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RDAV Update

RDAV Update. Sean Ahern – Director of the UT RDAV Center Science Advisory Board Meeting 19-20 July 2010. Executive summary. RDAV resources (Nautilus) are currently in the allocations system, and several requests have been made. Largest of which is from Jim Kinter, here at the SAB meeting

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RDAV Update

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  1. RDAV Update • Sean Ahern – Director of the UT RDAV Center • Science Advisory Board Meeting19-20 July 2010

  2. Executive summary • RDAV resources (Nautilus) are currently in the allocations system, and several requests have been made. • Largest of which is from Jim Kinter, here at the SAB meeting • Though much of our hardware and software is in place and ready to go,engineering delays from SGI have pushed our timeline for full deployment out. • This SGI UltraViolet is one of the first off the assembly line. • More I/O bandwidth than any other UltraViolet system ordered (30-50 GB/s). • Current full availability timeframe is the middle of August. • We continue to pursue early customer activities and educational opportunities.

  3. Hardware status • Nautilus: Engineering delays from SGI have pushed our full acceptance date back a few weeks. • 1/4 of the full UltraViolet machine is going through acceptance testing now and seems to be working well. • The rest of the UltraViolet machine arrives at NICS today (7/18/10) and will be fully available mid August. • Graphics cards: NVIDIA has not met their deadlines for full scalability. The timeframe for 16 Tesla S2050‘s is the fall. We decided to deliver a machine without the full GPU complement rather than further delay delivery for the NSF. • Four prior generation NVIDIA GPUs will be available in the interim. • Parallel filesystem: We expect to have a full 1 PB parallel filesystem available on Nautilus on August 1. • Portal: Our portal system is operational and we are working to deploy new capabilities on it.

  4. Software and environment status • VisIt has been ported and runs well on our smaller system. • Remote visualization systems are deployed and secure: NX, VNC • Workflow systems appear to be working. • Compiling environments work well, though we’re waiting on SGI for the full complement (Intel compilers, primarily). • Exploring issues with job placement, NUMA aware scheduling, and GPU scheduling through our job management system (MOAB/Torque).

  5. RDAV Portal • Completed: • SSH-VNC portlet for remote access to RDAV resources tested for functionality. • Integration of access to Dashboard components tested. • Continuing work: • Teragrid authentication • Teragrid queue and account information access • To Do: • RDAV visualization tool launcher • Semantic visualization product store • Workflow manager portlet

  6. RDAV Portal: Main Portal

  7. RDAV Portal: eSimMon Dashboard

  8. Greater Smoky Mountains National parkMaxEnt prediction for Acer Saccharum Supernova entropy Work with early users • Have staff working directly with three early users to push early system. • Bronson Messer: Supernova simulation: • Worked on efficiently converting large parallel data into format suitable for exploratory visualization with VisIt. • Scripted batch processing to generate imagery for Bellerophon portal system. • Stephen Miller: Spallation Neutron Source experiment: • Rewrote rebinning filter to process experimental data from scattering experiments into a usable format: Datasets from 4 GB-several TB. • Wrote custom VisIt scripts to produce visualizations to smooth workflow • Lou Gross: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis: • Statistical analysis of species diversity in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. • Novel visualizations for species presence and absence predictions

  9. Education, Outreach, and Training activities • We taught a joint visualization class with TACC at the Petascale Programming Environments and Tools classes on 9 July. • We will be teaching a tutorial on Nautilus usage for visualization, data analysis, and workflow management at the TeraGrid'10 conference.

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