NSF HPC Task Force
Report Summary
Presented to the
TeraGrid Scientific Advisory Board
Thomas Zacharia
University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jim Kinter
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
Richard Loft
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Arlington, Virginia
20 January 2011
HPC Task Force:
Membership
Thomas Zacharia, Chair, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jim Kinter, Co-Chair, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
Ravi Arimilli, IBM, Inc.
Michael Macy, Cornell University
Ron Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Dick McCombie, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Larry Davis
Dave Randall, Colorado State University
Tiziana Di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University
Steve Scott, Cray, Inc.
Bill Harrod, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
George Karniadakis, Brown University
Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University
Rubin Landau, Oregon State University
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputing Center
Rich Loft, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Theresa Windus, Iowa State University
Rob Pennington, NSF Liaison
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HPC Task Force:
Charter
• Provide specific advice on the broad portfolio
of HPC investments that NSF should consider
• Time span: 5–10 years
• Scope:
– Cyberinfrastructure to support research
– Research on cyberinfrastructure (hardware and software)
– Training
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HPC Task Force:
Activities
• 3 community workshops (Arlington, Virginia):
University, industry, and government participants
– Sustainability and User Requirements, 4 December 2009
– Applications at the Exascale, 29 July 2010
– Broader Engagement, 3 December 2010
• Community input solicited
• Presentations, reports, and position papers posted:
http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/workshop
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Sustainability and User Requirements
Workshop: 4 December 2009
Stan Ahalt, Renaissance Computing Institute
Fred Johnson, Retired
Phil Andrews, University of Tennessee
Amy Apon, University of Arkansas
Tim Axelrod, University of Arizona
Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory
Kirk Jordan, International Business Machines
Jay Boisseau, University of Texas
Rubin Landau, Oregon State University
Rich Loft, National Center for Atmospheric Research
William Kramer, University of Illinois
Bill Camp, Intel Corporation
Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institute of Washington
John Connelly, University of Kentucky
Rene Copeland, Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
Thom Dunning, University of Illinois
Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana
Tom Furlani, State University of New York at Buffalo
Omar Ghattas, University of Texas
Galen Gisler, University of Oslo
Matthias Gobbert, University of Maryland
Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bill Harrod, Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration
Eric Jakobsson, University of Illinois
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Sid Karin, University of California, San Diego
Jim Kinter, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Co-chair
Patricia Kovatch, University of Tennessee
Rubin Landau, Oregon State University
Paul Messina, Argonne National Laboratory
Ravi Nair, International Business Machines
Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
Mike Norman, University of California, San Diego
Brian O’Shea, Michigan State University
Rob Pennington, National Science Foundation
Dave Randall, Colorado State University
Ralph Roskies, University of Pittsburgh
Steve Scott, Cray, Inc.
Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University
Dennis Wall, Harvard University
Thomas Zacharia, University of Tennessee
and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Co-chair
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Sustainability and User Requirements:
Recommendations for NSF
Direct supercomputing
program evolution
to sustain and promote
resource stability
• Allow researchers and HPC
centers to select best value
in computational
and data platforms
• Enable centers to offer
continuous service
to the community
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Commit to stable
and sustained funding
for HPC centers
• Allow centers to recruit
and develop the expertise
needed to maximize
potential of hardware
investments
• Use rigorous review
and oversight processes
to provide assurance
that centers are meeting
expectations
Encourage HPC centers
to build long-term
relationships with multiple
vendors
• Provide researchers with
benefits of planned roadmap
for several generations
of chip technology and with
continuity in architecture
and software environments
• Apply results-oriented
acquisition strategies
to ensure that vendor
performance meets center
and NSF needs
Applications at the Exascale Workshop:
29 July 2010
Amy Apon, University of Arkansas
Patricia Kovatch, University of Tennessee
Bill Barth, Texas Advanced Computing Center
William Kramer, University of Illinois
Thomas Cheatham, University of Utah
John Levesque, Cray, Inc.
