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Given by Dan Reed(illinois), Geoffrey C. Fox at Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab on Feb 1-2 1999. Foils prepared March 26 1999
Outside Index Summary of Material


Increase Capability Computing
  • Get Back on the High-End Growth Curve at the LES
  • Applications on Clusters of DSM and Dedicated DSMs
  • Applications on NT Supercluster
  • Compare NT and Linux
Build the Grid
  • Computational Grid-PACS National Machine Room
  • Access Grid-Linking Desktops and ACCESS centers
  • Extending the Grid-MREN, Southern X-roads, Great Plains
Create a Post-Web Computing Environment (PSE WG)
  • Discipline or Team Specific "Portals"
  • Generic Workbench Infrastructure
  • Object or Distributed Component Software Foundation

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1 PPT Slide
2 The Three FY99 Alliance Technology Imperatives
3 Motivating PSE Scenario
4 PSE Working Group Decisions
5 Component Technology Deconstruction
6 Component Technology Deconstruction
7 Component Technology Deconstruction
8 PSE Architecture Model
9 PSE Development Timelines
10 PSE Development Timelines
11 Proposed AT/ET April Meeting
12 Proposed AT/ET April Meeting

Outside Index Summary of Material



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Foil 1 PPT Slide

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Geoffrey Fox
gcf.npac.syr.edu
Syracuse University
Dan Reed
reed@cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois
ET Team B/C/GForce
PACI Alliance Meeting
Problem Solving Environments Group

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Foil 2 The Three FY99 Alliance Technology Imperatives

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Increase Capability Computing
  • Get Back on the High-End Growth Curve at the LES
  • Applications on Clusters of DSM and Dedicated DSMs
  • Applications on NT Supercluster
  • Compare NT and Linux
Build the Grid
  • Computational Grid-PACS National Machine Room
  • Access Grid-Linking Desktops and ACCESS centers
  • Extending the Grid-MREN, Southern X-roads, Great Plains
Create a Post-Web Computing Environment (PSE WG)
  • Discipline or Team Specific "Portals"
  • Generic Workbench Infrastructure
  • Object or Distributed Component Software Foundation

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Foil 3 Motivating PSE Scenario

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Multilevel workbench
  • multidisciplinary software development
  • workflow data access and analysis
Scenario features
  • domain model coupling
  • fused visualization
  • distributed collaboration
  • distributed software development
  • remote data archive access

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Foil 4 PSE Working Group Decisions

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Four major discussion areas
  • object composability model
  • deconstruction of existing technologies
  • drilldown on point examples
  • strategy for evolving component technology
Results and plans
  • process for component interface specification
  • point solution evaluation of interfaces
  • joint discussion and evaluation

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Foil 5 Component Technology Deconstruction

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Taxonomy of PSE components
  • computing model
  • data (local, remote, network, ...)
  • display (visualization, interaction, ...)
  • function (high-level behavior)
  • collaboration
  • WWW accessible
  • domain (numerical, visualization, ...)
  • status (prototype, mature, ...)
  • misc
  • category (library, service, ...)

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Foil 6 Component Technology Deconstruction

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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PSE component technologies
  • CORBA, Jini
  • NetSolve, Webflow
  • MPI-IO, HDF
  • Habanero, Tango
  • Adifor,
  • VisAD, CAVERN
  • Neos, Atlas

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Foil 7 Component Technology Deconstruction

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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PSE component technologies (continued)
  • Akenti
  • Moss, Emerge
  • SCALAPAK, PETsC, DAGH
  • Datorr
  • insert your favorite tool/technology here

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Foil 8 PSE Architecture Model

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Basic object component architecture
  • interfaces
    • CORBA/Java RMI wrappers
  • services
    • ET/AT technologies with object interfaces
  • workbench toolkit
    • service compositions
Goals
  • component composability
  • rapid workbench construction
  • standard Alliance building blocks

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Foil 9 PSE Development Timelines

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Object interface working group
  • initial draft document (March 15)
  • draft document (May 1)
  • joint ET/AT membership
    • Geoffrey Fox (chair), Mike Folk, Rob Fowler, Thomas Haupt, Bill Hibbard, Gregor von Laszewski, Beth Plale, and Danesh Tafti
Technology/tool list (March 1) -- Dan Reed
  • name, description, URL, and contact person

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Foil 10 PSE Development Timelines

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AT/ET joint meeting (early April)
  • information sharing/interface evaluation
  • see agenda (future slides)
Draft interface implementation (May 1)
Illustrative point solution (May-August)
  • multi-module prototype with interfaces
    • HDF + MOSS (computational steering) + VisAD
    • NCSA HDF/GaTech MOSS/Wisconsin VisAD
    • environmental hydrology context

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Foil 11 Proposed AT/ET April Meeting

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Presentations (morning)
  • ET technology summary
    • tools, features and contacts
  • AT workbench features and needs
    • tools and interoperability goals
  • PSE working group summary
    • interface architecture description
    • composability illustration
Lunch break

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Foil 12 Proposed AT/ET April Meeting

From Problem Solving Environments Group Report Team B C G Joint Meeting Argonne National Lab -- Feb 1-2 1999. *
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Working group breakouts (afternoon and next day)
  • ET/AT subgroups
  • interface document evaluation
  • workbench scenario construction
Meeting post-mortem
  • PSE interface document revision
  • illustrative prototype construction

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