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Given by Wojtek Furmanski(Geoffrey C. Fox) at CEWES(ERDC) Mid Year Review on Sept 15-16 1999. Foils prepared October 3 1999
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| FMS Core Support |
| Scalable Parallel FMS |
| HLA Integration for HPC Applications applied to CMS |
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FMS Core Support
(Modified/Extended) Plan
Accomplishments (1): Parallel CMS Delivery for Ft. Belvoir
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Accomplishments (2): PET Support for CHSSI Beta Reviews
Parallel NSS Performance (100,000 Objects)
Accomplishments (3): Potential New Users/Projects/Techs
Visual FMS Authoring Laboratory
Relevance to DoD Mission
Obstacles and Changes
Enforcing Scalability of Parallel CMS
Plan
Accomplishments (1): SPEEDES-like approach selected
Accomplishments (2): New Parallel CMS Code In Progress
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Minefields - Scattered (Cyclic) Decomposition
Scattered Minefields on SGI O2K
Relevance to DoD Mission
HLA Integration for HPC Applications Applied to CMS
Plan
Accomplishments (1): JWORB/OWRTI based Cluster Management Service
WebHLA based (Meta)Cluster Management
Accomplishments (2): Metacomputing CMS Design & Prototype
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| Geoffrey C. Fox and Wojtek Furmanski |
| NPAC at Syracuse University |
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| Release Parallel CMS for Ft. Belvoir (new) |
| Support for FMS CHSSI Reviews (new) |
| Identify new FMS users, projects and technologies |
| Develop WebHLA Training |
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| Ft. Belvoir requested full Parallel CMS software release in Jun `99 - Interested both in HLA and HPC support |
| All components of WebHLA based Parallel CMS tested, packaged and delivered Jul `99 |
| Major software release: 60Meg tar.gz file! |
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| Parallel CMS Delivery for Ft. Belvoir |
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| External Beta Review Reports for Parallel IMPORT and Parallel NSS FMS CHSSI projects - both SPEEDES based |
| SPEEDES installed and tested at ARL, ERDC, NRL, NPAC workstations cluster |
| Precision runs at NRL (under MISER scheduler) |
| Linear scaling up to 100,000 ParNSS objects |
| Metron reports now scaling up to 1M objects |
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| Users: ASC (SIMAF, ENM), DARPA/Teknowledge Corp. |
| Projects: Visual SPEEDES/IMPORT, Parallel Thunder/STORM, HPC Agents |
| Technologies: WebFlow/UML => XMI => IMPORT => SPEEDES => HPC |
| Education: Presentation at JSU Summer Inst. |
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| Parallel CMS offers HPC support for new countermine engineering at Ft. Belvoir |
| SPEEDES offers next generation platform for a broad range of DoD HPC M&S |
| WebHLA integrates DoD and Web standards |
| WebFlow/UML will offer seamless access to HPC resource for FMS users |
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| Parallel CMS delivery for Ft. Belvoir and FMS CHSSI Beta Review Reports - both turned out to be labor intensive |
| In consequence, the planned/proposed work on WebHLA training was delayed and rescheduled to fall/winter `99. |
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| Geoffrey C. Fox and Wojtek Furmanski |
| NPAC at Syracuse University |
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| Analyze scalability strategies for SGI O2K (including MPI, threads, pragmas, OpenMP, SPEEDES) |
| Select best approach for Parallel CMS |
| Achieve linear speedup for a broad (ideally full) processor range on SGI O2K |
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| SPEEDES-like approach selected as most promising since fully portable discrete event simulation |
| Use only standard UNIX/NT constructs such as fork, shmem => same code will run for SGI O2K and workstation/PC clusters |
| Parallel CMS to be compatible with but not dependent on SPEEDES software |
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| Sequential CMS code fully understood and represented in UML Diagrams |
| Scattered Decomposition for Minefields designed and partially implemented |
| SPEEDES-like core support prototyped and being tested |
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| Parallel CMS brings HPC to advanced object-oriented M&S applications |
| Parallelization of such codes not-trivial - for example E-ModSAF by FMS CHSSI failed to achieve scalability and was terminated |
| We believe our new Parallel CMS will succeed and offer hints for other projects |
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| Geoffrey C. Fox and Wojtek Furmanski |
| NPAC at Syracuse University |
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| Use and extend WebHLA framework to support Metacomputing FMS |
| Adapt JWORB/OWRTI for Meta-Cluster Management |
| Construct Distributed CMS for commodity clusters (UNIX/NT workstations) |
| Use Metacomputing CMS as app testbed for WebHLA based Metacomputing FMS |
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| Initial JWORB/OWRTI based cluster management service prototyped |
| Initial tests performed using NPAC NT cluster |
| Planned port to ERDC cluster |
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| WebHLA based Parallel CMS operational at ARL and ERDC |
| Visit to ERDC June `99 to discuss MSRC system support for JWORB server |
| Overall design of WebHLA + SPEEDES based Metacomputing FMS in progress |
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| Our Metacomputing FMS framework would enable synergy between DoD and Web/Commodity (COTS) software |
| WebHLA supports interoperability between MPP and clusters and offers seamless Web interfaces for DoD users |