FW: 13293 TOOL LIBRARY FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS RESEARCH PORTED TO CRAY T3E 06.12.98

["Doug Olson" <dlolson@lbl.gov>]

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TOOL LIBRARY FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS RESEARCH PORTED TO CRAY T3E       06.12.98
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  Berkeley, CA -- An international library of computer tools developed to
support high energy and nuclear physics (HENP) research has now been
adapted for use on massively parallel processing machines.

  The effort to make the CERNLib collection of codes available for use on
MPP computers was led by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing
Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Scientists at Brookhaven
National Laboratory and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center collaborated
on the project. The library was ported to run on Cray T3E supercomputers at
NERSC and the Pittsburgh center. The ported CERNlib modules will be
available to researchers beginning this week (June 10).

  Completion of the project paves the way for conducting detailed
simulation of physics data from such upcoming experiments as the STAR,
(Solenoidal Tracking at the Relatavistic Heavy Ion Collider) detector being
installed at Brookhaven. The detector is scheduled to begin taking real
data starting next year. Closely coupled to the work is the U.S. Department
of Energy's High Energy and Nuclear Physics Data Grand Challenge, a project
to develop tools to allow physicists to analyze and manage the massive
amounts of data which will be generated by next generation of experiments.

  According to Craig Tull, leader of the High Energy Nuclear Physics (HENP)
Support Group at NERSC, the HENP community has traditionally relied on
conventional UNIX platforms (workstations and servers) and there had been
little incentive to port the CERNLib to massively parallel processor
machines. Until now. With the STAR experiment, as well as the BaBar Project
at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, scientists will be confronted
with huge quantities of data, and therefore need more powerful simulation
tools.

  "We'll be generating really huge amounts of data - hundreds of terabytes
a year," said Berkeley Lab Physicist Doug Olson. "By putting together the
tools to retrieve and analyze this information, we'll be able to get the
science out of the data."

  Born at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERNLib has
been developed and supplemented by HENP researchers around the world. The
codes are centrally maintained and distributed by CERN in Geneva,
Switzerland. Although the libraries ported by the NERSC-led group aren't
yet part of the central repository, NERSC will be making them available to
HENP researchers with access to MPP machines, such as NERSC's 512-processor
Cray T3E-900 supercomputer.

  "It's a huge collection of very different tools, which are absolutely
crucial to many projects in High Energy and Nuclear Physics," says Tull.
"You probably can't find a university department or HENP research center
anywhere that is not dependent on CERNLib."

  For further information visit http://www.nersc.gov or http://www.lbl.gov

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