SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY SEEKS PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY TO COMMERCIALIZE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR PARALLEL AWARE SCALING
- Notice Date
- 10/13/2004
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 238990
— All Other Specialty Trade Contractors
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Industrial Partnerships & Commercialization, 7000 East Avenue L-795, Livermore, CA, 94550
- ZIP Code
- 94550
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-FBO91-04
- Response Due
- 11/15/2004
- Archive Date
- 11/16/2004
- Description
- LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY SEEKS PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY TO COMMERCIALIZE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR PARALLEL AWARE SCALING Announcement: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the University of California under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is seeking one or more industrial partners to commercialize LLNL's technology for parallel aware scaling. Operating system interference can dramatically impact the performance of parallel tasks. This technology makes it possible to minimize the effects of operating system interference, thereby improving the performance of a selected parallel job. The technology is most appropriate for systems with large numbers of processors. Synchronizing collective operations are required for a large class of parallel algorithms and are quite common. Synchronous collective operations are also a critical component to numerical simulations. Synchronous collective operations are operations in which a set of processes (frequently every process) participates and no single process can continue until every process has participated. These operations pose serious challenges to scalability since a single instance of a laggard process will block progress for every process. Prior approaches to the problem have concentrated on the co-scheduling aspects, but have not included the comprehensive set of co-scheduling and operating system features that are addressed with LLNL?s invention. LLNL?s invention improves the performance of synchronous collective operations by improving the scalability of parallel jobs by adding parallel awareness to the operating system. LLNL?s parallel aware scaling coordinates both an external co-scheduler and the operating system dispatcher in a time-synchronized executing environment in which the tasks of a parallel job are distinguished from other activities and managed to be dispatched simultaneously across the entire distributed system. Note: THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT. Companies interested in commercializing LLNL's parallel aware scaling technology should provide a written statement of interest that includes: 1. Company name and address. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of a point of contact. 3. Description of corporate capabilities relevant to commercializing the technology. Written responses should be directed to: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Industrial Partnerships and Commercialization P.O. Box 808, L-795 Livermore, CA 94551-0808 Attention: FBO 91-04 Please provide your written statement within thirty (30) days from the date this announcement is published to ensure consideration of your interest.
- Record
- SN00693135-W 20041015/041013211545 (fbodaily.com)
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