Contracts - AWARD SUMMARY
NORTHROP GRUMMAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC
The goals of the Desktop Supercomputing initiative are to (1) simplify the process of distributing NASA?s climate models and related science analysis tools to investigators, and (2) to provide a complete toolkit of climate research products for use by universities and other research centers. Through this initiative NASA?s long-term costs of deploying such products will be reduced. The proposed system is comprised of global and regional climate and weather models along with ancillary analysis and visualization tools. This system will be installed and supported on compact high-end computing platforms (i.e., desktop supercomputers) provided by the end user. The toolkit is expected to be useful to a variety of investigators, from researchers working in relatively small facilities that lack a sustained high-end computing environment, to developers of large numerical models that require personal, on-demand supercomputing cycles to improve productivity.
| AWARD OVERVIEW |
| Award Number |
NNG06HN01D |
Funding Agency |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Total Award Amount |
$699,636 |
Project Location - City |
Greenbelt |
| Award Date |
03/31/2010 |
Project Location - State |
MD |
| Project Status |
Completed |
Project Location - Zip |
20771-0000
|
| Jobs Reported |
0.00 |
Congressional District |
05 |
| Project Location - Country |
US |
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Recipient Information
(Contracts)
| Recipient Information (Contracts) |
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Recipient Name
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NORTHROP GRUMMAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC |
| Recipient DUNS Number |
052272044
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| Recipient Address |
7575 COLSHIRE DR |
| Recipient City |
MCLEAN |
| Recipient State |
Virginia |
| Recipient Zip |
22102-7508 |
| Recipient Congressional District |
08 |
| Recipient Country |
USA |
Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Projects and Jobs Information
| Projects and Jobs Information |
| Project Title |
Federal Contract |
| Project Status |
Completed |
| Final Project Report Submitted |
Yes |
| Project Activities Description |
Computer Systems Design Services |
| Quarterly Activities/Project Description |
Technical work concluded on September 30, 2010 so no technical activities occurred in the current reporting quarter. |
| Jobs Created |
0.00 |
| Description of Jobs Created |
The Desktop Supercomputing Initiative (DSI) envisions extending climate/earth science model development and validation to a community beyond traditional domain scientists. This would enable a more efficient community process in model development and improvement. For the vision to become reality, the models and the ancillary analysis and visualization tools need to become easier to obtain and to use. The goals of this task are to simplify the process of distributing NASA?s climate models and related science analysis tools to investigators and to provide a complete toolkit of climate research products for use by universities and other research centers.
The product of the DSI effort is a toolkit comprised of global and regional climate and weather models along with ancillary analysis and visualization tools. This toolkit will be installed and supported on compact high-end computing platforms (i.e., desktop supercomputers) such that a variety of investigators can productively conduct meaningful research even if they do not have access to large high-end supercomputers.
To deliver the above system, the contractor is:
1) Implementing, validating, and optimizing models and tools on the provided desktop supercomputers. Some of the models we are working on: (i) the Global Circulation Model (GCM) of the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, V.5 (GEOS-5) from the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), (ii) the Weather Research and Forecasting Model, Version 3.1 (WRF v3.1), (iii) the GCM of the Global Forecast System (GFS) from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), (iv) the GCM ModelE from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), and (v) the Modular Ocean Model, Release 4 (MOM4) from the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Some of the tools the contractor is porting and adapting for DSI include the Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) and matplotlib visualization packages. The contractor is also adapting two projects from the NASA SIVO for DSI use. These projects are the NASA Forecast Model Web Map Service and the NASA Experiment Designer (NED), a workflow tool that automates and simplifies model execution management and other processes.
2) Performing a feasibility study of available s/w repository systems after consulting with the stakeholders
3) Recommending/implementing augmentations to NASA?s Modeling Guru knowledge base (http://modelingguru.nasa.gov) in collaboration with the customers and other stakeholders.
4) Planning a workshop of active and potential users of the toolkit.
5) Evaluating an integrated design environment using MS Windows HPC operating system for climate models. Though desktop supercomputing platforms are primarily Linux, a demonstrative attempt is being made to run WRF v3.1 in the Windows HPC environment. The idea is to support the widest audience possible.
