SC99 Proposal

Proposal to teach a one day tutorial:

The Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for the Gateway Project

Proposal

This tutorial is useful to scientists and engineers to help incorporate computational approaches, in a more direct manner, to address a wide range of complex problems. This approach can also provide a framework for instructional material.

This tutorial introduces the attendee to the process and tools to develop scientific and code material for the Problem Solving Environment using a variety of web publishing revolutions including XML, XSL and JAVA. In addition, using the WebFlow API, access to backend resources can also be constructed.

As a one-day session, this tutorial is a fast paced instruction to current web publishing and data access to provide a common structure to develop and maintain the material for the PSE.

This is the first time this material is being presented. A demonstration of the Gateway system, both WebFlow and a PSE for Computational Chemistry and Materials at the DoD, OSC and NPAC booths.

Requirements

This tutorial will be lecture presentation only. A Windows or Unix machine with an internet connection and a projector are all that is required.

Maximum course enrollment is dependent on the number of seats available.

Description

In this fast-paced hands-on and entertaining day, students will learn the current web based information technologies and how to apply these technologies for developing and maintaining complex material.

Goal for students by end of the day

A general overview of current web based information technologies with a focus on developing PSE material to connect with the WebFlow component of the Gateway.

Who should attend

The intended audience for this workshop are people interested in developing scientific material for a PSE or just interested in understanding how such material is developed and maintained.

Presentation Format

This presentation will be lecture and examples from existing work.

Instructors

Name Organization e-mail
Ken Flurchick (lead instructor) Ohio Supercomputer Center kenf@osc.edu
Armen Ezekielian Ohio Supercomputer Center abe@osc.edu
Tomasz Haupt NPAC haupt@npac.syr.edu

Course Outline

Introduction
8:30 Gateway Overview
  • WebFlow
  • WebFlow API
  • PSE
10:15 Break
10:30 Web based Information Technologies
  • XML - eXtensible Markup Language
  • XSL - eXtensible Stylesheet Language
  • XML/XSL tools
11:15 The PSE tools - overview.
12:00 Lunch
PSE components.
1:30 PSE scientific material.
3:15 Break
3:30 PSE - Code and Results
4:45 Applications Examples/wrap-up
5:30 End of course

Instructor Biographies

Ken Flurchick
Ken is the director of Scientific Programs at OSC since his hire in 1995. Ken has developed web based training material for a variety of dicsiplines, including physics, chemistry and scientific visualization. Ken has been involved in web based information technologies for several years.

Ken has been involved with high performance computing since 1981, working on a CYBER 205. General activities include initiating and participating in collaborative research with academic and industrial partners. Provide training to research scientists, academic faculty, graduate, and under-graduate students on high performance and parallel computing and scientific visualization.

Ken received his Ph.D in Physics in 1987 from Colorado State University.

Contact Information
Name:Ken Flurchick
Title:Director, Scientific Programs
Organization:Ohio Supercomputer Center
Address: Ohio Supercomputer Center
1224 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
E-mail address:kenf@osc.edu
Home Page:http://www.osc.edu/~kenf
Phone:(614) 292-1925
FAX:(614) 292-7168

Armen Ezekielian
Armen Ezekielian is a member of the Science and Collaborations Group at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) in Columbus, Ohio. His primary responsibility is to support and promote collaborative research between OSC and the OSC user community. This includes researchers from all the institutions of higher education in the state of Ohio as well as Department of Defense (DoD) users as part of OSC's commitment in the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program. Armen has been involved in the development web-based training materials as well as delivering on-site workshops around the country as part of OSC/DoD efforts. Web-based training, scientific visualization, and high-performance computing are Armen's principal responsibilities. Armen received his B.S. in physics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1988 and his M.S. in physics at the Ohio State University in 1991.

Contact Information
Name:Armen Ezekielian
Title:Science and Collaborations
Organization:Ohio Supercomputer Center
Address: Ohio Supercomputer Center
1224 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212-1163
E-mail address:abe@osc.edu
Home Page:http://www.osc.edu/~abe
Phone:(614) 688-3949
FAX:(614) 292-7168

Tomasz Haupt
Tomasz is a senior research scientist at Northeast Parallel Architecture Center at Syracuse University. His current research interest is focused on applying distributed object and web-based technologies to provide a seamless access to remote computational resources and developing support for web-based metacomputing.

In the past he was involved in the Fortan 90D project to define data-parallel extensions to Fortran, which became a seed for the definition of HPF, and to develop a compiler for that language. He was a member of HPF and MPI forums. He was also involved in transferring these new technologies to the application developers, including participation in the Grand Challenge Binary Black Hole project.

Tomasz graduated from Jagiellonian University, and received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1986 from the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Krakow, Poland.

Contact Information
Name:Tomasz Haupt
Title:Senior Research Scientist
Organization:NPAC at Syracuse University
Address: NPAC at Syracuse University
111 College Place
Syracuse, NY 13244
E-mail address:haupt@npac.syr.edu
Home Page:http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/haupt/homepage.html
Phone:(315) 443-2087
FAX:(315) 443-1973