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Hello Tomahawk!
I did IVF for myself, I am pregnant now.
I would say they do IVFs and surrogacy, nothing less and nothing more, the doctor can tell and advice, they even have packages with transfer from IVF to surrogacy, if some attempts of IVF fail, you may transfer to surrogacy. In the price list they have 3 packages for IVF/egg donation and 2 for surrogacy and one package as a Transfer package from IVF to surrogacy. Here you can find the packages http://mother-surrogate.info/our-services/
In my case I wanted surrogacy, but doctor suggested me to try IVF and I agreed.
2) It depends on the specific case, I wanted on my own eggs and had to make some tests for LH and FSH, Antimuller hormone and I made also the ultrasound to see my follicles growth, to know if I am able to produce my own eggs. Some women can't go with their own eggs and doctor suggests egg donation, they have a database of young donors, every donor has children and is checked for good health and genetic diseases http://donors.mother-surrogate.info/
they do ICSI for the fertilization in any program. They do meeting with surrogate mother, that I know for sure, because I saw it in the clinic, a couple form Germany came for an ultrasound and talked to their surrogate.
In your case it can be a poor quality of embryos, because of some physical issues, the tests can show, maybe because of your age. They transfer embryos 1-3 (blastocyst)on the 5th day. I would suggest you to contact manager Anna to email@example.com, she is responsible for English-speaking clients and she has been working for a long time already and is very high informed in IVF and surrogacy, she has a direct contact to the doctor and can answer all your questions, advice and comment on your medical tests.
You are asking about "if the embryos (my own embryos - not donated ones) cannot survive in my uterus, why should they in the surrogate's uterus? If the embryos' quality is not good enough a surrogacy program probably would not make sense, would it?" It will make sense, it may be your lining in you uterus is not good, even with the help of hormonal pills, and the embryo never survives. I would suggest you to consider the 27,900 VIP package, there is one attempt with our own eggs is possible, to give a shot and if it wouldn't work, just proceed on donor's eggs. I wanted this package for me, but in any case, you should come for a consultation and decide what to do with a doctor or consult via internet with a doctor with the help of Anna. I was sending her my analysis an ultrasounds and I had a quick answer from a doctor.
My friend from Poland is in a program with them for 9,900 (one attempt on her own, the rest on donor's) with transfer to surrogacy - she tries IVF until she can and if it fails, she pays extra 18000 and goes for surrogacy.
Please write here or directly to biotex, I often mail Anna, because I have my protocol and take pills.
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Posted by Dave on April 25th, 2011
Making sure you have the right licenses to perform music in your store or restaurant can be a tricky, confusing and expensive exercise. Frankly, that's why most businesses contract with a music service like Custom Channels, because we handle all of the licenses for you as part of your monthly fee so you can worry about running your business instead of running afoul of copyright laws.
Here's the bottom line: most businesses need to obtain "public performance licenses" from Performing Rights Organizations (PROs), namely ASCAP, BMI and SESAC in order to play or "publicly perform" music in their place of business. You can't play music in a business without paying licensing fees for doing so.
Every year, dozens of bars, restaurants, retail stores, nightclubs, hotels and other businesses are sued (usually successfully) by the PROS. Some have even been put out of business through successful lawsuits over copyright infringement.
So, if you want to play your iPod or your CD collection in your store, you'll probably still need to sign up and get licenses directly from the PROS. This is often a costly and time-consuming endeavor.
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China's official broadcast media reported on bacteria-laden ice in fast food outlets.
From QUARTZ.com'The Chinese government's official broadcast media says that ice cubes served in KFC were 12 times dirtier than toilet water—and 19 times the national bacteria level standard.
report, which was based on samples the China Central Television (CCTV)
reporter took in eastern Beijing, found that ice cubes at Chinese fast
food chain Kung Fu also out-germed toilet water. While McDonald's ice
cubes also exceeded the national bacteria level standard, though they
were still cleaner than toilet water.
A food safety expert interviewed in the initial segment—CCTV has since aired many more—said the bacteria could cause dysentery and diarrhea (link in Chinese). After the initial CCTV report aired on Sunday, discussion of the issue went, er, viral on Sina Weibo. Since then, KFC, McDonald's and Kung Fu have all apologized and vowed to clean their ice machines. Here's a look at some of the footage from the CCTV report .
Bacteria-infested fast food restaurant ice machines are common outside
China, too. Last year, a report on a slew of fast food outlets in the UK
proved similarly shocking to the public,
and prompted a government-accredited laboratory to name them a "hygiene
risk." None of those samples contained bacteria that were actually
harmful to human health.'
Do you think we have the same ice problem in SA?
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A fun post from Kaid Benfield at NRDC. What if the NCAA basketball tournament was determined by Walk Score? The Full Article includes a breakdown of each arena. Check it out!
BTW, just to see how my Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets would do: 75, respectable. That was good enough for Ohio to make it to the final four.


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Thank you for visiting my website! Music is my passion, and my life is dedicated to sharing my music through the violin. Whether you want to listen to clips of my music, find an outstanding violin instructor, learn about upcoming performances, or are simply curious about me, you are welcome to browse all the pages; they are listed on the left.
