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Advanced User Support

Advanced User Support . Amit Majumdar. Outline. Overview of AUS from PY04 IPP Summary Of Operational Activities AUS.ASTA AUS.ASP AUS.ASEOT. Overview of AUS from PY04 IPP. A dvanced S upport for T eraGrid A pplications ( AUS . ASTA )

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Advanced User Support

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  1. Advanced User Support Amit Majumdar

  2. Outline • Overview of AUS from PY04 IPP • Summary Of Operational Activities • AUS.ASTA • AUS.ASP • AUS.ASEOT

  3. Overview of AUS from PY04 IPP • Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (AUS.ASTA) • Advanced Support for Projects (AUS.ASP) • Advanced Support for EOT (AUS.ASEOT)

  4. I. Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (AUS.ASTA) • Users can request ASTA as a part of their TRAC resource allocation proposal • Quarterly TRAC • Reviewed by TRAC members and recommendation score provided • Scores taken into account to select ASTA projects • Other criteria – • well defined work plan • matching of AUS staff to project • interest of PI staff • Startup and Supplemental ASTA via POPs – new mechanisms for ASTA request (Startup cap 0.25 FTE) • Elevating a regular user support activity to be ASTA • The scope of a regular user support activity becomes Startup/Supplemental ASTA level • PI requests startup ASTA or TRAC ASTA at the next quarterly (user support not interrupted) • ~ 15 FTE

  5. II. Advanced Support for Projects (AUS.ASP) • Foundation work : e.g. installation of complex software, and associated debugging, optimizing, and interaction with users • Carried out by AUS staff who have expertise in specific domain science • Projects of importance to many (~10) users or user groups • Identified jointly by AUS POCs, AUS staff, users, other TG WGs (XS, US, SGW) • Example projects: • Porting, optimizing, and benchmarking widely used scientific applications on TeraGrid machines and providing well documented information for users • Providing, usage based, technical documentation on effective use of profiling, tracing tools on TeraGrid machines for single processor and/or parallel performance optimization • Enabling users on Track2 systems by analyzing, benchmarking hybrid programming techniques, multi-core programming techniques • Providing usage-based visualization, workflow, data analysis/transfer use cases • Construct exemplary scenarios of TeraGrid use for the guidance of users who undertake new projects • ~8 FTEs

  6. III. Advanced Support for EOT (AUS.ASEOT) • Prepare and deliver advanced HPC/CI topics in workshops etc. • Provide outreach to user community about AUS • Work with EOT and XS WGs in promoting petascale TG users • Interaction with other (e.g. Datanet etc.) NSF funded CI projects and NSF directorates • ~4 FTE

  7. Summary of Operational Activities • Telecon among AUS POCs from every RP site • Biweekly meeting – for coordination, IPP, reporting, looking at PIs’ proposals for ASTA, matching of staff to projects etc. • Web/Tele-con among AUS technical staff • Biweekly technical tele/webconference on ASTA and other projects - using readytalk • 7 presentation sessions (including today),15 tech presentations • Technical insight gained by all the AUS staff on ASTA projects, resources • AUS staff expertise and research interest shared • Resulting in more collaborative/cooperative environment • Other Telecons for Advanced Support Projects – two ASPs currently • aus@teragrid.org email list – has all the AUS staff (total 60 or so) • Wiki webpage has all the telecon minutes, presentations, AUS project descriptions etc; AUS webpage to be constructed/modified

  8. ASTAs Started in October 2008 - TRAC • Two other ASTAs may not continue: • One was suggested by the reviewers (Elghobashi) • Another needed some help with locating user docs (Zabras) • Three other ASTAs started before October 2008

  9. Startup/Supplemental ASTAs Started in Nov/Dec(08),Jan (09)

  10. ASTAs Started in January 2009 - TRAC

  11. Startup/Supplemental ASTAs pending – Jan 2009 • Nikolas Malamataris (GM Univ., CFD) • P.K Yeung (Georgia Tech, CFD) • Chiyu Hu (CSU Long Beach, Physics) • Few others….

  12. Total # of Current ASTAs • Total ASTAs including Oct 2008 TRAC, Jan 2009 TRAC, current Startups/Supplementals and pending:= 21 + (pending) 3= 24 • Other AUS effort at sites – not formalized as ASTAs yet • News about availability of ASTAs getting around • Getting queries from PIs directly sometimes • About 10 ASTA requests for April, 09 – TRAC in March • Impact of ASTAs as important as meeting the target #

  13. Documentation Activities • Work Plans collected for all (except one) Oct, 2008 ASTAs, and many of the Nov/Dec Startup/Supplemental ASTAs • Jan, 2009 ASTA work plans will be collected in the near future • ASTA work plans available at password protected TeraGrid web site • This site is being modified • There will be a public site for ASTAs (following SGW style) • Advanced Support Projects will be at this website • TG Doc experts are working on it

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