Contract Year 1 Review Enabling Technologies

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Contract Year 1 ReviewEnabling Technologies

• Robert J. Moorhead II
• Mississippi State University
• May 15, 2002

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FA Technical Overview

• Overview of FA strategy
• To determine, transition, and advance appropriate
  and applicable codes, tools, and systems to
  enable DoD HPC scientists and engineers to do
  their job faster, easier, and more accurately.
• To train DoD HPC scientists and engineers how to
  use those codes, tools, and systems.

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FA Technical Overview

• Overview of Efforts for Contract Year 1
• Appointed to replace Reagan Moore (SDSC) about
  November 1, 2001.
• Met with many HPCMO and PET people at
  SuperComputing 2001 to try to begin to understand
  my job.
• Scheduled visit to ASC ASAP to talk with the
  Component 2 TA, Jeff Graham, about desired
  directions meeting occurred on Dec 18, 2001.
• During that day 3 focal issues were identified
• ASC/MSRC desire to assist SIMAF
• Ruth Pachter (ASC MSRC Chief Scientist/Government
  CCM Lead) desire to see some bio-informatics work
  initiated
• The fact that only 3 ET projects had been funded

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FA Technical Overview

• Overview of Efforts for Contract Year 1(cont)
• Next day (Dec 19, 2001) visited with group of 4
  OSU scientists/ engineers who had 1 funded ET
  project and 1 pending-final-approval ET project
  (Agrawal, Saltz, Machiraju, and Kurc)
• Convinced them to contact Tim Menke et al to see
  if they couldnt modify their pending project to
  assist the SIMAF.
• The meeting was arranged with the assistance of
  many at ASC and the results seemed to be
  positive. However, ET011/012 was never funded
  and Agrawals white paper for a Yr2 project has
  been rejected.
• Dr. Pachters bioinformatics and toxicology
  interests were communicated to a capable
  scientist, but the scientist never made contact.

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FA Technical Overview

• Overview of Efforts for Contract Year 1(cont)
• On or about Jan 25, 2002, it was discovered that
  approvals for the 4 additional ET projects
  (beyond the first 3) got lost somewhere between
  Jeff Graham and the program office.
• Efforts were made to get all 4 funded, but due to
  the NOW effort and the budget reductions, only 2
  got funding, and 1 of those was subsequently cut
  considerably.
• In consultation with Jeff Graham, created a UAP
  (Jan/Feb 2002)
• Developed a new ET Strategic Plan (Jan/Feb 2002)
• A second (first at ARL) ET-onsite was to be hired
  (at ASC), but weeks after OSC got the position
  approved and advertised, the budget reduction
  froze the position.

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Technical (Metrics)

• User Codes Impacted by PET
• SGI VizServer (via NAVO/MSRC)
• HYCOM visualization

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Technical (Metrics)

• User Contacts and Assistance
• Tim Menke assistance in trying to develop
  common repositories for test data, data mining
  techniques, tools for comparing historical data
  with new simulation and analysis records, and
  intelligent remote access
• Dr. Ruth Pachter tried to assist in finding
  someone interested in bioinformatics and
  toxicology
• Joe Crepeau, DTRA assisted slightly with
  getting some SHAMRC data visualized with Ensight
  by the ERDC on-site staff (Richard Walters)
• NRL/SSC (Wallcraft, Blain, Keen, et al)
  assisted in trying to figure out why their
  ability to utilize the NAVO/MSRC vislab resources
  had been curtailed and what would be
  mutually-beneficial to both groups
• NAVO/MSRC Vislab delivered VizServer software
  optimized for low bandwidth connections

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Technical (Metrics)

• User Contacts and Assistance (cont)
• Janet Lacetera group, ARL-WMRD Weapons Analysis
  Branch delivered Active Protection System (APS)
  visualization system
• SMART conference visualization of the Virtual
  Tanker automated it to run in a PowerPoint
  slide that shows video explain it then starts the
  visualization
• Peter Plostins (ARL-WMRD) and Mark Costello
  (Oregon State University) visualizations of
  Hit to Kill rounds
• Mark Thomas (ARL) helped move DI-SIM software
  over to the Vision Station Dome PC
• Tom Biddlecome, Senior Vis Specialist at
  ERDC/MSRC assisted in determining source for
  some training
• James Rigney, Steve Haeger, Dr. Rob Lorens, and
  Dr. John Blaha (NAVO) discussed how they could
  exploit PET ET for their efforts.