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Invitation to "Music of the Jewish Soul"
On the last Sunday in February, everyone is
invited to a concert, "Music of the Jewish Soul" where I will be performing three of my favorite virtuostic violin pieces: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (movements 2 and 3), Achron's Hebrew Melody, and Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. I will be accompanied on piano by Boris Fogel; I've played with Boris before, in August 2010, and there are several clips on YouTube from that concert. The upcoming concert will be held at Temple Beth El in Quincy, and here is the flyer for it with all the details. Thank you to Jagan-Nath for organizing it.


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Butter lettuce is also called Bibb lettuce or Boston lettuce. You may be lucky enough to find it still as a whole head, or just as the leaves. Either works.
If you can't find either, then romaine works really nicely too.
This is a filling and simple salad that is easy to present beautifully and can be made smaller if desired for a first course of a larger meal.
Serves 2
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I am so excited to try this tonight. We got the first week of our summer share and it's always filled with greens — this salad will use up butter lettuce and it looks amazing…and easy!
Nice! 🙂
Russell, for some reason your "Pin It" button does not work. I use Pinterest to share my favorite recipes with my daughters who both live across the country from me. This recipe is great! By the way, instead of a microplane, I used my coffee grinder (which I only use for nuts/seeds) to grind the macadamia nuts. Works pretty slick.
Hey, thanks for the heads up and the idea of the coffeegrinder.
Pinterest seems to be working here, what happens when you try it?
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With regards to nutritional info, I have this answer in my FAQs section: https://therawchef.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/779049-can-you-provide-calorie-counts-for-recipes-
Thanks, Ekaterina – it's a bit of a favourite of mine too!
Thanks, BB 🙂
Hi Lori,
I would suggest just leaving out the nori. It will still be a great salad without it.
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Hi Carine, yes it helps them to not taste so distinctive.
Thanks a lot, Stephanie.
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Thanks, G 🙂
Hi Dina, you could just leave it out – there's not really anything that tastes like garlic.
If a recipe calls for garlic powder, you might want to use onion powder though.
This is so Interesting. The dressing is so captivating. I will call it as the Creative salad. Thanks for sharing.
See my answer below 🙂
As long as you're careful you should be able to avoid grating your fingers. The Microplane actually does have a guard available that you can protect your fingers with.
And yes, in the new version of my DVDs I demonstrate this.
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I have moved to Austin, yes.
Not doing any classes right now but I'll keep you posted as to when I will be doing things here.
Russell, this is a gorgeous salad! Thank you for sharing it!


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Northmark show its quality in all the wrong areas
Northmark: Hour of the Wolf is one of a small group of games that work a tactical card game into a wider overarching framework of plot, blending in a few mini-games into the mix for good measure. Following in the grand tradition of the original Magic: the Gathering computer game from Microprose, these games can be extremely good. But that's a pretty big set of boots for Northmark to fill.
You play the role of a fantasy adventurer, sucked into investigating an assassination by travelling to various locations across an overland map. But the meat of the game is the card-based combat that occurs when you encounter foes. You and the enemy have slots for up to three minions who take independent turns by having a card played on them. Most cards have one or more attack values across different elements, which are compared against the defense value of the target minion and excess taken as damage against their health. Other cards are heals or temporary buffs. This is repeated until all the minions on one side are dead.
" The fights are broken up by visits to towns and other locations where you can talk to the inhabitants to further the plot or gain side quests. Not that you'll be bothered about the plot after visiting more than a couple of these places. It's standard fantasy boilerplate material with atrocious, adolescent writing. To add further annoyance, many of the conversations are excessively long, requiring repeated "next" taps just to build up to a feeble joke or other anti-climax. Fortunately there's a "skip" button, too.
Some locations also allow you to buy cards which can be added to your deck. There are only twelve customisable slots available though, which limits the interest of this deck-building aspect. There's also a relatively small pool of different card effects, with most just offering attack or defence bonuses against one or more of the elemental types. So for the most part you'll just be ensuring your latest and most powerful acquisitions are on hand, although there is some value in looking for card power combinations.
The combat itself, which makes up the bulk of play, follows very similar lines. Depending on who you're fighting there may or may not be a variety of powers and effects in play and this governs how interesting and how much fun it is. Sometimes it'll just be a matter of repetitively waiting for and playing the right attack cards. Others there will be more variables in play to give you a bit to think about. A lot could have been added to the game with a greater range of card powers.
" The paid version of the app unlocks more playable characters for you to try out, but as best I can see their card decks suffer from the same lack of variety that plagues the game generally. Some locations feature simple riddles which are fun the first time but won't be once you know the answer. One of the elements seems overpowered, too. Those issues, combined with the trite plot and terrible writing, are going to put a severe cap on the replay value of the game.
One thing that did stand out as refreshing about Northmark is that it isn't afraid to drop you in the deep end. Many times as I played I ended up squaring off against opponents who turned out to be too tough for me. You can easily save your game though, and you can quit and reload at any point if you get stuck in a tedious fight you're sure to lose. It's easy to pick up the game and choose a different path, returning to the fight when you're more powerful. There's not much in terms of plot branches, but there are arenas and other adventure locations that are worth remembering for repeat visits to earn gold and experience.
