Joint Research with the Indiana University
Since 2009, a cooperation agreement for joint research and development sealed the long-term cooperation of ZIH and Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) in the field of high performance computing. The close relationship between the two institutions, which had previously been characterized by a continuous exchange of scientific and regular exchange visits of scholars, reflected for example in the common participation in competitions on the yearly held Supercomputing Conference in the U.S. Here, the joint teams succeeded several times, such as the winner of the Cluster Challenge 2008, when a team of students of the Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) Open Systems Lab and students of ZIH won a competition on the effective use of scientific applications on a small supercomputing clusters. In addition, ZIH has taken on projects requested by the IU part, e.g. FutureGrid, that is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The contractually underpinned cooperation is in the first five years, particularly on the issues of data-intensive computing, distributed file systems, and performance analysis of parallel systems but also to Computing for Biology and life sciences focus and create a basis for joint publications.
Activities
- Joint work in the "High Performance Group" (HPG) of the "Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation" (SPEC)
- Performance analysis of applications on HPC systems:
- SPEC MPI2007 Benchmark on Windows-HPC
- IU ScholarWorks: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/9919
- IUmd: Analysis of a molecular dynamics Application
- vSMP hypervisor on ScaleMP: Application benchmarks in virtual machines
- Trinity: Optimization of a De-Nove RNA sequence alignment code
- Joint research:
- Intel Sandybridge und AMD Interlagos benchmarks
- Netork tests betwenn ZIH and IU
- Comparison of Xen und KVM virtualization
- Integration of wide-area file systems for data exchange between ZIH and IU
ZIH-Contact
Publications
- Robert Henschel, Matthias Lieber, Le-Shin Wu, Phillip M. Nista, Brian J. Haas, and Richard D. LeDuc: Trinity RNA-Seq assembler performance optimization. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyond (XSEDE '12). Article 45 , 8 pages, ACM, 2012.
- Robert Henschel and S. Simms and D. Hancock and S. Michael and T. Johnson and N. Heald and Thomas William and D. Berry and M. Allen and R. Knepper and M. Davy and M. Link and C. A. Stewart: Demonstrating Lustre over a 100 Gbps Wide Area Network of 3500km, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Network Storage, and Analysis (SC12). In SC '12 Companion: Proceedings of the 2012 companion on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion, ACM, 2012.
- Thomas William and Donald Berry and Robert Henschel: Analysis and Optimization of a Molecular Dynamics Code Using PAPl and the Vampir Toolchain. In Cray User Group Digital Library, 2012.
- Jahresbericht 2011-2012: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/16670
- Thomas William and Donald Berry and Robert Henschel, Electronic poster: performance studies of a molecular dynamics code. In SC '11 Companion: Proceedings of the 2011 companion on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion, pages 105-106, ACM, 2011
- Jahresbericht 2010-2011: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/14295