Vladimir Korkhov

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Institute for High Performance Computing and
Information SystemsSt.Petersburg, Russia

• Vladimir Korkhov
• vladimir_at_csa.ru

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A bit of history

• International Institute for Interphase
  Interactions, founded in 1991
• 1996 Institute for High Performance Computing
  and Data Bases
• Center for Supercomputing Applications

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IHPCIS activities

• Solutions for design and installation of
  supercomputer centers
• Fundamental and applied scientific research
  requiring HPC and complex mathematical modeling
  e.g. forecast of the consequences of
  anthropogenous impact on a local climate,
  simulation of the semiconductor materials and
  carbon nanostructures, modeling of bioactive
  compounds properties, simulation and design of
  drugs, etc.
• Simulation of gas dynamic processes in different
  problems of aerospace, machinery, vehicle and
  technological equipment design
• Development of complex solutions in the area of
  information system technologies

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CSA Center for Supercomputing Applications

• Since 1996 providing supercomputing facilities to
  researchers
• Remote access node for researchers from SPbSU PTC
• Various computing platforms available vector,
  vector-parallel, parallel (SMP and MPP systems)
• In 1999 one of the first Linux clusters in Russia
  created using Myrinet links

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CSA facilities

• Computer zoo
• vector system Convex C-120,
• vector-parallel C-3820 and C-3440
• parallel Parsytecs CC/16, CCe20, CCiD
• SMP system Convex SPP-1600
• Linux cluster on Myrinet
• Sun Ultra Enterprise servers

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Selected applications

• Virtual Plasma Reactor (PECVD)
• Marine decision support systems seaworthiness,
  helicopter landing, unsinkability
• Telemedicine
• Computational Fluid Dynamics applications
• Parallel DBMS

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Virtual plasma reactor

• Software for numerical simulation of plasma
  enhanced chemical vapour deposition reactors
  (PECVD). PECVD is one of the most wide-spread
  technologies for production of silicon-based
  films, the important material in
  microelectronics.
• Requires the significant computational resources
  
• complex geometry of industrial reactors
• complicated hydrodynamic processes
• dozens of chemical species and hundreds
• of chemical reactions
• Russia Belorussia
• supercomputing initiative
• (SKIF project)

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Distributed computing activities in CSA

• First try of Grid technologies in 2001 testbed
  with SPb Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) based
  on Globus 1.1.3
• Currently testbed with SPbSU PTC based on GT3 is
  being deployed
• Collaboration with University of Amsterdam in a
  number of grid-related projects
• - Virtual Laboratory for e-Science, since 2001
• - Dynamite, 2002-2003
• - NWO project, starting now

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Virtual Laboratory

• A collaborative analysis environment for applied
  experimental science
• Middleware to bridge the gap between fundamental
  services of Grid and application layer
• Offers effective and transparent utilization of
  distributed resources
• Support scientists in building meta-applications
  by providing ready-to-use application components
  and means for developers to create such
  components

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Dynamite

• Dynamic load balancing and fault tolerance of
  parallel programs (PVM/MPI) using distributed
  checkpointing, migration and restart of sub-tasks
• Transparent on application code level
• Usage of remote system idle-time (Condor-style)
• Cluster solution developed, targeting to Grid
  porting

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High Performance Simulation (NWO/RFBR)

• High Performance Simulation on the Grid
• Russia - Netherlands Grid testbed
• The Virtual Reactor application - to drive and
  validate the development
• Final system - a distributed collaborative
  environment with advanced interaction and
  visualization facilities
• Participants UvA, IHPCDB, IHED-IVTAN (Russian
  Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Institute of
  Computational Mathematics (Siberian Branch of
  Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk), SPb
  State University
• NWO Nederlandse Organisatie voor
  Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
• RFBR Russian Fund for Basic Research

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Collaboration

• IHPCIS collaborates with national and
  international partners, in particular
• SPb State University
• SPb Nuclear Physics Institute
• University of Amsterdam
• Software AG