| Preface | 4 |
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| Contents | 6 |
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| Operating System and Software for Large Scale Systems | 12 |
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| Light-Weight Kernel with Portals | 13 |
| Introduction | 13 |
| Kitten | 15 |
| OFED | 16 |
| Benchmarks | 17 |
| Portals | 17 |
| Portals: A Brief Introduction | 18 |
| Optimizing Portals for LWK | 19 |
| A High-Performance Infiniband NAL | 20 |
| Benchmarks | 21 |
| MPI | 22 |
| ORTE Job Preparation and Startup | 22 |
| Job Start on the Light-Weight Kernel | 24 |
| Architecture of OOB/Portals | 25 |
| Conclusion and Future Work | 25 |
| References | 26 |
| Towards an Architecture for Management of Very Large Computing Systems | 27 |
| Introduction | 27 |
| Specific Challenges in HPC | 28 |
| Challenges | 30 |
| Jitter | 31 |
| Scalability | 32 |
| Data Correlation | 33 |
| Error Handling | 33 |
| Scheduler Awareness | 34 |
| Tool Integration | 34 |
| TIMaCS---The Project | 35 |
| Idea and Objectives | 35 |
| Issues---Addressed and Not Addressed | 36 |
| Architecture | 37 |
| Administrational Benefits | 40 |
| Security Constraints | 40 |
| Mission-Critical Constraints | 40 |
| Performance Tuning | 41 |
| Dynamic Changes | 41 |
| Hardware Management | 41 |
| Business-Benefits with Business-Policy Based Management | 42 |
| Need for Business-Policy Based Job-Scheduling in HPC | 42 |
| Approach | 43 |
| Conclusion and Future Outlook | 44 |
| References | 44 |
| Empirical Optimization of Collective Communications with ADCL | 46 |
| Introduction and Motivation | 46 |
| The Abstract Data and Communication Library (ADCL) | 47 |
| Semantics of the New ADCL Interfaces | 49 |
| The Vector-Map Object | 49 |
| Extension of the ADCL Interfaces | 51 |
| The New Function Sets | 52 |
| Performance Evaluation | 53 |
| Integration of ADCL | 53 |
| Setup | 55 |
| Results | 55 |
| Summary and Outlook | 57 |
| References | 58 |
| I/O Strategies | 59 |
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| I/O Forwarding on NEC SX-9 | 60 |
| IOFWD Implementation | 60 |
| Design of IOFWD | 61 |
| IOFWD Components | 62 |
| Implementation Status | 63 |
| Performance Results | 64 |
| IOFWD Usage | 64 |
| System Overview at HLRS | 65 |
| Application Workflow Example | 66 |
| Application Integration, Compilation, Building and Running | 67 |
| First Real Application Experiences | 68 |
| Conclusion | 69 |
| References | 69 |
| High-Speed Data Transmission Technology for the NEC SX-9 | 70 |
| Introduction | 70 |
| LSI Technology | 72 |
| Serial Interface | 72 |
| Clocks | 72 |
| High-Speed Circuit Technology | 73 |
| Transmission Technology | 74 |
| Power Noise Countermeasures | 76 |
| Summary | 78 |
| References | 78 |
| Grid and Cloud Computing | 79 |
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| The Vector Computing Cloud: Toward a Vector Meta-Computing Environment | 80 |
| Introduction | 81 |
| Basic Concept of the Vector Computing Clouds | 82 |
| Prototyping of the Vector Computing Cloud | 83 |
| Virtualizing Vector Supercomputers: GRID VM for SX | 84 |
| Job Scheduling on the Vector Computing Cloud | 85 |
| MPI Environment for Vector Computing Cloud | 88 |
| Feasibility Study and Early Performance Evaluations | 88 |
| Performance Evaluation of the Job Scheduling Mechanism | 89 |
| System Tests | 90 |
| Performance of HPL | 93 |
| Conclusions | 95 |
| References | 95 |
| Full-Scale 3D Vibration Simulator of an Entire Nuclear Power Plant on Simple Orchestration Application Framework | 97 |
| Introduction | 98 |
| Full-Scale 3D Vibration Simulator for an Entire Nuclear Power Plant | 100 |
| GDS Application of Full-Scale 3D Vibration Simulator | 100 |
| Needs of Pipelined Data-Transfer Scenario | 101 |
| Development of Simple Orchestration Application Framework | 103 |
| Functionalities | 104 |
| Implementation | 104 |
| Full-Scale Simulation of High Temperature Test Engineering Reactor | 105 |
| Summaries | 108 |
| References | 109 |
| Development of Simple Orchestration Application Framework and Its Application to Burning Plasma Simulation | 111 |
| Introduction | 111 |
| Simple Orchestration Application Framework (SOAF) | 113 |
| Overview of SOAF | 113 |
| Controller | 114 |
| Sentinel | 115 |
| Configuration File | 116 |
| Development of Simple Orchestration Application Framework | 117 |
| Burning Plasma Simulation | 118 |
| Experiment | 120 |
| Summaries | 123 |
| References | 124 |
| Acoustics and Structural Mechanic | 125 |
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| On Sound Generated by a Globally Unstable Round Jet | 126 |
| Introduction | 126 |
| Numerical Setup | 127 |
| Round Jet Flow Simulation | 127 |
| Aeroacoustic Computation | 129 |
| Parallelization of the Acoustic Solver | 131 |
| Results | 133 |
| Jet Characteristics | 133 |
| Acoustic Results | 135 |
| Conclusion | 137 |
| References | 137 |
| Numerical Simulation of Sibilant [s] Using the Real Geometry of a Human Vocal Tract | 140 |
| Introduction | 140 |
| Signal Processing for Consonants | 141 |
| Sound Induced Flow | 141 |
| Sibiant [s] in Dental Treatments | 141
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