UO Receives Grant for POINT Project
The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $2.19 million grant to the UO and its partners for POINT (Petascale Productivity from Open, Integrated Tools). The other institutions sharing in the grant are the University of Tennessee, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
UO computer science professor, Allen Malony, is the project's principal investigator. "Now is the time to transfer successful, robust parallel performance infrastructure to an integrated, extensible, and sustainable performance tools suite," Malony says. Malony is also the Director of the NeuroInformatics Center at the UO which uses high performance computing (HPC) techniques in developing integrated neuroimaging tools for brain analysis.
The POINT project will improve and support a parallel performance environment that integrates four leading performance tools: PAPI, KOJAK, PerfSuite and TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities). The TAU Performance System® is a leading open source, parallel performance tool suite for scalable HPC systems developed at the University of Oregon. TAU is able to gather rich performance information and display results graphically, allowing users to quickly identify performance bottlenecks.
The POINT project will enhance performance tools to better support user needs in HPC projects such as global climate modeling. The project has just completed the first quarter of a three-year grant. During this period, the team has outlined strategies for integration and interoperability between component tool sets and begun planning pilot sessions for POINT training.
For more information on POINT, see http://nic.uoregon.edu/point/Main_Page