1. Management

The CEWES MSRC PET effort is administered by the integrator, Nichols Research Corporation (NRC), for the CEWES MSRC as a part of the contract from the HPCMO for the CEWES MSRC. Dr Dick Pritchard of Nichols Research is the PET Director. Dr Louis Turcotte of the CEWES MSRC excercises oversight of the CEWES MSRC PET effort for the government. Dr Joe Thompson of Mississippi State University is CEWES MSRC PET academic team leader. Dr Wayne Mastin of Nichols, and a professor emeritus of Mississippi State, is the on-site PET team leader.

2. Organization

The fundamental mode of operation for PET at the CEWES MSRC is a direct and continual connection between the CEWES MSRC users and the CEWES MSRC PET team universities in support of the five Computational Technology Areas (CTAs) supported at the CEWES MSRC and three related technical infrastructure areas. This is accomplished through a combination of full-time university and NRC personnel on-site at the CEWES MSRC, in close communication with completely dedicated university personnel dividing time between the CEWES MSRC and the university, and faculty members at the university with partial commitment to the CEWES MSRC PET effort for support and leadership.

FIG: Transfer of PET Technology into MSRC

3. Team Composition

The university PET team for the CEWES MSRC is led by the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation at Mississippi State University, with Jackson State University as the lead HBCU/MI. The university team is as follows:

Center for Computational Field Simulation (NSF Engineering Research Center at Mississippi State)

National Center for Supercomputing Applications - NCSA (NSF Supercomputer Center at Illinois) Center for Research in Parallel Computing - CRPC (NSF Science & Technology Center headquartered at Rice, including Tennessee)

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center - NPAC (at Syracuse)

Ohio Supercomputer Center - OSC (at Ohio State)

Texas Institute for Computational & Applied Mathematics - TICAM (at Texas)

HBCU/MIs: Jackson State University and Clark Atlanta University.

Dedicated on-site/at-university support teams for each of the five DoD Computational Technology Areas (CTAs) supported at the CEWES MSRC were the responsibility of specific universities on the PET team at the CEWES MSRC in Year 2:

CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics - ERC (Mississippi State) CSM: Computational Structural Mechanics - NCSA (Illinois) CWO: Climate/Weather/Ocean Modeling - OSC (Ohio State) EQM: Environmental Quality Modeling - TICAM (Texas) FMS: Forces Modeling and Simulation/C4I - NPAC (Syracuse)

as also were each of the following three technical support areas:

Scalable Parallel Programming Tools - CRPC (Rice/Tennessee) Scientific Visualization - NCSA (Illinois) Collaboration/Communication - NCSA (Illinois)

FIG: PET Organizational Structure

Mississippi State, Texas, and Rice maintain on-site university personnel at the CEWES MSRC in support of CFD (Dr Steve Bova - MSU), CSM (Dr Rick Weed - MSU), EQM (Dr __ Fithen - Texas) and Scalable Parallel Programming Tools (Dr Clay Breshears - Rice), and NCSA at Illinois has a dedicated person spending significant time on-site in support of Scientific Visualization (Dr Alan Shih). NRC has a person on-site in support of Scientific Visualization (Dr Richard Strelitz - SAIC). NRC also has a Training Coordinator (John Eberle - NRC) and a PET Webmaster (Hermann Moore - E-Systems) on-site.

4. Reporting and Technology Transfer

Transfer of emerging technology from the academic community into the CEWES MSRC is a primary purpose of the CEWES MSRC PET effort. Of like importance is transfer in the other direction, providing input and feedback regarding emerging DoD needs to influence developments at universities. The primary mode of technology transfer in the CEWES MSRC PET effort is direct contact between the PET team and the CEWES MSRC users. But the PET team also produces a series of reports on technology developments for distribution to CEWES MSRC users. And technology transfer is a prime emphasis of the training component of the CEWES MSRC PET effort. The on-site personnel at the CEWES MSRC from the PET team form a continual conduit for technology transfer.

5. Cross-MSRC Coordination

Cross-MSRC coordination is led by the PET Executive Committee (ExComm), which was formed during the Year 2 effort. The ExComm is chaired by Dr Ken Kennedy of Rice, and consists of the academic leaders for the PET effort at the four MSRCs:

CEWES MSRC: Dr Joe Thompson - Mississippi State ASC MSRC: Dr Charlie Bender - Ohio State ARL MSRC: Dr John Toole - Illinois NAVO MSRC: Dr Andrew Grimshaw - Virginia

The ExComm conducted a meeting in September 1997 of the DoD CTA Leaders and the PET leaders from all universities involved at the four MSRCs. And the ExComm produced, during Year 2, a collective response of the PET teams of all four MSRCs to the White Papers from the DoD CTA Leaders indication needs in the CTAs that might be addressed by the PET effort. Finally, the ExComm has produced a vision statement for the PET effort, together with White Papers in five technical areas essential to the effort:

Metasystems Programming Tools Application Tools Scientific Visualization Training & Collaboration

It is imperative in the interest of efficiency of resource utilization that the PET support teams for the four MSRCs move to coordinate their efforts and cooperate as much as is feasible in view of the differing emphasis and user patterns, and in view of the fact of separate contracts. Collaboration should not, however, be an end in itself, but rather coordination should operate to bring expertise and developments to bear across the MSRCs. Where possible, resources are leveraged by obtaining agreements with the PET efforts at other MSRCs to jointly fund appropriate projects.