1. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1 25-26 January 20071 CCA Common Component Architecture TASCS Project News Update October 2006 – January 2007

2. CCA Forum Winter Meeting225-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture General Items SciDAC Organization Workshop –5-6 February, Atlanta –Attendance limited to a few PIs from each project –Armstrong, Bernholdt, Kumfert to attend Annual SciDAC Conference –24-29 June, Boston –Open attendance, but capped number of participants ~6 months into the project –Labs got money starting ~July –Universities just getting notifications from Chicago Field Office

3. CCA Forum Winter Meeting3 25-26 January 20073 CCA Common Component Architecture Component Technology Initiatives Lois McInnes Focus Lead Jarek Nieplocha HPC Initiative Lead, Presenting

4. CCA Forum Winter Meeting425-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Support for Emerging HPC Hardware and Software Paradigms Overall goal: Assure that the CCA can be used effectively on emerging architectures Primary focus areas (PNNL, ORNL) –Heterogenous platforms that combine specialized h/w accelerators with general purpose processors e.g., IBM Roadrunner, Cray XD1 or Cascade system –Multiple-Component-Multiple-Data CCA model that enables componentization of apps based on multiple levels of parallelism especially on massively parallel systems Mini-Workshop held 24 January, 2007 Secondary focus area is Fault Tolerance, with ORNL connecting us to the Argonne-led Fault Tolerance project –Level of effort reduced due to budget cuts

5. CCA Forum Winter Meeting525-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture CCA on Heterogenous Systems Application accelerator services to accelerate application performance on hybrid or heterogeneous architectures PNNL team working with proteomics application Polygraph that uses FPGA computes a “spectral fingerprints” Want to be able build CCA reusable FPGA-accelerated components using that encapsulate common scientific algorithms Event service is essential for linking components on general purpose CPU and FPGA Prototype HPC implementation (Steve Parker proposal) done for the Cray XD1 HPC Computers with hardware accelerators connected via a high-speed interconnect Initial focus on systems with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators

6. CCA Forum Winter Meeting625-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Software Quality and Verification Overall goal: Extend component interface definitions with semantic annotations that can be verified/enforced at composition or run time (contracts) Current focus: Integrating contract enforcement features. Goals: –Eliminate C binding dependencies –Reduce client-side instrumentation burden Especially for programs using multiple (annotated) classes –Eliminate implementation burden on server-side March 2007 –Integration of new capabilities into main Babel repository –IOR and C bindings TOPS Solver Components and TAO optimization component examples will also be used in enforcement experiments milestone in mid-March.

7. CCA Forum Winter Meeting725-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Computational Quality of Service Overall goal: Develop infrastructure for dynamic component adaptivity, i.e., composing, substituting, and reconfiguring running component applications in response to changing conditions –Performance, accuracy, mathematical consistency, reliability, etc. CQoS s ubgroup meeting on 24 January, 2007 –Year-1 deliverables in progress Identify requirements of motivating applications Define metrics, perform base experiments Implement performance database query and management components –Summary of recent work: Details in cvs repository: cca2-docs/2007/jan07-cqos Initial motivating applications: –Quantum chemistry: Joe and Meng-Shiou –Combustion: Jaideep and Rob –Accelerators: Doug and Lois CQoS Infrastructure: –Analysis (when to change): Sameer and Allen –Semantics: Tammy –Control (what to change): Boyana and Jaideep

8. CCA Forum Winter Meeting825-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture CQoS: Near-Term Activities Build testbed of simplified CQoS example problems –Goal: Enable CQoS infrastructure development and testing without requiring complete combustion/chemistry/accelerator applications –Initial plans for contents: Parallel 2D regular mesh with chemistry/physics varying in 2 subdomains: Rob TOPS linear solver components: Make initial algorithmic choices based on matrix metadata (using Eijkhout’s Anamod); later incorporate adaptivity in nonlinear problems Additional simplifications or subparts of the motivating combustion/chemistry/accelerator simulations Establish a Wiki to facilitate subgroup interactions –Question for everyone: Is there a preferred CCA wiki approach for working groups? Likely wikis would be useful for a variety of TASCS subgroups …

9. CCA Forum Winter Meeting9 25-26 January 20079 CCA Common Component Architecture Key = Done or on Track = Expect more by next meeting = Unknown Key = Done or on Track = Expect more by next meeting = Unknown Environment Year 1 Deliverables Gary Kumfert ?

10. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1025-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Core Tools: Ben Institutions: SNL, LLNL, UU, ORNL, ANL PORTING to NLCF Machines –XT-3 Babel (ORNL-lead) –Wael started this in Indiana Mtg. Ccaffeine (SNL-lead) Tutorial (?) Toolkit (?) –Blue Gene Babel (LLNL-lead) Ccaffeine (SNL-lead) Tutorial (?) Toolkit (?) Set up Helpdesk (LLNL-lead) –https://cca-forum.org/bugs/help –help@cca-forum.org –10 submissions (Oct 5-Jan16) 4 resolved 1 spam 1 deferred 4 open Documentation –CCA Specification (LLNL-lead)

11. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1125-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Enhancements: Tom Institutions: LLNL, BU, UU, SNL, ORNL CCA Services –CommandLineService (???) –MPIService (SNL-lead) –EventService (UU-lead) Steve will speak more on this today –GuiBuilderService (ANL-lead) Waiting on EventService Inter-framework Prototypes –CCA-Kepler (UU-lead) –XCAT-BabelRMI (BU-lead) Some things I said last time were… Services are “MUST-HAVE” for CCA Spec 1.0 Ben was right in Indiana: We should start discussing 1.0 Release Criteria (like LLNL did with Babel). Do we want a more formal specification process? Some things I said last time were… Services are “MUST-HAVE” for CCA Spec 1.0 Ben was right in Indiana: We should start discussing 1.0 Release Criteria (like LLNL did with Babel). Do we want a more formal specification process? ?

12. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1225-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Usability: Craig Institutions: LANL, SNL, ANL, ORNL, Tech-X, PNNL, LLNL Draft CCA-Lite Spec & Fwk (LANL-lead) Component Test Harness (ORNL or Tech-X) Document Multilanguage & Component Debugging Techniques (SNL or ANL) Craig Notes: 1.Contributed BIND(C) implementation to gfortran. 2.Adding reference counting to CCAIN 3.Chasm 1.4 release for AIX issues (w/ input from Tom Epperly.) ?

13. CCA Forum Winter Meeting13CCA Forum Winter Meeting25-26 January 200713 CCA Common Component Architecture CCA Toolkit Rob Armstrong Focus Lead

14. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1425-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Toolkit Component Providers - Now is the time to contribute Components should build against a recent Sumo –Our users will install the Sumo Distribution tarball should install in the canonical places –https://www.cca-forum.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=standards Send a copy of the tarball to rob@sandia.gov –Rob will create a toolkit “Sumo” from selected components (I.e. components that build en masse) Come to the BOF tomorrow

15. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1525-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Introducing Bocca, a Rails-like templating system for CCA Wael, Boyana, Ben and Rob have been working on this. Creates an entire project complete with build tree –Create components that build and load out-of-the-box And incidently do nothing Allows users to start with working components that can be evolved into something useful. –Lowers the barrier to learning using CCA

16. CCA Forum Winter Meeting16CCA Forum Winter Meeting25-26 January 200716 CCA Common Component Architecture User and Applications Outreach and Support David E. Bernholdt Focus Lead

17. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1725-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Application Support/Collaboration ANL, LLNL, Tech-X –FACETS (SciDAC2 Fusion) Babelizing uedge code ANL, SNL –Chemistry SAP (SciDAC2) ANL, Tech-X –Accelerator Physics SBIR Indiana, ORNL –SWIM (SciDAC1 fusion) –CIMA (NSF middleware) ORNL –GNEP integrated reactor simulation prototype (ORNL LDRD) componentization and XT3 port PNNL –Data intensive computing for complex biological systems (ASCR base) scoring cmpts Tech-X –Another SBIR UMD, Utah –CPES (SciDAC1 Fusion) interoperable visualization InterComm data management UMD –CISM (NSF space weather modeling) Utah –SDM (SciDAC2 CET) workflow –Chin/Sun workflow project (?)

18. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1825-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Outreach to (Potential) Applications New NWChem-related project (SciDAC Chem; PNNL) Groundwater project(s) (PNNL) Biology project(s) (PNNL) Spallation Neutron Source (ORNL) Stellar dynamics NASA proposal (UMD) COMPASS Accelerator physics SciDAC2 proposal (ANL, Tech-X) Modeling visual cortex proposal (LANL LDRD) CCA-lite on Cell architecture (LANL) Methane-hydrates, groundwater, Yucca mountain modeling (SNL @ Subsurface 2007 workshop) Jay Larson: "A Data Domain to Model Domain Conversion Package (DMCP) for Sparse Climate Related Measurements," SciDAC Proposal funded by BER, see http://www.atmos.anl.gov/DMCP/ Bernholdt, Elwasif involved in HPCS program language development efforts, representing CCA among other things

19. CCA Forum Winter Meeting1925-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Outreach & Education Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju (in collaboration with FSU), Benchmarking XML Processors for Applications in Grid Web Services, SC2006 E.T. Ong, J. W. Larson, B. Norris, R.L. Jacob, M. Tobis, and M. Steder, Multilingual Interfaces for Coupling in Multiphysics and Multiscale Systems, submitted to ICCS 2007. Kostadin Damevski, Ashwin Deepak Swaminathan and Steven Parker, CCALoop: Scalable Design of a Distributed Component Framework, Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-16), 2007, submitted J. W. Larson and B. Norris, A Component Specification for Parallel Coupling Infrastructure, in preparation. Jay Larson, Wanted: A Theory of Model Coupling, ARC Complex and Open Systems Network Seminar, Department of Theoretical Physics, The Australian National University, 5 Oct 2006. 3 IU courses include CCA (~45 grad students/yr) Yu “Marie” Ma, PhD, IU, Dec 2006

20. CCA Forum Winter Meeting2025-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture User Support Built and installed CCA tools on Oklahoma State Systems in support of Andy Li’s group (SNL) Help Desk (since October CCA Forum): –New submissions: 9 (+ 1 spam) –Resolved: 4 (1 LLNL, 3 SNL) –Deferred: 1 –Open: 4 Collaboration Server Migration 2 servers purchased and installed in ORNL Fundamental Research Enclave Installed with RHEL4 Premature transfer of domain ownership hosed DNS settings for a day Migration of Mailman mailing lists planned for next week Subsequent phases –Web content/services –Login access –Plone CMS

21. CCA Forum Winter Meeting2125-26 January 2007 CCA Common Component Architecture Near-Term Plans Bernholdt (CCA), Bramley (SWIM), Cary (FACETS) to speak at US-Japan Workshop on Integrated Simulation of Fusion Plasma next week at ORNL Armstrong, Bernholdt, Kumfert to attend SciDAC Organization Workshop, 5-6 February, Atlanta Sussman to attend Geoscience Application Requirements for Petascale Architectures (GARPA-2) at the end of February at SDSC Allan, plenary speaker at workshops at Int’l Conf. on Computational Methods, April 2007, Hiroshima IBM Scientific computer users group (ScicomP 2007) will be held at the Max Plank Institute in Garching (near Munich) July 2007 Planning underway for HPC-GECO/CompFrame 2007, probably to be held in conjunction with OOPSLA, October 2007, Montreal. Bernholdt co-chair w/ many TASCSers and CCAers helping