www.vacet.org

E. Wes Bethel, LBNL

Coordinating PI, co-PI

E. Wes Bethel, LBNL

Coordinating PI, co-PI

The SciDAC

Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technology

Program Review

Rockville, MD

4/28/2009

The SciDAC

Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technology

Program Review

Rockville, MD

4/28/2009

Wrap Up

• Thanks for your time!• We trust we have conveyed that VACET:

– Indeed advances SciDAC program objectives– Is doing a great job as a CET– Is an excellent investment for SciDAC

• Thanks for your time!• We trust we have conveyed that VACET:

– Indeed advances SciDAC program objectives– Is doing a great job as a CET– Is an excellent investment for SciDAC

The End

• Visualization of a one-trillion-zone dataset on 40K CrayXT4 cores.

• Visualization of a one-trillion-zone dataset on 40K CrayXT4 cores.

Backup slides

Stakeholders Vote with their Feet

• ADPEC adopts VisIt for production-quality AMR visualization

• ADPEC adopts VisIt for production-quality AMR visualization

Stakeholders Vote with their Feet

• John Cary (Tech-X)– Making concerted effort to migrate FACETS

and numerous other Tech-X efforts to VisIt.– Generated an animation using VisIt that

won an award at SciDAC 2008.– Contributing to VisIt in the form of file

loaders (VORPAL loader).– Using VisIt-generated visuals in day-to-day

science activities and for special events (e.g., upcoming review).

• John Cary (Tech-X)– Making concerted effort to migrate FACETS

and numerous other Tech-X efforts to VisIt.– Generated an animation using VisIt that

won an award at SciDAC 2008.– Contributing to VisIt in the form of file

loaders (VORPAL loader).– Using VisIt-generated visuals in day-to-day

science activities and for special events (e.g., upcoming review).

Stakeholders Vote with their Feet

• Jacqueline Chen (SNL-CA)– In her SciDAC 2008

presentation: “For the first time, I can see …”

– She hires a post-doc from VACET to work exclusively on continuing this project.

• Bronson Messer (ORNL) (Working with Tony Mezzacappa)– All visuals in his SciDAC 2008

presentation done using VACET technology.

• Jacqueline Chen (SNL-CA)– In her SciDAC 2008

presentation: “For the first time, I can see …”

– She hires a post-doc from VACET to work exclusively on continuing this project.

• Bronson Messer (ORNL) (Working with Tony Mezzacappa)– All visuals in his SciDAC 2008

presentation done using VACET technology.

VACET Project Weaknesses (Our View)

• Financial• Computational Resources• Long-term staffing

• Financial• Computational Resources• Long-term staffing

VACET Financial Concerns

• Need 25% budget increase to avoid staff reductions dictated by 5-year flat budget.– First priority is to protect the existing investment– People are our most precious resource

• Could use an additional 25% for software engineering– This activity requires a lot of effort

• Need 25% budget increase to avoid staff reductions dictated by 5-year flat budget.– First priority is to protect the existing investment– People are our most precious resource

• Could use an additional 25% for software engineering– This activity requires a lot of effort

Computational Resources

• Shortage of high speed, spinning disk– NGF allocation presently about 15TB– Stakeholder near-term plans (<12months) call for

storage requirements in range 100-200TB– This type of storage costs $1K-$2K/TB– Request for more storage submitted, no

guarantees

• Impact of flat budget: limited local resources for research platforms

• Shortage of high speed, spinning disk– NGF allocation presently about 15TB– Stakeholder near-term plans (<12months) call for

storage requirements in range 100-200TB– This type of storage costs $1K-$2K/TB– Request for more storage submitted, no

guarantees

• Impact of flat budget: limited local resources for research platforms

Long-term Staffing

• People are our most precious resource– Want to hire, retain talent to ensure long-term project

success

• Flat budget makes future uncertain for 25% of our staff

• Long-term programs like SciDAC (5-year award) very helpful

• One primary VACET objective is to do everything possible to ensure the SciDAC program as a whole is successful.– We very much want to see a “SciDAC-3”

• People are our most precious resource– Want to hire, retain talent to ensure long-term project

success

• Flat budget makes future uncertain for 25% of our staff

• Long-term programs like SciDAC (5-year award) very helpful

• One primary VACET objective is to do everything possible to ensure the SciDAC program as a whole is successful.– We very much want to see a “SciDAC-3”