Transcript Overview of MSI Outreach in the PET Program Susan T. Brown, Ph.D. PET EOTC FAPOC University of Hawaii Ph: 808-956-2808 Email: [email protected] HPC in Action! PET Summer Institute University.

Overview of MSI Outreach in the
PET Program
Susan T. Brown, Ph.D.
PET EOTC FAPOC
University of Hawaii
Ph: 808-956-2808
Email: [email protected]
HPC in Action!
PET Summer Institute
University of Hawaii 2006
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Overview
• Summary and Purpose of the PET Program
– PET goals
– PET Functional Areas
• Programs available for Students
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Summer Internships
Summer Institutes
Workshops
Faculty Visits
• Contact information
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The PET Program
• The User Productivity Enhancement and Technology
Transfer (PET) Program is part of the Department of
Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP).
• The PET activity is responsible for gathering and
deploying the best ideas, algorithms, and software tools
emerging from the national high performance computing
infrastructure into the DoD user community.
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Technical Support
Productivity Enhancements
Technology Transfer and Transition Support
Training Content
Community Development
On-Site Support
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PET Organization
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4 Components, 2 Prime
contractors
Components located at Major
Shared Resource Centers
(MSRCs) in
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Dayton, OH
Aberdeen, MD
Vicksburg, MS
Stennis Space Center, MS
Users interface via Functional
Area (FA)
– 10 Computational Technical
Areas (CTAs)
– 4 Cross-Cutting Areas
• Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) work with FAs
through EOTC
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Climate/Weather/Ocean Modeling (CWO)
•Numerical simulation of the earth's climate
•Varying space and time scales
•Contact: Dr. Jay Boisseau, [email protected]
• Application of Advanced Microwave Sounding
Unit (AMSU) Products to NOGAPS Tropical
Cyclone Initialization
PI: Dr. Tim Li, University of Hawaii
Objective: to test and transfer an AMSU-based new
initialization scheme in the Naval Operational Global
Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS)
• Technical effort focused on the following:
– Decode raw AMSU data directly from the NRL-Monterey site
– Code development for 3D temperature from the raw AMSU data
Hurricane Isabel
(20030916) warm core
structure retrieved
from AMSU data.
– Validation against aircraft dropsonde data
– Calculation of rotational wind component with nonlinear balance equation
– Participants: T. Li, B. Fu, X. Zhang (UHawaii), M. Peng (NRLMRY), T. Zhu, F. Weng (NOAA/NESDIS).
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Computational Chemistry and Materials Science (CCM)
Contact:
Dr. Tony Rollett, [email protected] or
Dr. Nick Nystrom [email protected]
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Predict basic properties of new
chemical species and materials
– molecular geometries and
energies
– spectroscopic constants
– intermolecular forces
– reaction potential energy surfaces
– mechanical properties.
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Computational Electromagnetics and Acoustics (CEA)
Contact: Prof. Jian-Ming Jin,
[email protected]
or Prof. Charbel Farhat,
[email protected]
• Computational Electromagnetics area covers the high-resolution,
multi-dimensional solutions of Maxwell's equations.
• Computational Acoustics area covers the high-resolution, multidimensional solutions of the acoustic wave equations in solids,
fluids, and gases.
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Computational Electronics and Nanoelectronics (CEN)
Design, modeling, and simulation for:
•Electronics
•Nanoelectronics
•Optoelectronics
•Photonics
•Computing components and systems
Contact:
Prof. Stephen Goodnick,
[email protected]
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Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM)
Modeling of materials and structures
subjected to state, dynamic, and impulsive
loads.