Indeed presentation and interface is another area where the game shines. As a rule everything you need is no more than one touch away from your current screen, although the icons indicating places in locations you can interact with are annoyingly faint. For an indie title the artwork is excellent, rich and evocative of mystical lands in far-gone times and the world map is nicely traced and shaded.
" Northmark is not a terrible game, but it's not a great one either. For every tactically thrilling fight or interesting side quest, there's a dull slog-fest and excruciating piece of dialogue to put up with first. The developer has the technical aspects down fine, but could have improved the experience greatly by hiring a professional writer and spending a bit more time varying and balancing the card effects.


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You could use Data Protection Manager to backup the data locally first and then to the cloud. We are also considering this feature for Windows Azure Backup for upcoming releases. So please check for announcements on this forum in the next couple of months.
Thanks, Vanita. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
As per Scott Gu's blog post today it is supported with SP1.
"With the new Windows Azure Backup service, we are adding support to enable offsite backup protection for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Essentials, and System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 to Windows Azure."
I have successfully installed the agent on my own 2008 R2 SP1 machine and currently running a backup now.
- Edited by cv101MVP Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:19 AM
- Proposed as answer by Carlos SardoMicrosoft employee Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:55 PM
I wanted to backup our windows server 2008r2 to the cloud. I wanted to know if azure can support this?
Best Regards,
Carlos Sardo
- Proposed as answer by Carlos SardoMicrosoft employee Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:56 PM
I just created a Backup Vault, and when I try to download a backup agent the only options I have are:
Agent for Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager
Agent for Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Do I just download the Agent for Windows Server 2012 and install it on Server 2008 R2 Datacenter SP1? Will that work?
Can I run WABInstaller.exe on Server 2008 R2?
I'm getting error:
Windows Azure Backup Agent Setup
Could not load the setup launch Screen. Please contact Microsoft product support
Activation context generation failed for "D:\e735c19119fddfa5e0d59d8403e6337a\1033\CBPSetupLaunchProcess.DLL". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="9.0.21022.8" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
Any ideas on how to fix?
Running Install on Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Hello Sky,
Can you please provide the repro steps and error logs. Are you using the latest backup agent?
Please email us the backup job and the agent logs under (<Product Install Dir>\Windows Azure Online Backup Agent\Temp\CBEngineCurr.errlog and CBUICurr.errlog) to firstname.lastname@example.com
It doesn't get to that point, it errors at the point it executes CBPSETUP.exe
I downloaded the agent today from the download agent link.
not sure if it's related but the VM is hosted in Windows Azure IaaS.
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Based on the previous comment, looks like you are running Windows 2008 r2 sp1 on IAAS VM. Correct? Is this a custom image or base install of Windows 2008r R2 Sp1 VM provided by Windows Azure? We do support agent on Running Install on Windows 2008 R2 SP1.
Which agent have you downloaded? How far does the installation process go? Have you try to reboot the VM?
Are you able to repro the issue, if you create a new IAAS Vm from Gallery?
Please send me an e-mail of the screenshot @ firstname.lastname@example.com
I hate to hijack someone else's thread, but I am having the exact same issue.
I have attempted to install a current version of the WABInstaller on 2 of my servers, and both are showing the same "Could no load the setup launch Screen." error. The error occurs immediately after the decompression of the exe file.
Both servers are 2008 r2 sp1, standard Azure images. Both servers have been up and running for a minimum of 1 month.
Ironically, I have also setup another 2008 r2 sp1 Azure image server within the last week for testing purposes. I figured I would give that server a try as well, and found that I had no issues installing the WABInstaller on that one.
Anyone else have ideas or a solution to this issue?
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London Braver Conference and Dinner 2018
Our flagship 2018 Braver Conference will get under the skin of what being braver really means both in work and in life.
We'll hear about the brave passions and even braver ambitions of our inspiring speakers which include challengers (Sophi Tranchell), performers (Marcus John Henry Brown), activists (Dr Caroline Casey), visionaries (Jaz Ampaw-Farr), transformers (Martin Glenn) and more.
Join us for a fresh perspective, discover new ideas and connect with 400 other people just like you.
Watch videos of the sessions and listen to the podcasts below
Yalda Hakim (our host)
Journalist and host of BBC World News
Yalda Hakim is the presenter of Impact on BBC World News. She joined the company in December 2012 and made her on-screen debut in March 2013, presenting a special three part series of Our World entitled, Iraq: Ten Years On.
Tor Garnett
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Tor joined the Met in 2008. In 2012 she created a forum for junior-ranking officers to improve the force from within and founded Police Now. Tor will explore how to conquer organisational obstacles and how to make a brave team braver.
Eric E Murangwa MBE
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Dr Caroline Casey
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Sophi Tranchell MBE
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Marcus John Henry Brown
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Cecilia Weckstrom
Senior director, LEGO
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Steve Langan
CEO, Hiscox USA
Is it easier for a risk-based business to be braver than others? Steve will explain how he creates a brave culture in Hiscox and share what happens when courage fails you and what you can learn.
