MRI: Collaborative Research: Acquisition of an IBM BlueGene/L Supercomputer

MRI：协作研究：购买 IBM BlueGene/L 超级计算机

基本信息

批准号：
0420985
负责人：
Jan Mandel
金额：
$ 11.93万
依托单位：
University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-10-01 至 2007-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0420985&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
MRI Collaborative Research Acquisition IBM

项目摘要

This collaborative project among University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, NCAR (04-21498 Loft), University of Colorado-Boulder (04-20873 Tufo), and University of Colorado-Denver (04-20985 Mandel), addressing the technical obstacles to achieving practical petascale computing in geoscience, aerospace engineering, and mathematical applications, aims at acquiring a one-cabinet BlueGene/L supercomputer with 2048 compute processors, 64 service processors, and 20 terabytes of storage. Supporting research projects in atmospherics, wildfire modeling, aircraft simulation, and high performance numerical algorithms, the project studies hardware, software, and application issues. A team composed of atmospheric scientists, computational scientists, engineers, applied mathematicians, and experts in mapping applications to highly-parallel systems proposes a tight coupling among computer architects that analyze the performance of computational kernels on new designs (often in isolation) and atmospheric and engineering modelers and designers of scalable solvers proposing new algorithms (often without direct feedback form the computer architects) to extract the highest performance from the next generation of supercomputers. Part of the team has worked with the IBM Watson BlueGene/L development team during the past year and has had access to a BlueGene/L prototype with 512 nodes. Thus, this tightly-coupled group of 12 scientists working together on computational problems, simultaneously considering architectural, algorithmic, and modeling aspects of the problems offers special value to the work.Broader Impact: The project is expected to accelerate the long-term rate of progress in computational science, which can have a profound impact on the understanding of fundamental scientific questions (such as climate change and wildfires) that are of great importance to society. In addition, providing concrete plans for collaboration and education, the project capitalizes on the large, urban minority population in the CU-Denver student body and on the active CU-Boulder recruitment plan. Although specific plans are not clear, the PIs all have a record of working with students of diverse backgrounds.

NCAR（04-21498 LOFT），科罗拉多 - 博尔德大学（04-20873 TUFO）和科罗拉多大学（04-20985 Mandel）之间的合作项目，NCAR（04-21498 LOFT），科罗拉多 - 博尔德大学（04-20873 TUFO）（04-20873 TUFO）具有2048个计算处理器，64个服务处理器和20个存储的一座蓝ge/L超级计算机。支持大气，野火建模，飞机模拟和高性能数值算法的研究项目，项目研究硬件，软件和应用程序问题。由大气科学家，计算科学家，工程师，应用数学家和专家组成的团队，将应用映射到高度平行系统中，提议在计算机架构师之间建立紧密的耦合，这些团队分析了计算机内核在新设计上的性能（通常是隔离），而不必提出新设计的型号，而不必提出了新的Altevers a Directer of Direction Altevers（通常是提出型号的型号），该型号的型号（通常是缩放型号）的作用（超级计算机的产生。在过去的一年中，该团队的一部分与IBM Watson Bluegene/L开发团队合作，并可以使用具有512个节点的Bluegene/L原型。 Thus, this tightly-coupled group of 12 scientists working together on computational problems, simultaneously considering architectural, algorithmic, and modeling aspects of the problems offers special value to the work.Broader Impact: The project is expected to accelerate the long-term rate of progress in computational science, which can have a profound impact on the understanding of fundamental scientific questions (such as climate change and wildfires) that are of great importance to society.此外，该项目为合作和教育提供了具体计划，该项目利用了Cu-denver学生团体和积极的Cu-Boulder招聘计划的大型城市少数群体。尽管具体计划尚不清楚，但PI都有与不同背景学生合作的记录。