SCI: Teragrid Resource Partners

SCI：Teragrid 资源合作伙伴

• 批准号: 0504078
• 负责人: Michael Levine
• 金额: $ 5200.13万
• 依托单位: MPC Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0504078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCI; Teragrid; Resource; Partners

The Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) is the next stage in the evolution of NSF large-scale cyberinfrastructure for enabling high-end computational research. The ETF enables researchers to address the most challenging computational problems by utilizing the integrated resources, data collections, instruments and visualization capabilities of nine resource partners. On October 1, 2004, the ETF concluded a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment called the TeraGrid (TG) and we are now entering the production operations phase.The TeraGrid resource partners include: the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT-Austin, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, Indiana University, Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.A separate proposal was submitted to NSF on October 19, 2004 for the TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG). Under the direction of Charlie Catlett at UC/ANL, in general, the GIG will be responsible for coordination of development activities for the TeraGrid with subcontracts to the partner sites. The resource partners (RP) will each have independent cooperative agreements with NSF, but will work closely with the GIG to implement the vision of the TeraGrid.This proposal outlines the plan at PSC to participate as a resource partner in the TeraGrid team to provide the expanding user community with ongoing access to this computational science facility. This proposal covers the period November 1, 2004 through October 31, 2009.The TeraGrid is one of the first large-scale grids to fully integrate grid capabilities with the policies and procedures of both autonomous open national computing centers and universities. As we move from construction to operation, the TeraGrid resource partners will work with users to ensure that TeraGrid is delivering the promise of convenient, reliable, persistent capabilities, and to promote a set of user priorities that include new Grid services such as co-scheduling, meta scheduling, parameter search tools and advances in data management and handling, and to implement and support a variety of tools and capabilities for science gateways. The PSC is dedicated to the TG goal of promoting breakthrough science by U.S. researchers through the use of advanced IT capabilities. Our highly skilled staff will continue to make substantial contributions to TG in many areas of long-standing PSC excellence including user support, systems, networking, security and dissemination and with particular emphasis on the creation of a leadership class computing capability, within the NSF TG program, to implement the NSF HPC+X. strategy. Our strong, longstanding and ongoing relationships with many of the best computational scientists in the country are an integral part of our approaches both to provide service and to improve that service. We support their scientific endeavors by enhancing their applications to exploit very large parallel computing resources and by deploying and operating the best available of these resources to maximize they're scientific OutputWe focus on the most demanding applications. For the past six months, more than half of the TCS processor hours delivered was for jobs using at least 1,024 processors. For the month of September, 30% of the work used at least 2,048 processors. Over the past year fifty-one PIs ran jobs which required at least 1,024 processors. These impressive results are achieved through our intense focus on the user requirements for high-end computing. This has many aspects including user and applications support staff tightly associated with the research groups, flexible and responsive scheduling and carefully considered systems design. This focus has served the community well and will be applied to the expanding TG efforts. PSC has been selected to install, evaluate and operate a new prototype system, which has the potential to become a Leadership Class resource for the NSF program. We are confident that our continued concentration and emphasis on high-end computing will bring success to this endeavor. We eagerly anticipate the opportunity to advance U.S. Scientific and engineering research through our unique capabilities and contributions to the TeraGrid. This proposal covers plans for the support, further development, and tight integration of our systems into a unified resource for the support of computational science research and the integration of that resource into the TG but it also covers the further development of the TG. In addition, we describe the user support required for the growing productive use of all these resources in support of the distributed, national base of IT-dependent research in science and engineering. We cover this very broad ground starting from the local PSC level and working to the national, distributed TG level. The prescribed headings that follow may suggest that each of the activities stands on its own. In fact, PSC devotes considerable effort to integrating these efforts to be more responsive to users. At all levels, we address the existing capabilities, their continual augmentation and improvement, their assembly into an integrated whole and the efforts required to make that whole responsive to the needs of the client, the scientific and engineering research communities. Our activities are highly efficient. Our staff and budget are significantly smaller than other organizations with comparable responsibilities. In part, this is achieved by targeted development of new technology approaches rather than accepting higher-cost commercial offerings designed for enterprises with different requirements.

