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1 National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
2 Ten More Years!
3 The Alliance National Technology Grid
4 vBNS, Internet-2 and PACI
5 The Alliance is Prototyping the National Technology Grid
6 Alliance Executive Committee
7 Early Alliance Success Stories
8 Launching the Alliance - What We Will Do This Fall
9 Alliance Enabling Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads
10 Alliance Applications Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads and UIUC (NCSA) Anchors
11 Alliance Applications Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads and UIUC (NCSA) Anchors
12 Education, Outreach, and Training FY98 Projects
13 How Did a Supercomputer Center Get Into Enterprise Knowledge Management?
14 NCSA Supplies Alliance With Information Technology Support
15 NCSA Intranet Deployment
16 Alliance Collaboration Spaces
17 NCSA Habanero - Collaborative Support for Scientific Teams
18 The NCSA Biology Workbench - A Web-Based Software Architecture
19 Linking K-12 With Real-Time Science
20 BIMA Distributed Observatory, Digital Library, and Collaboratory
21 Exponential Growth in National User Demand Will Drive Grid Capabilities
22 Replacement of Shared Memory Vector Supercomputers by Microprocessor SMPs
23 NCSA Combines Shared Memory Programming with Massive Parallelism
24 NCSA: A Decade of Leadership in Clustered Computing
25 Regional Partners to Partners for Advanced Computational Services
26 Computing on the University of Wisconsin Condor Pool
27 Visual Supercomputing Goal: Make Analysis as Powerful as Simulation
28 Proposed FY98 National Analysis and Visualization Facility
29 CAVE Virtual Immersive Environment
30 Building the Visual Supercomputer
31 SGI Origin Alliance Repository - Boston Univ. Takes Lead for Alliance
32 Alliance SGI/Cray Origin2000 Virtual Community

Outside Index Summary of Material

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Foil 1 National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Foil 2 Ten More Years!

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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National Science Board Decision-March 28
  • NCSA and NPACI proposals funded
  • Starts October 1
Funded for 10 years
  • Renewable at 5 years
  • Yearly progress reviews
Major Increase in Support Levels
  • NSF
  • State
  • Industry
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Foil 3 The Alliance National Technology Grid

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Foil 4 vBNS, Internet-2 and PACI

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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NPACI
NCSA Alliance
Both NCSA Alliance and NPACI
Other sites
64 sites approved, 63 more proposed 7/97
NCSA
vBNS: very high speed Backbone Network Service
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Foil 5 The Alliance is Prototyping the National Technology Grid

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Leading Edge Centers
  • Supernodes of the Grid
Enabling Technology Teams
  • Architects of the Grid
Applications Technologies Teams
  • Specifications for the Grid
Education, Outreach, and Training Teams
  • Content for the Grid
Partners for Advanced Computational Services
  • Support for the Grid
Industrial Partners and Strategic Vendors
  • Technology Transfer for the Grid
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Foil 6 Alliance Executive Committee

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Larry Smarr, Chair
Phil Smith, External Chair
Charlie Bender, OSC
Bob Berdine, Caterpillar
David Ceperley, UIUC
John Connolly, Kentucky
Tom DeFanti, UIC
Roscoe Giles, Boston U
John Hennessy, Stanford
Ken Kennedy, Rice
Greg McRae, MIT
Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton
Dan Reed, UIUC
Rick Stevens, Argonne
Mary Vernon, Wisconsin
Paul Woodward, Minnesota
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Foil 7 Early Alliance Success Stories

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Application Technology Teams
  • BIMA Observations of Hale-Bopp
  • Lyman Alpha Forest in Cosmology Explained
  • Biology Workbench Acceptance
  • Kansas Couples Habanero to Chem Eng
Enabling Technologies Team
  • Princeton May Become NCSA Symbio Testbed
  • Chesapeake Bay I-Desk to I-Desk Demo
  • MREN Hooks up to ANL, EVL, NCSA
  • STAR TAP Funded for International vBNS
  • LCSE Deploys Power Wall at NCSA
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Foil 8 Launching the Alliance - What We Will Do This Fall

