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Given by David Bernholdt, Geoffrey C. Fox at Cewes PET Annual Meeting on February 9-10 1999. Foils prepared February 20 1999
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Year 4 of DoD Modernization PET Program
Collaboration and Communication
Training
Distance Education
Web Interfaces to Computation
FMS

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1 Summary of Year 4 Proposals
2 Vision
3 Vision (2)
4 Vision (3)
5 Advantages to the Warfighter
6 Training
7 Training Core
8 Training Core (2)
9 Training Core (3)
10 Distance Education and Training
11 Dist. Edu. -- New Courseware
12 Dist. Edu. -- New Courseware
13 Dist. Edu. -- Tango Enhancements
14 Dist. Edu. -- Class Delivery
15 Collaboration/Communications
16 C/C Core
17 C/C Core -- Tango Enhancements
18 Collaborative Computing Environments
19 Forces Modeling and Simulation/C4I
20 FMS Core
21 Parallel CMS
22 Parallel CMS (2)
23 HLA Integration for HPC Applications
24 HLA Integration (2)
25 Emergent Technologies for HPC Migration and Productivity
26 Web Interfaces
27 Web Interfaces (2)
28 Web Interfaces (3)
29 Summary

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Foil 1 Summary of Year 4 Proposals

From Summary of NPAC Year 4 Proposed Activities at Cewes Cewes PET Annual Meeting -- February 9-10 1999. *
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NPAC/Syracuse University
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Foil 2 Vision

From Summary of NPAC Year 4 Proposed Activities at Cewes Cewes PET Annual Meeting -- February 9-10 1999. *
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Last three years have seen unprecedented progress in distributed object and web tech. & their applications
Object web technologies offer a unique way to learn, to work together, and to construct large-scale computer applications
Consequently, object web technologies can and should play a major role in improving access and ease of use in HPCC-related areas, just as in the world at large
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Foil 3 Vision (2)

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Use of commodity- and standards-based software facilitates maintenance, interoperability, and future development
NPAC has substantial experience in coupling object web technologies with HPCC- and education-related applications
Our long-range vision is to make the use of advanced web technologies to facilitate all aspects of DoD computational science.
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Foil 4 Vision (3)

From Summary of NPAC Year 4 Proposed Activities at Cewes Cewes PET Annual Meeting -- February 9-10 1999. *
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Areas addressed in Year 4 proposals (nearly all based on web and distributed object technology)
  • Training
  • Collaboration and Communications
  • Forces Modeling and Simulation/C4I
  • Emergent Technologies for HPC Migration and Productivity
Extremely high leverage for PET $
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Foil 5 Advantages to the Warfighter

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Improvement of productivity in access to HPCC resources and personnel (especially off-site users)
Take advantage of computers and networks to collaborate more efficiently
Improved training capabilities
Promote new ways of approaching problems
Promote commodity- and standards-based solutions
Strategic Roadmap
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Foil 6 Training

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Core Support: Training
New Directions in Distance Education and Training
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Foil 7 Training Core

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Focus on technological tools for training and education. Training activities at CEWES still handled by John Eberle & Wayne Mastin
Technology tracking, trip reports, technology bulletins, etc. as appropriate
Regular reporting & review briefings
Involvement in program-wide Training Group meetings & activities
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Foil 8 Training Core (2)

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Support for distance training activities (build on successful Yr 3 Focused Effort)
  • Distance Training Workshop to be organized this spring
  • PET partners have committed to seven training classes to be delivered with Tango during Yr 4 (more welcome), plus JSU course delivery!
  • Assist with development/conversion of course materials, delivery of class
  • Must keep Tango up to date with new releases of Java, browsers, operating systems, etc.
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Foil 9 Training Core (3)

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Can install LecCorder system at CEWES
  • Originally developed for ASC, and related to an idea put forward by John Eberle
  • Integrated hardware/software system
  • Record live trainings & publish on web quickly and easily as "foils over audio/video"
  • Viewable with Java player
  • Inexpensively produce asynchronous training resources from live trainings
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Foil 10 Distance Education and Training

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Builds on highly successful efforts during Years 2 and 3 (four courses delivered!)
In Year 4 extend in several ways
  • Promote increased understanding & use of distance education at JSU & other institutions via summer workshop
  • Develop new, more sophisticated course materials & Tango support for them
  • Deliver new & existing courseware as class and training
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Foil 11 Dist. Edu. -- New Courseware

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Tango and WebWisdom currently handles relatively "low-end" media (HTML, PowerPoint). Common in academics, especially for rapidly changing areas
Many areas are better developed pedagogically, and could take advantage of more sophisticated ("flashy") materials (ie embedded applets, Macromedia Authorware...)
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Foil 12 Dist. Edu. -- New Courseware

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Develop higher-level course materials in basic parallel computing. Based on existing NPAC courseware (during summer'99)
Work with Mississippi State U to develop high-level materials in CFD (spring'00)
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Foil 13 Dist. Edu. -- Tango Enhancements

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Support for glossaries and interactive quizzes
Support for embedded Javabeans and Java applets
Support for high-end authoring tools, such as Macromedia Authorware
Plan to leverage support from other centers to broaden high-end support
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Foil 14 Dist. Edu. -- Class Delivery

