[BANANA] Berkeley Lab - Scientific Computing Seminar - May 9, 2008, 10:00am

[Esmond G. Ng]

Berkeley Lab - Scientific Computing Seminar

Date:  Friday, May 9, 2008

Time:  10:00am-11:00am  

Location: Building 50F, 1647 Conference Room

Seminar Speaker:
    In-Saeng Suh and Ed Bensman
    Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame

Title:  Scientific Parallel Computing on NWICG/OSG

Abstract:

Parallel computing through the grid middleware on the OSG stack is one 
of ongoing challenges in NWICG. In this presentation, I will introduce 
experiences for the parallel computing on NWICG (between Notre Dame and 
Purdue). In particular, issues on integration between MPICH and SGE on 
the OSG stack will be discussed. Moreover, NERSC is a site which 
supports SGE and parallel computing environments to OSG users. Through 
this presentation, I hope that NERSC and NWICG could exchange 
information and experience and could be discussed on developing and 
providing optimal environments for parallel computing on OSG. The second 
author currently performs numerical weather simulations using the 
Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model v2.2 from the National Center 
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and will soon upgrade to the newly 
released v3.0 of the model. This research is in collaboration with the 
T.N. Krishnamurti group at Florida State University performing mesoscale 
simulations of tropical cyclones. A new line of research is also 
emerging with Purdue University in the area of resolving convective 
scale weather systems under future climate change scenarios. Each of 
these endeavors involves collaboration with external institutions. At 
NWICG_NotreDame we seek to develop grid middleware to facilitate the use 
of computer resources by all team members and then to share this 
middleware through organizations such as the Engage VO at the 
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in North Carolina.

Sponsor of Seminar:  Alex Sim