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HECRTF Bibliography

(Updated October 2004)

gold bullet DARPA gold bullet DoD gold bullet DOE/NNSA
gold bullet DOE/SC gold bullet NAS/CSTB gold bullet NASA
gold bullet NIH gold bullet NIST gold bullet NSF
gold bullet SIGGRAPH gold bullet TOP 500    


DARPA

Workshop on High-Productivity Programming Languages and Models (May 17-20, 2004)

STRATEGIC COMPUTING - New Generation Computing Technology: A Strategic Plan for its Development and Application to Critical Problems in Defense (October 28, 1983)

DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/hpcs/


DoD

IHEC Report on High Performance Computing for the National Security Community; NSA et al (July 1, 2002)
 
White Paper – DoD Research and Development Agenda for High Productivity Computing Systems (June 11, 2001)
 
Survey and Analysis of the National Security High Performance Computing Architectural Requirements (MITRE, June 4, 2001)
 
Defense Science Board Report on DoD Supercomputing Needs (October 11, 2000)

 


DOE/NNSA

ASCI Purple procurement (NNSA's latest procurement) and benchmarks used (February 22, 2002) http://www.llnl.gov/asci/purple/

Requirements for complex, multi-physics component and full-system weapons simulations
 


DOE/SC

H. Simon, "The Divergence Problem", Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2003; online at http://www.nersc.gov/~simon/

J. Dongarra, "Concluding Remarks and Future Directions", SC2002 PERC Tutorial: online at http://perc.nersc.gov/docs/sc2002/dongarra-sc2002.pdf

DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program
Program plan
  http://www.osti.gov/scidac/
  http://www.osti.gov/scidac/updates2003.html

Computational resource requirements of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) community: executive summary, full report (December 17, 2002) including executive summary, and strategic plan (April 4, 2002) (its table on page 7 gives examples of requirements for realistic calculations, the figure on page 8 indicates the improved precision in comparing theory and experiment).

NERSC's Sustained System Performance (SSP) benchmark (November 25, 2002)

DOE Office of Science background information on their "Ultrascale Simulation of Science" including a link to the Earth Simulator Web site (which includes information about policies and procedures) and to Web pages on building the science case for ultra scale simulation. (November 15, 2002) http://www.ultrasim.info/
Papers documenting HEC requirements for specified applications
    -- Accelerating Climate Prediction
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/climate_2pgr.pdf
    -- Benefits of an Earth Simulator Class Machine for U.S. Climate
Science
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/Benefits_of_ES_for_DOE.pdf
    -- Computational Environmental Molecular Science
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/cems.res.2.pdf
    -- Protecting the Nation's Groundwater
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/groundwater.html
    -- Grand Challenges in Computational Structural and Systems
Biology
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/ESC-response.bio.dad.pdf
    -- Computational Structural Genomics
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/genomics.html
    -- Biophysical Simulations Enabled by Ultrascale Simulation
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/Biophysics_Ultrasimulation_White_Paper_4-1-03.pdf
    -- Reasserting U.S. Leadership in Scientific Computation
http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/Occasional-Science-Computation.pdf
  Building the Science Case for UltraScale Simulation:
The following site contains additional papers on catalysis, combustion, nanoscience, materials, fusion, and high energy and nuclear physics http://www.ultrasim.info/doe_docs/index.html

DOE Office of Science work on developing a better understanding of the interactions between application performance and architecture
(November 15, 2002) http://www.appsmatrix.info/

C. W. McCurdy, R. Stevens, H. Simon, W. Kramer, D. Bailey, W. Johnston, C. Catlett, R. Lusk, T. Morgan, J. Meza, M. Banda, J. Leighton, J. Hules, "Creating Science-Driven Computer Architecture: A New Path to Scientific Leadership", October 2002, online at http://www.nersc.gov/news/blueplanet.html

H. Simon, "Five Trends in Supercomputing for the Next Five Years", July 2002, online at http://www.nersc.gov/~simon/Talks/Five_Trends.pdf
 
Background article describing the Effective System Performance (ESP) test benchmark (2000) http://www.nersc.gov/~kramer/papers/esp-sc2000.pdf
 
