HPCC Group / Project Overview
Scalable and Dependable Applications and Infrastructure for
High-Performance Computing and Networking
Reconfigurable Hardware Empowered
Grid Computing
MOTIVATIONS
* Building run-anywhere applications seen as
cost-effective approach for future HPC applications
* Grid computing tries to solve the problem of not enough resources for large HPC applications
* Customized hardware try to solve the problem of
not enough speed for large applications
* RC (FPGA-based) provides flexibility over
regular hardware (ASIC-based) computing and solves the problem of I am stuck
to the same hardware!
* So why not RC-enabled Grids: flexible, fast
computation with shareable resources spread across sites that are physically
apart from each other
APPROACH
* Study the challenges involved in enabling Grids
with RC using simulation
* Application performance feasibility study on
future RC grids
* Extensions to Grid middleware such as Globus and other grid tools
* Initial deployments to assess validity of
assumptions
* Will leverage a strong background in Grid
computing and RC
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International
Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL) -- NSF
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MONitoring Agents using a Large Integrated Services Architecture
(MonALISA) -- CalTech
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Gossip-Enabled
Monitoring Service (GEMS) -- UF
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SPHINX: Grid Scheduling
Middleware -- UF
~V
Comprehensive-based
Approach to Reconfigurable Management Architecture (CARMA) -- UF
CHALLENGES
(Foreseen for RC Grids)
* VHDL, configuration files and the like are more
architecture-dependent than regular C or Fortran routines
*
Locating, transferring and handling of I/O and
configuration files over long haul networks
*
Timing issues w.r.to
preloading the configuration files to program the FPGAs
*
Handling dynamic reconfiguration in real time
* Partitioning of large applications into multiple
FPGAs
* Additionally, general challenges related to Grids
OTHER HPCC Group PROJECTS
GEMS Project
Parallel and Distributed Computing for Fault-tolerant Sonar Arrays
Computational Framework for Simulating Joint Mechanics
High-Performance Networking Related Projects
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