Contact: Dr. David Littlefield
Voice: 205-975-5882
Fax: 205-975-7217
[email protected]
Cleared hole dia. ~ 30 in
1.62M elements
Concrete
Reinforcing
Steel
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Contact: Dr. Bharat Soni, [email protected]
Voice: 205-934-8460, Fax: 205-975-7217
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Validation, Verification, and Certification by Analysis / Hugh Thornburg / (MSU)
Major Objectives :
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Build confidence level for CFD applications of interest to DoD
Important factors: Discretization error, grid resolution, convergence
Develop quantitative measure of accuracy of unsteady simulations
Estimate time convergence metrics
Participants: Roy Koomullil, Bharat Soni, and Robert Nichols (UAB), ChengXian Lin and P.V. Skudarnov (FIU)
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CFD Project Overview (con’t)
• Comparison of CFD tools in terms of accuracy and range
of application to quantify uncertainty
• Approach
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Select a few unsteady data sets
Run different flow solvers with different time-steps
Estimate time convergence index
Analyze time history using FFT to measure the unsteadiness
Apply method of manufactured solutions (MMS) for code
verification
• Selected data sets
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Pitching airfoil
Trapped vortex combustor
Mechanical model of Hawkmoth wing
Vortex shedding from bluff bodies
Shock wedge interactions
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Environmental Quality Modeling and
Simulation (EQM)
High-resolution, three-dimensional Navier-Stokes modeling of
hydrodynamics and contaminant transport through air,
ground, and aquatic ecosystems
Contact: Dr. Mary Wheeler
[email protected]
Voice: 512-475-8625
Fax: 512-471-8694
QUICKEST temperature error distribution for
the Chesapeake Bay model. top layer. Red
indicates error above mean value.
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Forces Modeling and Simulation (FMS)
Contact: Dr. David R. Pratt,
[email protected]
Voice: 407-243-3308
Fax: 407-243-3311
Provides large-scale
simulations of
complex military
engagements to
facilitate mission
rehearsal/training,
mission planning, and
post-mission analysis.
targets
bombers
SAM battery
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Integrated Modeling and Testing (IMT)
Applies high performance
computing software tools
and techniques with live
tests and hardware-in-theloop simulations for the
testing and evaluation of
DoD weapon components,
subsystems, and systems in
virtual and composite
virtual-real environments.
Contact: Ashok Krishnamurthy
[email protected]
Voice: 614-688-4803
Fax: 614-688-3184
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Signal and Image Processing (SIP)
Contact: Dr. Stan Ahalt, [email protected]
Voice: 614-292-9524, Fax: 614-688-3184
Provides for extraction and analysis of key information from
various sensor outputs in real time.
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Enabling Technologies (ET)
Enabling technologies involve advancing the state of tools,
algorithms, and standards for pre- and post-processing
analysis on enormous datasets.
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Data visualization
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Image analysis
Grid generation
Problem solving environments
Computational techniques
Methods for intelligent extraction of useful information from data.
Contact: Dr. Robert Moorhead, [email protected]
Voice: 662-325-2850, Fax: 662-325-7692
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ET Project with MSI Participation
• Distributed Design Environment (DDE)
for Solution of Large Scale Finite Element Models
– PI: Andrew Scott, Alabama A&M University
Electrostatic field
generated with Finite
Elements. DDE coupled
with ARL highly parallel
molecular dynamics code,
VXMD
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Project Goals
• Enable effective generalized finite element (FE) techniques in a
distributed multi-disciplinary modeling environment
• Increase modeling flexibility and capabilities in a number of
simulation areas
– promote efficient management and coherent maintenance of data
– make efficient use of the distributed resources
– reduce the architectural impact on configuration of the target software
Data mapping of a large
scale finite element model
for distributed solution using
the DDE
~1,000,000 DOF
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Demonstrate capability on a highly parallel code
– Visual eXtensible Molecular Dynamics (VXMD)
– coupled with a FE electrostatics methodology
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Computational Environments (CE)
Improve user productivity and application performance through effective
programming tools in the following focus areas
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Programming environments
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Debuggers
Libraries
Solvers
Higher order languages
Performance analysis
Prediction and optimization tools
Computing platforms
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Common queuing
Clusters
Distributed data
Metacomputing
Reusable parallel algorithms
User access tools
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Portals
Web-based access to HPC resources
Contact: Dr. David Cronk,
[email protected]
Voice: 865-974-3735
Fax: 865-974-8296
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Project Overview
• Collection and Validation of Application Benchmarking and
Performance Data
• PI: Shirley Moore, UTK
• Co-PI: Patricia Teller, UTEP
• Technical work:
– Automation of performance data collection using automated
source code instrumentation, compiler scripts, and default
hardware counter selection
– Provision of performance database technology using
MySQL, TAU PerfDMF, and DoD HPCMP performance data
schema
– Verification and interpretation of hardware counter data in
context of applications; definition of derived metrics
• Users: Benchmarkers, application developers and users
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Collaborative and Distance Learning
Technologies (CDLT)
Collaborative and distance learning technologies encompass not only
the ability to conduct meetings without involving travel (virtual
meetings) but also technology for on-line training, on-line consultation,
information, and tutorials.