Metrics for making the case for the need and value of ultra-scale computing systems in science and engineering (December 12, 1999)

The Performance Evaluation Research Center: online at http://perc.nersc.gov/papers/presentations.htm


NAS/CSTB

NAS/CSTB Future of Supercomputing meeting on March 6, 2003
Senate Appropriations Committee language about the NAS Study of DOE/NNSA (second work product to be done by the JASONs)
  Presentations
   
-- Computational Challenges and Directions in the Office of Science (Dan Hitchcock, DOE/SC)
-- The Future of Supercomputing (José L. Muñoz, DOE/NNSA)
-- High Productivity Computing Systems (Robert Graybill, DARPA/IPTO)


NASA

Requirements for:
  Simulating simple nanoscale structures for complex systems (April 2003)
  Weather, climate, and solid Earth from the Earth Science Enterprise Computational Technology Requirements Workshop (2002)

Earth Science Enterprise Computational Technology Requirements Workshop: (1) report on the April 23 - May 1, 2002, workshop and (2) presentation of the workshop results to the Office of Earth Science senior management (May 23, 2002) http://esto.nasa.gov/programs/ct/ese-ct-results.html

Return on Investment for HPC Systems in the Research Environment, briefing to the HPC University by Dave Nelson, Deputy CIO, NASA (March 21, 2002)

Requirements for Earth system science: prediction of weather, climate, and natural hazards
 


NIH

The Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI) Report (June 1999) http://www.nih.gov/about/director/060399.htm
 


NIST

NIST's projects on packaging and interconnects:
http://www.eeel.nist.gov/omp/interconnect.html
  http://www.eeel.nist.gov/812/inte.htm

NIST's projects on software and benchmarking:
The NIST Central Computing Facility has testbeds to enable high-end software solutions to be tested at scale. Some examples are projects on clusters for parallel computing.
  Testbeds to enable high-end software solutions to be tested at scale: Screen Saver Science Project involves a distributed computing paradigm where useful computations are performed on an organization's computers whenever their screensavers are on. http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/savg/parallel/screen
  Metrics for software: Sparse Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines spBLAS http://math.nist.gov/spblas/ and http://math.nist.gov/spblas/performance.html
  Metrics for software: SciMark benchmarks for scienctific computing in Java http://math.nist.gov/scimark
  Metrics for software: Interoperable Message Passing Interface http://impi.nist.gov
  Archives of Past Research Projects at NIST on
    -- Cluster Computing Project: Automated Benchmarking Tool http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/cmr/cluster/index.html
    -- Internet Time Synchronization Project: MultiKron VLSI Instrumentation Chips and Interface Boards http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/cmr/multikron/index.html
    -- S-Check Project: Assaying and Improving Performances of Paralleland Networked Programs http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/cmr/scheck/index.html
    -- Scalable Computing Testbed Project: Understand and Push the Performance of Components, Both Hardware and Software,to Their Very Limits http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/cmr/scalable/index.html



NSF

Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (January 2003) http://www.cise.nsf.gov/sci/reports/CH1.pdf

Scaling Up Workshop - Application and software needs for using thousands of processors. "Scaling to New Heights Workshop: A Summary"
http://www.psc.edu/training/scaling/index.html

Requirements for a range of science disciplines
"Computation As a Tool for Discovery in Physics" report http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02176/start.htm
"Chemical Industry of the Future; Technology Roadmap for Computational Chemistry" (September 25, 1999)
http://ccrhq.org/vision/index/roadmaps/compchem%20Roadmap%2092599.pdf
Ocean Sciences http://www.geo-prose.com/oiti/report.html

"From Desktop to Teraflop: Exploiting the U.S. Lead in High Performance Computing" (August 2003). Addresses the pyramid of computing needs and the need for peak performance http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/stis1993/nsb93205/nsb93205.txt


SIGGRAPH

D. Baum, "3D Graphics Hardware: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going": online at http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n1/contributions/baum.htm


TOP 500

The Top 500 Supercomputer Sites: online at http://www.top500.org

 
 
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