Coarse Grain Parallelism Using AVS

An Interactive Visualization Environment for Financial Modeling on Heterogeneous Computing Systems

An Interactive Remote Visualization Environment for an Electromagnetic Scattering Simulation on a High Performance Computing System

Integrating Multiple Programming Paradigms on Connection Machine CM5 in A Dataflow-based Software Environment

Integrating PVM-based Network Concurrent Computing into Application Visualization System(AVS)

Exploring AVS for HPDC Software Integration Towards Parallel Support for GIS

SUMMARY

Integration of heterogeneous MPP architectures, multiple programming paradigms, interactive visualization/high performance computing and communication, distributed I/O and database services in a coarse grain dataflow-based AVS framework

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTION

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

CONTACTS

Gang Cheng | gcheng@npac.syr.edu | 315-443-2083

Kim Mills | kim@npac.syr.edu | 315-443-4686

Marek Podgorny | podgorny@npac.syr.edu | 315-443-4879

Wojtek Furmanski | furm@npac.syr.edu | 315-443-3891

Salim Hariri | salim@npac.syr.edu | 315-443-4282

INDUSTRIAL/REAL WORLD IMPACT

System integration methodologies and tools for large scale multidiciplinary applications
An interactive computing/visualization environment for real-time simulation/modeling applications and simulation-on-demand

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

As one of core HPCC technologies, software integration will play an ever-growing important role in HPCC applications. We are exploring over the period of the last two years the AVS environment, both in the context of scientific visualization ans also, more broadly, as an attractive paradigm for software integration in high performance distributed computing and parallel systems.

Together with other system software such as PVM, we use AVS as a candidate to integrate massively parallel processing modules(in data-parallel and/or explicit message- passing paradigms), sequential or parallel I/O, system control, visualization, data processing and other computing services required by a HPCC application, into a highly interactive, heterogeneous, high performance computing environment. We have demonstrated the use of AVS in two real-world applications, a stock option price modeling and an electromagnetic scattering simulation, and will further explore its system integration capabilities in on-going NPAC application projects, including geographical information system, four-dimensional data assimilation and environmental modeling.

Other AVS related Web sites:

• International AVS Center
• Advanced Visual Systems Inc.

REFERENCES

1. G. Cheng, Y. Lu, G. C. Fox, K. Mills and T. Haupt," An Interactive Remote Visualization Environment for an Electromagnetic Scattering Simulation on a High Performance Computing System " Proceedings of Supercomputing '93, Portland, Oregon, November 15-19, 1993.
2. G. Cheng, K. Mills and G. Fox, " An Interactive Visualization Environment for Financial Modeling on Heterogeneous Computing Systems ," Proc. of the 6th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, R. F. Sincovec, eds., SIAM, Norfolk, VA, March 1993.
3. G. Cheng, C. Faigle, G. C. Fox, W. Fumanski, B. Li, and K. Mills, " Exploring AVS for HPDC Software Integration: Case Studies Towards Parallel Support for GIS ," Proc. of the 2nd AVS Conference AVS'93, Lake Buena Vista, FL, May 1993.
4. G. Cheng, G. C. Fox, G. C. and K. Mills, " Integrating Multiple Programming Paradigms on Connection Machine CM5 in a Dataflow-based Software Environment," Technical Report, Syracuse Center for Computational Science, 15 pps, August, 1993.
5. G. Cheng, G. C. Fox, and K.A. Hawick," A Scaleable Paradigm for Effectively-Dense Matrix Formulated Applications," to appear in Proc. of the European Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN Europe) 1994, Munich, Germany, April 18-20, 1994.
6. G. Cheng, G. Fox, K. Mills and Marek Podgorny, " Developing Interactive PVM-based Parallel Programs on Distributed Computing Systems within AVS Framework," to be presented at the 3rd Annual International AVS Conference, JOIN THE REVOLUTION: AVS'94, Boston, MA, May 2-4.

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