Overview of NPACI

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Overview of NPACI

• NSF visit
• May 23, 2002
• Dr. Richard Moore
• NPACI Executive Director

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NPACI Is Fulfilling Its NSF Mission

• Serve the needs for computational speed, data
  storage, and networking capabilities at the
  highest end for the U.S. academic, scientific,
  and engineering communities
• Promote vigorous early use of experimental and
  emerging high-performance computational and
  communications technologies
• Enable effective use of computational
  infrastructure and technologies through
  education, training, consulting, and related
  support services, including software development
  and experimentation
• Foster interdisciplinary research in science and
  engineering
• Develop intellectual capital to maintain world
  leadership in computational science and
  engineering and
• Broaden the base for the nation's advanced
  computational and communications infrastructure.
• From Original PACI Solicitation

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NPACI is a Broad-Based Partnership

• 48 Partner Institutions
• 21 states CA, TX, MI, MD, KN, NM, MS, MT, NY,
  OH, OR, NJ, TN, VA, MO, WI, CO, AZ, MA, WA, PA
• Foreign affiliates Italy, Australia, Spain,
  Sweden
• Hundreds of participating users, developers,
  scientists, students

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NPACI Is Organized by Key Thrusts Each thrust is
represented on the NPACI EC
EOT
APPLICATIONS
TECHNOLOGIES
Molecular Science Neuroscience Earth Systems
Science Engineering
Grid Computing Programming Tools
Environments Data-Intensive Computing Interaction
Environments
RESOURCES
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NPACI Has Effective Management Processes In Place

• Executive Committee is the governing body for
  NPACI
• Sets strategic directions, defines projects and
  budgets
• Meets quarterly, more often if necessary by VTC
• Leadership Team is a subset of the EC that
  directs partnership activities
• Meets weekly by VTC
• Chair EC committees
• Thrust leaders plan/monitor project activities
  throughout the year
• Major management document is the annual Program
  Plan
• Many effective working relationships between
  NPACI and CISE/ACIR
• Also many connections with Alliance personnel

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2002 NPACI Leadership Team

• Susan Graham, UC Berkeley Chief Computer
  Scientist
• Peter Taylor, SDSCChief Applications Scientist
• Wayne Pfeiffer, SDSCResources Lead
• Greg Moses, U WisconsinEducation, Outreach, and
  Training Thrust Lead

Francine Berman, SDSCPI Director Richard
Moore, SDSC Executive Director Carl Kesselman,
USC/ISI, Chief Software Architect
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2002 NPACI Executive Committee
Rich Wolski, UC Santa Barbara Metasystems/Grid
Computing Joel Saltz, Ohio State Programming
Tools and Environments Reagan Moore,
SDSCData-Intensive Computing Arthur Olson,
TSRIInteraction Environments William Martin, U
MichiganResource Representative Jim Pool,
Caltech Resource Representative
Helen Berman, Rutgers Molecular Science Mark
Ellisman, UCSDNeuroscience Cherri Pancake,
Oregon State Earth Systems Science Tinsley Oden,
U TexasEngineering Gwen Jacobs, Montana
StateMember at Large Aron Kuppermann,
Caltech User Representative
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Budget AllocationsBy Thrust Area

• Five-year summary, not including cost-share

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Budget Allocationsfor Technologies and
Applications

• Technologies 12.3
• Data Intensive Computing Environments 4
• Metasystems 3
• Programming Tools Environments 3
• Interaction Environments 2
• Applications 8.3
• Molecular Science 2
• Neuroscience 2
• Earth Systems Science 2
• Engineering 2
• Five-year summary, not including cost-share

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Budget AllocationsBy Institution

• Other Partners 19
• UC San Diego 2.8
• UC Berkeley 1.9
• U Maryland 1.3
• U Virginia 1.2
• U Wisconsin 1.2
• Scripps Res Inst 0.9
• U Southern Calif 0.9
• UC Los Angeles 0.8
• UC Santa Barbara 0.8
• San Diego State 0.8
• Rice 0.7
• Wash U 0.7
• 20 other funded partners

• Leading-Edge Site 65
• Resource Partners 16
• Caltech 8.0
• U Texas 5.1
• U Michigan 3.0
• Five-year summary, not including cost-share.

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NPACI Has Substantial Cost-Sharing Contributions
(5 year s)

• Budget Cost-Share
• In-Kind Cash
  Cost-Share

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NPACI impacts many people across the partnership

• Total number of people involved in NPACI across
  the partnership 640
• Equivalent Full-Time Staff (approximate)
• NSF-Funded Cost-Share Total
• Making strong efforts in diversity
• 35 senior/professional staff minority female,
  23 women

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Key Annual Milestones for the Partnership

• Program Plan (due end of each FY)
• Review projects
• Strategic planning by thrust leaders
• EC discusses projects/directions, iterations on
  budgets
• Compile program plan
• Program Review Panel
• Supercomputing Conference (November each year)
• NPACI Booth with demonstrations, technical
  talks/tutorials
• All-Hands Meeting (March each year)
• Workshops, tutorials, presentations, interactive
  sessions
• Technical results and project milestones
  throughout year

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Summary

• The partnership is fulfilling NSFs PACI mission
• Providing high-end resources
• Developing the infrastructure
• Fostering and creating the human capital
• Our management processes work
• Structure largely as proposed and approved
• Effective decision making and oversight
• Evolve structure as appropriate (e.g. alpha
  projects)
• NPACI is producing