ni.com Graphical System Design:
Empowering Domain Experts to
Enable Innovation and Scientific
Discovery
Dr. Stefano Concezzi
Director, Science & Big Physics
National Instruments
ni.com OUTLINE
1.  National Instruments
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Brief presentation on the company
What we do
2.  Anomalous Heat Generation
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Non judgmental business approach
Why NI is interested in this phenomena
3.  National Instruments Contribute
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Colloboration
Conclusion
OUTLINE
1.  National Instruments
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Brief presentation on the company
What we do
2.  Anomalous Heat Generation
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Non judgmental business approach
Why NI is interested in this phenomena
3.  National Instruments Contribute
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Colloboration
Conclusion
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OUTLINE
1.  National Instruments
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•
Brief presentation on the company
What we do
2.  Anomalous Heat Generation
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Non judgmental business approach
Why NI is interested in this phenomena
3.  National Instruments Contribute
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Colloboration
Conclusion
Today’s Engineering Challenges
•  Doing more with less
•  Time to experiment
•  Managing global projects
•  Adapting to evolving application requirements
•  Delivering on increasingly complex initiatives
•  Maximizing operational efficiency
•  Protecting system and resource investments
Anomalous Heat Generation
•  An independent thesis research at the
University of Texas at Austin found that from
1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments
around the world reported anomalous high
production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H.
•  Either there is an unknown physical event or
there is a need of better measurements and
control tools. In both cases NI can accelerate
innovation and discovery.
Anomalous Heat Generation and NI 1.
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The Master Plan
Find, analyze results and publications of institutions and
researchers that are working on these anomalous
heat generation phenomena.
Meet with the top 10 researchers.
Establish a research cooperation.
Leverage NI platforms and R&D to accelerate results.
OUTLINE
1.  National Instruments
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•
Brief presentation on the company
What we do
2.  Anomalous Heat Generation
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Non judgmental business approach
Why NI is interested in this phenomena
3.  National Instruments Contribute
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Colloboration
Conclusion
Collaboration List
Prof. Kim - Purdue University
(Bode-Einstein Condensate)
Prof. Hagelstein – MIT
(Incl. Quantum Field Theory)
Dr. Mace – LANL
(Transfer matrices, QFT)
Prof. Duncan - University of Missouri
Prof. Levi – University of Bologna
Prof. Violante – ENEA
Other potential activities with SRI, NRL, INFN, Univ. of Kobe,
Univ. of Osaka, UT at Austin, CEA.
Synchrotron
Tomography
(Proposed)
4 TFLOPs
3D 8k x8kx8k voxels
Real-Time HPC Trend
10000
GFLOPs
1000
Tandem Mirror
Plasma Control
(Proposed)
1-2 TFLOPs (DBL)
1 ms loop rate
Tandem Mirror
Plasma Control
(Proposed)
1-2 TFLOPs (DBL)
1 ms loop rate
100
Financial Application
(Proposed)
1.2 TFLOPs
European Options
10
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2006
Tokamak Plasma
Diagnostics
40 GFLOPs (DBL)
1 ms loop rate
2007
2008
1M Real FFT/s
1k samples
500k Complex FFT/s
1k samples
2009
2010
2011
ESO E-ELT Mirror Control
M4: 2 TFLOPs, 2 ms loop rate
M1: 1 TFLOPs, 1 ms loop rate
2012
Our View Of The Computational Map
CPU or GPU -­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐ Power vs. $$$ GPU FPGA Problem Size RT-­‐GPU 10 µs CPU 100 µs 1 ms Cycle Time (Maximum Allowed) 1 s Example 1: FPGA-Based Quantum Optics
Extremely demanding Quantum Optics simulation/HIL/control
Manipulation of trapped atoms/ions
12 European universities + industry
$5M funding (Curie)
1 MHz-10 MHz controllers 
FlexRIO (FPGA)
Example 2: Spintronic
Joint-work with Hamburg (Dr. Jacob) and A&M (Prof. Sinova)
Best-Paper Award, ICACSEE’12, 2/2012
Extremely large quantum simulations
We are using:
(1)  Quantum mechanical equations
(2)  HPAL – our new High-Performance Analysis Library
(3)  Our new GPU Toolkit
Collaboration With Prof. Kim (Purdue Univ.)
Bazhutov-­‐Vereshkov Theory Chubb (ScoK) Theory Chubb ( Talbot) Theory De Ninno Theory Fisher Theory Gareev Theory Hagelstein Theory Hora-­‐Miley Theory Kim-­‐Zubarev Theory Kirkinskii-­‐Novikov Theory Kozima Theory Li Theory Sinha-­‐Meulenberg Theory Szpak Theory Takahashi Theory Purdue
Very LENR friendly environment
§  Several experimentalist, nano-particle, …
§  Prof. Koltick, Prof. Reifenberger and Dr. Andres
NI – Prof. Kim cooperation
§  Quantum simulations
§  Confirm Prof. Kim’s ELTB-results
§  Potential fusion rates under BEC conditions
§  Potential fusion rates under various trapping and
external field conditions
§  Gross-Pitaevski equation for BEC simulations
Collaboration With Prof. Kim (Purdue Univ.)
Phase I
§  We confirmed ELTB results
§  Building up a computational framework
§  Hartree-Fock, Gross-Pitaevski
§  Special solvers for interesting situations,
§  e.g., 2 D+ in trap+repulsion+strong magnetic fields
Phase II
§  Numerical experiments using Phase I tools under Prof. Kim’s
supervision
§  Optimize tools, stability, speed, parallelization
§  Reusing tools for other projects with other institutions (as ENEA,
SRI, NRL, INFN, etc.]
Conclusion
•  There is an unknown physical event and there
is a need of better measurements and control
tools. NI is playing a role in accelerating
innovation and discovery.
Appendix 1.  NI – Prof. Kim cooperaVon: screen shot of mathemaVcal simulaVons. 2.  NI – Prof. Kim cooperaVon, background on exisVng theories. ni.com Appendix 1.  NI – Prof. Kim cooperaVon: screen shot of mathemaVcal simulaVons. 2.  NI – Prof. Kim cooperaVon, background on exisVng theories. ni.com Hydrogen Atom Some Screen Shots 3D Gross-­‐Pitaevski Hartree-­‐Fock (HeH+) Some Screen Shots Hydrogen Atom in Electric Field 1D 2-­‐Body in Electric Field Appendix 1.  NI – Prof. Kim cooperaVon: screen shot of mathemaVcal simulaVons. 2.  NI – Prof. Kim cooperaVon, background on exisVng theories. ni.com