Thomas Barta
Author and CMO leadership expert
Exactly what type of brave are marketers? Why does being brave matter? Thomas will present a preview of our new study into the bravery of our global network.
Jaz Ampaw-Farr
Resilience ninja
Literacy was Jaz's ticket out of childhood neglect, poverty and abuse. Since then she's inspired teachers to go the extra mile and adopt a resilient mindset in their own lives.
Martin Glenn
CEO, The FA
How brave do you have to be to carry the weight of the entire country's expectations? Martin will explore the triumphs and disappointments of not only his 2018 World Cup journey, but career to date. How brave do you have to be to win?
Human side of leadership
As well as our main speakers, our chief executive Gemma Greaves will be hosting a panel session, asking a group of market leaders, to let us in on their secrets behind being brave. Speakers will be: Syl Saller, Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer at Diageo, Michelle McEttrick, Group Brand Director at Tesco, and Pete Markey, Chief Marketing Officer at TSB Bank.
The above podcasts were edited by Red Apple Creative - a creation house specialising in Spotify, radio and podcasts. https://www.redapplecreative.co.uk/
Following a day of learning we continue into the evening with our Annual Dinner, celebrating achievements of our industry and saying thank you, over good food and wine, to colleagues, clients and partners. The night will be hosted by Rachel Parris, an award-winning musical comedian, actor, improviser and presenter.
Rachel Parris (our host)
Comedian, actor, improviser and presenter
Rachel Parris is an award-winning musical comedian, actor, improviser and presenter - she is one of the breakout stars of the hit BBC2 series THE MASH REPORT.
Hip hop musical comedian
This year's entertainment is Ireland's finest hip hop musical comedian Abandoman, who uses his trademark blend of audience interaction and razor-sharp improvisation to entertain a crowd.
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One of the great delights of this blog is how many wonderful people I have gotten to know — from the terrific commenters who've made this a real community to the scientists I've interviewed to the writers who've written guest posts. One of the latter, Dominique Browning, a world-class editor and writer, has organized a new effort, Moms Clean Air Force.
They are "asking Moms to join together, to come out in strength for our kids' right to clean air "" just as our parents fought for us, forty years ago, when the Clean Air Act was first passed." Here's what they will be doing:
We'll be posting all the information Moms "" and Dads too! "" need to learn what is at stake: nothing less than the health of future generations. We'll show you how dirty air connects to disease. We'll give you the tools to learn what's happening in your area. We'll be asking for your ideas, and your stories. We'll be organizing campaigns and meetings and an online action center to make our voices heard.
Our children can't fight for themselves. We have to fight for them.
Browning has sent me an introductory piece on mercury, an exclusive (temporarily), that is well worth a look by moms and dads and children of all ages (just took my daughter to the circus yesterday):
I haven't taken a biology class since high school. With all the news about the danger of mercury emissions, I decided it was time to understand how mercury works in our bodies. Now I see why our young are so vulnerable to mercury, a truly terrible poison.
The trouble begins with coal plants (see here), the primary source of mercury emissions in the United States. They spew many poisons into the air, including other toxic metals such as arsenic.
Mercury drifts through the air and settles into water — reservoirs, ponds, streams, rivers, marshes — and onto the land, where it is washed by rain into water. In the water, mercury is converted by certain microorganisms to a highly toxic form known as methylmercury. Those bacteria make the mercury "bio available" — able to be taken up by the creatures that consume it.
Methylmercury is absorbed by shellfish and fish, through their gills; it is dispersed by their blood through their bodies, and accumulates in their fatty tissue. The contaminated fish is eaten by other fish, and birds and mammals — including humans. The biggest source of mercury exposure in humans comes from eating fish and shellfish.
Typically, the longer a fish lives, and the larger it is, the more mercury accumulates in its flesh. Grouper, swordfish, orange roughy, halibut, Atlantic salmon and tuna have been identified as having high levels of mercury in them. Across the country, states have instituted warnings about mercury in certain types of fish. Pregnant or nursing women are told not to eat tuna more than once a week.
Once eaten, mercury goes directly into the highest lipid-containing organs in our bodies — including breasts and brains. Breast milk, which is packed with nutrients and high in lipid content, can contain mercury.
In addition, mercury can cross the blood-brain barrier — a nearly impermeable membrane made of high-density cells that helps to safeguard the brain. The blood-brain barrier is extremely effective at protecting the brain from many common bacterial infections, for instance. But it cannot keep methylmercury out.
Unborn babies and young children are especially vulnerable to methylmercury in their bloodstreams. Methylmercury, like many toxicants, does cross the placental barrier, and has been detected in measurable amounts in umbilical cords.
Fetuses and young children are constantly developing; they are much more vulnerable to the harms of neurotoxicants than adults. Developmental neurotoxicants can impair the growth of the brain in ways that interfere with learning and thinking.
Mercury exposure at high levels can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system of people of all ages.
Once in our bodies, mercury stays there for many months, and most people have some amount of mercury in their tissues at all times.
Mercury exposure at high levels can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs and immune system of people of all ages.
