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21st Century Simulation: Exploiting High Performance Computing and Data Analysis
This paper identifies, defines, and analyzes the limitations imposed on Modeling and Simulation by outmoded
paradigms in computer utilization and data analysis. The authors then discuss two emerging capabilities to
overcome these limitations: High Performance Parallel Computing and Advanced Data Analysis. First, parallel
computing, in supercomputers and Linux clusters, has proven effective by providing users an advantage in
computing power. This has been characterized as a ten-year lead over the use of single-processor computers.
Second, advanced data analysis techniques are both necessitated and enabled by this leap in computing power.
JFCOM's JESPP project is one of the few simulation initiatives to effectively embrace these concepts. The
challenges facing the defense analyst today have grown to include the need to consider operations among non-combatant
populations, to focus on impacts to civilian infrastructure, to differentiate combatants from non-combatants,
and to understand non-linear, asymmetric warfare. These requirements stretch both current
computational techniques and data analysis methodologies. In this paper, documented examples and potential
solutions will be advanced. The authors discuss the paths to successful implementation based on their experience.
Reviewed technologies include parallel computing, cluster computing, grid computing, data logging, OpsResearch,
database advances, data mining, evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, and Monte Carlo sensitivity analyses.
The modeling and simulation community has significant potential to provide more opportunities for training and
analysis. Simulations must include increasingly sophisticated environments, better emulations of foes, and more
realistic civilian populations. Overcoming the implementation challenges will produce dramatically better insights,
for trainees and analysts. High Performance Parallel Computing and Advanced Data Analysis promise increased
understanding of future vulnerabilities to help avoid unneeded mission failures and unacceptable personnel losses.
The authors set forth road maps for rapid prototyping and adoption of advanced capabilities. They discuss the
beneficial impact of embracing these technologies, as well as risk mitigation required to ensure success
Lessons learned from urgent computing in Europe: Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), an international not-for-profit association that brings together the five largest European supercomputing centers and involves 26 European countries, has allocated more than half a billion core hours to computer simulations to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside experiments, these simulations are a pillar of research to assess the risks of different scenarios and investigate mitigation strategies. While the world deals with the subsequent waves of the pandemic, we present a reflection on the use of urgent supercomputing for global societal challenges and crisis management.Peer Reviewed"Article signat per 18 autors/es: Núria López, Luigi Del Debbio, Marc Baaden, Matej Praprotnik, Laura Grigori, Catarina Simões, Serge Bogaerts, Florian Berberich, Thomas Lippert, Janne Ignatius, Philippe Lavocat, Oriol Pineda, Maria Grazia Giuffreda, Sergi Girona, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Michael M. Resch, Gabriella Scipione, and Thomas Schulthess"Postprint (author's final draft
Reading list of selected PASM-related publications
Prepared for a chapter to be published in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing by Springer Publishing Company. The Encyclopedia will contain a broad coverage of the field and will include entries on machine organization, programming, algorithms, and applications. The broad coverage, together with extensive pointers to the literature for in-depth study, is expected to make the Encyclopedia a useful reference tool in parallel computing
A comparison of airborne and ground-based radar observations with rain gages during the CaPE experiment
The vicinity of KSC, where the primary ground truth site of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) program is located, was the focal point of the Convection and Precipitation/Electrification (CaPE) experiment in Jul. and Aug. 1991. In addition to several specialized radars, local coverage was provided by the C-band (5 cm) radar at Patrick AFB. Point measurements of rain rate were provided by tipping bucket rain gage networks. Besides these ground-based activities, airborne radar measurements with X- and Ka-band nadir-looking radars on board an aircraft were also recorded. A unique combination data set of airborne radar observations with ground-based observations was obtained in the summer convective rain regime of central Florida. We present a comparison of these data intending a preliminary validation. A convective rain event was observed simultaneously by all three instrument types on the evening of 27 Jul. 1991. The high resolution aircraft radar was flown over convective cells with tops exceeding 10 km and observed reflectivities of 40 to 50 dBZ at 4 to 5 km altitude, while the low resolution surface radar observed 35 to 55 dBZ echoes and a rain gage indicated maximum surface rain rates exceeding 100 mm/hr. The height profile of reflectivity measured with the airborne radar show an attenuation of 6.5 dB/km (two way) for X-band, corresponding to a rainfall rate of 95 mm/hr
Supercomputing in Aerospace
Topics addressed include: numerical aerodynamic simulation; computational mechanics; supercomputers; aerospace propulsion systems; computational modeling in ballistics; turbulence modeling; computational chemistry; computational fluid dynamics; and computational astrophysics
White Paper from Workshop on Large-scale Parallel Numerical Computing Technology (LSPANC 2020): HPC and Computer Arithmetic toward Minimal-Precision Computing
In numerical computations, precision of floating-point computations is a key
factor to determine the performance (speed and energy-efficiency) as well as
the reliability (accuracy and reproducibility). However, precision generally
plays a contrary role for both. Therefore, the ultimate concept for maximizing
both at the same time is the minimal-precision computing through
precision-tuning, which adjusts the optimal precision for each operation and
data. Several studies have been already conducted for it so far (e.g.
Precimoniuos and Verrou), but the scope of those studies is limited to the
precision-tuning alone. Hence, we aim to propose a broader concept of the
minimal-precision computing system with precision-tuning, involving both
hardware and software stack.
In 2019, we have started the Minimal-Precision Computing project to propose a
more broad concept of the minimal-precision computing system with
precision-tuning, involving both hardware and software stack. Specifically, our
system combines (1) a precision-tuning method based on Discrete Stochastic
Arithmetic (DSA), (2) arbitrary-precision arithmetic libraries, (3) fast and
accurate numerical libraries, and (4) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with
High-Level Synthesis (HLS).
In this white paper, we aim to provide an overview of various technologies
related to minimal- and mixed-precision, to outline the future direction of the
project, as well as to discuss current challenges together with our project
members and guest speakers at the LSPANC 2020 workshop;
https://www.r-ccs.riken.jp/labs/lpnctrt/lspanc2020jan/
Workshop proceedings: Information Systems for Space Astrophysics in the 21st Century, volume 1
The Astrophysical Information Systems Workshop was one of the three Integrated Technology Planning workshops. Its objectives were to develop an understanding of future mission requirements for information systems, the potential role of technology in meeting these requirements, and the areas in which NASA investment might have the greatest impact. Workshop participants were briefed on the astrophysical mission set with an emphasis on those missions that drive information systems technology, the existing NASA space-science operations infrastructure, and the ongoing and planned NASA information systems technology programs. Program plans and recommendations were prepared in five technical areas: Mission Planning and Operations; Space-Borne Data Processing; Space-to-Earth Communications; Science Data Systems; and Data Analysis, Integration, and Visualization
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