Directors View

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Directors View

• NPACI All-Hands Meeting
• February 26, 2001
• Francine Berman
• Director, NPACI and SDSC
• berman_at_sdsc.edu

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Welcome Everyone
Your Logo Here
USGS
PSC
NCAR
DoD
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Weve Come a Long Way

• Thanks to Sid for 16 years of outstanding
  leadership

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The Cycle for BuildingEffective Infrastructure

• Research

Development
Use
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PACI
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NPACI National and International Partners
Australia Italy Spain Sweden U.S.
48 institutions 20 states 5 countries
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NPACI Is Organized by Thrusts
EOT
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
APPLICATIONS
Molecular Science Neuroscience Earth Systems
Science Engineering
Metasystems Programming Tools
Environments Data-intensive Computing Interaction
Environments
RESOURCES
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NPACI Leadership Team

• Susan Graham, UC Berkeley Chief Computer
  Scientistgraham_at_cs.berkeley.edu
• Peter Taylor, SDSCChief Applications
  Scientisttaylor_at_sdsc.edu
• Wayne Pfeiffer, SDSCDeputy Directorpfeiffer_at_sdsc
  .edu
• Greg Moses, U WisconsinEducation, Outreach, and
  Training co-Leadermoses_at_engr.wisc.edu

Francine Berman, SDSCDirectorberman_at_sdsc.edu Pet
er Arzberger, SDSC Executive Directorparzberg_at_sds
c.edu Paul Messina, CaltechChief
Architectmessina_at_cacr.caltech.edu
Welcome back from DOE
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NPACI Executive Committee

• Leadership Team plus

Andrew Grimshaw, U VirginiaMetasystems Joel
Saltz, U Maryland, J. HopkinsProgramming Tools
and Environments Reagan Moore,
SDSCData-Intensive Computing Arthur Olson,
TSRIInteraction Environments William Martin, U
MichiganResource Representative Ann Redelfs,
SDSCEducation, Outreach, and Training
Russ Altman, Stanford UMolecular Science Mark
Ellisman, UCSDNeuroscience Cherri Pancake,
Oregon State and Jim Beach, U KansasEarth
Systems Science Tinsley Oden, U
TexasEngineering Gwen Jacobs, Montana
StateMember at Large Aron Kuppermann,
Caltech User Representative
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Thanks

• Jim Pool, Caltech, retiring from the Executive
  Committee as of Feb 25, 01
• Bernard Minster, SIO, retired from the Executive
  Committee, serving Spring 98 to Fall 00

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Frontier Computing

• NPACI is expanding the frontiers of
• Computational Science
• Computer Science
• Infrastructure
• Knowledge Management
• Outreach

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Broad-based Impact
Optical (Palomar)
Radio (VLA)
Infrared (2MASS)
Engendering the National Virtual Observatory -
NPACIs Digital Sky will enable a new mode of
research for professional astronomers and will
provide to the public an unparalleled opportunity
for education and discovery (NAS)
Forecasting Network Weather Worldwide
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Broad-based Impact
Distributing Large-scale Calculations of CHARMM
using Legion, reducing one month calculation to
1.5 days
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Broad Based Impact
Developing g Generalizable Scalable Simulation
Infrastructure to enable breakthrough science
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Broad-based Impact
HPC Resources
Web Hits / Month
gt 16,000 users served gt 7,000 publications
theses gt 450 university classes using
center since 1990 gt 400 training days since
1990
HPSS Archive
Worlds Largest 243 Terabytes of Data 15 Million
Files February 2001
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Breakthrough Science
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Cyber Infrastructure
Courtesy of Ruzena Bajcsy, NSF
Computation
Broadband Network Connectivity
Partnership
People Training
Large Databases Digital Libraries
Instrumentation (large and/or many small)
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Building Integrated NationalCyber Infrastructure
Computation
Broadband Network Connectivity
Released Blue Horizon in production and upgraded
to 1.7 Tflops
Increased network connections for most partners
from OC-3 to OC-12
Partnership
People Training
Large Databases Digital Libraries
Institutionalized the Rice U program supporting
girls use of computers and womens participation
in science
Promoted the integration of computational and
data grids with digital libraries through the
Grid Forum and NSF digital library projects
Instrumentation (large and/or many small)
Deployed IPv6 infrastructure for demonstrations
of trans-Pacific telemicroscopy
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An Important Time

• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) starts
  operation
• National Partnership for Advanced Computational
  Infrastructure (NPACI) begins
• NSF issues RFP for Terascale Computing System
• Were at a critical point in the program now
• NSF issues RFP for Distributed Terascale Facility
• NPACI and the Alliance responding as partners
• Second five years of NPACI

• 1986
• 1997
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002

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Moving Forward

• This is a time for us to be proud of our
  contributions and think about the future
• NPACI re-evaluation and re-invention we have
  the benefit of years of experience
• How are things working?
• How do the NPACI activities fit together as a
  whole?
• How do we measure our impact?

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The Evolving Technological Challenge

• Current technological environment affords
• Terascale computing
• Maturing of the Grid
• Multi-terabyte data archives
• Large-scale scientific instruments and sensors
• NPACI has the opportunity to focus on development
  of infrastructure for the frontier
• We can re-invent the partnership to increase
  flexibility, innovation, and impact for the next
  five years

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The Opportunity

• As the technological environment has evolved,
  NPACI has opportunity to focus on development of
  infrastructure for the frontier
• We need your help to do this best
• Over the coming months we will be engaging the
  partnership to
• thoughtfully re-evaluate the program
• evolve our vision and an organizational structure
  that will ensure its success for the next five
  years

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This Is a Very Important Meeting

• Theme
• NPACI's Infrastructure Impact and
  Opportunities
• Goal
• Gather input on NPACI's impact
• Identify exciting areas of opportunity for the
  future
• Help us prepare for NPACI's next five years

Program Committees Charges
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Call for Participation

• A second plenary will focus on the impact of
  NPACI on scientific progress
• Afternoon sessions will focus on NPACI's impact
  on grid computing and clusters, data-related
  issues, visualization, the alpha projects, and
  EOT
• Tuesday will focus on NPACI's opportunities for
  the future
• Wednesday will feature special EOT and digital
  government sessions

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A Working Meeting

• Participate actively
• Enhance your own collaborations
• and help fit your work into the NPACI
  infrastructure
• Seek out EC members
• and help us evaluate what weve accomplished and
  look toward the future
• Provide suggestions
• feedback_at_npaci.edu

E.C. Doe U. Generic