We are never exposed to any one toxic pollutant alone. We're exposed to all of them at the same time. Some of them have synergistic effects — they cause more trouble in combination.
That's why we have to stop coal plants from spewing mercury. Write to the EPA [http://www.momscleanairforce.org/how-to-send-a-comment-to-the-epa/] and tell them you support the new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. And write to the owners of the polluting coal plants[link to our worst offenders post: http://www.momscleanairforce.org/2011/03/24/worst-offenders-list-where-are-the-top-25-mercury-emitting-coal-plants/] to demand they clean up their emissions. For the sake of our children.
— Dominique Browning is a writer and editor "" and the mother of two sons. She blogs at Slow Love Life and writes a column called Personal Nature for the Environmental Defense Fund. She also writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, and contributes to W, Wired, Whole Living, and Good Housekeeping, among other publications. She has spent most of her journalistic career in the magazine world, as an editor at Esquire, Texas Monthly, Newsweek, and House & Garden. She is the author of several books; the most recent is Slow Love.
Kudos to Browning for organizing an important group in this critical battle.
The fact is mercury and other emissions from coal are very costly and dangerous, especially to kids:
- If you want smarter kids, shut coal plants
- Life-cycle study: Accounting for total harm from coal would add "close to 17.8¢/kWh of electricity generated"
- In "The Toll from Coal," The American Lung Association found that coal-powered electricity alone caused "over 13,000 premature deaths in 2010, as well as almost 10,000 hospitalizations and more than 20,000 heart attacks per year."
- The National Research Council found in 2009 that burning fossil fuels costs the U.S. $120 billion a year "" not counting mercury or climate impacts!


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|AS the beam of a flashlight is to the illumination of a modern sports stadium, so is the power of an average personal computer to the Department of Energy's Blue Pacific supercomputer. And now, the Blue Pacific, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is about to be eclipsed by another even higher performance supercomputer. Dubbed White, the monster machine developed by IBM for Lawrence Livermore is the latest computing system in DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI)-a program whose mission is to produce a system capable of calculating at 100 teraops (trillion floating-point operations per second) by 2004. "On a logarithmic scale," says Mark Seager, Livermore's principal investigator for ASCI platforms, "we're halfway to that goal with the 10-teraops ASCI White."
One Program—Three Laboratories
The goal of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) is to provide the numerical simulation capability needed to model the safety, reliability, and performance of a complete nuclear weapon-from start to finish. The three national laboratories working on this initiative are Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and Los Alamos. Project leaders at each laboratory, guided by the DOE's Office of the Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, work with ASCI's industrial and academic partners. The overriding challenge is to synchronize the various technological developments. For example, sufficient platform power must be delivered in time to run new advanced codes, and networking capabilities must be in place to enable the various parts of the system to behave as one
ASCI's program elements are Applications Development, Platforms, Pathforward, Problem-Solving Environment, Alliances, Visual Interactive Environment for Weapons Simulation, Verification and Validation, and Distributed and Distance Computing.
The Clock Ticks for the Stockpile
The push to produce a 100-teraops machine is tied to the aging of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and the country's commitment to maintaining and preserving a nuclear deterrent. With the advent of the U.S. nuclear test moratorium in 1992, the rules of the game changed for the nuclear weapons stockpile. No longer can the reliability, safety, and performance of these weapons be confirmed by underground nuclear tests. Originally designed with lifetimes of 20 years or more, these weapons must now be kept ready to serve the country indefinitely.
Doug Post, associate leader for the Laboratory's Computational Physics Division, explains, "In the early days, when the Lab was in the business of developing nuclear weapons, the overriding design question was `Would it work?' Back then, we had nuclear testing to prove out the designs. It wasn't really necessary to be efficient as long as Mother Nature got to vote." As the number of underground tests shrank from hundreds to tens per year and the simulation codes and computers running them became more capable, the design process for nuclear weapons and supporting computer codes became more efficient. "After the test ban, the question became `How long?' Aging nuclear weapons had never been an issue, because we'd always replaced old systems with new designs before their retirement dates. And we'd had underground nuclear tests to confirm the viability of the stockpile."
The answer to that question became DOE's Stockpile Stewardship Program. Weapon reliability, safety, surety-all once verified by underground nuclear tests-must now be confirmed using nonnuclear experiments, historical underground nuclear test data, and high-fidelity computer simulations.
A key component of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, ASCI is pushing computational power far beyond present capabilities so weapon scientists and engineers can, with confidence, simulate the aging of nuclear weapons and predict their performance. If high-performance supercomputing were constrained to continue developing at a normal pace as predicted by Moore's Law (that is, computer speed doubling every 18 months to 2 years), the capability necessary to perform these calculations would still be a long way from reality by the year 2004. The three national laboratories that are part of ASCI-Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia-have teamed up with the supercomputing industry to accelerate the development of high-performance supercomputing in the marketplace and meet this critical timeline.
