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Supporting Transformative Research Through Regional
Cyberinfrastructure (CI)
Gary Crane, Director IT Initiatives
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TopicsAbout SURAAbout SURAgridSURAgrid Goals & ActivitiesSURAgrid Supported Research
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SURA MissionSURA is a 501(c)3 university association with 64
member institutions whose mission is to:
Foster excellence in scientific research
Strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of the nation and the Southeast
Provide outstanding training opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers
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SCOOP – DOD Office of Naval Research/NOAA – to provide IT “glue” to integrate coastal research components
Jefferson Lab – DOE Office of Science – to probe nucleus of atom and study quark structure of matter
Information Technology - to build cyberinfrastructure foundation (the integration of high performance computing and networking) to support SURA’s scientific and research programs
Relations – to formulate and sustain internal and external relations strategy and support for SURA’s scientific and research programs
SURA Programs
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37% of the US population
10 EPSCoR states 92% of the nation’s
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
22% of the nation’s Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs)
SURA Region
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Indicator National TotalSURA
Region Total
SURA Members
Total
SURA Members %
ofRegion Total
SURA Region % of
National Total
General Institutional Profile (Source: Carnegie Classifications Data File, June 11, 2008
Institutions 4,391 1,413 63 4.5% 32.2%
Research Intensive/Extensive 199 67 58 86.6% 33.7%
Medical Schools 162 60 26 43.3% 37.0%
Total Enrollment 17,569,339 5,740,931 1,318,961 23.0% 32.7%
R&D Funding Profile (Sources: )
2006 DoE Awards ($) 737,469,000 158,941,000 100,003,820 62.9% 21.6%
2007 NASA Awards ($)12,677,099,41
77,577,088,19
01,442,032,08
1 19.0% 59.8%
2007 NSF Awards ($) 5,704,466,0001,746,124,00
0 768,391,665 44.0% 30.6%
2007 NIH Awards ($)21,067,129,29
45,454,531,33
12,704,508,67
9 49.6% 25.9%
CI (HPC and Networking) Profile
NSF HPC Awards (Track 1/Track 2) 3 2 2 100.0% 66.7%
Top 500 Academic Supercomputers 33 11 11 100.0% 33.3%
TeraGrid SUs MRAC/LRAC only (2005) 89,451,805 15,593,409 15,145,130 97.1% 17.4%
TeraGrid SUs MRAC/LRAC only (2006) 95,120,641 13,724,701 12,897,121 94.0% 14.4%
TeraGrid SUs MRAC/LRAC/DAC (2007) 215,113,415 29,760,224 26,812,252 90.1% 13.8%
General Demographics
Population 301,621,157 110,454,786 n/a n/a 36.6%
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36 Institutional members Shared accessible high
performance computing environment
Access to group negotiated discounted HPC systems/services
Enabling CI supported research & education
On-Ramp to National CI
Lowering Barriers for Deploying and Utilizing CyberInfrastructure
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About SURAgridOpen initiative supporting regional CI strategy
and infrastructure development Applications of regional impact are key drivers
Designed to foster new uses and users of CI Collaborative research, large and small Applications beyond those typically expected
- Instructional use, student exposure, new communities- Open to what new communities will bring
On-ramp to national HPC & CI facilities (e.g., Teragrid)
Built by, and building, a community of institutional collaborators
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About SURAgrid A community led program
An elected SURAgrid Governance Committee Contributing and Participating institutional members Freshly minted multi-year strategic plan
Currently a Globus based distributed HPC environment Integrates heterogeneous platforms and resources Exploring grid-to-grid integration
Support range of user groups with varying application needs and levels of grid expertise Participants include domain scientists, computer
scientists IT developers & support staff Sharing CI knowledge and best practices across the
SURA region
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SURAgrid Vision - Mission
SURAgrid Vision Promote excellence for research and education
enterprises by fostering collaborative engagement in cyberinfrastructure across the SURA region.
SURAgrid Mission SURAgrid provides a community for collaborative
development and use of cyberinfrastructure services to support the research and education missions of our membership.
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SURAgrid Goals Develop a research outreach program to identify new
users and new uses for the evolving regional and national computational and collaborative cyberinfrastructure available to the SURA region.
Plan, manage and support the SURAgrid infrastructure to provide a solid foundation for the evolution of SURA region research and education programs.
Develop a communications strategy for SURAgrid. Develop a sustainability model for SURAgrid. Strengthen existing and develop new corporate and
organizational partnerships focused on improving regional use of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) services.
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Major Areas of Activity
Grid-Building Access Management Services Corporate Partnerships Application Discovery &
Deployment Outreach & Community Building
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Community Cyberinfrastructure
Institutions
Resources
CPUs Peak TFlop
s
GBytes Memor
y
GBytes disk
September 2005
9 11 490 1.3 548 4,755
October 2006
14 18 910 3.1 950 8,020
November 2007
12 16 2,041 12.6 3,626 56,310
August 2008
13 16 2,355
15.5 4,516 46,817
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Themes: local autonomy, scalability, leverage enterprise infrastructure
Access ManagementTwo-tiered PKI
Production service and grid-to-grid integration Preserve environment for learning & development
View towards global structures for sharing HEPKI, International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF)
Multiple components contributed by UVA Bridge Certificate Authority (CA) LDAP-based user account management SURAgrid CA (under development)
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SURA Corporate Partnerships
Significant product discounts Owned and operated by SURAgrid participants Integrated into SURAgrid with 20% of capacity
available to SURAgrid pool IBM p575 – 1 and 2 TF configurations IBM e1350 Linux– 1 rack 3 TF and 2 rack 6 TF
configurations Dell PowerEdge 1950– Single rack 2TF
configuration Microsoft funded CCS 2003/2008 Pilot Project
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CI-Enabled Coastal Research
UNC Storm Surge Modeling with ADCIRCLSU Wave Watch 3 for SCOOPUFL CH3D Storm Surge Monitoring
System with Grid Appliance
SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction
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CI-Enabled Bioinformatics & Biomedical Research
GSU Multiple Genome Alignment on the Grid
GSU Virtual Screening for Computational Chemistry
ODU Biosim: Bio-electric Simulator for Whole Body Tissue
UAB Dynamic BlastVCU Virtual Parasite
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On-Ramp to National CI NCSU Simulation-Optimization for Threat
Management in Urban Water Systems
Staging on SURAgrid, uncovers programming and workflow problems prior to porting to TeraGRID
SURAgrid provides compute a heterogeneous resource pool, low overhead to participate
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Outreach & Community BuildingSURAgrid monthly con callSURAgrid Update (community newsletter)
SURAgrid Website (www.sura.org/suragrid)
Participation in Regional CI Day ActivitiesSpring & Fall All Hands MeetingsListservsActive Working Groups
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For More Information
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Q & A
Gary Crane, [email protected]