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Basic foilset Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at ARL Mid Year Review on Feb 18-19 98. Foils prepared Feb 21 98
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Multidisciplinary teams
Emphasize Work between centers -- MSRC's and DC's
  • e.g. metacomputing between DC's and MSRC's
Not enough to help one user -- be a leader
  • Mix of broad-based support and national leaders
Team CHSSI and across centers
Need a constituency in DoD
  • Go to center person; ARL will link to warfighter
Accountability - must be able to say why doing work
Cross-MSRC PET Vision is framework
11 efforts (6 CTA's 5 general areas)
Become more top down
  • T and E; Automatic Target Evaluation; Weapons and Warfighter Systems Design
Wants "Nimrod" like capability to control multiple runs with optimization
Pentagon does not relate to CTA's but rather things like ATR, T & E
Publish reports in ARL TR series
Seminars (suggest outside people) at ARL
Go to modernization office
2 page year 3 statement of work plus boiler plate

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1 ARL PET Meeting Mid year 2 February 18-19 98
2 ARL PET
3 ARL PET II
4 ARL PET III
5 ARL PET IV
6 ARL PET V
7 ARL FMS
8 ARL PET VII
9 FMS IMT Sci Viz
10 FMS IMT Training InfoComm
11 FMS Year 2.5/3
12 InfoComm Year 2.5/3
13 IMT Year 3

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Foil 1 ARL PET Meeting Mid year 2 February 18-19 98

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University
NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
3154432163

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Foil 2 ARL PET

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Multidisciplinary teams
Emphasize Work between centers -- MSRC's and DC's
  • e.g. metacomputing between DC's and MSRC's
Not enough to help one user -- be a leader
  • Mix of broad-based support and national leaders
Team CHSSI and across centers
Need a constituency in DoD
  • Go to center person; ARL will link to warfighter
Accountability - must be able to say why doing work
Cross-MSRC PET Vision is framework
11 efforts (6 CTA's 5 general areas)
Become more top down
  • T and E; Automatic Target Evaluation; Weapons and Warfighter Systems Design
Wants "Nimrod" like capability to control multiple runs with optimization
Pentagon does not relate to CTA's but rather things like ATR, T & E
Publish reports in ARL TR series
Seminars (suggest outside people) at ARL
Go to modernization office
2 page year 3 statement of work plus boiler plate

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Foil 3 ARL PET II

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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17 contractual elements in ARL PET!
InfoComm responsible for linking elements
Programming Tools -- Rice
  • Queuing: cross MSRC led by Jeff Durachta; will be taken over by NAVO; not much support from other MSRC's
  • Performance Modeling: HPF PETSc (cf: ICASE study)
  • Gun Barrel Modeling: sequential code on PC -- go to shared memory parallelization in 50 days
Programming Tools -- Tennessee
  • Outreach -- NHSE, RIB
  • Training -- Voice Annotation wanted
  • General evaluation of systems software installed at ARL
  • ScaLAPACK and PETSc installed
  • NetSolve
  • ATLAS: Automatic Tuning of Linear Algebra Software -- make optimized BLAS
  • Performance Modelling: Pablo Paradyn; standard cache/message passing/BLAS etc. benchmarks
  • MPI Interconnection requested by IMT user
  • RIB Installation: leverage licensing etc from NHSE; CCM SIP; database interface

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Foil 4 ARL PET III

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Info/Comm Lex Lane
  • Core support: work with webmaster at ARL and CTA leads
  • Uniform CCM Interoperable Interface
    • CHSSI links not easy to find on ASC ARL web sites
  • collaboration; social issues; asynchronous tool investigation
  • web authoring tool investigation - talk
  • send out report on webmaster meeting
  • CCM and SIP leads needs training material - talk
  • repository of reusable graphical elements
Training
  • Web training database from X-MSRC
  • Videotapes are one way
  • O200 Server in HEAT center

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Foil 5 ARL PET IV

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Visualization
  • MBONE
  • DICE versus VTK -- DICE demo at Alliance 98
  • CTA Timberline white papers liked collaborative visualization (6 out of 10)
    • currently Tango is desktop to desktop -- should extend to Immersadesk Alliance 98 Demo
  • Analyse IMT data
  • Shared Visual Objects (Kelly Kirk) -- CORBA, Java
HBCU
  • Clark Atlanta, Jackson State, Morgan State
  • AHPCRC and MSRC collaboration