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Infrastructure Foundations
  • Build the Alliance Intranet Framework
    • Create the Origin Repository
    • Rough Out Intranet Interfaces
  • Set up the High Performance Networks
    • Link the CAVE Devices
Define the Alliance Work Plan
  • Timelines and Deliverables for First Year
    • Interweaving of ET/AT/EOT/RP and NCSA
    • Identifiy Early Success Goals
  • Define Alliance Software Set for AT/EOT
    • Review Alliance Collaborative Software Plans
    • Requires Strong ET/AT/EOT Brainstorming
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Foil 9 Alliance Enabling Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Parallel Computing (16)
  • Ken Kennedy, Rice U
  • Greg McRae, MIT
Distributed Computing (15)
  • Rick Stevens, Argonne
  • Paul Woodward, U Minnesota
Data and Collaboration (14)
  • Dan Reed, UIUC
  • Roscoe Giles, Boston U
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Foil 10 Alliance Applications Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads and UIUC (NCSA) Anchors

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Cosmology (5)
  • Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton U
  • Mike Norman, UIUC (NCSA)
Environment Hydrology (11)
  • John Anderson, U Wisconsin
  • Robert Wilhelmson, UIUC (NCSA)
  • V.C. Patel, U Iowa
  • Doug Johnston, UIUC (NCSA)
Chemical Engineering (7)
  • Greg McRae, MIT
  • Richard Braatz, UIUC (NCSA)
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Foil 11 Alliance Applications Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads and UIUC (NCSA) Anchors

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Bioinformatics (9)
  • Sangtae Kim, U Wisconsin
  • Shankar Subramaniam, UIUC (NCSA)
Nanomaterials (11)
  • John Wilkins, OSU
  • David Ceperley, UIUC (NCSA)
  • Robert Dutton, Stanford U
  • Karl Hess, UIUC (NCSA)
Scientific Instruments (8)
  • David Agard, UCSF
  • Clint Potter, UIUC (NCSA)
  • Paul Vanden Bout, NRAO
  • Richard Crutcher, UIUC (NCSA)
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Foil 12 Education, Outreach, and Training FY98 Projects

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Enabling Technologies
Applications Technologies
EOT-PACI Project Activities
National Education Community
Digital Libraries
Collaboration Tech.
Distance Learning
VR/Simulations
Molecular Biology
Cosmology
Scientific Instruments
Chickscope
Biology Workbench
WW2010
Chemistry Visualization
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Foil 13 How Did a Supercomputer Center Get Into Enterprise Knowledge Management?

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Microprocessor Market Convergence
  • NT/Intel Challenging UNIX/RISC
Desktop Software Tool Development
  • From NCSA Telnet to NCSA Mosaic
Large Scientific Databases
  • From Scientific Visualization to Info Viz
Emergence of Distributed Object Architecture
  • Java, ActiveX, CORBA, and the Web
Supercomputer Center to PACI
  • Need to Create Alliance Intranet and Collaboratory
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Foil 14 NCSA Supplies Alliance With Information Technology Support

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Alliance Information Management
  • Production intranet, management databases
Information Analysis
  • Knowledge discovery, machine learning, info.visualization
NT Clusters
  • NCSA Symbio
Technical Collaboration Environments
  • Habanero, ISAAC, EMERGE
Scientific Data Management
  • HDF
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Foil 15 NCSA Intranet Deployment

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Strategy
  • Open standards
  • Commercial technology foundation
  • Strategic alliance with major software vendors
  • Interfaces to experimental and development efforts
Implementation
  • Lotus Notes / Domino
  • Web browser as sole client side user interface
  • Java
  • SQL accessible relational databases
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Foil 16 Alliance Collaboration Spaces

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Asynchronous
  • Participants Separated in Time
  • Federated Document Repositories
  • Threaded Discussions
  • Examples: Usenet News, Lotus Notes
Synchronous
  • Participate in Real Time
  • Share Screen Views and Applications
  • Video and/or Audio Connections
  • Examples: Netmeeting, Habanero, Tango
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Foil 17 NCSA Habanero - Collaborative Support for Scientific Teams

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Image Courtesy of Ken Bishop, U Kansas and NCSA
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Foil 18 The NCSA Biology Workbench - A Web-Based Software Architecture

