigapop - Midwest Sites Minnesota/LCSE Wisconsin Michigan Hub MREN and STAR-TAP U Michigan State Purdue OC 12 v. BNS NCSA Indiana Hub Indiana Univ National Computational Science Alliance

International Connections Through STAR TAP National Computational Science Alliance

Exponential Cascade: From Leading Edge to Consumer Electronics Source: Silicon Graphics, 1997 1985 Cray X-MP Cost: $8, 000 60, 000 watts of power No Built in Graphics 56 kbps NSFnet Backbone 1997 Nintendo 64 Cost: $149 5 watts of power Interactive 3 D Graphics 64 kbps ISDN to Home National Computational Science Alliance

TOP 500 Systems by Vendor 500 Other Number of Systems Japanese 400 200 DEC Intel TMC 300 Other Japanese DEC Intel TMC Sun HP Convex IBM SGI CRI Sun HP IBM Convex SGI 100 TOP 500 Reports: http: //www. netlib. org/benchmark/top 500. html Nov-97 Jun-97 Nov-96 Jun-96 Nov-95 Jun-95 Nov-94 Jun-94 Nov-93 0 Jun-93 CRI National Computational Science Alliance

NCSA Combines Shared Memory Programming with Massive Parallelism CM-5 CM-2 Future Upgrade Under Negotiation with NSF National Computational Science Alliance

NCSA Quadruples its HP SPP-2000 April 9, 1997 NCSA SPP-2000 Upgrade Plan: FY 97 - 64 nodes, 16 GB FY 98 - 128 nodes, 32 GB Initial Benchmarks SPP-2000 is 2 -8 x faster than SPP-1200 http: //www. ncsa. uiuc. edu/Indices/Spotlight/ Features/feature_hp. html National Computational Science Alliance

World’s Largest Unclassified SGI / CRAY Origin 2000 - October 3, 1997 NCSA 512 -Processor Origin 10/3/97 National Computational Science Alliance

Putting a Window in the Supercomputer Oven. Coupling the v. BNS to Scalable Computing Evolution of a Red Giant with White Dwarf Core Surface View Interior View Data Moved From NCSA over v. BNS to U Minnesota. Visualization at SC 97 While Week Long Simulation Runs at NCSA v. BNS Gives 100 -Fold Thruput Increase Over Commercial Internet! Porter, Anderson, Habermann, Ruwart, & Woodward , LCSE, Nov. 1997 National Computational Science Alliance

Computing on the University of Wisconsin Condor Pool Condor Cycles Condor. View, Courtesy of Miron Livny, Todd Tannenbaum(UWisc) National Computational Science Alliance

The PC Revolution and Supercomputing 1996 -Sandia Intel Teraflop 1988 -Andy Grove Prediction Adapted from speech by Bill Gates National Computational Science Alliance

Alliance NT Cluster Approaches • Fast Messaging – Andrew Chien, UIUC DCS – High Performance Network Backplane on SMPs – Support for MPI-FM, MPI-2 put/get, global arrays • NCSA Symbio – Briand Sanderson, UIUC NCSA – Parallel Distributed Computing Environment – DCOM / COM based over Desktops and Servers • Treadmarks – Willy Zwaenepol, Rice CRPC – Software DSM over NT Cluster National Computational Science Alliance

Emergence of Large Scale Structure Using Traditional MPP Supercomputer Fly Thru Evolution 512 x 512 Run on 512 -node CM-5 Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, NCSA National Computational Science Alliance

Use of Shared Memory Adaptive Grids Alliance Cosmology Team 64 x 64 Run with Seven Levels of Adaption on SGI Power Challenge, Locally Equivalent to 8192 x 8192 Resolution Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, John Shalf, NCSA National Computational Science Alliance

Alliance National Technology Grid Workshop and Training Facilities Powered by Silicon Graphics Linked by the NSF v. BNS National Computational Science Alliance

Same CAVE Software Libraries Different Physical Implementations CAVE Immersadesk http: //evlweb. eecs. uic. edu/pape/CAVE/ Image courtesy: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIUC National Computational Science Alliance

Collaborative Virtual Environmental Modeling Coupling Chesapeake Bay Simulations and Databases Immersa. Desks SGI Onyx (CEWES) DREN Vicksburg, MS v. BNS SGI Onyx (NCSA) Integrated M-Bone Videoteleconferencing SGI Onyx (Old Dominion) John Shalf, Polly Baker NCSA; Mike Stephens and Carl Cerco, CEWES SGI Onyx (U. Wisc) National Computational Science Alliance

Using CAVE 5 D with NCSA’s Virtual Director to Analyze Chesapeake Bay Simulations Alliance Environmental Hydrology Applications Team Glen Wheless and Cathy Lascara, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University Fish Larvae at Mouth of the Bay 15 Day Period Salinity (Red-High, Yellow-Low) Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team National Computational Science Alliance

Caterpillar’s Distributed Virtual Reality Data courtesy of Valerie Lehner, NCSA, 1996 National Computational Science Alliance

Chick. Scope - Networked Scientific Instruments Enables K-12 NCSA, UIUC Beckman Institute http: //chickscope. beckman. uiuc. edu/ National Computational Science Alliance

Crossing Streets: A K-12 Virtual Reality Application 81 students involved from Champaign & Urbana area. 41 developmentally disabled, 40 general students. Collaboration between the UIUC Transition Research Institute & NCSA Goal to teach students to cross virtual streets and probe their ability to generalize this learning to actual realities. http: //www. ncsa. uiuc. edu/Edu/RSE/VR/trivr. html National Computational Science Alliance