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Foil 6 ARL PET V

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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CCM joint ASC/ARL managed by OSC (Labanowski)
  • compiled list of DoD users
  • Collect, document, evaluate, procure, install software
  • wants high end scientific visualization
  • seem to have major technology tracking activity
  • Intranet for chemists -- good NHSE project
CFD Soni from MSU
  • Go to his web site at MSU
  • Interoperable CAD Interface
  • ASC MDO Initiative
  • several projects -- many involving Chimera
  • A good set of software modules
  • contacted 200 users during web

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Foil 7 ARL FMS

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Keep Bob Wasilausky informed
ITEA July 13-15 is not technical meeting -- mainly middle managers
NCSA has virtual battlefield
What about XII ?

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Foil 8 ARL PET VII

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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IMT
  • Note Aircraft T and E uses HPCC
  • Data Management or Modeling/Simulation
  • Generate environment for hardware simulation
  • Real time data analysis to see if a particular test worked
    • Most tests take gigabytes of data
  • OSD/LFTE (Life Fire Testing) Joint DoE ASCI/DoD
  • Sam at Georgia Research Institute which does $100M a year business with DoD
SIP
  • Lot of activity in putting material on Web
  • VDL-ATR is Web Interface to remote Khoros
  • HBCU Interaction -- need Collaborative technology
  • Khoros and Matlab are major high level tools

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Foil 9 FMS IMT Sci Viz

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Training requirements do not have strong visualization requirements
Testing may be important -- requirements are unclear
cf. Caterpillar, GM use of CAVE
  • automobile people at ARL
  • virtual prototyping is before T and E
datamining not much used in IMT now
ITEA conference exhibit
Truck Project at ATC (Aberdeen Test Center)
Fire in a tank engine or jet engine Problem
video common form of output
Immersadesk used for demos only
  • Virtual battlefield is existing NCSA project

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Foil 10 FMS IMT Training InfoComm

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Database for training -- Tom Prudhomme
simulation based acquisition
  • centralized database
  • shared tools such as AutoCAD
CAD Design tools is in different part of DoD
  • development people should be added
Engineers, not researchers use shared
VPG is T and E part of simulation based acquisition
What can we teach White Sands?
  • Asynchronous?
  • Are they prepared?
  • IMT

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Foil 11 FMS Year 2.5/3

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Need real FMS user on Origin 2000 by end CY98
  • CMS "planning parallel RTI" raise priority; DIS or HLA?
  • Ask Wasilausky Sam, ARL and others for other opportunities
Demonstrations of Object Web for HLA -- show leadership
Why can't we use DIS on Origin 2000
  • Optimized and Unoptimized
  • maybe DIS version does not scale? But Origin is faster!
  • What is CMS platform now. Single or distributed?
HPC for FMS Talk at ITEA
  • SFExpress, Object Web, CHSSI efforts
Training for IMT and FMS continue as on right track
  • SPEEDES
  • General HLA, CORBA, Web
New onsite person definition

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Foil 12 InfoComm Year 2.5/3

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Overall Issues
  • Major opportunity for year 3 success -- need to manage deployment support
  • Who do we work with? Training or CTA's?
  • Can we enforce standards
  • How do we monitor issues -- who is responsible
  • relative role of Training, Derek and NCSA InfoComm core activity
  • Are we trying to do too much
Year 2 activities which will "finish"
  • Deploy Web Access Assessment Tools
  • ITEA Conference
  • Deploy databases (Derek will support ARL Oracle)
Ongoing Training Support
Collaborative Visualization
Collaboration
  • Asynchronous and Synchronous; Timing and nature of deployment?
Authoring Tools Survey and selected support
Teaching Tools Survey and selected support
Support HBCU -- not clear yet
Methodology for Web based Interfaces (CGI , Java, CORBA)
  • possible new activity

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Foil 13 IMT Year 3

From Notes from ARL PET Meeting Mid Year Review ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Sam will give a short course at ITEA conference which is key place to meet decision makers
Fire Suppression important as Halon outlawed due to Ozone layer -- SciViz CFD and CCM possibilities
Hardware in the loop
ADS (Advanced Distributed Simulation) HLA
  • Simulation based Acquisition with central database
  • Users will be here in 2 years -- be prepared
Lot of data intensive problems
  • reduction, management, visualization

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