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“CyberInfrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for
Undergraduate Education”
Roscoe Giles
June 13, 2005
Challenge #1 …
Workshop projects show how “less is more”
Can Cyberinfrastructure
projects avoid showing that “more is less”?
You can help!
Outline
• Computing and Computational Science• Cyberinfrastructure (CI)• People: (EOT-PACI, EPIC)• Resources/References
(Challenges throughout!)
Computational Science:Interdisciplinary Research and Education
Science DisciplinePhysics, Chemistry, Biology, etc.
Computer ScienceHardware/Software
Applied MathematicsNumerical Analysis, Modeling,
Simulation
Abstraction & Information
Information
Abs
trac
tion
“Pencil & Paper Math”
Large ScaleSimulations
Understanding?
Cyberinfrastructure
BackgroundHistory
Examples
What is Supercomputing?Leading Edge to Consumer Electronics
1985 Cray X-MP: 1.2 Gflop
Cost:$8,000,000
60,000 watts of power
No Built in Graphics
56 kbps NSFnet Backbone
2005 X-Box: ~5 Gflop peak
Cost: $140
~100 watts of power
3D Graphics (125M P/S)
(100 Mbps etherNet)
Atkins Report (NSF)
Some CI Project LinksNSF Shared Cyberinfrastructure (SCI)
http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=SCI
TeraGrid http://www.teragrid.org
Open Science Grid http://www.opensciencegrid.org/
Access Grid http://www.accessgrid.org
High Productivity Computing Systems
http://www.highproductivity.org/
Advanced Simulation and Computing
http://www.sandia.gov/NNSA/ASC/
Some Science Examples
GADU/GNARE Uses TeraGrid For Protein Sequence Analysis (2.3 Million sequences in 8.5 days)
Neutron Star Spin-Up Discovered with 3D Simulations on Cray X-1 (600 Million Zones)(video)
Math optimizes kidney matches for pair donation (Sommer Gentry, CSGF Fellow)
Complex Networks
Error Analysis and Simulations of Complex Phenomena
Teragrid News http://www.teragrid.org/news/index.html
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computation
http://www.scidac.org/
Supercomputing http://www.sc-conference.org
People and CI
History
“EOT-PACI has created and sustained a collaborative community of computational science researchers and educators with common goals and leveraged resources. Few of these partners had interacted, much less collaborated, prior to the grant.”
Project Categories (Brochure)–Professional Development–Mentoring–Learning Material Development–Software and Online Information –Youth Programs–Diversity/Accessibility–Conferences/Collaborative
Experiences–Metrics & Evaluation–Online Guides and Reports
EPIC Goal
to build human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through Cyberinfrastructure and by educating and training a diverse group of people in all stages of life from K-12 to professional practice to fully participate in the Cyberinfrastructure community as developers, users, and leaders.
EPIC Chart
EPIC Partners• BioQuest Curriculum
Consortium• Boston University• Coalition to Diversify
Computing (CDC)• Computing Research
Associates • Committee on the Status of
Women in Computing Research (CRA-W)
• Florida International University• University of Kentucky• The Math Forum at Drexel• Maryland Virtual High School
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Oregon State University• Ohio Supercomputer Center• Rice University• San Diego Supercomputer
Center• San Diego State University• Shodor Education Foundation,
Inc.• SUNY Brockport• Texas Advanced Computing
Center• University of Wisconsin-
Madison
Virtual Institutes
• On-line venues for partners and participants to meet to share ideas and work toward common goals.
• Current EPIC VI’s (in formation):– Computational science curriculum – Visualization in Education– MSI Consortium Research– Women and Girls and CI– Access Grid in Education
Resources
www.eotepic.org
Some Education Resources
EPIC & partners http://www.eotepic.org
BioQuest http://www.bioquest.org
Shodor NCSI: http://www.computationalscience.org/
CSERD: http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/index.php
Krell Institute Graduate FellowsUndergraduate
Challenges
• Large scale future funding?
• National impact
• Philosophical Question: what should we teach/what will they learn?