National Computational Science 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 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 The Alliance is Prototyping the National Technology Grid

National Computational Science Alliance The Alliance National Technology Grid - Prototyping the 21st 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) –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

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

National Computational Science Alliance EPSCoR --Increasing the Participation in Supercomputing, vBNS, 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 Mbps. (Internet 2 Type speeds) Higher education institutions would connect at Mbps

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 International Connections Through STAR TAP

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 TOP500 Systems by Vendor TOP500 Reports:

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

National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Quadruples its HP SPP-2000 April 9, Features/feature_hp.html NCSA SPP-2000 Upgrade Plan: FY nodes, 16 GB FY nodes, 32 GB Initial Benchmarks SPP-2000 is 2-8x faster than SPP-1200

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

National Computational Science Alliance Putting a Window in the Supercomputer Oven- Coupling the vBNS to Scalable Computing Porter, Anderson, Habermann, Ruwart, & Woodward, LCSE,Nov Data Moved From NCSA over vBNS to U Minnesota- Visualization at SC97 While Week Long Simulation Runs at NCSA vBNS Gives 100-Fold Thruput Increase Over Commercial Internet! Surface ViewInterior View Evolution of a Red Giant with White Dwarf Core

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

National Computational Science Alliance The PC Revolution and Supercomputing 1988-Andy Grove Prediction 1996-Sandia Intel Teraflop 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 Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, NCSA 512x512x512 Run on 512-node CM-5 Evolution Fly Thru

National Computational Science Alliance Use of Shared Memory Adaptive Grids - Alliance Cosmology Team Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, John Shalf, NCSA 64x64x64 Run with Seven Levels of Adaption on SGI Power Challenge, Locally Equivalent to 8192x8192x8192 Resolution

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 Same CAVE Software Libraries - Different Physical Implementations CAVE Immersadesk Image courtesy: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIUC

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

National Computational Science Alliance Using CAVE5D 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 Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team Fish Larvae at Mouth of the Bay 15 Day Period Salinity (Red-High, Yellow-Low)

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

National Computational Science Alliance ChickScope - Networked Scientific Instruments Enables K-12 NCSA, UIUC Beckman Institute

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. Goal to teach students to cross virtual streets and probe their ability to generalize this learning to actual realities. Collaboration between the UIUC Transition Research Institute & NCSA