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Technical (Metrics)

• Tools introduced to community
• EnVis software new version and training course
• UTPROJ conservative projection algorithm for
  coupling flow and transport
• Example visual applications that work in the
  Collaboratorium at Adelphi Laboratory Center
  (ALC), including 3D stereo sound
• Open Dynamics Engine to add more realism to
  visualization simulations
• Maya with Shockware to improve conceptual
  animations
• Groove Collaboration Software to improve
  collaboration between distant users

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Technical (Metrics)

• Conference Presentations
• Z. Liu and R. Moorhead, Eurographics IEEE
  Symposium on Visualization, Barcelona, Spain, May
  26-28, 2002 (accepted).
• H. Hagen, Y. Guan, and R. Moorhead, IPT 2002
  Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 2002.
• J. Vickery, T. R. Keene, R. J. Brou, D. W.
  Carruth, R. J. Moorhead, and S. M. Doane,
  IST/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Jose,
  CA, January 20-25, 2002.
• Y. Guan and R.J. Moorhead, IST/SPIE Electronic
  Imaging Symposium, San Jose, CA, January 20-25,
  2002.
• P.J. Fitzpatrick, A. Mehra, J. Corbin, J.
  McCaffrey, T. Haupt, P. Bangalore, G. Henley, R.
  Moorhead, J. van der Zwaag, and M. Bettencourt,
  82nd AMS Annual Meeting, 13-17 January 2002,
  Orlando, FL.
• D. Lu, P. Croft, R.S. Reddy, S. Ziegeler, and R.
  Moorhead, AMS Annual Meeting, January 2002,
  Orlando, FL.
• S. Ziegeler, R. Moorhead, P.J. Croft, and D. Lu,
  DoD HPCMO Users Group Conference, Biloxi, MS,
  June 18-21, 2001.
• M. Chupa and R. Moorhead, DoD HPCMO Users Group
  Conference, Biloxi, MS, June 18-21, 2001.

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Technical (Metrics)

• Technical Reports
• R. Hand and R. Moorhead, Triton Users Manual,
  Dec. 2001.
• R. Hand and R. Moorhead, Triton Technical
  Overview, Nov. 2001.
• S. Ziegeler and R. Moorhead, MetVR Users
  Guide, Oct. 2001.
• P. Neal, G. Morris and R. Moorhead, Naval
  Oceanographic Visualization Application (NOVA)
  Users Manual, Oct. 2001.
• P. Neal, G. Morris and R. Moorhead, Naval
  Oceanographic Visualization Application (NOVA) --
  Technical Overview, Sept. 2001.
• Training
• EnVis shortcourse at ERDC on February 8, 2002 (5
  attendees)
• Technical Reports and Articles
• S. Ziegeler, R. Moorhead, P.J. Croft, and D. Lu,
  MetVR Using Virtual Reality for Meteorological
  Visualization, NAVO MSRC Navigator, Fall 2001,
  pp. 7-9.

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ET005 Scalable Data Intensive Computing
Environment for Composite Modeling

• Funding Status
• 150,000
• 01/25/02 to 09/30/02
• P.I. Gagan Agrawal

• Objective effectively use and further enhance
  existing tools for liquid molding process
  simulations using ADR

• Deliverables
• Runtime system support based on the ADR framework
  (green)
• Demonstration of the runtime system for
  post-analysis of output produced by liquid
  molding simulation codes (green)
• Assistance for the deployment and use of the
  runtime system at DoD labs through technical
  meetings and tutorials (green)
• Initial implementation of methods for imaging
  metrics for gradient analysis. (green)
• Report describing the methods and tools developed
  in the project and their application on
  post-analysis and gradient analysis. (green)

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ET017 EnVis and BMRT -- Distributed High
Performance Batchmode Visualization

• Funding Status
• 124,975
• 11/02/01 to 09/30/02
• P.I. Robert Moorhead

• Objective to create a distributed HPC batchmode
  geospatial visualization system