可扩展的Terascale设施（ETF）是NSF大规模网络基础结构进化的下一个阶段，用于实现高端计算研究。 ETF使研究人员能够利用九个资源合作伙伴的集成资源，数据收集，工具和可视化功能来解决最具挑战性的计算问题。 On October 1, 2004, the ETF concluded a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment called the TeraGrid (TG) and we are now entering the production operations phase.The TeraGrid resource partners include: the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT-Austin, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, Indiana University,普渡大学，橡树岭国家实验室和匹兹堡超级计算中心。通常，在UC/ANL的Charlie Catlett的指导下，演出将负责与合作伙伴站点分包合同的Teragrid开发活动协调。资源合作伙伴（RP）将与NSF达成独立的合作协议，但将与演出紧密合作，以实施Teragrid的愿景。该提案概述了PSC的计划，以作为TeraGrid团队中的资源合作伙伴参与，为扩展的用户社区提供了持续访问该计算科学设施的访问。该提案涵盖了2004年11月1日至2009年10月31日的期间。《 Teragrid》是最早将网格能力与自主开放国家计算中心和大学的政策和程序完全整合的大规模网格之一。 随着我们从施工到运营的转变，Teragrid Resource Partners将与用户合作，以​​确保Teragrid提供方便，可靠，持久功能的承诺，并促进一组用户优先级，其中包括新的网格服务，例如共同进行，元数据调度，参数搜索工具，参数搜索工具以及在数据管理和操作方面的进步，以实现和支持各种工具和各种工具和各种工具和各种工具。 PSC致力于通过使用先进的IT功能来促进美国研究人员的突破性科学的TG目标。 我们高技能的员工将在许多长期以来的PSC卓越领域为TG做出重大贡献，包括用户支持，系统，网络，安全和传播，并特别强调NSF TG计划中的领导力类计算能力，以实施NSF HPC+X。战略。我们与该国许多最好的计算科学家的牢固，长期和持续的关系是我们提供服务和改善该服务的方法的组成部分。 我们通过增强其应用程序来利用非常大的平行计算资源，部署和运营这些资源的最佳可用来支持他们的科学努力，从而最大程度地提高他们的科学输出，专注于最苛刻的应用程序。 在过去的六个月中，交付的TCS处理器时间中有一半以上是用于使用至少1,024个处理器的工作。在9月份，30％的工作使用至少2,048个处理器。在过去的一年中，五十一个PI经营工作，至少需要1,024个处理器。 这些令人印象深刻的结果是通过我们对高端计算用户需求的强烈关注来实现的。这有许多方面，包括用户和应用程序支持与研究小组紧密相关的员工，灵活而响应迅速的调度以及精心考虑的系统设计。 该重点已经为社区提供了很好的服务，并将应用于不断扩大的TG努力。 PSC已被选为安装，评估和操作新的原型系统，该系统有可能成为NSF计划的领导班资源。 我们相信，我们持续的专注和对高端计算的重视将为这项工作带来成功。我们热切期望有机会通过我们对Teragrid的独特能力和贡献来推进美国的科学和工程研究。 该提案涵盖了我们的系统的支持，进一步开发和紧密整合到统一资源中，以支持计算科学研究以及将该资源整合到TG中，但它也涵盖了TG的进一步开发。 此外，我们描述了不断增长的所有这些资源所需的用户支持，以支持分布式，国家基础的科学和工程研究基础。 我们从当地的PSC级别开始涵盖了这一非常广泛的基础，并到达国家分布式TG级别。 以下规定的标题可能表明每项活动都是独立的。 实际上，PSC致力于整合这些努力，以对用户更敏感。在各个层面上，我们解决了现有能力，它们的持续增强和改进，将它们组装成整体的整体以及使整个响应客户需求，科学和工程研究社区所需的努力。我们的活动效率很高。我们的员工和预算要比其他具有可比责任的组织要小得多。 在某种程度上，这是通过针对新技术方法的针对性开发而不是接受针对具有不同要求的企业设计的更高成本商业产品来实现的。