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Education, Outreach, and Training Coordination (EOTC)
Furnish efficient and productive instructional
content to the user community.
Provide opportunities for Minority Serving
Institutions' staff, faculty, and students;
undergraduate and graduate students;
postdoctoral and visiting scientist/engineer
appointments; and the training of future
DoD High Performance Computing
Modernization Program users.
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PET Summer Programs
• Summer Intern Program
– 10-week program for graduate and undergraduate
students
• Summer Institutes
– 2-week program at a Minority Serving Institution
(MSI), primarily for undergraduates
• Faculty Visits
– 8- to 10-week program for MSI faculty to work at DoD
facilities, collaborating with users
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Summer Intern Program
• Students apply for competitive program
• Students work with mentors (DoD contractors, PET staff,
or DoD employees)
• Located at one of the four Major Shared Resource
Centers (MSRCs) - ARL, ASC, ERDC, NAVO, or one of
the DCs
• Students work on one or more specific problems
important to users
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NAVO Summer Interns 2005
Mentor
Intern(s)
School Project
James Dykes
Allison Scogin
MSU
Cheryl Blain
Gerald Franklin JSU
COAMPS & WaveWatch III
An ADCIRC Model Application to the MS
River at Audubon Park, New Orleans
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ASC Summer Interns 2005
Mentor
Intern(s)
School
Project
Phil Amburn
James Walker
Andrew Wailes
North Carolina
State/Cedarville
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BattleCam 3D: Stealth Viewer for After Action Review
Rhonda Vickery
Ryan Osterday
Steven Pinsky
Univ. of Dayton/
Bowling Green
SciVis Coding and Analysis
Hugh Thornburg
Ben Johnson
Mercer
High Performance Gas Turbine Combustors Design and Development
through Modeling and Simulation
Steven Wong
Phil Wheat
Arizona State
Cobra Code Grid Resolution Analysis for User's Guide Development and
Multidisciplinary Grid Generation
Steven Wong
Clinton Smith
Arizona State
ACAD Quick Start Guide and Meshing Studies
Scott Kajihara
Marcus Gualtieri
FIU
Automating Redundant Tasks for the HPC User
Hugh Thornburg
Danny Brenner
FIU
Sonic Flow Over a Spherical Blunt Body
John Nehrbass
Tanner Suttles
Purdue
Automation of Batch Job Submission Using a Graphical User Interface
Robert Nichols –
AEDC
Ryan Glasby
OSU
Numerical Investigation of Ramjet Isolators
Hugh Thornburg
Jeff Litzler
Univ. of
Cincinnati
A Study of Leading-Edge Cooling Hole Physics for Turbine Blade Application
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ERDC Summer Interns 2005
Mentor(s)
Intern(s)
School
Project
Paul Adams
Randall Hand
Veronica A.
