The paper presents the problem of creating a cloud service designed to solve promising nanotechnology problems on supercomputer systems. The motivation for creating such a service was the need to integrate ideas, knowledge and computing technologies related to this applied problem, as well as the need to involve specialists in solving problems of this type. The preliminary result of the work is a prototype of the cloud environment, implemented as a KIAM Multilogin service and an application software accessible from users virtual machines. The first applications of the service were the software packages GIMM NANO and Flow and Particles, designed to solve the actual problems of nanoelectronics, laser nanotechnology, multiscale problems of applied gas dynamics. The implementation of the service took into account such aspects as support for parallel computations on the park of remote supercomputers, improving the efficiency of parallelization, very large data sets processing, visualization of supercomputer modeling results. With the help of the implemented service, it was possible to optimize the process of solving the applied problems associated with calculating the parameters of gas-dynamic flows in the microchannels of industrial spraying systems. In particular, it was possible to carry out a series of studies devoted to the analysis of gas-dynamic processes at gas-metal boundary. In these studies it was shown that in the presence of microcapillaries in a technical system, it is necessary to use direct modeling of gas dynamic processes on the basis of the first principles in the Knudsen layers, for example, using molecular dynamics methods.Keywords: cloud service, virtualization, supercomputer modeling in nanotechnology problems, visualization.
IntroductionThe present work is devoted to the development of applied cloud services intended for solving complex nanotechnology problems by computer methods. Fundamental nature and relevance of the common problem comprise the fact that at present in context of the introduction of nanotechnology in many industries there is an urgent need to combine various mathematical approaches, information and computing resources into a unified tool of computer and supercomputer modeling. The most successful way of such an association is to create relevant cloud environments and services in which each user can have access to all possible information materials, modeling programs, computing resources and industrial CAD.The specific task is to create a cloud service using heterogeneous clusters and supercomputers for multiscale modeling of nonlinear processes in polydisperse multicomponent media used in the implementation of industrial nanotechnologies. To solve the problem, the KIAM Multilogin cloud platform has been developed and implemented in the previous two years, it allows accessing the created modeling environment. The architecture of the platform and the individual components were described in sufficient detail in [1][2][3]. The application part of the service was represented by t...