DISCOM2: The Distance Computing SP2 Pilot FY98 Report: Sandia Report SAND99-1143

78 pages. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Approved for public release. Distribution lists only about 100 copies. Authors continued: Goudy, Sue P., and Byers, Rupert K., and Beiriger, Juday, and Wiltzius, David P. : Dave", and Shirley, David N. The authors represented the following organizations: Sandia National Laboratories (Advanced Network Integration, Scientific Computing Systems, Decision Support System Architecture), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and ANNA Technologies, Inc. The content of this report reflect work in progress during Fiscal Year 1998. The SP2 Pilot Project was launched in March 1998 as a way to bootstrap the DISCOM2 Distance Computing Program. The Pilot was directed towards creating an environment to allow Sandia users to run their applications on the Accelerated Strategic Computing initiative's (ASCI) Blue Pacific computation platform, the unclassified IBM SP2 platform at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The DISCOM2 Pilot leveraged the ASCI PSE (Problem Solving Environment) efforts in networking and Services to baseline the performance of the current system. The key areas of the pilot were: applicaitons, services, networking, visualization, and the system model. This report details not only the running of two Sandia codes CTH and COYOTE on the Blue Pacific platform, but also the building of the Sandia National Laboratories proxy environment of the RS6000 platforms to support the Sandia users.…