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Summer'99 -- JSU workshop on distance ed.
Fall'99 -- prototype parallel computing mat'l delivered to JSU & others as academic class. (Feedback used to improve materials)
Spring'00 -- final version of parallel computing mat'l delivered as dist. training for CEWES MSRC users & others
Spring'00 -- Syracuse CPS616 offered to JSU and others (repeat of Spring'99 "gift")
CD-ROM w/ courseware
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Foil 15 Collaboration/Communications

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Core Support: Collaboration/Communications
Collaborative Computing Environments (Web Interfaces)
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Foil 16 C/C Core

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Technology tracking, trip reports, technology bulletins, etc. as appropriate
Regular reporting & review briefings
Training: Tango "Open House" and Tutorial
Assessment of asynchronous collaboration tools and their possible roles within the CEWES MSRC and PET organizations
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Foil 17 C/C Core -- Tango Enhancements

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Enhanced security
Meeting support
  • A number of small but important features to facilitate formal meetings & briefings
  • Facilitate off-site involvement in MYR
Out-of-browser Tango (prototyped already)
  • Tango is tightly integrated with browser -- good and bad (each new release introduces new & exciting bugs; releases very frequent lately)
  • Allows easier support of other browsers
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Foil 18 Collaborative Computing Environments

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A collaborative framework like Tango can also be used to "share" HPC applications in addition to the familiar tools
Shared HPC applications can be useful in education, collaborative research, etc.
"Collaboratization" is application-specific, but principles are general
We plan to "collaboratize" two applications as demos & document approach for others to follow
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Foil 19 Forces Modeling and Simulation/C4I

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Core Support: Forces Modeling and Simulation/C4I
Parallel CMS
HLA Integration for HPC Applications, Applied to CMS
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Foil 20 FMS Core

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"Technology Convergence Roadmap" still on track
Rapid evolution in both DoD M&S and web/commodity computing worlds -- tracking changes very important
Basic FMS training materials will be developed in a various formats (web-based training very important to FMS CHSSI)
Reports, reviews, scientific papers, etc.
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Foil 21 Parallel CMS

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Comprehensive Mine Simulator (Ft. Belvoir)
  • widely-used FMS application
  • currently runs on uniprocessor SGI systems, up to 50,000 mines
  • target of 1,000,000 mines -- requires HPC
CMS work also supported by ARL
  • shared-memory parallel on SGI up to 4 CPUs
  • performance deteriorates beyond 8 CPUs
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Foil 22 Parallel CMS (2)

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CMS is strongly object-oriented (as is much modern FMS code)
Current OO structure at odds with better scalability. Need to restructure inner loops and some data storage & data distribution
Following proposal will use shared-memory parallel CMS as elements in larger distributed simulation
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Foil 23 HLA Integration for HPC Applications

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HLA is DoD mandated way of connecting M&S applications
  • Not limited to "FMS" apps. Increasingly, high-fidelity physical simulations will be coupled with "FMS"
Builds on CEWES and ARL supported work on "webHLA"
  • Java/Web/Object Request Broker (JWORB)
  • RTI implementation (component of HLA) on top of JWORB
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Foil 24 HLA Integration (2)

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Uses WebHLA to provide HLA-based metacomputing environment capable of coupling HPC applications on different computers into single simulation
With parallel CMS and previously developed visualization tools, will be able to demonstrate large-scale distributed minefield simulation
Same tools/techniques for other HPC apps which need HLA integration
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Foil 25 Emergent Technologies for HPC Migration and Productivity

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Web Interfaces for Computational Modules
A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for CWO Modeling Systems (joint project with OSU and OSC, presented by OSU)
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Foil 26 Web Interfaces

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Use commodity/standard software tools to develop a system to make easier...
  • Migration of complex applications to HPC
  • Use of diverse and specialized HPC resources
  • Couple applications together to meet demand for higher-fidelity modeling
  • Facilitate separation of front-end user interface and computational back-end
Some of above possible with Java & CGI but cumbersome and hard to generalize
Java, CORBA & WebFlow better approach
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Foil 27 Web Interfaces (2)

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Follow-on to Year 3 effort
  • Land Management System (EQM)
  • Mobility Assessment (Logistics/FMS)
In Year 4 expand to other CTAs and other types of HPC applications to broaden
Synergistic with new ASC "Gateway" project (NPAC, OSC, Nichols). There NPAC focus is on "middleware", here on supporting applications and CTAs
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Foil 28 Web Interfaces (3)

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Implement basic WebFlow infrastructure at CEWES, including security enhancements from ASC Gateway
Plan is to work with 2-3 CTA applications
Design and implement API to allow applications to interface with WebFlow services
  • ASC appl. areas not supported at CEWES
  • Need broad spectrum of apps early to insure "universal" support
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Foil 29 Summary

From Summary of NPAC Year 4 Proposed Activities at Cewes Cewes PET Annual Meeting -- February 9-10 1999. *
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Training
  • Core Support: Training
  • New Directions in Dist. Education and Training
Forces Modeling and Simulation/C4I
  • Core Support: FMS
  • Parallel CMS
  • HLA Integration for HPC Applications
Collaboration and Communications
  • Core Support: C/C
  • Collaborative Computing Environments
Emergent Technologies for HPC Migration and Productivity
  • Web Interfaces for Computational Modules
  • A Problem Solving Environment for CWO
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