The 10-teraops IBM White machine is scheduled to arrive at Lawrence Livermore this summer. With more than two-and-a-half times the horsepower of Blue Pacific, White is an important rung in the ASCI ladder. "One hundred teraops is the entry level we need to do full-scale simulations of exploding nuclear weapons," Seager explains. "These simulations must take into account three-dimensional, multiple-physics, high-resolution, coupled calculations. ASCI White will shed light on those areas of physics we don't yet understand, so that when we have the 100-teraops machine in 2004, we'll have a better handle on the issues."
Beating Moore's Law
To reach its 2004 goal, ASCI is building the world's fastest supercomputers using commercially manufactured parts. "Because we need to move faster than Moore's law allows," explains Seager, "we're building our supercomputers by taking thousands of processors-basically just like the PC on your desk-and linking them together. For ASCI White, we are tying together 8,192 processors to get a corresponding increase in capability and speed."
The processors in White are based on IBM's latest chip-the Power 3-II. Sixteen processors are grouped into a symmetric multiprocessor node; 512 nodes form the system. Code developers take advantage of the fact that proximity plays an important role in the speed of communication. Thus, the processors within a node can pass information between themselves quickly, while information between nodes moves a bit slower. Housing and bringing power to this enormous parallel machine are a project in and of themselves. For the machine to replace White, Lawrence Livermore is constructing the Terascale Simulation Facility. (See the box below.)
As Seager points out, "When we speak of accelerating the technology, we're talking about more than just the computer. Everything around the computer platform must also develop at an increased pace—applications, infrastructure, networks, archives, visualization tools. In fact, for every dollar spent on computer hardware, the initiative spends two on software." (See the box entitled Tomorrow's Supercomputer Today.)
The Terascale Simulation Facility
The time scales and demands of ASCI require a facility of extraordinary scope: the Terascale Simulation Facility (TSF). The $89-million facility will house a computer complex and data assessment and networking capability. It will require a significant increase in electrical power, mechanical support, physical space, and networking infrastructure. The TSF will provide an acre of raised computer floor and a power plant equivalent to that servicing a city of 15,000 homes.
ASCI White, with a delivery date of mid-2000, will reside next door to the proposed TSF in Building 451, where power and cooling systems have been tripled to meet the requirements of the 10-teraops supercomputer.
Building on Blue's Triumphs
It's not easy to develop applications software for these parallel machines, notes Post. Many of the algorithms used in past weapons-related codes were not designed with parallel computing in mind. Plus, they were written to examine physics in two dimensions, not three, and had to run on machines much less capable than today's workstations. Consequently, simplified assumptions about the physics processes and the geometries involved are part of those codes. To produce the high-fidelity simulations required for stockpile stewardship, ASCI codes must remove these assumptions and replace them with much more accurate methods based, in many cases, on a first-principles approach.
As part of ASCI, the Laboratory's code developers set about writing codes to take advantage of the architecture of this new generation of supercomputers. Simulation codes for ASCI include nuclear performance codes that can predict the details of an exploding nuclear weapon, materials modeling codes that use molecular dynamics to study the long-term degradation of materials under the influence of low-level radiation, and multiphysics codes that simulate what happens within an inertial confinement fusion target during implosion. Many of these codes have run on the ASCI Blue Pacific machine with impressive results.
Modeling a Primary
In one notable ASCI Blue Pacific triumph, Lawrence Livermore, with strong support from IBM, completed the first major ASCI scientific milestone in November 1999-the first-ever three-dimensional simulation of an explosion of a nuclear weapon primary. (Nuclear weapons have two main components: the primary or trigger, and the secondary, which produces most of the energy.) Demonstrating the ability to computationally simulate, visualize, and analyze what happens to each of a nuclear weapon's components is a critical step in simulating an entire nuclear weapon's explosion in three dimensions.
The simulation required about 300,000 megabytes of random-access memory (RAM). For comparison, a conventional desktop computer typically comes with only about 100 megabytes of RAM. The calculation—which would have taken 30 years on a desktop—ran for more than 20 days on the Blue Pacific using 1,024 processors. The complex computer model, referred to as the burn code, employed tens of millions of zones-hundreds of times more than a comparable two-dimensional simulation using traditional codes. The calculations produced 50,000 data files containing 6 terabytes of numerical information. Just looking at this much information presents a formidable challenge.
Tom Adams, an associate division leader in Defense and Nuclear Technologies Directorate, explains, "We had so much data that we needed to use the ASCI machine to analyze the results as well." ASCI's visualization software was also put to the test. Results were displayed as movies, in which scientists could look inside the primary to see what was happening at different points in time, and as graphic renditions of temperatures, pressures, and so on.
"This burn code `milepost' was originally set in 1996 as a target to hit before the year 2000," continues Adams. "It was a daunting objective that some thought we'd never meet. In accomplishing it, we've shown that the ASCI program is on track, that the hardware and software systems are working, and that we can bring in results. The run also tested the teamwork of the people from the physics code teams, the Computation Directorate, and IBM. They all worked hard to solve the problems and make this happen. We see this exercise on Blue Pacific as a model for what we plan to do with White."
Adams expects that with White, the simulations will get more detailed. "We'll be able to model a larger part of the full weapon system, input more details on the weapon's configuration, and use more complex coupled physical models. All of this will improve the fidelity of our simulations."
