Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program

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Department of DefenseHigh Performance Computing
Modernization Program
HPCMP Objectives
Andrew Mark Program Manager, Applications
Software

• http//www.hpcmo.hpc.mil

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Program Objectives

• Establish a world class capability, within the
  DoD, to apply high performance computation to
  solve DoD problems
• Ensure military advantage and warfighting
  superiority on the 21st century battlefield
  through the use of high performance information
  technologies
• Strengthen national prominence and preeminence by
  advancing critical technologies and expertise in
  high performance computing
• Support the HPC needs of the defense science
  technology (ST) and test and evaluation (TE)
  communities

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HPCMP Goals

• Provide the best commercially available high-end
  HPC capability
• Provide high performance computing environments
  and software applications that enables critical
  DoD research, development and test problems to be
  solved.
• Educate and train DoDs scientists and engineers
  to effectively use advanced computational
  environments
• Link users and computers sites via high-capacity
  networks, facilitating user access and
  distributed computing environments
• Promote collaborative relationships among the DoD
  HPC community, the National HPC community and
  Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in network,
  computer, and computational science

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A Quick History

• Program upgrades and operations 19972000
• Continuous upgrades at MSRCs
• Selection of new distributed centers (DCs)
• DoD Challenge Projects established
• A new round of acquisitions 200103
• New DREN contract let with WorldCom
• New support contracts at MSRCs
• Annual technology insertion process at MSRCs
• Program upgrades and operations 200409

• Program initiation 199293
• HPC Modernization Plan
• Initial program structure established
• Initial HPC capabilities provided
• Program formalization 199495
• Program office established
• DoD oversight process implemented
• Program structure and customer base expanded
• Major acquisitions 199596
• Four major shared resource centers (MSRCs)
• Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)

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Current User Base and Requirements

• 561 projects and 4,572 users at approximately 179
  sites
• Requirements categorized in 10 Computational
  Technology Areas (CTA)
• FY 2005 non-real-time requirements of 260
  teraFLOPS-years

CSM 507 Users
CWO 231 Users
FMS 889 Users
CFD 1,135 Users
CEN 38 Users
CCM 235 Users
EQM 170 Users
IMT 568 Users
CEA 304 Users
SIP 435 Users
60 users are self characterized as other
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Computational Technology Areas (CTAs)
435

824

Forces Modeling and Simulation (FMS)/C4I

Michael Macedonia, PEO STRI

889

1,412

Environmental Quality Modeling and Simulation
(EQM)

Jeff Holland, ERDC

170

336

Computational Electronics and Nanoelectronics
(CEN)

Barry Perlman, CERDEC

38

221

Integrated Modeling and Test Environments

Jere Matty, AEDC

568

1,275

Other


60

170


Data Source HPCMP Requirements Analysis, 2005
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HPC Modernization ProgramUser Base
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HPCMP Software Test Process

• Independent Evaluation Reports
• Conducts Test Plan Workshops
• Reviews Test Plans
• Witnesses Tests, Reviews Test Results Reports,
  Provides Feedback to HPCMPO DOTE

• Monitor Implementation
• Provide Workshops/ Training/Templates/Examples
  
• Review/Approve Test Plans
• Implementation/Execution
• Feedback to Site

JITC
HPCMPO
SITE

• Develops Executes
• System Acceptance Test Plans
• Full Operational Capability Test Plans
• System FOC Assessment Tests
• Provides Test Reports

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HPC Software Applications Institutes and Focused
Portfolios
HPC-SA MGR

• 5 HPC Software (Applications) Institutes
• HPCMP chartered
• Service managed
• 6 year duration
• Ends with Transition to Local Support
• 2M annual funding for
• 3-12 computational and computer scientists
• Support development of new and existing codes
• Adjust local business practice to use
  science-based models simulation
• Integrated with PET

Service Management
Service Management
Service Management
Portfolio MGR
Service Management
Service Management
Project Team
HPC Software Applications Institutes
PET ON-SITES
8-12M
Computational Projects
8-12M
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HPC Software Portfolios

• Provides core software applications, models, and
  simulations which exploit HPC capabilities in
  areas of most concern to DoD
• Multi-purpose codes perform on a range of HPC
  platforms, with focus on accuracy, efficiency,
  reusability, and scalability
• Inter-Service, multi-disciplinary teams include
  algorithm and code developers, applications
  specialists, computer scientists and end users
  who are responsible for development,
  dissemination, technology transfer and follow-on
  support
• Collaboration with PET academics and major shared
  resource centers on innovative software tools,
  training, and other elements common to HPC
  programming environments

