Transcript A Vision for a New Era in Computational Science

Computational Science Challenges for
the Beginning of the 21st Century
Infrastructure, Research, Academic Programs
Peter Arzberger
NPACI/SDSC Executive Director
parzberg@npaci.edu
619-534-5079
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This Is a Time of Great Opportunity
Digital information explodes
HPCC Technologies
advance
Bandwidth increases
Collaborative
multidisciplinary activities
increase
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Continuing Evolution: Based on SDSC
NPACI
SDSC
Resources
Resources
Education
Outreach & Training
Enabling technologies
Technology &
applications
thrusts
Applications
Individuals
1985
Partners
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NPACI Is Building a National
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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NPACI Is Highly Leveraged National
“Partnership of Partnerships”
47 institutions, up from 37
20 states, up from 18
4 countries, up from 1
5 national labs
Many projects (new and old)
Vendors and industry
Government agencies
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Partnership Organizing Principle: “Thrusts”
EDUCATION, OUTREACH,
AND TRAINING
4 TECHNOLOGIES
4 APPLICATIONS
Metasystems
Programming Tools and
Environments
Data-intensive Computing
Interaction Environments
Molecular Science
Neuroscience
Earth Systems Science
Engineering
RESOURCES
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Advancing the Computational Infrastructure
• Resources -- Today’s Digital Laboratory
• High-performance computing available today to the
academic community
• Develop and Deploy
• Technology and application collaborations to push the
capabilities of tomorrow’s digital laboratory
• Use and Apply
• Computational scientists applying enhanced
capabilities to achieve new scientific results
• Disseminate and Incorporate
• Incorporating technologies into the digital laboratory
and disseminating them for use in new communities
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Technology Thrusts
Metasystems
Programming
Tools and
Environments
DataIntensive
Computing
Interaction
Environments
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Applications Thrusts
Molecular
Science
Neuroscience
Earth Systems
Science
Engineering
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Projects Meld Applications and Technology
Data-Intensive
Computing
+
Neuroscience
Brain databases
Metasystems
+
Earth Systems
Science
Global climate
modeling
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Education, Outreach, and Training
• Women, minorities, and
new communities
• Curriculum
development
• External evaluation
• Leveraging and linking
current partner activities
• Replicating successful programs across NPACI and
other partnerships
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Leadership Team
Sid Karin, SDSC
Director
skarin@sdsc.edu
Susan Graham, UC Berkeley
Chief Computer Scientist
graham@cs.berkeley.edu
Peter Arzberger, SDSC
Peter Taylor, SDSC
Executive Director Chief Applications Scientist
parzberg@sdsc.edu
Paul Messina, Caltech
Chief Architect
taylor@sdsc.edu
Wayne Pfeiffer, SDSC
Deputy Director
(on leave)
pfeiffer@sdsc.edu
Greg Moses, U Wisconsin
Education, Outreach, and
Training Leader
moses@engr.wisc.edu
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Executive Committee
Leadership Team plus:
Andrew Grimshaw, U Virginia
Metasystems
Russ Altman, Stanford U
Molecular Science
grimshaw@virginia.edu
russ.altman@stanford.edu
Joel Saltz, U Maryland
Mark Ellisman, UCSD
Neuroscience
Programming Tools and Environments
saltz@cs.umd.edu
Reagan Moore, SDSC
Data-Intensive Computing
mark@ncmir.ucsd.edu
Bernard Minster, UCSD (SIO)
Earth Systems Science
jbminster@ucsd.edu
moore@sdsc.edu
Arthur Olson, TSRI
Interaction Environments
olson@scripps.edu
William Martin, U Michigan
Resource Representative
Tinsley Oden, U Texas (TICAM)
Engineering
oden@ticam.utexas.edu
James Pool, Caltech
Resource Representative
(not pictured)
jpool@cacr.caltech.edu
wrm@umich.edu
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NPACI Oversight
Institutional Oversight Board
External Visiting Committee
IOB
EVC
Director’s Advisory Committee
Users’ Advisory Committee
DAC
UAC
Executive Committee
Leadership Team
Technologies
Thrust Leaders
Resource Partner
Representatives
Applications
Thrust Leaders
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Sources of Information
• NPACI Partnership Report
• Touch the Future
• enVision quarterly science
magazine
• “Online” biweekly electronic
publication
• www.npaci.ed
• Stephanie Sides, Partner
Communications
(ssides@npaci.edu)
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