Focused Effort Title: Ubiquitous Environments for Metacomputing
Modeling and Simulation

Organization:  Syracuse University

Thematic Area(s): Scalable Computing Migration

Lead: Wojtek Furmanski

Email Address:  furm@npac.syr.edu

Telephone:  315 443 1799	Fax:  315 443 1973

Statement of Work:

In year 4, we made a major FMS accomplishment by constructing fully
scalable Parallel CMS and demonstrating excellent speedup and load
balancing for a large minefield of million mines, running in a genuine
metacomputing environment including HPC facilities at ERDC MSRC and NRL
DC, and workstation clusters at NPAC. We also learned during these
experiments that more work is needed to turn our prototype Metacomputing
CMS environment to a robust and stable system with ubiquitous user
access. We propose here to establish collaborations with other related
HPCMO activities  and to develop necessary components that would enforce
stability of and user-friendly access to metacomputing modeling and
simulation applications. 

More specifically, we intend to address the following tasks:
a) participation in activities of HPCMO-wide metacomputing initiative
as FMS representative;
b) participation in wireless supercomputing initiative led by ERDC;
c) installation of stable HLA-compliant daemons in selected MSRCs and DCs
including ERDC and NRL, based on our PET FMS WebHLA components such as
JWORB and OWRTI;
d) support for cross-MSRC/DC synchronization of batch mode schedulers
that would facilitate temporal colocation of componenents within a
metacomputing application, running concurrently in various MSRC/DCs and
scheduled there by local tools.  
e) support for ubiquitous wireless access to distributed metacomputing
simulations in terms of palm VII devices.                        
  
Deliverables:

o stable 24x7 metacomputing support for FMS applications in selected
  MSRCs and DCs, demonstrable for Metacomputing CMS and perhaps other
  metacomputing FMS (or other CTA) applications (if/when available)

o Palm VII based wireless controller that allows to check the status of 
  of individual components of metacomputing application running in various
  centers, and to perform runtime computational steering of simulation
  parameters, quality of service, resource allocation etc.
o Presentations for PET Midyear and Annual Reviews
o Inputs to PET Annual Report
o Written progress reports in June and December 2000
o Final Technical Report in March 2001
 
Customer Committment/Involvement:

The need for Metacomputing support was recognized at the HPCMO level; we
will join the cross-MSRC metacomputing initiative and interact with DoD
users from various labs that participate in this program.

The relevance of wireless communication for metacomputing has been
recognized by ERDC who takes the lead in this area: we will collaborate
with other activities in this program and we will follow the ERDC guidance
regarding the DoD users to be approached and serviced. 

We also see a potentially interesting connection with the Intelink
community via new DARPA project on DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language)
where we have pending proposal with Teknowledge and we intend to explore
the use of wireless devices for semantic markup of Web pages and
ubiquitous access to next generation DAML-based smart search engines.

Required Resources: $65,789

Item			Base	Fringe	Overhead	Total
Wojtek Furmanski	12,930	4,422	8,919		26,271
Graduate Student	14,552	1,848	8,430		24,830
    Tuition		14,688	    -	    -		14,688

TOTAL							65,789