CRI: IAD Exploiting Multicore Processor Technology for Interactive Supercomputing

CRI：IAD 利用多核处理器技术进行交互式超级计算

• 批准号: 0708822
• 负责人: Paul Woodward
• 金额: $ 79.44万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0708822&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRI; IAD; Exploiting; Multicore; Processor

The project team will build at the University of Minnesota's Laboratory for Computational Science & Engineering (LCSE) a system especially targeted at enabling exploratory science through interactive supercomputing. Both Cell-based and Intel-based multicore CPU technology will be applied in an Infiniband cluster to achieve sustained performance levels with the team?s application codes approaching 2 Tflop/s. The raw processing power of the multicore CPUs will be combined with fast attached disk systems, the latest GPU technology, and the LCSE's PowerWall display to enable interactive control of on-going fluid dynamics simulations with immediate feedback through user-controlled flow visualizations on the PowerWall. The system will also be utilized for applications in genomics. This project will support research in astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics, genomics, multicore implementation of numerical algorithms for scientific computation, high performance scientific visualization for very large datasets, Grid computing, and job/resource scheduling. It will also support teaching and student training. The project involves an on-going collaboration of the LCSE team with the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. The techniques and software developed using the new interactive supercomputing system should have broad applicability in the high performance computing community. This software will be deployable on super-computing systems at national centers, where the enabled interactive capability can be enjoyed at much higher grid resolutions in a more production-oriented context.

该项目团队将在明尼苏达大学计算科学与工程实验室 (LCSE) 建立一个专门针对通过交互式超级计算实现探索性科学的系统。 基于Cell和基于Intel的多核CPU技术都将应用于Infiniband集群中，以实现持续的性能水平，团队的应用程序代码接近2 Tflop/s。 多核 CPU 的原始处理能力将与快速连接的磁盘系统、最新的 GPU 技术和 LCSE 的 PowerWall 显示器相结合，以实现对正在进行的流体动力学模拟的交互式控制，并通过 PowerWall 上用户控制​​的流可视化提供即时反馈。 该系统还将用于基因组学应用。 该项目将支持天体物理和地球物理流体动力学、基因组学、科学计算数值算法的多核实现、超大型数据集的高性能科学可视化、网格计算和作业/资源调度等领域的研究。 它还将支持教学和学生培训。 该项目涉及 LCSE 团队与 Fond du Lac 部落和社区学院的持续合作。 使用新型交互式超级计算系统开发的技术和软件应该在高性能计算领域具有广泛的适用性。 该软件将可部署在国家中心的超级计算系统上，在更加以生产为导向的环境中，可以在更高的网格分辨率下享受启用的交互功能。