CCA@Argonne

This site provides an overview of projects at Argonne that are part of the Common Component Architecture (CCA) and the newly established Center for Component Technology for Terascale Simulation Software (CCTTSS), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's SciDAC Program.

The focus of Argonne's work within the CCTTSS is collaboratively defining interface suites for various parallel numerical components and developing CCA-compliant implementations for linear solvers, nonlinear solvers, optimization software, and low-level services.  We are also investigating issues in numerical component quality-of-service and are introducing CCA technology into various scientific applications, including climate model coupling. 

 Selected Recent Publications

• L. McInnes, J. Ray, R. Armstrong, T. Dahlgren, A. Malony, B. Norris, S. Shende, J. Kenny, and J. Steensland, Computational Quality of Service for Scientific CCA Applications: Composition, Substitution, and Reconfiguration, Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P1326-0206, February, 2006.
• L. McInnes, B. Allan, R. Armstrong, S. Benson, D. Bernholdt, T. Dahlgren, L. Diachin, M. Krishnan, J. Kohl, J. Larson, S. Lefantzi, J. Nieplocha, B. Norris, S. Parker, J.Ray, and S. Zhou, Parallel PDE-Based Simulations Using the Common Component Architecture, Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P1179-0704, 2004, to appear in in Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Parallel Computers, A. M. Bruaset, P. Bjorstad, and A. Tveito, editors, Springer.
• D. Bernholdt, B. Allan, R. Armstrong, F. Bertrand, K. Chiu, T. Dahlgren, K. Damevski, W. Elwasif, T. Epperly, M. Govindaraju, D. Katz, J. Kohl, M. Krishnan, G. Kumfert, J. Larson, S. Lefantzi, M. Lewis, A. Malony, L. McInnes, J. Nieplocha, B. Norris, S. Parker, J. Ray, S. Shende, T. Windus, S. Zhou, A Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing, to appear in the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, ACTS Collection Special Issue, 2005.
• F. Bertrand, R. Bramley, K. Damevski, J. Kohl, J. Larson, and A. Sussman, MxN Interactions in Parallel Component Architectures, Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Denver, CO, April 4-8, 2005, also available as Technical Report TR604, Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
• R. Bramley, R. Armstrong, L. McInnes, and M. Sottile, High-Performance Component Software Systems, Technical Report TR608, Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 2005, to appear as an invited chapter to appear in a book based on the 2004 SIAM Parallel Processing Conference, M. Heroux, P. Raghavan, and H. Simon, editors, SIAM.
• B. Norris and I. Veljkovic, Performance Monitoring and Analysis Components in Adaptive PDE-Based Simulations, Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P1221-0105, January, 2005.
• B. Norris, J. Ray, R. Armstrong, L. C. McInnes, D. E. Bernholdt, W. R. Elwasif, A. D. Malony and S. Shende, Computational Quality of Service for Scientific Components, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE7), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P1131-0204.
• J. Kenny, S. Benson, Y. Alexeev, J. Sarich, C. Janssen, L. McInnes, M. Krishnan, J. Nieplocha, E. Jurrus, C. Fahlstrom, and T. Windus, Component-Based Integration of Chemistry and Optimization Software, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 25(14), pp. 1717-1725, 2004, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P1148-0404.
• J. Larson, B. Norris, E. Ong, D. Bernholdt, J. Drake, W. Elwasif, M. Ham, C. Rasmussen, G. Kumfert, D. Katz, S. Zhou, C. DeLuca, and N. Collins, Components, the Common Component Architecture, and the Climate/Weather/Ocean Community, Proceedings of the 84th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 2004, Seattle, Washington.
• P. Hovland, K. Keahey, L. C. McInnes, B. Norris, L. F. Diachin, and P. Raghavan, A Quality of Service Approach for High-Performance Numerical Components, Proceedings of Workshop on QoS in Component-Based Software Engineering, Software Technologies Conference, Toulouse, France, June 2003, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P1028-0203.
• B. Norris, S. Balay, S. Benson, L. Freitag, P. Hovland, L. McInnes, and B. Smith, Parallel Components for PDEs and Optimization: Some Issues and Experiences , Parallel Computing, 28 (12), 2002, pp. 1811-1831
, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P932-0202
• K.R. Buschelman, W.D. Gropp, L.C. McInnes, and B.F. Smith, PETSc and Overture: Lessons Learned Developing an Interface between Components, Proceedings of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Conference on Software Architectures for Scientific Computing, Kluwer, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada, October 2-4, 2000, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P858-1100.
• Rob Armstrong, Al Geist, Katarzyna Keahey, Scott Kohn, Lois McInnes, Steve Parker, and Brent Smolinski. Toward a Common Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing,  Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, Redondo Beach, CA, August 3-6, 1999, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P759-0699.
• L. A. Freitag, W. D. Gropp, P. D. Hovland, L. C. McInnes, and B. F. Smith, Infrastructure and Interfaces for Large-Scale Numerical Software, in the Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, H.R. Arabnia, ed., pp. 2657-2664, June 28 - July 1, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P751-0599.
• S. Balay, W. D. Gropp, L. C. McInnes, and B. F. Smith, A Microkernel Design for Component-based Parallel Numerical Software Systems, Proceedings of the SIAM Workshop on Object Oriented Methods for Inter-operable Scientific and Engineering Computing, Mike Henderson et al. eds., Oct 21-23, 1998, pp. 60-69, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P727-0998,
• L. Freitag, M. Jones, and P. Plassmann, Mesh Component Design and Software Integration within SUMAA3d, Proceedings of the SIAM Workshop on Object Oriented Methods for Inter-operable Scientific and Engineering Computing, Mike Henderson et al. eds., Oct 21-23, 1998, pp. 215-224, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P726-0998, 
• W. D. Gropp, Exploiting Existing Software in Libraries: Successes, Failures, and Reasons Why, Proceedings of the SIAM Workshop on Object Oriented Methods for Inter-operable Scientific and Engineering Computing, Mike Henderson et al. eds., Oct 21-23, 1998, pp. 21-29.
• P. D. Hovland, B. R. Norris, L. Roh, and B. F. Smith, Developing a Derivative-Enhanced Object-Oriented Toolkit for Scientific Computations, Proceedings of the SIAM Workshop on Object Oriented Methods for Inter-operable Scientific and Engineering Computing, Mike Henderson et al. eds., Oct 21-23, 1998, pp. 129-137, also available as Argonne National Laboratory preprint ANL/MCS-P731-1098.

The Current Argonne CCA Team

• Steve Benson *
• Robert Jacob
• Jay Larson *
• Lois Curfman McInnes * - Argonne co-PI in the CCTTSS project, leader of the 'Scientific Components' part of the project
• Boyana Norris *
• Jason Sarich

* Denotes individuals who receive partial funding through the CCTTSS project.

Previous Related Work

• The ALICE project