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listed in the EOT section of this report. One of the EOT highlights, in this quarter, was teaching
of an Introductory HPC workshop at Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez) in December. Multiple AUS staff such as Marcela
Madrid (PSC), Mahidhar Tatineni (SDSC), Amit Majumdar (SDSC), Sergiu Sanieleveici (PSC)
participated in this workshop at Puerto Rico.
Under the ASEOT effort, AUS staff continued to participate in the Extreme Scalability (XS)
working group, which specifically focuses on architecture, performance, tools and software
related to petascale-level simulation. AUS staff are participating in projects identified by the XS
working group, and in many cases these projects allow interaction with researchers/users funded
by NSF PetaApps, SDCI, and STCI grants. Interactions within the extreme scalability working
group also help AUS staff to identify ASPs that may impact large number of users. The hybrid
MPI-OpenMP programming model project and the TAU tools project, as stated in §5.5.2.2, are
joint projects between the AUS area and the XS working group.
AUS experts, from all the RP sites, regularly present technical talks at the bi-weekly AUS
technical tele/web-conferences. These technical talks, based on ASTA work or other AUS work,
are recorded and the slides and the audio recordings are available from:
http://teragridforum.org/mediawiki/index.phptitle=Technical_presentations.
Multiple AUS staff are regular members of the TRAC review committee and in addition many
AUS staff review TRAC proposals that request smaller amount of SUs and hence do not require
review by regular members of the TRAC review committee.
6 User Facing Projects and Core Services
The User-Facing Projects and Core Services (UFC) area continued its work of providing the
central access and information dissemination points for TeraGrid users and to present a single
interface to the collective efforts of the TeraGrid RPs. The GIG supports and coordinates effort in
this area from staff at IU, NCSA, PSC, SDSC, TACC, and UC/ANL.
6.1 Highlights
In a project spanning multiple RPs staff from NCSA, PSC and SDSC, coordinated as a team
through the GIG, successfully upgraded the TGCDB’s primary and secondary servers to new
versions of postgreSQL. This upgrade provides significant performance enhancements as well as
an ongoing supported version of the db for TeraGrid.
TeraGrid continues to set new records for use, in October, 1,373 individuals charged jobs on
TeraGrid resources, a new monthly high. Contributing to this increase was a rise in science
gateway use, nearly 1/3 of all TeraGrid users submitted jobs were done so through a science
gateway.
SDSC staff members installed Trestles documentation as well as integrated Trestles into AMIE in
preparation of the Jan 1 production date.
TACC staff members, Katie Cohen and Kent Milfeld coordinated the TRAC review process and
organized the allocation review meeting held within the reporting period. In addition, the TACC
team organized and chaired the weekly allocations working group meetings, and processed all
advance, startup and supplement allocation requests (275) during the reporting period.
6.2 Enhanced TeraGrid User Access
This objective supports the creation and distribution of new user logins across TeraGrid RPs for
the various resources, as well as enhancements to this process to integrate with campus
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