• Deliverables
• Installation of existing EnVis code
  (Irix/Solaris) in NRL/SSC and NAVO (10/31/01) ?
• Tufts for Vector Vis and Parallel executing
  version (12/31/01) ?
• Technical report on load balancing issues
  (3/31/02) (yellow due to login problems)
• Texture-based vector visualization (3/31/02)
  (yellow due to changed priorities)
• Installation of unstructured grid vis system
  using BMRT/Renderman at NAVO/MSRC (3/31/02) (red
  due to lack of need)
• Linux version (6/31/02) ?
• Stereo pair generation (6/31/02) ?
• HYCOM native visualization (6/31/02) (green)
• Numerous example runs (09/30/02) ? (and green)

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ET022 Development of an Integrated Simulation
Environment

• Funding Status
• 50,000
• 11/02/01 to 09/30/02
• P.I. Ralph Noack

• Objective Development of a GUI environment to
  manage the flow of information between various
  tools utilized for complex simulations

• Deliverables
• Technical reports documenting the user interface
  and programming interfaces (green)
• Code for the ISE infrastructure and initial
  implementation (green)
• Training class (green)

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ET003/004 Mathematical Algorithmic Issues in
Multiphysics Couplings a posteriori Error
Estimators

• Objective Investigation of multiphysics
  couplings based on different physical processes
  occurring within the same physical domain and
  different physical regimes interacting through
  interfaces.

• Funding Status
• 63,336 (reduced)
• 03/01/02 to 09/30/02
• P.I. Mary Wheeler

• Milestones/Due Dates/Status
• UTPROJ conservative projection code delivered
  March 2002 (green)
• UTPROJ speedup April 2002 (green)
• Papers on mortar and mortar methods accepted for
  publication (green)
• Deliverables
• Written progress reports (green)
• Mortar and mortar-free methods investigated
  (green)
• Technical report on projection algorithm (green)

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ET019 GGTK A Geometry-Grid Toolkit

• Funding Status
• 100,000
• 03/01/02 to 09/30/02
• P.I. Bharat Soni

• Objective development of, delivery of, and
  training in a geometry-grid and adaptation toolkit

• Deliverables
• Release of alpha version of GGTK including
  suitable documentation (green)
• Alpha Version of the GGTK Library (green)
• WEB-Base Documentation (green)

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ET Invoice Status
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ET Budget
March - 56 of Plan Forecast 98 of Plan
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ET Budget
March - 58 of Plan Forecast 57 of Plan
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Staffing

• 100 turnover in FAPOC (Nov 2001)
• Reagan Moore -gt Robert Moorhead
• 50 of positions allocated are filled
• Onsite at ARL (Kelly Kirk) was retained
• Onsite at ASC is vacant
• 100 of authorized positions are filled
• Onsite position at ASC was frozen due to budget
  cuts

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Summary

• Much time and effort spent trying to get pending
  projects approved and funded
• Funding issues have made planning difficult
• Projects going well
• ET005 suffered from non-funding of ET011/012
• ET017 and ET022 going very well
• ET003/004 and ET019 approved late, yet have
  produced results already (and ET003/004 has been
  cut)
• Onsite at ARL is working closely with DoD users
  need onsites at all MSRCs
• Diversity of ET blurs focus and splinters
  resources

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Enabling Technologies

• Enabling technologies involves advancing the
  state of the tools, algorithms, and standards for
  generalized run-time and pre- and post-processing
  analysis on enormous datasets. At a minimum,
  this function will entail visualization, data
  mining and knowledge discovery, image analysis,
  grid generation, problem-solving environments,
  and computational techniques and methods for the
  intelligent extraction of useful information from
  data.