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Foil 19 Linking K-12 With Real-Time Science

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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http://vizlab.beckman.uiuc.edu/chickscope/
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Foil 20 BIMA Distributed Observatory, Digital Library, and Collaboratory

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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BIMA, Courtesy Richard Crutcher, UIUC
http://bima-server.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib/VRMLHighlights.html
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Foil 21 Exponential Growth in National User Demand Will Drive Grid Capabilities

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Source: Quantum Research Database
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Foil 22 Replacement of Shared Memory Vector Supercomputers by Microprocessor SMPs

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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HTML version of Basic Foils prepared January 8 98

Foil 23 NCSA Combines Shared Memory Programming with Massive Parallelism

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Future Upgrade Under Negotiation with NSF
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Foil 24 NCSA: A Decade of Leadership in Clustered Computing

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Distributed Memory
Distributed Shared Memory
IBM RS6000
6 x 1
HP 735
12 x 1
SGI Power
Challenge Array
(10x16)
SGI Origin-2000
8 x 32
HP/Convex SPP-1200
4 x 16
HP/Convex
SPP-2000
8 x 16
HP PP cluster (8 x 2), classroom (20 x 1)
Proposed NT Cluster
64 x 4
Proposed
SGI Origin-2000
8 x 128
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
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Foil 25 Regional Partners to Partners for Advanced Computational Services

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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PACS Focus Area
  • Regional Access to Workshops
  • Distributed Training and User Services
  • Mid-Level Computational Resources
  • Specialized Technology Development Sites
PACS Members
  • 4 Mid-Level Centers
    • BU (Origin), OSC (Triton, T3E), Kentucky (HP SPP), Maui (SP-2)
  • 6 Tech Development Sites
    • Minn, Wisc, Rice, ANL, Wash, UVa
  • 3 Outreach Consortia (CIC, SURA, EPSCoR)
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Foil 26 Computing on the University of Wisconsin Condor Pool

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Condor Cycles
CondorView, Courtesy of Miron Livny, Todd Tannenbaum(UWisc)
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Foil 27 Visual Supercomputing Goal: Make Analysis as Powerful as Simulation

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Colliding Galaxies (Smithsonian IMAX)-Donna Cox, Bob Patterson, NCSA-From "Cosmic Voyage"-Nominated for Academy Award 1997
Virtual Director in CAVE
1000 Hour SDSC Supercomputer Run to Generate Data
Tens of Thousands of Hours of NCSA SGI Time to Render Data
Cross-Country Transfer to IMAX Film of Massive Amounts of Data
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Foil 28 Proposed FY98 National Analysis and Visualization Facility

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Silicon Graphics Reality Monster™
6400x4800
Pixel Display
IMAX Film Resolution
Interactive VR
Joint Project of NCSA / LCSE / EVL
Design by Laboratory for Computational Science & Engineering, Univ of Minnesota
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Foil 29 CAVE Virtual Immersive Environment

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Foil 30 Building the Visual Supercomputer

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Rotating Turbulent Gas Ball Model of the Sun
Nine Day Run on NCSA Origin (128-processors)
Generated 2 Terabytes of Data, LCSE Visualized in 3 Days
Dave Porter, Paul Woodward, et al., LCSE, Univ of Minnesota, June 1997
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Foil 31 SGI Origin Alliance Repository - Boston Univ. Takes Lead for Alliance

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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Proposed Origin Member Sites
  • SGI/Cray, Princeton, BU, Indiana, DOD Mod,UIC ...
Archive - Based on Lotus Notes / Domino
  • Benchmarks
  • User Information and Experience
  • Common Applications and Algorithms
  • Search Mechanisms and Agent Interfaces
Asynchronous Collaboration
  • Foundation of Lotus Domino with Client Java
  • System Administrators Common Work Area
  • User Consulting and Feedback
Interactive System Interfaces
  • Java App for LSF System Load Status
  • Lets Users Help Balance System
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Foil 32 Alliance SGI/Cray Origin2000 Virtual Community

From NCSA Alliance Overview Used by Fox in Presentations 27 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98 -- January 5 98. *
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http://www.bu.edu/SCV/Origin2000/index.shtml
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