Transcript NCAR Supercomputing ‘Data Center’ Project An NCAR-led computing ‘facility’ for the study of the Earth system May 30, 2006

NCAR Supercomputing ‘Data
Center’ Project
An NCAR-led computing ‘facility’ for the
study of the Earth system
May 30, 2006
Project Review
• NCAR Mesa Lab computer facility: power,
cooling and floor space will be inadequate
beyond the current procurement
• Science being restricted by focusing on capacity
ahead of capability
• Facility concept: 30,000 (initial to 60,000) sq. ft.,
150,000 (to 300,000) sq. ft., 4 (to 24) MW
redundant power, cooling, ~ 20 year lifetime
• Phase 1 facility est. construction cost @ $50M
to $70M
– Such a facility would be a computational equivalent of the
Hubble Telescope for geoscience simulation
Average Electrical Cost by State
(1990 - 2003)
Data From Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/average_price_state.xls
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Schedule
2006
2007
Discovery
2008
2009
2010
Planning/Financing
Design
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Construction
Project plan development - Sep-Dec
Community engagement - Ongoing
Partnership development - Nov-Mar, down-select in April and June
Engage National Science Foundation (GEO, OCI) - Ongoing
Forge international collaborations (UK/NERC, ENES)
Initiate facility building project ~ Summer 2006
Community workshop - September at NCAR
Submit project prospectus to NSF – Jan 2007
First electrons ~ Summer 2010
An Opportunity
NSF’s Petascale Roadmap
“Overarching Recommendation:
Establish a Petascale Collaboratory for the Geosciences
with the mission to provide leadership-class
computational resources that will make it possible to
address, and minimize the time to solution of, the most
challenging problems facing the geosciences.”
www.joss.ucar.edu/joss_psg/meetings/petascale/
NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Vision
2006-2010
A petascale center linked with multiple 100+ teraflop centers…
Track-2 $30m
Track-1 $200m
1 Petaflop Sustained
Track-2 $30m
Track-2 $30m
100TF
Track-2 $30m
Geosciences HPC Research Consortium
Other National Labs and
Concept
Supercomputer Centers
NSF Geosciences
Research Community
ATM, OCE, EAR, +
Earth Interiors
Resource Center
and International
Alliances
Minority Institution
Resource Center
Geosciences HPC
Collaboratory Center
Energy Research
Resource Center
Atmospheric
Science Resource
Center
NCAR + Facility Partner
Ocean Science
Resource Center
Hydrology, Energy, etc.
Research Communities
Computational Science
Resource Center
Scientific Steering Committee
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Rick Anthes
Rafael Bras
Guy Brasseur
Kelvin Droegemeier
Tamas Gombosi
Gregory Jenkins
Thomas Jordan
David Maidment
Jean-Bernard Minster
John Orcutt
Tim Palmer
Annick Pouquet
Jagadish Shukla
Paola Rizzoli
David Yuen
Meteorology, UCAR
Hydrology, MIT
Atmospheric Science, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg
Atmospheric Science, OU
Space Science, U Michigan
Atmospheric Science, Howard
Geophysics, USC
Hydrology, Univ. Texas
Seismology, SIO
Oceanography, SIO
Weather and Climate, ECMWF
Geophysical Turbulence, NCAR
Climate, COLA
Oceanography, MIT
Geophysics, UMN
NCAR committee
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Tim Killeen, Larry Winter, Katy Schmoll, Al Kellie, Lawrence Buja, Peter Fox,
Aaron Anderson, Peter Backlund, Frank Bryan, Krista Laursen, Rich Loft, Jeff
Reaves, Henry Tufo, Olga Wilhelmi, Michael Wiltberger
Concluding remarks …
Contacts at NCAR
• Tim Killeen ([email protected]) - NCAR
Director
• Lawrence Buja ([email protected]) and
Peter Fox ([email protected]) are co-chairs of
the NCAR project team
• Aaron Anderson ([email protected]) is the
computing facilities contact
• Jeff Reaves ([email protected]) is the
financial/ contracts contact