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Institute/Portfolios/CTA Software Goals

• Enhance existing service/agency high priority
  projects with software development support by
  institutionalizing a computational culture to
  ensure that the resulting software applications
  effectively and efficiently utilize the most
  current HPC technology
• Utilize science and technology resources to
  develop, apply and transition DoD HPC software
  applications in order to
• Lower cost and accelerate weapons systems design,
  development, testing, and acquisition
• Improve readiness and deployment through the use
  of simulation-based mission rehearsal, training,
  situational awareness and environmental analysis
• Lower the cost of software maintenance
• Provide for a greater usability and robustness of
  software across a wide user base
• Build HPC experience in defense laboratories and
  test centers for defense applications among DoD,
  industrial, and academic scientists and engineers
• Leverage other HPC efforts across DoD,
  government, industry, and academia

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High Performance Computing Software Applications
Institute for Space Situation Awareness (Air
Force Research Laboratory)
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Institute for Maneuverability and Terrain Physics
Simulation (Engineer Research and Development
Center)

• Why this institute? This institute will
• Foster a culture in which high-fidelity
  simulation is used to support DoD maneuver
  dominance by
• Detecting landmines, improvised explosive devices
  (IED), and unexploded ordnance (UXO),
• Analyzing maneuver and trafficability, and
• Remotely sensing denied areas and using
  unattended ground sensor networks.

• Develop a virtual testing facility based on
  state-of-the-ground analyses
• Develop inverse models to predict ground state of
  denied areas through remote sensing
• What are the biggest challenges?
• Integration of ground physics, sensor physics,
  and sensor response models to facilitate virtual
  testing of sensor performance
• Inverse modeling to estimate the ground state of
  denied areas using remote sensing and coupled,
  multi-physics models

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Biotechnology HSAI for Force Health Protection
(U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
(MRMC))
The goal is to serve as a tri-Service,
inter-disciplinary resource to accelerate RD of
countermeasures for Force Health Protection

• Institute Objectives
• Specific objectives include
• Development and application of HPC software (of
  military relevance) for the analysis of genomic
  and proteomic data
• Expansion of a cross-trained workforce with
  modern computational skills and improved
  biomedical knowledge
• Leveraging the powerful synergistic relationship
  between laboratory experimentation and HPC
  simulation
• The Institute will have a unique mission within
  the DoD

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Battlespace Environments Institute (Naval
Research Laboratory)

• Institute Objectives
• To develop a DoD-wide whole-earth environment
  which interoperates with that from other
  agencies
• Migrate core models to ESMF
• Navy (e.g., NCOM, HYCOM, SWAN, COAMPS)
• Air Force (Kinematic Solar Wind and GAIM )
• Army (e.g., ADCIRC, WASH123, multi-utility ADH)
• WRF and CICE are founding ESMF components
• Integrate technology (e.g., movable nests,
  aerosol analysis, tropical cyclone initialization
  etc.) from COAMPS into WRF.
• Development of tools and applications (e.g.,
  extend ESMF to support unstructured grids and
  nesting)
• Coupled applications Air/ocean, air/ocean/ice,
  air/ocean/groundwater, air/space-weather
• Thorough testing, prototyping, documentation of
  all components

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Institute for HPC Applications to Air Armament
(IHAAA) (Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office)

• Why IHAAA? Revolutionize Arming the Warfighter
• Optimize/expand HPC use in Air Armament
• Quick turn user operational requests
• Reduce lifecycle risks, costs, schedules
• TE Centric Proposal
• Customer focus ? Warfighter, Acquisition
• Capability not just code we are end users
• This is about process not just technology
• Build the research warfighter
  bridge
• Joint processes Shared people, tools,
  knowledge, and usable models
• Seamless HPC model transition between acquisition
  phases
• Proven capability high probability of success
  and sustainment
• Army, Navy, Air Force, and Joint Strike Fighter
  PO Endorsed

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Integrated Program Strategy
Program Components
DoD RD Laboratories and TE Centers
ST TE Applications
Software Applications Support
Development Support
DoD HPC Modernization Program
Computer Science Services
Programming Environment and Training
Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software
High Performance Computing Centers

• Storage
• Distributed File
• Systems
• Robotics Archival
• Systems

• Computer
• Systems
• Vector
• Scalable
• Clustered

Scientific Visualization
Internal Networking
Defense Research Engineering Network
Networking