S2I2: Enabling grand challenge data intensive problems using future computing platforms

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S2I2 Enabling grand challenge data intensive
problems using future computing platforms
Project Wiki future-compute.usc.edu
David Bader Richard Vuduc Jason Riedy
Viktor Prasanna Yogesh Simmhan
Manish Parashar
Project Manager Shel Swenson (USC GATech)
shel.swenson_at_usc.edu
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Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation
(SI2)

• Transform innovations in research and education
  into sustained software resources that are an
  integral part of the cyberinfrastructure
• Develop and maintain sustainable software
  infrastructure that can enhance productivity and
  accelerate innovation in science and engineering

From Dan Katz, SI2 PI Meeting, Jan 17th 2013
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SI2 Software Infrastructure Projects

• Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2)
• Initial solicitation for conceptualization
  awards,(2012) 13 projects (co-funded with BIO,
  CISE, ENG, MPS)
• Subsequent solicitation for 3-5 more S2I2s closed
  Feb 2013
• Full institute solicitation in late FY14

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FCP Center Vision
data-intensive grand challenge problems
accelerated applications and analyses
Center for Sustainable Software on Future
Computing Platforms
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FPGA
GPGPU
Cloud
Multi-core
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FCP Center Conceptualization Strategy

• Target data-intensive problems that may be
  enabled by graph algorithms
• Organize focused workshops with domain software
  and graph algorithms experts to
• identify core graph problems
• determine critical software infrastructure
• discover software sustainability challenges
• Build off previous PI activities to be the
  intellectual leadership for producing a graph
  algorithm framework for big data problems
• determine necessary graph abstractions
• build API and reference implementations
• demonstrate impact by building FCP
  implementations for target domain areas
• Integrate the products of the workshops into an
  in-depth conceptual design for a software center
  including
• prioritization of RD, documentation and training
  activities
• role of center staff, application domain
  researchers, and industry
• management plan and implementation timeline

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Conceptualization Activities
All-hands meeting Draft Full Proposal (Jan/Feb
2014)
SI2 PI Meeting at NSF (Jan 2013)
NGS-Enabled Applications Workshop (May 19)
Kick-off (Oct 2012)
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Supercomputing 2013 Technology Workshop and BoF
(Nov 2012)
Engaging NSF PMs and domain experts (Dec 2012)
Cyber-security Applications Workshop (July/Aug
2013)
Supercomputing 2012 BoF (Nov 2012)
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FCP Role and Interactions
Domain scientists, tools developers, and
application users
Community

• What are the communities that will benefit?
• What are related projects, tools, vendors, etc.?
• Who should we engage?

Center for Sustainable Software on Future
Computing Platforms