John Connolly, University of Kentucky
Rick Linger Carnegie-Mellon University
Rhonda Dias, Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
Bruce Loftis, University of Tennessee
Mark Fahey, University of Tennessee
Dick McCombie, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Rob Fowler, Renaissance Computing Institute
Phil Maechling, Southern California Earthquake Center
Tom Furlani, State University of New York at Buffalo
Bronson Messer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Omar Ghattas, University of Texas
George Michaels, Intel Corporation
Galen Gisler, University of Oslo
Jose Munoz, National Science Foundation
Matthias Gobbert, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bonnie Nestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dennis Goo, Intel Corporation
Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Halstead, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Rob Pennington, National Science Foundation
Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Irene Qualters, National Science Foundation
Thuc Hoang, National Nuclear Security Administration
Dave Randall, Colorado State University
Eric Jakobsson, University of Illinois
Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brad Jones, Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
Mark Shephard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Homa Karimabadi, University of California, San Diego
Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Institute of Technology
George Karniadakis, Brown University
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputing Center
Dan Katz, University of Chicago
Thomas Zacharia, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jim Kinter, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
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Applications at the exascale:
Recommendations for NSF
• Expand partnerships with industry, academia, and other agencies
to accelerate development of exascale systems and applications
– Co-design will be critical in development of applications
that can deliver predictive capability
• Expand efforts to engage new user communities in HPC
– Focused outreach program to industry
– Engagement of data-intensive fields of research
• Provide a funding framework for co-location of archive and community
data resources with compute and visualization resources
• Establish a continuing process for soliciting community input
on plans for HPC investments
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Broader Engagement Workshop:
3 December 2010
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Stan Ahalt, Renaissance Computing Institute
Ashok Krishnamurthy, Ohio Supercomputing Center
Gabrielle Allen, Louisiana State University
Sander Lee, National Nuclear Security Administration
Amy Apon, University of Arkansas
David Lifka, Cornell University
Atinuke Arowojolu, National Nuclear Security Administration
Bruce Loftis, University of Tennessee
David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yashema Mack, University of Tennessee
Bill Barth, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Jose Munoz, National Science Foundation
Jay Boisseau, University of Texas
Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhonda Dias, Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
Henry Neeman, Oklahoma University
Jim Ferguson, University of Tennessee
Bonnie Nestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sue Fratkin, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthias Gobbert, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mike Norman, San Diego Supercomputing Center
Dennis Goo, Intel Corporation
Mike Papka, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory
Milt Halem, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Rob Pennington, National Science Foundation
David Halstead, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Irene Qualters, National Science Foundation
Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dan Reed, Microsoft Corporation
Elliot Hirshman, University of Maryland ,Baltimore County
Ralph Roskies, University of Pittsburgh
Larry Hoelzeman, Cray, Inc.
Mark Shephard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Raquell Holmes, University of Connecticut Health Center
David Skinner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Homa Karimabadi, University of California, San Diego
Alex Szalay, John Hopkins
Jim Kinter, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
John Towns, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Patricia Kovatch, University of Tennessee
Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Institute of Technology
William Kramer, University of Illinois
Thomas Zacharia, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Broader Engagement:
Preliminary recommendations to NSF
• Continue and grow education, outreach, and training programs
to expand awareness and encourage use of high-end modeling
and simulation capabilities
– Industry
– New user communities
– Expanded workforce development programs, starting with K–12
• Measure program impacts
– Expansion in use of HPC
– Delivery of science
• Consider establishment of a computational science program
or division
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HPC Taskforce:
Summary recommendations to NSF
• Develop a sustainable model to provide the academic research community
with access, by 2015–2016, to a rich mix of HPC systems that:
– Deliver sustained performance of 20–100 petaflops on a broad range
of science and engineering applications
– Are integrated into a balanced, comprehensive, national cyberinfrastructure environment
– Are supported at national, regional, and/or campus levels
• Invest now to prepare for exascale systems that will be available by 2018–2020
– Co-design partnerships
– Data cyberinfrastructure (networking, disk, and storage) for data-driven science
• Broaden outreach to include industry and new user communities
• Establish a continuing process for soliciting community input on plans
for HPC investments
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Questions & Discussion
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