will the fun never end? sc2005 the book

CCACommon Component Architecture

1CCA Forum Meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY 1CCA Forum Meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY6-7 October 2004

Will the Fun Never End?

SC2005The Book

David Bernholdt

ORNL



Part I: CCA @ SC2005


3CCA Forum Meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY6-7 October 2004

Tutorial

• All day, Monday (M02)• Includes hands-on • David Bernholdt coordinating• Boyana, Ben, Gary, and David speaking• Many more helping with hands-on• Watch tutorial-wg list for final call for

volunteers – no response means you won’t be put on the list

and won’t be able to get into the tutorial room



Booths

• No SciDAC booth!

• ORNL booth will be larger and significantly rearranged again

• Exhibit Hall Schedule– Monday, 7-9pm Opening Gala

• Program managers frequently tour just before opening!– Tuesday-Wednesday, 10am-6pm– Thursday, 10am-4pm



Seattle Show Floor

(Lower Level)

Utah

LANL

NCAR

PNNL

Indiana

ANL

ORNL

ASCI



ORNL Booth Layout (30’x50’)

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CCS Computers

NLCF

AstroFusion

Climate/ ESG

Visualization,EVEREST

CSESensorNet

Data Mining

UT?

JICS

Cray X1E

Cray XT3

HPSS/Lustre

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Hardware “U”

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Apps “U” Apps “C”

FutureTech “C” CSE “C”

NLCF Walls

NLCF Apps1

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Tools “U”

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Upper Poster



Lower Poster



Poster Discussion

• Email changes to db or put on wiki• Deadline: Sunday 9 October 2005• Need to have a short discussion here



Anticipated Booth Content

• Posters– Comment on proofs by Sunday!

• Demos– 1 demo station available, shared with PPT loop, handouts– What demos will be available?– Proposal: demos on demand rather than pre-arranged

• PPT loop (volunteer needed to coordinate)– Show continuously on Monster Laptop (?)

• Unless space needed for demos

• 2-pagers (individual responsibility)– Create, copy (50-200 copies), and bring– db will reproduce final SciDAC2 highlight– db will create & reproduce “CCA @ SC2005” handout



Additional Notes• Booth needs to be staffed at all times

– Generally 1-2 people– Volunteer needed to coordinate signup

• Booth will be crowded and cannot be a hangout!

• Subscribe to: [email protected]• https://www.cca-forum.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=SC2005+Internal

– Follow link in “Meetings” menu item– Requires that you be logged in– To register, follow directions on main wiki page

• Need info from everyone on:– Booths with CCA content– Demonstrations available– Booth schedule– Other CCA-related activities/events– Contact info



Part II: CCA: Now a Best-Selling Book!



Progress Report

• Series of telecons since July meeting• Defined audience• Created outline• Assigned chapter editors• Determined page budgets• Determined schedules

• [email protected] mailing list• CVS repository:

– CVSROOT = cca-forum.org:/cvs/cca-book– Module = book– See planning/*



Audience• High-level managers, decision makers• Software architects/engineers

• Computational scientists w/o particular CS knowledge/experience– including grad students, postdocs, etc.– including educators and students

• Owners of large codes/libraries who may not be aware of components– more large-scale programming experience than computational scientists

• Applied mathematicians

• CCA component developers• CCA component users (do we have enough content for this

audience?)

• CS academics interested in CCA vs other component technologies



Outline (Chapter Level)

• Preface [David Bernholdt]

• Part I: Component Concepts and Software ArchitectureA. Motivation [David Bernholdt]B. How Can Component Technology Help

Computational Science [David Bernholdt & Jim Kohl]

C. Why Yet Another Component Architecture for HPC? [Randy Bramley]



Outline – Cont.• Part II. The Common Component Architecture

A. Requirements [Boyana Norris]B. The Architecture [Rob Armstrong]C. Overview of the CCA Specification [Ben Allan]D. The Importance of Interfaces [Jim Kohl]E. Language Interoperability [Gary Kumfert]F. Local Component Interactions [Tammy Dahlgren & Wael Elwasif]G. Parallel Components [David Bernholdt]H. Distributed Components [Madhu Govindaraju]I. Performance [Sameer Shende]J. Dynamic Environments, Plug-and-Play [Boyana Norris]K. Coupled Simulations [Jim Kohl & Randy Bramley]L. Deployment of CCA Components [Tom Epperly]M.Current Status of CCA and Tools [Ben Allan]N. Examples of Scientific Computing Using CCA [David Bernholdt]O. Vision for the Future of CCA [Rob Armstrong]



Outline – Cont.

• Part III. Practical Component Approaches for HPCA. Writing CCA Components [Wael Elwasif & Boyana Norris]B. Distributed Components [Ken Chiu & Madhu Govindaraju]C. Component Recipes for HPC [Lois McInnes and Randy

Bramley]D. Performance Evaluation, Performance Optimization

[Sameer Shende]E. Testing and Debugging of Component-Based Applications

[Jim Kohl & Tammy Dahlgren]F. CQoS, Dynamics Uses of Components, Automation,

Adaptation [Lois McInnes]

• Epilog [David Bernholdt]



Schedule[Chapter editors organize their teams, start writing (plain text -- don't worry about markup, etc.)]

2005-10-07 db provides writers guidelines, document structure, build system, etc.

[Writing of individual contributions]

2005-12-16 First draft of individual contributions

[Integration of individual contributions into a cohesive chapter]

2006-02-01 First (good) draft at chapter level

2006-02-01 Final decision on how to handle code examples

[Integration of chapters, weaving of code examples (as appropriate)]

2006-04-01 Complete first draft (incl. code/examples)

[Editing, proofreading, indexing, etc.]

2006-06-01 Final version ready for publisher. (This should be something we consider ready for publication.)



You Can Still Contribute!

• Identify chapters/sections of interest• Contact chapter editor and volunteer!

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