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Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission.
Los Alamos develops and applies science and technology to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent; reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction, proliferation and terrorism; and solve national problems in defense, energy, environment and infrastructure. More information about Los Alamos National Laboratory can be found at http://www.lanl.gov.
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[edit] Objectivity Case History
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This information is an archive, so any use of the present sense in the text should be taken in the historical context, generally determinable from the Status section below.
[edit] Customer Information
- Customer: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Project: Alexandria Project
- Location: Los Alamos, NM
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- Industry Verticals: Scientific Computing, High Performance Computing
- Technologies: (look at that page)
- Application Domain: High Energy Physics - Simulation information tracking framework
- Market Characterization: Design and Simulation
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[edit] Status
- First Contact: April 2004
- Lead came from: SLAC
- Evaluation Start Date: 2004
- Evaluation Finish Date: 2004
- First Purchase Date: December, 2004
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- Current Status: Project finished in September 2007
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- Referenceable?: Unknown
The original project, eventually named Alexandria, started in April 2004 and ended September 2007. The original 2 members were Daveoya and “Chip” David "Chip" Kent. A 3rd team member, Rob Aulwes, started in July 2006. Paul de Wolf was the original SE. Brian and Leon visited on separate occasions. A case study of the project exists at [1]
They were in the Parallel Tools Team in High Performance Computing Environments Group (CCN-8).
They exhibited @ SuperComputing 2005 in Seattle.
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- Hardware: Intel -> AMD Opteron
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- Precision: 64-bit
- Development language: C++
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[edit] The Project/Product
[edit] Project Background
Alexandria - A Powerful Simulation Information Tracking Framework
Alexandria will provide the framework necessary to quantify the inputs and outputs from user processes and persistently store the resulting metadata in near real-time. Alexandria provides tools that enable researchers to automatically record input and output files and other important data for processes. Alexandria will also store process-characterization data. In addition tools will be created which allow users to perform queries on and graphically traverse the pedigrees of files and processes.
[edit] Project/Product Description
Alexandria will provide tracking information by precisely quantifying the inputs to and outputs from user processes or strings of processes in a minimally invasive way. From this data, it is then possible to construct a graph showing the interconnections of all the files and processes being tracked. Instead of simply tracking file names and locations, Alexandria will identify files by their cryptographic hash values. This allows Alexandria to uniquely identify the contents of a file and track the flow of files into and out of simulations . Files that have been renamed or moved have the same cryptographic hash values and will thus be recognized as identical. Alexandria tracks the flow of information, and not the information itself.
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[edit] Business Priorities
“We researched Objectivity and anticipate they will offer us a robust product, support talent and business performance that will help us get Alexandria developed quickly and effectively,” according to Dave Montoya, key member of the Alexandria Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[edit] Technical Priorities
- Performance
- Scalability
- 64-bit support.
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[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity
Dave Montoya added that Objectivity was chosen in part due to its experience with the world’s largest database at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, which exceeds 900 TB. Objectivity/DB has also been successfully deployed in several major telecommunications applications that demonstrate it requires minimal database administration.
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