Cornner
UAB
Visualization of Wind Field Through
New Orleans using OpenGL
Alvaro Fernandez
Matthew Bennett
MSU
Automation of Benchmark Data
Acquisition and Processing
Nathan Prewitt
Si Loi Leung
UH
Toward Automatic Grid Generation 2
Reginald Liddell
Tanjala Purnell
Tougaloo
Analysis of Oracle-Based PET Training
Evaluation Data and Creation of MSI
Data Access Form
Jeff Hensley
Corey Bordelon
Univ. of
Louisiana
Monroe
Automating Sensitivity Analysis and
Execution of Datasets
James Cliburn
Jian-Zhong Li
Bucknell
DSR 2: Automated Graphical Report
John Mason
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ARL Summer Interns 2005
Mentor(s)
Intern(s)
School
Project
Matt Grupen
Tony Lee
Alabama A&M
Numerical Approximation of Fermi-Dirac
Statistics
James Fischer
Eric Mack
Virginia
PolyTechnic
Performance Analysis Using Intel Trace
Collector/Analyzer and TAU
John Vines
Brandy Langston
Norfolk
Organic Solar Cell Structure as Pertained to
DoD Applications
Charles Cornwell
Eduardo Abed
FIU
Cohesive Zones in Microstructures
Dave Grove
Rama Valisetty
Andrew Hody
Luke Seever
Virginia
PolyTechnic/FIU
Analysis of Stresses and Failures in
Representative Volume Element (RVE) from
a 3D Woven Composite
Daniel Pressel
Earlene Thompson
JSU
Performance Analysis on CrayX1 using NAS
Benchmarks
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Summer Institutes
• Two-week program
• Primarily for undergraduate students with an
interest in HPC at MSIs where there is less
opportunity for exposure otherwise
• Introduces the students to the basics of HPC
and scientific applications
• Some of the students will go on to the Summer
Intern Program
• Long-term goal is enhancement of the DoD
workforce pipeline
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Summer Institutes
• Jackson State University
– Each year in current PET contract….and even before!
Topics:
•UNIX
•Scientific Visualization
•Graphical Information Systems
•OpenGL
•Distributed Network Storage Management
•Web Portals
Included:
•Visit to MSU ERC
•Student Projects
•Access Grid Presentations
Contact: Dr. Shahrouz Aliabadi
Email: [email protected]
Voice: 601-979-1821
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Summer Institutes
• Central State University
– First one in 2003
Topics:
•MPI Programming Fundamentals
•Animated Parallel Algorithms
•Linear Systems
•Parallel MATLAB
•Image Processing
•Wave Motion Calculations
•Data Visualization
Included:
•Visit to OSC
Contact: Dr. Gerald Noel
Email: [email protected]
Voice: 937-376-6598
•Student projects
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Summer Institutes
• University of Hawaii
HPC in Action!
Topics:
– How parallel machines work
– Basic Parallel Programming
– Submitting jobs to remote
facilities
– Visualizing your results
Includes:
– Visit to MHPCC
– Hands-on building of Cluster
Computer
Contact: Susan T. Brown
Email: [email protected]
Voice: 808-956-2808
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Summer Institutes
• Florida International
University
Topics:
•Programming Environments and
Languages
•Development Tools
•Computer Architectures
•Modern Computers
•Image Processing
•Clusters
•Data Visualization
•MPI, OpenMP
Contact: Adrienne Denaro
Email: [email protected]
Voice: 305-348-1698
•Applications
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Faculty Visits
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Open to any faculty from a Minority Serving Institution
Posted at a DoD Facility (usually an MSRC)
Term from 8 to 10 weeks (negotiable)
Works with a DoD Mentor
Works on problems of interest to the DoD and that fits
into the Faculty member’s research
• Find and develop working relationships with DoD
research staff – for more information, or an application,
contact:
Susan T. Brown
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 808-956-2808
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More than just Summer Programs
• Computational Science
Workshop for
Underrepresented Groups
• Held annually in January
• University of Southern
California
Topics:
•Hands-on experience in parallel
computing
•Construction of a parallel machine
•Immersive and interactive
visualization
Contact:
Richard Clark
Voice: 213-821-2662
Email: [email protected]
http://cacs.usc.edu/
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Where to find more information
• Contact me if you have any questions
about the PET program or if you have
ideas on how to participate:
[email protected]
808-956-2808
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