A Multifrequency MAC Specially Designed for Wireless Sensor

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science High Performance Computing Facility Operational Assessment, CY 2011 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility February 2012 Prepared by Arthur S. Bland James J. Hack Ann E. Baker Ashley D. Barker Kathlyn J. Boudwin Doug Hudson Ricky A. Kendall Bronson Messer James H. Rogers Galen M. Shipman Jack C. Wells Julia C. White U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FACILITY OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT, FY11 OAK RIDGE LEADERSHIP COMPUTING FACILITY Arthur S. Bland Ricky A. Kendall James J. Hack Bronson Messer Ann E. Baker James H. Rogers Ashley D. Barker Galen M. Shipman Kathlyn J. Boudwin Jack C. Wells Doug Hudson Julia C. White February 2012 Prepared by OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6283 managed by UT-BATTELLE, LLC for the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. 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CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES ....................................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................ vi EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................ 1 Communications with Key Stakeholders ................................................................. 2 Summary of 2011 Metrics ...................................................................................... 3 Responses to Recommendations from the Previous 2011 Operational Assessment Review ........................................................................................ 6 1. USER RESULTS ..................................................................................................12 1.1 User Results Summary ...................................................................................12 1.2 User Support Metrics .....................................................................................13 1.2.1 Overall Satisfaction Rating for the Facility .........................................13 1.2.2 Average Rating across All User Support Questions .............................14 1.2.3 Improvement on Past Year Unsatisfactory Ratings..............................15 1.3 Assessing the Effectiveness of the OLCF User Survey ...................................15 1.4 Problem Resolution Metrics ...........................................................................17 1.4.1 Problem Resolution Metric Summary .................................................17 1.5 User Support and Outreach ............................................................................18 1.5.1 User Support ......................................................................................18 1.5.2 UAO Analysts ....................................................................................19 1.5.3 Scientific Computing Liaisons ............................................................20 1.5.4 Communications ................................................................................23 1.5.5 Training .............................................................................................23 1.5.6 Outreach ............................................................................................25 1.6 User Support Conclusion ...............................................................................26 2. BUSINESS RESULTS ..........................................................................................27 2.1 Business Results Summary ............................................................................27 2.2 Cray XT Compute Partition Summary ............................................................27 2.3 Resource Availability .....................................................................................30 2.3.1 Scheduled Availability .......................................................................30 2.3.2 Overall Availability ............................................................................31 2.3.3 Mean time to Interrupt ........................................................................32 2.3.4 Mean Time to Failure .........................................................................32 2.4 Resource Utilization.......................................................................................33 2.4.1 Total System Utilization .....................................................................33 2.5 Capability Utilization .....................................................................................35 3. STRATEGIC RESULTS .......................................................................................37 3.1 Science Output ...............................................................................................38 3.2 Scientific Accomplishments ...........................................................................38 3.2.1 Subatomic Physics .............................................................................38 3.2.2 Chemical and Materials Research .......................................................39 3.2.3 Bioenergy...........................................................................................42 iii 3.3 Accomplishments in Energy Systems Research ..............................................43 3.3.1 Energy Systems Simulation ................................................................43 3.4 Allocation of Facility Director’s Reserve .......................................................47 3.4.1 Director’s Discretionary Program .......................................................47 3.4.2 Industrial HPC Partnerships Program .................................................49 3.5 Management of INCITE Projects ...................................................................50 4. INNOVATION .....................................................................................................60 4.1 Application Readiness....................................................................................61 4.2 Application Support .......................................................................................63 4.3 Outreach ........................................................................................................64 4.4 Systems .........................................................................................................65 4.5 Leadership .....................................................................................................67 4.6 Energy Management ......................................................................................68 5. RISK MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................70 5.1 Risk Management ..........................................................................................70 5.2 Major Risks Tracked in the Current Year .......................................................71 5.2.1 ID# 979 – Insufficient Funding to Meet DOE Commitments (FY2013) ...........................................................................................71 5.2.2 ID# 974 – Insufficient Funding to Meet DOE Commitments (FY2012) ...........................................................................................72 5.2.3 ID# 404 – Insufficient Funding to Meet DOE Commitments (FY2011) ...........................................................................................72 5.2.4 ID# 948 – Lack of Infrastructure for an Exascale System ....................72 5.2.5 ID# 721 – Lustre Metadata Performance Continues to Impact Applications .......................................................................................73 5.2.6 ID# 361 – Scientists Decline to Port to Heterogeneous Architecture .......................................................................................73 5.2.7 ID# 906 – Programming Environment Tools May Be Insufficient .........................................................................................74 5.2.8 ID# 912 – New Architecture Requires New Programming Model ................................................................................................74 5.2.9 ID# 975 – Supply chain issues i.e. flooding in Thailand may impact disk drive acquisitions .............................................................75 5.2.10 ID# 915 – System Upgrade from XT5 to XK6 Takes Too Long Causing Users to Seek Alternative Computing Resources ...................75 5.3 Risk That Occurred during the current year and the effectiveness of their mitigations .............................................................................................75 5.4 Risks retired during the current year

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