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Knowledge Management and
Corporate Intranets
• Talk to visiting team from Fisher Scientific
• January 13, 1998
National Computational Science Alliance
The Alliance
National Technology Grid
National Computational Science Alliance
NSF vBNS and PACI Mutually Interdependent
NCSA Alliance
NPACI
Both NCSA Alliance and NPACI
Other High Performance Connection sites
Current vBNS “Backbone” sites
National Computational Science Alliance
Alliance Applications Technologies Teams Science and Engineering Driving the Grid
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Cosmology (5)
Environment Hydrology (11)
Chemical Engineering (7)
Bioinformatics (9)
Nanomaterials (11)
Scientific Instruments (8)
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NCSA Biology Workbench Web Interface to Programs and to Data
• Wide International User Community
– http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
• Available Commercially as:
– The Bioinformatics Workbench
– MDL Information Systems
– http://www.mdli.com/bioinformatics/welcome.html
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I-Way ‘95 Distributed Use of Scientific Instruments
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How to Find out More
About the Alliance
See also http://alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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NCSA Industrial Partners
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Allstate Insurance Co.
Boeing Company
Caterpillar Inc.
Eastman Kodak Co.
Eli Lilly and Company
FMC Corporation
Ford Motor Company
J. P. Morgan
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Motorola, Inc.
Phillips Petroleum Co.
SABRE Group, Inc.
Schlumberger
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Shell Oil Company
Tribune Company
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NCSA’s Three Major Technology Foci
• Scalable Computing
– Clustered Computing Architectures
– Evolution to NT/Intel
• Knowledge Management
– Enterprise Intranets & Decision Support
– Automated Discovery & Learning
• Virtual Environments
– Desktop to CAVE
– Tele-immersion
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Exponential Cascade:
From Leading Edge to Consumer Electronics
Source: Silicon Graphics, 1997
1985
Cray X-MP
Cost:$8,000,000
60,000 watts of power
No Built in Graphics
56 kbps NSFnet Backbone
1997
Nintendo 64
Cost: $149
5 watts of power
Interactive 3D Graphics
64 kbps ISDN to Home
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Exponential Growth in National User Demand
Will Drive Grid Capabilities
Source: Quantum Research Database
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Three Architectures for High End Computing
• Clusters of DSM
– SGI Origin2000 UNIX DSMs
– HP Exemplar UNIX DSM
• Clusters of SMPs
– SGI Power Challenge UNIX SMPs
– HP and Compaq NT/Intel SMPs
• Networks of Computers
– UWisc. Condor for UNIX Workstations
– NCSA Symbio for NT Desktops
NCSA FY98
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World’s Largest Unclassified SGI/Cray Origin NCSA’s Cluster of DSMs
Origin Array
Processors
128
4x64
4x32
10x16
Power Challenge Array
128 Processors Equals a 512 Processor CM-5
National Computational Science Alliance
Computing on the
University of Wisconsin Condor Pool
Condor Cycles
CondorView, Courtesy of Miron Livny, Todd Tannenbaum(UWisc)
National Computational Science Alliance
How Did a Supercomputer Center Get Into
Enterprise Knowledge Management?
• Microprocessor Market Convergence
– NT/Intel Challenging UNIX/RISC
• Desktop Software Tool Development
– From NCSA Telnet to NCSA Mosaic
• Large Scientific Databases
– From Scientific Visualization to Info Viz
• Emergence of Distributed Object Architecture
– Java, ActiveX, CORBA, and the Web
• Supercomputer Center to PACI
– Need to Create Alliance Intranet and Collaboratory
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The Coming Integration of
Technical and Commercial Computing
• The Emergence of
High Performance Commercial Computing
– Computational Knowledge Management
– Focus on:
– Large Data Sets and Information Visualization
– AI Techniques for Data Mining
– Optimization and Decision Support
– Financial “Rocket Science”
• NT / UNIX Interoperability and Scalability
– HP and SGI UNIX DSMs
– Scalable Microsoft NT Clusters and NCSA Symbio
– HP/Intel Merced Processor in FY99-00
National Computational Science Alliance
NCSA / Alliance NT Projects
• NCSA Microsoft Intranet
– Internet Explorer 4.0 and Office 97
– Active Desktop (ActiveX & Push Technologies)
– NT 5.0 (Active Directory, Kerberos, Dfs)
• NT/UNIX Interoperability Testbed
– HP NT Pentium Pro Classroom & NT/UNIX Servers
– UNIX Programming Environment on NT PC
• Computing on NT Network
– NCSA Symbio and Univ. of Wisconsin Condor
• NT Cluster Scalability
– Microsoft Wolfpack
– Tightly Coupled SMP Clusters (Chien / Iyer)
National Computational Science Alliance
Allstate Pioneering an NT Intranet
• Standard Software Environment
– Microsoft Office
– Microsoft Outlook / Exchange
– Internet Explorer
– Windows NT Desktop / Server for Intel Platforms
– Oracle Database Technology
– CA Unicenter (TNG)
• TCP/IP Network
– T3 Backbone
– Sonet Ring Technology
• Partnering with NCSA as Microsoft / HP Testbed
• Partnering with NCSA and Computer Associates
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Performance Monitoring and
Capacity Planning
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Efficient Usage of the Resources
Performance Data Collection
Automated Analysis to Ensure Service Levels
Workloads Management
– Load Balancing
– Scheduling
– Remote Collaboration Sessions
• Capacity Planning Tools and Models
National Computational Science Alliance
The Alliance Intranet Support for a Virtual Organization
• Browser Interface Augmented by Java
• Threaded Discussion Spaces
• Federated Repository of Documents
– Backended by Lotus Domino
– Alliance Work Statements
– Alliance Power Points
• Administrative Tools
– Contacts
– Calendar
• Individualized Security Profiles
National Computational Science Alliance
The Emergence of Knowledge Management
October 20, 1997
National Computational Science Alliance
NCSA Knowledge Management Workspaces
Object and
Relational
Databases
Distributed Object
Technology
Collections
Data Warehouses
Agents
ORBs (CORBA / ActiveX )
Scripting
JavaBeans / Enterprise Objects
Java / Smalltalk
Knowledge
Discovery and
Visualization
SGI Mineset
AVS, VDI
Optimization
Optimization
Tools
Analysis
Collaborations
(Habanero, Tango)
Automated
Discovery
Simulation
Engine
CAVE
Devices
VRML
Application Specific Browser
Browser
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Visual Data Mining
of Total Insurance Claims Dataset
Allstate Insurance, NCSA Using SGI Mineset
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Alliance Researchers Using a Digital Video
Computational Infrastructure
CAVE Virtual Director
Habanero
Teams
Internet,
vBNS
Desktop Video
Teleconferencing
Individual Desktops
Create Digital Video Animation
Concurrently with Supercomputing
Digital Video
Server
= Digital Video Streams
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Alliance National Technology Grid
Workshop and Training Facilities
Powered by Silicon Graphics
Linked by the NSF vBNS
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Caterpillar’s Distributed Virtual Reality
Data courtesy of Valerie Lehner, NCSA, 1996
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Bringing Scientific / Information Visualization
& Virtual Environments to the NT Desktop
• Early Partner with SGI NT Supergraphics
– Port CAVE to NT
– Work with Alias/Wavefront on NT
• VRML and Java3D
– Compatible with CAVE Libraries
– Develop Specific Applets
– Integration with Collaborative Environments
• Work with AVS, VDI, and other Third Party
• Partner with Graphics Team at Microsoft
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