TLC 2 Overview. Lennart Johnsson Director Cullen Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

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1 TLC 2 Overview Director Cullen Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

2 TLC 2 Mission to foster and support collaborative interdisciplinary research, education and training with a focus on the effective adoption, use and development of information and computer technologies

3 TLC 2 Resources Provide an infrastructure enabling and supporting research and education requiring significant computational, storage, networking and visualization resources and state-of-the-art communication tools and electronic classrooms Seed new research initiatives Support innovation in education and training Provide expertise in computing and information technology tools development and use (web, data base, HPCN) Provide assistance in proposal preparation and research award management Provide assistance with arrangements of workshops, symposia, conferences, and external relations promotional efforts (web, flyers, posters, ) Facilitate the formation of new centers and institutes

4 TLC 2 Personnel by category 2004 TLC2 Personnel by Category (961 total) 4% Staff 41 Faculty 74 8% 14% 130 Scientists/Researchers/PostDoc Undergraduate Students 546 Graduate Students % 18%

5 TLC 2 personnel ethnicity TLC % Caucasian Hispanic 27% Black/African American Asian 25% 23% 2% Other

TLC 2 Faculty TLC2 Faculty Members with TLC2 Funding - by Department* Geosciences 1 2% Mechanical Engineering 1 2% English 1 2% Computer Science 11 27% Political Science 1 2% Chemical Engineering 1

6 TLC 2 Faculty TLC2 Faculty Members with TLC2 Funding - by Department* Geosciences 1 2% Mechanical Engineering 1 2% English 1 2% Computer Science 11 27% Political Science 1 2% Chemical Engineering 1 2% Psychology 10 23% Information Logistics Technology 1 2% Electrical & Computer Engineering 2 5% Biology & Biochemistry 2 5% Physics 3 7% Chemistry 4 9% Mathematics 5 12% *cumulative for FY00 - FY04

7 Outreach Participants by Place of Origin for TLC2 Organized Events - Cummulative International 37 8% University of Houston 71 16% Houston Metropolitan Area 93 21% United States % State of Texas 6 1% Events Organized by TLC2 Core Staff National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Workshop First Houston High Field NMR Symposium Robotics and Computer Vision NSF PI Workshop First Half Second NIH Workshop Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools

PGH-200, PGH-218, and PGH-232 Ability to direct SGI output to PGH-200, PGH-218 and

8 Communication Facilities AG node from InSorS Used regularly for HiPCAT meetings 50% domestic, 50% international AV Facilities Video conference capabilities in rooms PGH-200, PGH-218, and PGH-232 Ability to direct SGI output to PGH-200, PGH-218 and PGH-232 in addition to displays in PGH Keck Center for Computational Biology Seminars Spring 2004

Classrooms PGH 200 48 seats with - 15 flat

4 GHz AMD Athlon PCs - individual teacher

9 Classrooms PGH seats with - 15 flat panel displays GHz AMD Athlon PCs - individual teacher student interaction facilities Dual boot Linux Windows XP server AV for video conferencing Dual projection capability Streaming video from visualization laboratory

10 Classrooms PGH seats with Video conference facilities Stereographic projection capabilities Power/Network port at every desk

Visualization Laboratory SGI Reality Center 3300W 3

9 VHS Video up to 1600 x 1200 @ 60 Hz per channel

R-14000 Processors 8 GB Main Memory 4 IR3 Pipelines

4 ImmersaDesk R2 4 x 5 movable screen 3D

11 Visualization Laboratory SGI Reality Center 3300W 3 Channel Stereo Screen 12.6 x 23.9 VHS Video up to 1600 x 60 Hz per channel 3D stereoscopic capability SGI Onyx MHz R Processors 8 GB Main Memory 4 IR3 Pipelines Runs on IRIX Software Packages VMD OpenInventor 4.0 Amira 3.1 MPT 1.9 Compiler Suites GCC 3.3 MIPSpro 7.4 ImmersaDesk R2 4 x 5 movable screen 3D Stereoscopic capability Performance Libraries SGI Scientific Library Monitoring/Management Software Ganglia Cluster Monitor

12 1.6 TFlops Linux Cluster 152 Itanium2 nodes dual 1.3 GHz/3MB processor nodes 4 GB per node Myrinet, 152 host ports, 304 spine ports GigE for System Area Networking, 4:1 oversubscription Management network Second most powerful computer in a Texas Educational Institution Ranked 102 among the worlds 500 most powerful computers Acquired as part of an Intel/HP/TLC 2 partnership

13 Distributed Storage Network Provide NFS based filesystems to SGI, Solaris and Linux clients in Chemistry, Geosciences, Computer Science, and TLC2. RedHat 9.0

14 RENoH College Station Dallas Kansas City Chicago San Antonio Baton Rouge Jacksonville El Paso Los Angeles LEARN NLR

15 Research Highlights High-Energy Physics Air Quality Modeling Bioinformatics Biodefense Reading Comprehension Assessment for Bilingual Children Grid Technology

16 LHC Computing Grid (LCG)

17 The ALICE Data Challenge ALICE will produce ~1.7 PB/Year of Raw Data, and an annual net storage requirement for > 4.0 PB/Year The Reduction of that data will require the commitment of ~16,000 ksi2k of CPU In the US, we will need >400 TB/year of storage and 3,400 ksi2k of CPU Note that TLC 2 s fastest Itanium nodes are <1kSI2k And all of this data needs to be moved around easily and quickly!

18 Air Quality Modeling Houston, TX University of Houston Texas A&M University UT Austin University of Alabama, Huntsville

19 Bioinformatics - Biodefense Statistical Properties of Short Subsequences in Microbial/Viral Genomes

20 The detection and identification of microbes in complex samples from the environment, clinical specimens, food, etc. Counting Arrays We can do it extremely fast for up to 25-mers

21 Reading Comprehension Assessment for Bilingual Children Right Early Bilinguals SN/ED Left Spanish more active English more active (Hernandez, A.E., Dapretto, M., Mazziotta, J. & Bookheimer, S., 2001)

22 Functional Brain Imaging via Dense-Array EEG Biosignal Analysis Brain Mapping Biomedical Imaging Lab Director: George Zouridakis

23 VGrADS

Research and Education with and in State-of-the-art Networking

Research and Education with and in State-of-the-art Networking Lennart Johnsson Director, the Texas Learning and Computation Center Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical