Resources for Application Developers and Users

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Resources for Application Developers and Users

• Jim Ferguson
• Scientific Computing Division
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• University of Illinois
• ltferguson_at_ncsa.edugt
• 217/244-1974
• http//www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

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Jims Projects

• National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
  Distributed Applications Support Team
  (NLANR/DAST)
• http//dast.nlanr.net
• Overall NLANR site is http//www.nlanr.net
• Web100 Project
• http//www.web100.org

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Agenda

• Resources (Things)
• PACI and Teragrid
• Middleware
• Resources (Information)
• General
• Video
• Access Grid
• Advanced Applications Database
• Resources (People)
• NLANR
• UCAID/Internet2

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Resources (Things) PACI and Teragrid

• The PACI Program consists of two partnerships of
  academic, government, and industrial partners to
  develop and deploy advanced infrastructure in
  high-performance computing, networking, and
  information technologies
• Partnerships are centered at the University of
  Illinois and the University of California, San
  Diego
• Funding is from
• National Science Foundation PACI Program
• States of Illinois and California
• Industrial Partners
• Other Government Sources

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National Computational Science Alliance
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Resources (Things) PACI and Teragrid

• Major High-Performance Computing resources at
• NCSA Univ. of Illinois
• SDSC - UCSD
• PSC Carnegie-Mellon Terascale system
• University of Texas
• University of New Mexico
• Boston University
• University of Kentucky
• University of Wisconsin

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Resources (Things) PACI and Teragrid

• Teragrid a separate 53M award from NSF to
  winning team of NCSA, SDSC, CalTech, and Argonne
  National Lab
• Large Linux Clusters
• 40 Gigabit/sec backplane across country
• Read all about these at http//www.paci.org

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13.6 TF Linux TeraGrid
Site Resources
Site Resources
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HPSS
HPSS
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External Networks
External Networks
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Caltech
Argonne
External Networks
External Networks
NCSA/PACI 8 TF 240 TB
SDSC 4.1 TF 225 TB
Site Resources
Site Resources
HPSS
UniTree
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Getting Accounts

• http//www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Allocations/
• Allocations
• Startup
• 0 10,000 hours
• Alliance Allocation Board
• 10,000 - 100,000 hours
• National Resource Allocation Board
• 100,000 - 1,000,000 hours
• Also http//www.npaci.edu ? User Hotpage
• www.psc.edu

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Resources (Things) Middleware

• Alliance middleware effort is called
  Grid-in-a-Box
• http//www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Grid/GiB/
• Consists of Globus Toolkit and Condor-G
• So far, provides middleware to do Resource
  Allocation, Information Services (resource
  status), Security (GSI-enabled SSH), and GridFTP
• Put YOUR Linux cluster on the Grid! Build it
  using Cluster-in-a-Box
• http//www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/TechFocus/Deployment/CiB/
  overview.html

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BIMA Distributed Observatory
http//bima-server.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib/VRMLHigh
lights.html
BIMA, Courtesy Richard Crutcher, UIUC
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Resources (Information) General

• Great Plains Network (http//research.greatplains.
  net/)
• Good general information source on many topics,
  including video and Access Grid issues
• NLANR/DAST (http//dast.nlanr.net)
• User guides for beginner to intermediate users of
  networked resources
• Easy to use tools for users like Iperf, autotuned
  FTP, and the netlog library

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Resources (Information) General

• UCAID/Internet2 (http//www.internet2.edu)
• End-to-End Performance Initiative
• The Internet2 Commons

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Resources (Information) Video

• SURA ViDe Project
• http//www.vide.net/
• Several active Working Groups
• Video conferencing cookbook version 2.0 at
  http//www.vide.gatech.edu/cookbook2.0/
• Other video resources
• http//www.ind.net/consortium/ipse/fdhandbook/uiv.
  html
• http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/intro.html

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Resources (Information) Access Grid

• The Access Grid is a project of Argonne National
  Laboratory.
• http//www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/
• Integrated video, audio, and presentation
  environment.
• Aimed at a room-sized environment.
• Currently 90 institutional/company/other
  installations
• Complete list of suggested hardware and downloads
  of supported software at above web site.

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Resources (Information) Advanced Applications
Database

• The AAD is a project of the NLANR/DAST.
• http//dast.nlanr.net/Clearinghouse/
• Current collections consists of over 4,000
  applications, projects, and resources from more
  than 30 countries with nearly 1,000 contact
  personnel.
• Search the database and/or add your institutions
  applications projects

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Resources (People) NLANR

• The Distributed Applications Support Team of
  NLANR (http//dast.nlanr.net)
• Funded by NSF
• Mission to assist applications support staff and
  end users of high-performance networks
• Applications v. Network performance issues as
  well as middleware implementation
• Do this through training, direct support, tools
  for end users, and information gathering
  dissemination
• Email dast_at_nlanr.net

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Thank You !!

• For More Information
• Jim Ferguson
• ferguson_at_ncsa.edu
• 217/244-1974