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NERSC 3 Greenbook

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Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Background and Introduction
• Energy Research User Community
  • Computing
  • Services
• Representative Energy Research Scientific Computing Efforts
  • High Energy and Nuclear Physics
    • Lattice Field Theory
    • Ab initio calculations of nuclear systems with realistic forces
    • Grand Challenge on High-Energy and Nuclear Physics Data Access
    • Overview of Accelerator Physics and High Performance Computing
    • The DOE Grand Challenge in Computational Accelerator Physics
    • Non-equilibrium Quantum Field Theory
  • Basic Energy Sciences
    • Multi-scale Materials Simulations on Massively Parallel Machines
    • First Principles Simulation of Materials Properties
    • Molecular Science in the Environment
    • Atomistic Simulation of Ceramic/Metal Interfaces
    • Large-scale Atomic Structure Calculations
  • Fusion Energy
    • 3d MHD Calculations in Toroidal Geometry
    • Numerical Tokamak Turbulence Grand Challenge Project
    • 3D Simulation of Heavy-Ion Beams for Inertial Confinement Fusion Drivers
  • Biological and Environmental Research
    • Molecular Structures of Carcinogen-DNA Adducts
    • North-West Computational Chemistry Suite
    • Parallel Climate Modeling on High-Performance Computing Systems
  • Computational and Technology Research
    • Development of DOE-Wide Computational Grid
    • Center for Computational Science and Engineering
    • Computational Chemistry for Nuclear Waste Characterization and Processing: Relativistic Quantum Chemistry of Actinides
• The Energy Research Computational Resources
  • Hardware
    • Parallel Vector Supercomputers
    • Massively Parallel Processing Supercomputers
    • Symmetric Multiprocessors
    • Workstations
    • Database Servers
    • Scientific Visualization Services
    • Special Computers
    • Network
  • Software
    • Operating Systems
    • Libraries, Compilers, Debuggers, and Performance Analysis Tools
    • Distributed Computing and Unified Production Environments
    • Scientific Applications: Third Party
    • Scientific Applications: User Developed
  • Basic Research and Human Resources
  • The High Performance Computing Access Center Services
• Specific Recommendations
  • Expand the high performance computing resources available at NERSC.
  • Focus efforts to transition appropriate applications to parallel systems.
  • Strengthen the networks.
  • Encourage collaborations and integration among ER physical, computational, and computer science programs.
  • Encourage software development.
  • Encourage science of scale by enhancing the effective use of the capability computing systems
  • Encourage Expansion of Data Intensive Computing Capabilities
• ERSUG Action Items
• Acknowledgments
• Requirements for Supercomputing in Energy Research: The Transition to Massively Parallel Computing
  • Executive Summary
• ExERSUG and User Input to the OSC
  • Letter to Office of Scientific Computing, December 1995
  • View from the Energy Research Users
    • Summary of users' concerns
    • On the Need for SMPs at NERSC
    • Conclusion
• Findings of the Second Pasadena Workshop on System Software and Tools for High Performance Computing Environments
  • Focus Questions
  • Major Findings
    • Progress and Accomplishment
    • Critical Problems and Challenges
    • Driving Factors
  • Recommendations
    • What Needs To Be Achieved
  • Implementation Initiatives
  • Conclusions
• DOE/OCTR/MICS White Paper
  • Conclusion and Strategy from the discussion below:
  • The Nature of ER Computing/Communications Today
  • The Nature of Computing/Communications in the Year 2000
    • Expecting some slowdown in the progress of technology:
  • Target for Energy Research Computing in the Year 2000:
    • Local sites:
    • Access site:
    • The plan:
    • Beyond 2000:
• Opportunities and Challenges of High Performance Computing in Chemistry
  • Executive Summary
  • Recommendations