CISL Technology Development Division Advisory Panel Update Rich

CISL Technology Development Division Advisory Panel Update Rich Loft TDD Director 4 October 2007

Technology Development Division Organizational Chart Rich Loft Director Renee Ray TDD Administrator Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Jennifer Tobyne Administrative Assistant Computer Science Henry Tufo (SH) Cecelia De. Luca (SH) Visualization & Enabling Technologies Don Middleton (SH) Tim Scheitlin (ASH) 4 October 2007

Outside Grant Funding 4 October 2007

FY 04 -FY 07 CISL Funded Proposals by Fund Source OTHER = NRL, Do. D, Commercial, etc. 4 October 2007

NCAR Tera. Grid Resource Update 4 October 2007

NCAR Tera. Grid Resource Update l NCAR in production: As of 0000 MTN, August 1, 2007 – Accounting System Integration Complete and functioning – CTSS Installed and functioning properly l TG Allocations: We’ve had our – first TG roaming account request! – first MRAC allocation! l l Frost utilization (ytd) surpassed lightning (e 1350) at 53. 6%. Recent Developments and Plans– – IBM BG/L maintenance contract extended 12 months. Made $13 K of infrastructure improvements to improve fault tolerance, robustness and security of NCAR TG node. – Beginning to migrate local frost users to Tera. Grid accounts. – RFI/RFP process for replacing resource 1 year from now. 4 October 2007

VAPOR-Tera. Grid Application: Modeling Solar Interior with ASH O(100 s) GB datasets computed and stored at SDSC n. GPFS-WAN mounted at NCAR and prepared using VAPo. R SW. n. Researchers at CU interactively visualize data using laptop. n 4 October 2007

VAPOR Compression: POP 1/10 degree ocean model No compression Hierarchical Coefficient prioritization (Progressive refinement) 512: 1 4 October 2007

Computer Science: Accomplishments l l Administration of frost Tera. Grid resource. Completion of Sci. DAC-1 project, and awarding of Sci. DAC-2 project (in collaboration with IMAGe) entitled Petascale General Circulation Model for CCSM. Initial demonstration of CCSM sequential coupler execution. Hiring of (Computer) Scientist-1 Matthew Woitaszek. 4 October 2007

Application: Tracers in the 0. 1˚POP Ocean Climate Model • Use tracers dyes to compute eddy diffusivity tensor, a major source of uncertainty in climate models. • Project will bring 10 TB dataset back to NCAR Tera. Grid node for analysis and visualization. 4 October 2007

Earth System Modeling Infrastructure: Accomplishments l l $600 K NOAA ESMF-based Modeling Architecture (NEMA) grant was awarded in June, 2007. DOD providing $1. 5 M additional funding FY 2008 -FY 2010. ESMF successfully passed Stage 1 of its Community Climate System Model (CCSM) evaluation, demonstrating, relative to the base code, minimal component changes, less than 5% overhead in time to solution, and comparable memory usage for standard configurations. Plans for Stage 2 are underway. A group at Delft Hydraulics contributed an ESMF port to Cyg. Win, a Linux-like environment for Windows. 4 October 2007

Visualization and Enabling Technology: Accomplishments l l Earth System Grid-2 awarded - Petascale Global Climate Grid - two new FTE’s on board and a third hire is likely. Renewed NCAR CDP Strategic Initiative - $309 K. Progress on Digital Preservation proposal to the Library of Congress and National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Successful completion of Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO) project in collaboration with HAO. Coupling Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) 4 October 2007

The Community Data Portal A solid basis for a Knowledge Environment … that integrates models, data, and tools to allow users to search, browse and discover. 4 October 2007

Summer Intership in Parallel Computational Science (SIPar. CS) l l l l Ryan O’Kuinghttons (CSM) Victor Snyder (CSM) Kenny Gruchalla (CU) Michael Levy (CU) Arunasalam Rahunanthan (UW) Matthew Norman (NCSU) Bobby House (CU) 4 October 2007

SIPar. CS Objectives l l l Train a cadre of HPC savvy scientists and engineers. Enhance our collaborative relationships with U. S. Universities. Develop a pool of prospective new employees for NCAR. Stimulate ideas for projects throughout CISL. Engage CISL staff as mentors and teachers. 4 October 2007

SIPar. CS Outcomes 4 October 2007

More importantly… “Thank you all for having me! This has been the most valuable and enjoyable work experience I've ever had. ” SIPar. CS student “I know that my student … was very happy with the program. Moreover, his research is going more quickly now, so it was good for my group as well. ” SIPar. CS student advisor 4 October 2007

Questions? 4 October 2007