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ET User Advisory Panel

• Alan Walcraft (NRL/SSC)
• John E. West (ERDC)
• Jerry Clarke (ARL)
• Frank Witzeman (AFRL)
• Dan Kedziorek (Army TACOM)
• Aram Kevorkian (SSCSD)
• Pete Gruzinskas (NAVO/MSRC)

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Technical (Metrics)

• Conference Presentations
• Z. Liu and R. Moorhead, AUFLIC Accelerated
  Unsteady Flow Line Interval Convolution,
  Eurographics IEEE Symposium on Visualization,
  Barcelona, Spain, May 26-28, 2002 (accepted).
• H. Hagen, Y. Guan, and R. Moorhead, Interactive
  Surface Interrogation Using IPT Technology, IPT
  2002 Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 2002. On CD.
• J. Vickery, T. R. Keene, R. J. Brou, D. W.
  Carruth, R. J. Moorhead, and S. M. Doane, Volume
  Visualization of 5D Sediment Models,
  Visualization and Data Analysis Conference,
  IST/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Jose,
  CA, January 20-25, 2002.
• Y. Guan and R.J. Moorhead, Contour-based
  Progressive Transmission of Cutting Plane Data,
  Visualization and Data Analysis Conference,
  IST/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Jose,
  CA, January 20-25, 2002.
• P.J. Fitzpatrick, A. Mehra, J. Corbin, J.
  McCaffrey, T. Haupt, P. Bangalore, G. Henley, R.
  Moorhead, J. van der Zwaag, and M. Bettencourt,
  The Distributed Marine Environment Forecast
  System (DMEFS), The 18th International
  Conference on Interactive Information Processing
  Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and
  Hydrology, 82nd AMS Annual Meeting, 13-17 January
  2002, Orlando, FL.
• D. Lu, P. Croft, R.S. Reddy, S. Ziegeler, and R.
  Moorhead, Using Immersive Virtual Reality to
  Study Two Hurricane Cases, Paper 25844,
  Eleventh Symposium on Education, AMS Annual
  Meeting, January 2002.

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Technical (Metrics)

• Conference Presentations (cont)
• S. Ziegeler, R. Moorhead, P.J. Croft, and D. Lu,
  Meteorological Visualization in an Immersive
  Virtual Environment, DoD HPCMO Users Group
  Conference, Biloxi, MS, June 18-21, 2001.
• M. Chupa and R. Moorhead, EnVis A METOC
  Visualization Tool for HPC Environments, DoD
  HPCMO Users Group Conference, Biloxi, MS, June
  18-21, 2001.
• Technical Reports
• Randall E. Hand and Robert Moorhead II, Triton
  Users Manual, TR MSSU-COE-ERC-01-15, Dec.
  2001.
• Randall E. Hand and Robert Moorhead II, Triton
  Technical Overview, TR MSSU-COE-ERC-01-14, Nov.
  2001.
• Patrick Neal, Gary Morris and Robert Moorhead II,
  Naval Oceanographic Visualization Application
  (NOVA) Users Manual, TR MSSU-COE-ERC-01-09,
  Oct. 2001.
• Sean Ziegeler and Robert Moorhead II, MetVR
  Users Guide, TR MSSU-COE-ERC-01-08, Oct. 2001.
• Patrick Neal, Gary Morris and Robert Moorhead II,
  Naval Oceanographic Visualization Application
  (NOVA) -- Technical Overview, TR
  MSSU-COE-ERC-01-07, Sept. 2001.
• Training
• EnVis shortcourse at ERDC on February 8 (5
  attendees)

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Technical (Metrics)
Technical Reports and Articles S. Ziegeler, R.
Moorhead, P.J. Croft, and D. Lu, MetVR Using
Virtual Reality for Meteorological
Visualization, NAVO MSRC Navigator, Fall 2001,
pp. 7-9.
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Project ET019 GGTK-Geometry-Grid Tool Kit

• Funding Status
• 100K
• 3/1/02 9/30/02
• P.I. Bharat Soni

• Develop a modular and portable tool kit
  consisting validated functions for generating
  static and dynamic/adaptive parametric geometry
  and structured, unstructured, hybrid grids to
  facilitate automation and timely response needed
  in multidisciplinary simulations and design
  applications.

• Release Alpha Version by September 1, 2002 with
  Documentation
• Deliverables
• Alpha Version of the GGTK Library(Green)
• WEB-Base Documentation (Green)

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ET003/004 Results
For a test of UTPROJ, a mass-correction of a
single TABS-3D velocity for the RIPRAP model,
which has a prism mesh of about 16,0000 cells,
was run. The original code took 140 minutes, and
the current code took 10.4 minutes.The current
code had the following profile on the Cray T3E at
NAVO