National Computational Science Alliance The Emergence of the NT/Intel Standard Talk Given to Visitors from Compaq and Allstate January 14, 1998

National Computational Science Alliance The Alliance National Technology Grid

National Computational Science Alliance MREN and STAR-TAP MREN - America’s First Operational Gigapop - Midwest Sites OC12 vBNS Indiana Hub Indiana Univ Purdue Wisconsin Minnesota/LCSE NCSA Michigan Hub U Michigan Michigan State

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

National Computational Science Alliance How to Find out More About the Alliance See also

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

National Computational Science Alliance From Hyper-Boutique to Commercially Driven TOP500 Systems by Vendor TOP500 Reports:

National Computational Science Alliance Replacement of Shared Memory Vector Supercomputers by Microprocessor SMPs Jun-93 Nov-93 Jun-94 Nov-94 Jun-95 Nov-95 Jun-96 Nov-96 Jun-97 Nov-97 Top500 Installed SC’s MPP SMP/DSM PVP TOP500 Reports:

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA’s Three Eras of Architecture 1985 Shared Memory Vector Processors Distributed Memory Systems Shared Memory Microprocessors Cray X-MPCray Y-MP Cray 2 Convex C3 TMC CM-2 TMC CM-5 HP Cluster SGI Power Challenge IBM Cluster Alliant FX/ Intel Cluster SGI PC Array SGI SMP SGI Origin HP SPP-2000 Convex SPP-1000 Convex C2 HP SPP-3000 SGI / Cray SN-1 Large Scale NT/Intel Array?

National Computational Science Alliance Future Upgrade Under Negotiation with NSF NCSA Moves to UNIX/RISC Scalable Shared Memory Clusters CM-5 CM-2

National Computational Science Alliance How Did a Supercomputer Center Get Into Enterprise Knowledge Management? Microprocessor Market Convergence –NT/Intel Challenging UNIX/RISC Desktop Software Tool Development –From NCSA Telnet to NCSA Mosaic Large Scientific Databases –From Scientific Visualization to Info Viz Emergence of Distributed Object Architecture –Java, ActiveX, CORBA, and the Web Supercomputer Center to PACI –Need to Create Alliance Intranet and Collaboratory

National Computational Science Alliance The Coming Integration of Technical and Commercial Computing The Emergence of High Performance Commercial Computing –Computational Knowledge Management –Focus on: –Large Data Sets and Information Visualization –AI Techniques for Data Mining –Optimization and Decision Support –Financial “Rocket Science” NT / UNIX Interoperability and Scalability –HP and SGI UNIX DSMs –Scalable Microsoft NT Clusters and NCSA Symbio –Merced Processor in FY99-00

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA NT/Intel Projects NCSA Microsoft Intranet –Internet Explorer 4.0 and Office 97 –Active Desktop (ActiveX & Push Technologies) –NT 5.0 (Active Directory, Kerberos, Dfs) NT/UNIX Interoperability Testbed –HP NT Pentium Pro Classroom & NT/UNIX Servers –UNIX Programming Environment on NT PC Computing on NT Network –NCSA Symbio NT Cluster Scalability –Tightly Coupled SMP Clusters (Chien / Iyer)

National Computational Science Alliance Alliance NT Cluster Approaches Target High Performance Applications –Scientific and Engineering –Business and Information-Intensive 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 “RISC on the Desktop: Game Over” - The Slater Perspective Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, Digital, NEC, Sequent,... –Vendors Committed to Intel Merced SGI and MIPS –SGI will produce NT/Intel Products –Future of MIPS Undecided Sun and SPARC –Committed to Solaris/Merced Merced will overtake –RISC Performance by 2001 –RISC Workstation/Server Market Share by bit NT/Intel Roadmap –Intel Builds DEC Alpha for Interim –Intel Merced by late 1999 Microprocessor Report Nov. 17, 1997

National Computational Science Alliance The Road to Merced

National Computational Science Alliance Public Speculations on the 32-bit Intel Roadmap Pentium II –1st Half 1998 Deschutes –2nd Half 1998 Katmai –1st Half 1999 –MMX Enhancements –Floating Point, UNIX platform –Faster User Interface –3D Graphics (4X AGP), Speech Recognition –Higher Memory Bandwidth Using Rambus Willamette –2nd Half 1999 PC Week 1/14/98

National Computational Science Alliance 1996 Corporate PC Sales: Why NCSA is Partnering with HP & Compaq CompaqDellHPIBMGatewayAcerAppleMicronDigitalAST Units Shipped (millions) Source: Dataquest Inc. (PC Magazine Feb.17, 1997)

National Computational Science Alliance Allstate Pioneering an NT Intranet 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

National Computational Science Alliance The Emergence of Knowledge Management October 20, 1997

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA / Allstate NT Cluster Data Refinery Visualization Stations Compaq NT Server Data Management Engine CORBA/Java Orbs High-Speed Interconnect Distributed File System Query Capability Visualization Tools Parallel Rule Construction External Networks Source: Allstate & Tilt Thompkins, NCSA Compaq NT Server

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Automated Learning Applications - High Performance Commercial Computing Risk Assessment Customer Retention Market Segmentation Fraud Detection Automatic Text Document Classification Effluent Quality Control Plant Optimization Smart Buildings Secondary Protein Structure Prediction Drug Classification Precision Farming

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Moves to Scalable NT/Intel Clusters of SMP Schedule of Goals –1998 Deploy First Production Clusters –Scientific and Engineering Tuned Cluster –Data Intensive Tuned Cluster –1999 Enlarge to 512-Processors in Cluster –2000 Move to Merced – Achieve Teraflop Performance UNIX/RISC & NT/UNIX will Co-exist for 5 Years – Move Applications to NT/Intel – Convergence toward NT/IAP-64