The next ASCI scientific milestone is to model the secondary, something that will require White's increased power and speed. "In addition, we're moving from this, our first complete calculation, to something that nuclear weapon scientists and engineers can use for analyzing the stockpile," says Adams. "We're working with these users to apply the codes to current stockpile stewardship issues."
Dissecting ICF
Several of the codes developed for ASCI examine various physics processes related to inertial confinement fusion (ICF). For instance, one three-dimensional code examines what occurs inside an ICF pellet when x rays hit the pellet's surface. The code models the fluid motion within the capsule as temperature, pressure, and density increase. It also models the transport of x rays emitted by the high-temperature material and the energy released from the fusion process. Another effort focuses on methods for modeling radiation transport. Seager notes, "Radiation transport is central to many physics applications, including nuclear weapons, inertial confinement fusion, plasma processing, and combustion. Many production codes in ASCI spend about 80 percent of their time claculating radiation transport. Doing these calculations more efficiently is a big time-saver."
Another parallel code, which ran on the ASCI Blue Pacific in 1999, simulated the flux of fusion neutrons that comes out of the Nova laser target chamber. This high-fidelity simulation had to take into account complex three-dimensional geometries, a wide range of distances (from the 6-meter-diameter test chamber to a target pellet less than 1 millimeter in diameter), and a number of different materials (air, aluminum, gold) with densities varying by a factor of 108. This calculation employed more than 160 million zones with over 15 billion unknowns and took 27 hours to solve on 3,840 processors.
From Shock Wave to Buckyballs
In other first-time-ever Blue Pacific calculations, researchers explored such diverse areas as turbulence, ab initio molecular dynamics, and quantum chemistry.
What happens when a shock wave passes through an interface of two fluids of differing density? A detailed simulation on 5,832 processors aimed at answering this question netted a team from Lawrence Livermore, the University of Minnesota, and IBM the prestigious Gordon Bell Award last November. The simulation, the largest calculation of its type, achieved a greater level of detail than any previous turbulence simulations. The effort has applications in a variety of disciplines, including supersonic propulsion, combustion, and supernova evolution.
Researchers at the Laboratory used 3,840 processors to simulate from first principles the molecular interactions of hydrogen fluoride, an extremely toxic and corrosive byproduct of insensitive high-explosive detonations. Little experimental data are available on hydrogen fluoride, particularly at high temperatures and pressures. Quantum molecular dynamics simulated the interaction of hydrogen fluoride and water at the microscopic level-the only input being the identities of the atoms and the laws of quantum mechanics. This ASCI simulation involved 600 atoms with 1,920 electrons. The simulations provided crucial insight into the properties of hydrogen fluoride-water mixtures at high pressures and temperatures, adding to the understanding of how insensitive high explosives perform. (See S&TR July/August 1999, On Target: Designing for Ignition, for more information about quantum molecular dynamics and this simulation.)
A research collaboration from Lawrence Livermore, the University of California at Berkeley, and Sandia National Laboratory at Livermore used ASCI Blue Pacific to perform the largest first-principles quantum chemistry calculations ever done. One of the initial applications was to determine the three-dimensional structure and electronic state of the carbon-36 "buckyball," one of the smallest, most stable members of the buckminsterfullerene family of compounds. Possible applications for these unusual compounds include high-temperature superconductors and precise delivery of medicines to cancer cells. Previous quantum chemical calculations narrowed down the possible structure of carbon-36 to one of two possibilities, shown below right. Experimental data favored the structure in (a), but theoretical results slightly favored the one in (b). The two structures have different chemical properties, so determining which is more stable was critical to understanding this compound. A high-fidelity ASCI calculation provided the definitive-and unexpected-answer. As it turned out, the structure in (a), the one favored by the experimentalists, was the most stable. "This exercise was a reminder of how low-fidelity simulations with their simplifications and interpolations can lead to catastrophic results," notes Seager. "In a weapons calculation, for instance, you don't want to get the wrong answer to the question `Will it work?'"
Universities Logging On
Significant scientific work on ASCI Blue Pacific is proceeding not only at the national laboratories, but also at associated universities through DOE's Academic Strategic Alliance Program. This program aims to engage the U.S. academic community in advancing science-based modeling and simulation technologies. Although the specific computing problems universities are tackling do not directly involve nuclear weapons research, the methodologies and tools being developed can be applied to all of ASCI's areas of research.
The program funds five major centers of excellence. Each uses multidisciplinary teams working over the long term to provide large-scale, unclassified simulations that represent ASCI-class problems. The centers collectively have access to up to 10 percent of the ASCI computing resources at the three national laboratories. The projects are part of a 10-year program, in which projects come up for renewal after five years.
"The problems being studied in these projects are comparable in their complexity to those involving nuclear weapons," explains Dick Watson, Lawrence Livermore's manager for the program. "We expect that through this program, the laboratories and universities will see revolutionary advances in both the physical and engineering sciences and the mathematical and computer sciences."
The Center for Simulating Dynamic Response of Materials, based at the California Institute of Technology, is developing simulation codes for its virtual shock physics test facility. Simulations have applications to materials design, oil exploration, earthquake prediction, and environmental analysis.
