Advanced User Support

Amit Majumdar

OutlineOverview of AUS from PY04 IPP

Summary Of Operational Activities

AUS.ASTA

AUS.ASP

AUS.ASEOT

Overview of AUS from PY04 IPP

I. Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (AUS.ASTA)

II. Advanced Support for Projects (AUS.ASP)

III. Advanced Support for EOT (AUS.ASEOT)

I. Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (AUS.ASTA)1. Users can request ASTA as a part of their TRAC resource allocation proposal

1. Quarterly TRAC 2. Reviewed by TRAC members and recommendation score provided3. Scores taken into account to select ASTA projects4. Other criteria –

1. well defined work plan 2. matching of AUS staff to project3. interest of PI staff

2. Startup and Supplemental ASTA via POPs – new mechanisms for ASTA request (Startup cap 0.25 FTE)

3. Elevating a regular user support activity to be ASTA1. The scope of a regular user support activity becomes Startup/Supplemental ASTA level 2. PI requests startup ASTA or TRAC ASTA at the next quarterly (user support not interrupted)

4. ~ 15 FTE

Deliverable Sites Key metric Due dateASTA projects in progress

All Track initiation, completion, reporting while maintaining 25 ASTAs

Starting Q3, PY04

Facilitate science highlights

All Maintain rate of science highlights starting Q2 to target of 20

By Q4, PY04

II. Advanced Support for Projects (AUS.ASP)1. Foundation work : e.g. installation of complex software, and associated

debugging, optimizing, and interaction with users• Carried out by AUS staff who have expertise in specific domain science

2. Projects of importance to many (~10) users or user groups• Identified jointly by AUS POCs, AUS staff, users, other TG WGs (XS, US, SGW)• Example projects:

• Porting, optimizing, and benchmarking widely used scientific applications on TeraGrid machines and providing well documented information for users

• Providing, usage based, technical documentation on effective use of profiling, tracing tools on TeraGrid machines for single processor and/or parallel performance optimization

• Enabling users on Track2 systems by analyzing, benchmarking hybrid programming techniques, multi-core programming techniques

• Providing usage-based visualization, workflow, data analysis/transfer use cases

3. Construct exemplary scenarios of TeraGrid use for the guidance of users who undertake new projects

4. ~8 FTEs Deliverable Sites Key metric Due date3 ASP All Each ASP useful to

10 usersBy Q4, PY04

5 exemplary cases All 5 cases are documented for users

By Q4, PY04

III. Advanced Support for EOT (AUS.ASEOT)

1. Prepare and deliver advanced HPC/CI topics in workshops etc.2. Provide outreach to user community about AUS3. Work with EOT and XS WGs in promoting petascale TG users4. Interaction with other (e.g. Datanet etc.) NSF funded CI projects and NSF

directorates5. ~4 FTE

Deliverable Sites Key metric Due dateUser participation in XS-WG, RP petascale user groups

All Track participation of 10 PetaApps, SDCI groups

Starting Q2, PY04 and by Q4, PY04

Prepare/teach advanced HPC/CI

All Contribute to 6 such workshops/trainings

By Q4, PY04

Workshops/BOFs/panels on petascale

All Host two of these By Q4, PY04

Workshop on TeraGrid support for other NSF programs

All Host one such workshop By Q4, PY04

Summary of Operational Activities Telecon among AUS POCs from every RP site

o Biweekly meeting – for coordination, IPP, reporting, looking at PIs’ proposals for ASTA, matching of staff to projects etc.