6) Performing a feasibility study of the use of virtualization for distributed desktop supercomputing including the investigation of support for the Message Passing Interface (MPI; allows processors to communicate with one another) over the InfiniBand network. A free s/w, VMWare ESXi, is being used for this purpose. This s/w abstracts h/w from the operating system s/w. So a System Administrator needs only to copy a virtual machine (a file) into the hypervisor (also called a virtual machine monitor) to install the cluster, simplifying provisioning and maintenance.
The contractor has put in place competent staff with diverse areas of expertise including climate science, s/w engineering, system engineering, technical writing, high-performance computing/computational science, and system administration. |
Purchaser Information
(Contracts)
| Purchaser Information |
| Contracting Office ID |
GSFC0 |
| Contracting Office Name |
Not Available |
| Contracting Office Region |
Not Available |
| TAS Major Program |
80-0119 |
| Award Information |
| Award Date |
03/31/2010 |
| Award Number |
NNG06HN01D |
| Order Number |
TO 52 |
| Award Type |
Contracts |
| Funding Agency ID |
80 |
| Funding Agency Name |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Funding Office Name |
Not Available |
| Awarding Agency ID |
80 |
| Awarding Agency Name |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Amount of Award |
$699,636 |
| Funds Invoiced/Received |
$539,320 |
| Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Name |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Email |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Phone |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Address |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact City |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact State |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Zip |
Not Reported |
Product or Service Information
(Contracts)
| Product or Service Information |
| Primary Activity Code |
541512 |
| Activity Description |
Computer Systems Design Services |
| Sub-Awards Information |
| Sub-awards to Organizations |
3 |
| Sub-award Amounts to Organizations |
$337,726 |
| Sub-Awards to Individuals |
0 |
| Sub-Award Amounts to Individuals |
$0 |
| Number of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Amount of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors greater than $25,000 |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors greater than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
Sub-award 7500073698 - ADVANCED MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY, INC.
| Sub-Award Amount |
$115,498 |
| Sub-Award Date |
04/19/2010 |
| Sub-Awards Disbursed |
$0.00 |
| Project Location - City |
Greenbelt |
| Project Location - State |
MD |
| Project Location - Zip Code |
20771-2400 |
| Project Location - Congressional District |
05 |
| Sub-Recipient DUNS Number |
781841671
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| Sub-Recipient Address |
1515 WILSON BLVD STE 1100 |
| Sub-Recipient City |
ARLINGTON |
| Sub-Recipient State |
Virginia |
| Sub-Recipient Zip Code |
22209-2440 |
| Sub-Recipient Congressional District |
08 |
Required To Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Sub-award T@23389-52 - EMBEDDED ENG INC
| Sub-Award Amount |
$99,000 |
| Sub-Award Date |
04/21/2010 |
| Sub-Awards Disbursed |
$0.00 |
| Project Location - City |
Alpharetta |
| Project Location - State |
GA |
| Project Location - Zip Code |
30022-4435 |
| Project Location - Congressional District |
06 |
| Sub-Recipient DUNS Number |
782845379
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| Sub-Recipient Address |
440 SAILMAKER CIR |
| Sub-Recipient City |
ALPHARETTA |
| Sub-Recipient State |
Georgia |
| Sub-Recipient Zip Code |
30022-4435 |
| Sub-Recipient Congressional District |
06 |
Required To Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Sub-award 7500074181 - GLOBAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, INC.
| Sub-Award Amount |
$123,228 |
| Sub-Award Date |
04/28/2010 |
| Sub-Awards Disbursed |
$0.00 |
| Project Location - City |
Greenbelt |
| Project Location - State |
MD |
| Project Location - Zip Code |
20770-3239 |
| Project Location - Congressional District |
05 |
| Sub-Recipient DUNS Number |
803721679
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| Sub-Recipient Address |
7855 WALKER DRIVE, STE 200 |
| Sub-Recipient City |
GREENBELT |
| Sub-Recipient State |
Maryland |
| Sub-Recipient Zip Code |
20770-3239 |
| Sub-Recipient Congressional District |
05 |
Required To Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
| Location Information |
| Latitude, Longitude |
38º 59' 48",
-76º 51' 16" |
| Congressional District |
05 |
| Address 1 |
NASA GSFC |
| Address 2 |
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| City |
Greenbelt |
| County |
Prince George's |
| State |
MD |
| Zip |
20771-0000 |
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