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ASC Trilab L2 Codesign Milestone 2015

Trott, Christian R.; Hammond, Simon D.; Dinge, Dennis D.; Lin, Paul L.; Vaughan, Courtenay T.; Cook, Jeanine C.; Rajan, Mahesh R.; Edwards, Harold C.; Hoekstra, Robert J.

For the FY15 ASC L2 Trilab Codesign milestone Sandia National Laboratories performed two main studies. The first study investigated three topics (performance, cross-platform portability and programmer productivity) when using OpenMP directives and the RAJA and Kokkos programming models available from LLNL and SNL respectively. The focus of this first study was the LULESH mini-application developed and maintained by LLNL. In the coming sections of the report the reader will find performance comparisons (and a demonstration of portability) for a variety of mini-application implementations produced during this study with varying levels of optimization. Of note is that the implementations utilized including optimizations across a number of programming models to help ensure claims that Kokkos can provide native-class application performance are valid. The second study performed during FY15 is a performance assessment of the MiniAero mini-application developed by Sandia. This mini-application was developed by the SIERRA Thermal-Fluid team at Sandia for the purposes of learning the Kokkos programming model and so is available in only a single implementation. For this report we studied its performance and scaling on a number of machines with the intent of providing insight into potential performance issues that may be experienced when similar algorithms are deployed on the forthcoming Trinity ASC ATS platform.

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FY14 Codesign Milestone Summary

Hoekstra, Robert J.; Barrett, Richard F.; Howell, Louis; Daniel, David

This milestone was the 2nd in a series of Tri-Lab Co-Design L2 milestones supporting ‘Co-Design’ efforts in the ASC program. It is a crucial step towards evaluating the effectiveness of proxy applications in exploring code performance on next generation architectures. All three labs evaluated the performance of 2 proxy applications on modern architectures and/or testbeds for pre-production hardware. The results are captured in this document as well as annotated presentations from all 3 laboratories.

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Final report for %22High performance computing for advanced national electric power grid modeling and integration of solar generation resources%22, LDRD Project No. 149016

Schoenwald, David A.; Richardson, Bryan T.; Riehm, Andrew C.; Wolfenbarger, Paul W.; Adams, Brian M.; Reno, Matthew J.; Hansen, Clifford H.; Oldfield, Ron A.; Stamp, Jason E.; Stein, Joshua S.; Hoekstra, Robert J.; Nelson, Jeffrey S.; Munoz-Ramos, Karina M.; McLendon, William C.; Russo, Thomas V.; Phillips, Laurence R.

Design and operation of the electric power grid (EPG) relies heavily on computational models. High-fidelity, full-order models are used to study transient phenomena on only a small part of the network. Reduced-order dynamic and power flow models are used when analysis involving thousands of nodes are required due to the computational demands when simulating large numbers of nodes. The level of complexity of the future EPG will dramatically increase due to large-scale deployment of variable renewable generation, active load and distributed generation resources, adaptive protection and control systems, and price-responsive demand. High-fidelity modeling of this future grid will require significant advances in coupled, multi-scale tools and their use on high performance computing (HPC) platforms. This LDRD report demonstrates SNL's capability to apply HPC resources to these 3 tasks: (1) High-fidelity, large-scale modeling of power system dynamics; (2) Statistical assessment of grid security via Monte-Carlo simulations of cyber attacks; and (3) Development of models to predict variability of solar resources at locations where little or no ground-based measurements are available.

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Results 51–75 of 102
Results 51–75 of 102