Stanford University's Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulations focuses on jet-engine simulations. Researchers at this center are developing massively parallel codes for high-fidelity flow and combustion simulation.
The Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes at the University of Chicago is studying the physics of supernovas, including the physics of ignition, detonation, and turbulent mixing of complex fluids and materials. Once completed, the integrated code will provide the highest resolution calculation ever done showing how these stellar outbursts begin.
The University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign is home to the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. This center plans to provide a detailed, whole-system simulation of solid propellant rockets. Earlier this year, center staff completed a simplified version of a three-dimensional integrated rocket simulation code. The next-generation code will characterize various burn scenarios, and the fully integrated code will address potential component failures. Research will benefit technologies such as gas generators used for automobile air bags and fire suppression.
Finally, the University of Utah is focusing on the physics of fire at the Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions. These problems draw on fundamental gas- and condensed-phase chemistry, structural mechanics, turbulent flows, convective and radiative heat transfer, and mass transfer.
At Lawrence Livermore, all of the alliance work is being conducted on the unclassified sector of ASCI Blue Pacific.
Building a Model for the Future
"One of the key challenges to fielding the fastest supercomputers in the world is that this scale of computing requires a new operational model in order to succeed," says Seager. "In the past, the model has been a large, but fundamentally traditional, scientific computing center. ASCI needs to be run as if it were an experimental research facility. The scientific applications being developed today promise a level of physical and numerical accuracy that is more like that of a scientific experiment than a traditional numerical simulation. The effort required to run a full-scale, three-dimensional scientific application is like running a big experimental weapon test. In a way, this operational change parallels the changing role of large-scale experiments in the physics world."
For a long time, the two accepted branches of physics have been theory and experiment. Yet, there are experiments that, for various reasons, are unrealistic- either the conditions can't be created in the laboratory, or it's far too dangerous or expensive to do so. And, in many cases, the theory has been too complex to analyze, even with many simplified assumptions. "All that has changed with the coming of ASCI's supercomputers," says Seager. "Computer simulation is now poised to become the new branch of science, on the same level as experimentation and theory."
—Ann Parker
Key Words: Academic Strategic Alliance Program, Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), ASCI White, Blue Pacific, Stockpile Stewardship Program, Terascale Simulation Facility (TSF).
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MARK SEAGER is the principal investigator for the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative's terascale system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His interests are currently in large, scalable system architecture, performance, and integration. Seager received his B.S. in mathematics and astrophysics from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque in 1979 and a Ph.D. in numerical analysis from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984.


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Ongoing discussions are taking place between Celtic and Rangers over who should pay for the damage to the Celtic Park toilets, Gordon Strachan has told the SFA he wants to stay, Celtic striker is worth £20m and could play for Real Madrid, and Steven Gerrard was more of a tourist than a player at LA Galaxy
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Old Firm 'in discussions' over toilet damage
Celtic and Rangers are still in discussions over who should pay for the damage to the Parkhead toilets sustained during the first Old Firm game of the season.
The Celtic board was quizzed about the issue at the club's AGM. Peter Lawwell stated a police investigation is still ongoing into the incident, which saw significant damage to the toilets in the Rangers section of the ground. (Various)
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Gordon Strachan has told SFA chiefs he wants to stay on as national coach and see out the World Cup qualifying campaign. His decision has come as a surprise to the Hampden hierarchy who expected him to quit. (Daily Record)
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Celtic striker is worth £20m
Former Fulham boss Kit Symons reckons Dembele is worth at least £20 million. The Celtic hitman's reputation soared further with two goals for France U21 in their win over England. (Daily Record)
Moussa is French star in the making
Kolo Toure has tipped Dembele to be the next star of the full France team following his performances for the under-21s (Daily Mail)
Sinclair urges Gerrard to come to Celtic
Former England captain Steven Gerrard would get "a buzz" out of playing for Celtic, says Parkhead winger Scott Sinclair (The Scotsman)
Gerrard a better tourist than player in LA
Steven Gerrard's fading powers as a driving midfield player were exposed during his spell in MLS. (The Guardian)
Derek Riordan bids to find a new club
Former Hibs and Celtic striker Derek Riordan has played for a 'Showcase XI' organised by agent Cesare Marchetti as he tries to find a new club. The team is coached by Garry O'Connor and Ian Murray. (Daily Mail)
Turn up the noise, says Lennon
Neil Lennon has urged Hibs fans to make more noise at Easter Road. (Edinburgh Evening News)
Modern life is stifling Scottish football
Scotland captain Darren Fletcher blames the "controlled environment" kids now live in for a lost generation of Scottish players. (The Sun)
Mark McGhee to fight SFA rap
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee will contest an SFA charge after issued with a notice of complaint for "aggressive behaviour" following his side's 2-0 defeat by Dundee. (The Sun)
• Celtic have the third highest home support in British football, after Manchester United and Arsenal. (Various)
• Pep Guardiola has banned Manchester City players from having sex after midnight. (Various)
• Cricket's governing body wants to check players' WhatsApp messages if they suspect match-fixing. (The Guardian)
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