XSEDE12 Opening RemarksCraig Stewart

XSEDE12 General ChairExecutive Director, Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute

XSEDE & XSEDE12

• XSEDE is the eXtreme Science & Engineering Discovery Environment

• One organization, serving the nation

• XSEDE12 is the first annual conference about XSEDE and about how XSEDE fits into the US national and international cyberinfrastructure

Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyond

• NSF funded centers have led in the eXtreme since the origin of the centers program in the 1980s

• XSEDE focuses on advanced digital cyberinfrastructure in research and research education broadly and generally

• A critical XSEDE goal: help the NSF achieve its goal of a national, integrated, effective cyberinfrastructure (Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21))

• Bridging to the campus – and beyond – is one of the key distinguishing characteristics of XSEDE and thus the theme for XSEDE12

What makes XSEDE12 different• Focus on quality of conference AND proceedings (award winning speakers,

informative and extensive proceedings, record setting attendance)• In cooperation status with ACM SIGAPP (Special Interest Group on Applications)• XSEDE and beyond

– SP Forum (most notably Open Science Grid)– What can XSEDE as an organization learn from the national and international

cyberinfrastructure community?• Student Programs

– Open Science Grid school students– XSEDE Scholars– XSEDE student volunteers– Programming contest

• Focus on diversity writ large• Attention to impact on environment

This morning’s speakers

Keynote: Richard Tapia, Rice University

Plenary: John Towns,NCSA

Thank you, XSEDE12 non-profit sponsors:

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Thank you, XSEDE12 corporate sponsors:

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Thanks to everyone, and especially• Key leads: Phillip Blood, Warren Froelich, Susan McKenna, Kay Hunt, Jeff Gaede, Randy Butler, Tom

Hutton, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr• Thanks to to NSF for student / campus champion participation support via award 1237393 and Jenett

Tillotson (PI); Phillip Blood, Timothy Cartwright (co-PIs) • Track Chairs: Phillip Blood, Carlos Rosales-Fernandez, Victor Hazlewood, Jay Alameda, Sandie Kappes, Amy

Apon, J. Barr von Oehsen, Mark Fahey, Chander Sehgal• Logistics & Local Arrangements Chairs: Warren Froelich, Kay Hunt, Randy Butler, Amit Chourasia, Susan

Mehringer, David Lifka, Tom Furlani, Jenett Tillotson• Special thanks: Linda Akli, Scott Lathrop• All of the paper, poster, tutorial, panel presenters and authors• Everyone who reviewed a paper, tutorial, poster, or panel • Kenny Armstrong and his colleagues at AVI for audio visual• Amy Watts, Alana Zeiger, John Barbier and their colleagues at Hotel Intercontinental• Nina Paine• Donna Hunt (President HMS Meeting Services) and Yvonne Bean (Yvonne Bean Director, Global Accounts

HelmsBriscoe)• Indiana University Purchasing and Counsel• Thanks to NSF for support of XSEDE via award 1053575 and John Towns (PI); Ralph Roskies, Jay Boisseau,

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (Co-PIs)• My wife and family • You, and your families

Allan Snavely, 1962 - 2012

HPC performance analysis leader, key architect of SDSC Gordon, finalist for Gordon Bell Prize 2007 & 2008; SC09 Storage Challenge Award for the design of Dash (predecessor to Gordon)

Introducing Dr. John Towns, XSEDE PI

• John Towns is the principal investigator and project director for XSEDE and is Director, Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure Programs at NCSA

• John has been at UIUC since 1988 – started with NCSA in 1989• His background is in computational astrophysics with a focus

on application performance analysis• He is also the father of four young men and a volunteer soccer

coach

Introducing our Keynote Speaker – Dr. Richard Tapia• Richard A. Tapia is a mathematician and Rice University Professor, director of

the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, Rice University; director of the Empowering Leadership Alliance; and director of the XSEDE Scholars Program.

• Tapia holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has earned numerous national awards, including being the first native-born Hispanic to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering and receiving the National Medal of Science in October 2011.

• Tapia is widely recognized as an advocate for underrepresented students, especially those in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and has been celebrated for his annual conference, The Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.

• Must have been a heck of a drag car builder / tuner in his youth (he and his brother Bobby built drag cars leading to Bobby owning the world record for top fuel in the ¼ mile of 6.54 seconds in 1968)

• An inspiring speaker who is going to tell us matter about matters of global survival

Closing remarks for opening session

Enjoy the conference & the Windy City• Social events Tuesday and Wednesday• Also recommended: Art Institute of Chicago

(Lichtenstein retrospective) and Field Museum (Extreme Mammals)

• Student volunteers will help direct • We will begin Wednesday @ at 8:00 sharp • Discussion board – post and read about

informal events & breaking news go.illinois.edu/xsede12

• See the yellow card in your packets for network, twitter, schedule links

© Field Museum - Used with permission - may not be reused without permission from copyright holder. Thanks to the Field Museum for use of this image

XSEDE12 – on with the conference!

• Cyberinfrastructure consists of computational systems, data and information management, advanced instruments, visualization environments, and people, all linked together by software and advanced networks to improve scholarly productivity and enable knowledge breakthroughs and discoveries not otherwise possible.

• We are the people!• Our reach will forever exceed our grasp, but, in stretching our

horizon, we forever improve our world

Notes• This material has been prepared with support of NSF awards 1237393 and

1053575, and major grant support from the Lilly Endowment to Indiana University to support the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, Lilly Endowment, or XSEDE leadership.

• Please cite as: Stewart, C.A. XSEDE12 opening remarks. 2012. Presentation. Presented at: XSEDE12 (Chicago, IL, 16-20 Jul 2012). http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14712

• All slides (except where explicitly noted) are copyright 2012 by the Trustees of Indiana University, and this content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)