NPACI AllHands Meeting

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NPACI All-Hands Meeting

• January 28, 1999
• Sid Karin, Director
• skarin_at_sdsc.edu

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Were Doing Great!

• Transitioned from centers program
• Enabled new science
• Initiated thrust and project activities
• Initiated joint EOT-PACI
• Plans for first Tflop system in academia
• Leveraging PACI

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NPACI Is Building a Computational Infrastructure
to Benefit the Entire Academic Research Community

• Creating a ubiquitous, continuous, pervasive HPCC
  infrastructure
• Looking ahead to multi-tera-scale compute
  platforms
• Accelerating data-intensive computing
• Broadening impact of computational science and
  engineering
• Leveraging PACI investments

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Partnership Organizing Principle Thrusts
EOT
APPLICATIONS Molecular Science Neuroscience Earth
Systems Science Engineering
TECHNOLOGIES Data-intensive Computing Programming
Tools and Environments Metasystems Interaction
Environments
RESOURCES
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Projects meld applications and technology
Brain databases
Data-IntensiveComputingNeuroscience
MetasystemsEarth SystemsScience

• Global climate modeling

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Selected First Year Accomplishments of Partnership

• Established new collaborations
• Scaling EOT to national level
• Established secure access across partnership
• Load-balanced allocations across NPACI sites
• Unified approach to vendors
• Leveraging of national programs ( PDB, KDI, ASCI,
  NASA IPG)

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Selected First Year Accomplishments (Resources)

• Migrated users from CTC and PSC to NPACI
• Developed production systems across partnership
• Upgraded archival storage and data caches
• Upgraded network connections
• Established common user environment and
  integrated scientific computing services
• Started Strategic Application Collaborations
• Obtained LLNL teraflops access
• Strengthened IBM partnership

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Selected First Year Accomplishments (Enabling
Technologies and Applications)

• Shared in widespread metasystems demos (NWS,
  Globus, and Legion)
• Deployed SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
  across partnership
• Established unified data query for macromolecular
  structure data
• Achieved first results from inter-thrust ET/Apps
  collaborations

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Selected First Year Accomplishments (Education,
Outreach, Training)

• Built joint EOT-PACI program
• Education Center established at SDSU to deploy
  PACI technology to undergraduate education
• Initiated national scaling of exemplary women and
  minority program GirlTECH and Spend a Summer
  with a Scientist at Rice University
• Initiated outreach to social science and
  humanities

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PACI-Wide ActivitiesNPACI and NCSA Working
Together

• EOT-PACI
• NRAC allocations
• Metasystems (Globus)
• Security (elimination of plain-text passwords)
• Networking (NLANR)
• Clusters (NT software)
• Interaction Environments/Data-intensive Computing
  (SDSC SRB, Habanero interface)
• Tech transfer (FedCon, ASCI, NASA IPG)
• Software roadmap

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The Partnership is Evolving

• More partners through
• New activities
• Keeping personnel that moved to new institutions
• New international partners
• Personnel changes
• Greg Moses to Leadership Team
• Russ Altman, Molecular Sciences Thrust Leader
• Bernard Minster, Earth Systems Sciences Thrust
  Leader
• Anke Kamrath, Project Manager
• IOB and EVC established

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Institutional Oversight Board

• First (conference call) meeting held 1/5/99
• Appoints the EVC, oversees the director, receives
  the EVC report, insures institutional commitments
• Committee members
• Robert Dynes (Chancellor, UCSD) - Chair
• Albert Carnesale (Chancellor, UCLA)
• James Duderstadt (President Emeritus, U Michigan)
• Pieter Frick (Dean, College of Engineering, SDSU)
• MRC Greenwood (Chancellor, UCSC)
• C. Judson King (Provost and Senior Vice
  President, UCOP)
• Steven Koonin (Vice President and Provost,
  Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech)
• Mary Ann Rankin (Dean, College of Natural
  Sciences, U Texas)

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External Visiting Committee

• First meeting to be held 1/29/99
• Provides external assessment of partnership
  activities, progress, and plans
• Prepares a written report for the IOB and NSF

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External Visiting Committee Members

• Ann Hayes (LANL) - Chair
• William Carlson (IDA)
• Dona Crawford (Sandia)
• Jill Dahlburg (Navy)
• John Ingram (Schlumberger)
• Mary Jane Irwin (Penn State)
• David Kingsbury (Chiron)
• Michael Klein (U Penn)
• Carl Kukkonen (ViaSpace)
• William Lester (UCB)
• Juan Meza (Sandia)
• Lori Perine (OSTP, pending)
• William Press (LANL)
• Stephen Wolff (Cisco)

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Themes for this Meeting

• Where do we want to be in the year 2002?
  (renewal)
• How do we get there?

Education, Outreach, Training
Technology Thrusts
Applications Thrusts
Integration
Software Systems
Hardware Resources
Oct 97
Jan 99
2002
This is a working meeting
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Addressing the Themes

• The next plenary talks address 2002
• Thrust Area Visions - Ellisman, Sides
• Software Roadmap - Moore, Grimshaw
• This afternoons breakout sessions address
  Integration
• Resources, Software, Education
• Tomorrows breakout sessions address cross-thrust
  issues
• Each day will end with a summary session

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This is Your Meeting

• Opportunity to establish/enhance collaborations
• Key means of achieving our goals -
  multidisciplinary teams
• Last year Bartol/Dongarra new collaboration led
  to Program Plan cover
• I encourage you to
• Meet 10 new people
• Participate actively in meetings
• Please let me know how I can help