Web/Tele-con among AUS technical staffo Biweekly technical tele/webconference on ASTA and other projects

- using readytalko 7 presentation sessions (including today),15 tech presentations

o Technical insight gained by all the AUS staff on ASTA projects, resourceso AUS staff expertise and research interest sharedo Resulting in more collaborative/cooperative environment

Other Telecons for Advanced Support Projects – two ASPs currently aus@teragrid.org email list – has all the AUS staff (total 60 or so) Wiki webpage has all the telecon minutes, presentations, AUS project

descriptions etc; AUS webpage to be constructed/modified

ASTAs Started in October 2008 - TRAC# PI name Field AUS staff

1 Jordan/USC Geo sciences

Cui (SDSC ), Urbanic (PSC ), Kim(TACC ), Wong (NICS), Bock (NCSA)

2 Mahesh/U. Minn CFD Tatineni (SDSC), Crosby (NICS),Cazes (TACC )

3 Roitberg/U. Florida Biochem (MD)

Walker (SDSC ), Pamidighantam (NCSA ), Halloy (NICS )

4 Voth/U. Utah Bioechem (MD)

Blood (PSC ), Heryadi (NCSA ), Crosby (NICS), Peterson (TACC )

5 Buehler/MIT Civil Engr (MD)

Walker (SDSC), Heryadi (NCSA )

6 Durisen/IU Astro Berry (IU)

7 Papavassiliou/ OU CFD Reddy (PSC )

8 Van Einde/UCSD Str. Engr Choi (SDSC), Halloy (NICS), Cazes (TACC)

•Two other ASTAs may not continue: •One was suggested by the reviewers (Elghobashi)•Another needed some help with locating user docs (Zabras)

•Three other ASTAs started before October 2008

Startup/Supplemental ASTAs Started in Nov/Dec(08),Jan (09)

# PI Name FIeld AUS Staff

1 Schulten/UIUC Bio Chem (MD) Koesterke , Liu , Milfeld, TACC

2 Miao and Janotti/UCSB – postdocs;PI received ASTA in Jan,09

Materials Science Heryadi (NCSA), Liu (TACC), Vanomoer (NCSA)

3 Ferrante/U. Washington CFD/DNS/turbulence Taha (NCSA), Pekurovsky (SDSC,), Bock (NCSA), Peterson (TACC), Crosby (NICS)

4 Tabakin/U. Pitt Quantum Computing Gomez ( PSC)

5 Karimabadi/ UCSD Space Physics Tatineni (SDSC)

6 Mashayek/UIC CFD Taha (NCSA)

ASTAs Started in January 2009 - TRAC

# PI Name Field AUS staff

1 Aidun/GT CFD Dillman (Purdue), Khurram (NCSA)

2 Cheatham/U.Utah Biochem (MD) Pamidighantam (NCSA), Crosby (NICS), Milfeld (TACC), Madrid (PSC), Walker (SDSC)

3 Gygi/UCD Materials Sc (MD) Fahey (NICS), Kim (TACC)

4 Jansen/RPI CFD Wong (NICS), Peterson (TACC), O’neal (PSC)

5 Van de Walle/UCSB (previously Startup)

Materials Science Heryadi (NCSA), Liu (TACC), Vanomoer (NCSA)

6 Yip/MIT Materials Science Halloy (Yip)

7 Scheraga/Cornell Chemistry Blood, Mahmoodi (PSC)

8 Oleynik/U. South Florida

Materials Science Barth (TACC), Crosby (NICS), Jundt (LONI)

Startup/Supplemental ASTAs pending – Jan 2009

• Nikolas Malamataris (GM Univ., CFD)• P.K Yeung (Georgia Tech, CFD)• Chiyu Hu (CSU Long Beach, Physics)• Few others….

Total # of Current ASTAs• Total ASTAs including Oct 2008 TRAC, Jan 2009 TRAC,

current Startups/Supplementals and pending:= 21 + (pending) 3= 24

• Other AUS effort at sites – not formalized as ASTAs yet

• News about availability of ASTAs getting around– Getting queries from PIs directly sometimes

• About 10 ASTA requests for April, 09 – TRAC in March

• Impact of ASTAs as important as meeting the target #

Documentation Activities• Work Plans collected for all (except one) Oct, 2008 ASTAs,

and many of the Nov/Dec Startup/Supplemental ASTAs• Jan, 2009 ASTA work plans will be collected in the near

future• ASTA work plans available at password protected TeraGrid

web site• This site is being modified

– There will be a public site for ASTAs (following SGW style) – Advanced Support Projects will be at this website– TG Doc experts are working on it