PET FOCUSED EFFORT PROPOSAL

Focused Effort Title: Parallel CMS Planning

Thematic Area(s):  Scalable Computing Migration

PI Name: David Bernholdt

PI EMail Address: bernhold@npac.syr.edu

PI Telephone: 315 443 3857
PI Fax: 315 443 1973

Project Description:

The Comprehensive Mine Simulator (CMS) is an important FMS application
which currently runs on (uniprocessor) SGI systems.  Currently the
system can handle 30,000-50,000 mines on a single host, but has a
target of 1,000,000 mines which clearly cannot be achieved without
migrating to HPC systems.

This project will enable us a chance to examine the application and
work with the developers in order to understand the detailed
requirements and effort required to parallelize this application.
This would allow us to reliably scope and plan for the actual
parallelization, which would be a follow-on project.

We will work with Steve Bishop's group at the Night Vision
Directorate, Ft. Belvoir, VA to define a reasonable collaborative
approach to the actual parallelization effort.

Benefits:

This project was recommended by the FMS CTA lead to increase the
usability of HPC systems by FMS researchers.

Deliverables:

Report and Project Proposal for CMS parallelization effort (March 1998)

Customer Commitment/Involvement:

Based on information provided by the FMS CTA lead, we plan to work
Steve Bishop, Night Vision Directorate, Ft. Belvoir, VA and anticipate
that the follow-on parallelization project will be a joint effort.