site report doecgf april 26, 2011 w. alan scott sandia national laboratories sandia national...
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Site Report
DOECGF
April 26, 2011
W. Alan ScottSandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National
Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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Group mission
• 1461 Mission: Provide innovative, leading-edge scalable analysis and visualization solutions that enable understanding of complex data
• 9326 Mission: Provide user and application support in Sandia's scientific, high performance computing environment. Support ParaView and EnSight
• 9328 Mission: Provide hardware and system software
support for customers on high performance computing platforms
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Activities
• Develop, deploy and support ParaView 3.10.1– Current user base ~80 users/month
• Deploy and support EnSight 9.2.1– Current user base ~140 users/month
• Develop new algorithms for ParaView and VTK– Prism, Material Interface Filter, CTH AMR
• Develop scalable I/O software solutions for ParaView– Interactive scaling, memory footprint and In-situ
• Continued Titan framework development• Cielo installation and user support
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ParaView growth
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Hardware
• Unclassified– Redsky - 2823 (8 core) general nodes
• 64 nodes are dedicated to viz– Blackrose
• 132 viz nodes with dedicated graphics cards– Glory – 272 (16 core) general nodes
• Classified– Redsky-s – a section of Redsky listed above
• 16 nodes are dedicated to viz– Unity, Whitney – 272 (16 core) general nodes each– Cielo – 6332 nodes, each with two 8 core AMD Opterons
• 372 nodes are dedicated to viz
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Upcoming year
• Address scaling issues for interactive ParaView on Cielo
• Address latency issues for interactive ParaView on Cielo
• Continue to build in-situ visualization capabilities– Integrate with Sandia simulation codes– Partner with I/O experts to interface with staging
capabilities