Professor, University of Maryland SURAgrid Regional Grid Infrastructure for Scalable Inter-institutional Sharing MAX Member Meeting 20 April 2006 Don Riley SURA IT Fellow Professor, University of Maryland drriley@umd.edu

Non-profit consortium of 62 colleges and universities in 16 southern states and DC, with special provisions for outside the region members, i.e., MIT Incorporated in 1980 to compete for the DOE’s first “major” nuclear physics particle accelerator in the U.S. – the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), now the Jefferson Lab – in Newport News, Virginia “Crown Jewel”

Mission Foster excellence in scientific research Strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of the Nation and of the Southeast Provide outstanding training opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers

SURA Information Technology: Looking Back SURAnet Crossroads Regional GigaPop Support (SOX, MAX) Video Conferencing / Voice over IP (ViDe) National Middleware Initiative (NMI Testbed) SURA CyberSecurity Working Group Internet2; AT&T USAWaves; National LambdaRail Refocused SURA IT Strategy (2003; again 2005) Facilitating Collaboration on Science (eScience) Strengthening the base: Enabling the Possible Positioning SouthEast for Lead in IT and Science

SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program Enabling Integration of National Coastal Observing Initiatives (http://twiki.sura.org) Goal To create an open-access, distributed national laboratory for scientific research and coastal operations. Purpose To promote effective and rapid fusion of observed data with numerical models, and facilitate rapid dissemination of information to operational, scientific, and public and private users. Importance Over the next decade, a major national investment is expected in building varied components of a national ocean and coastal observing system. By facilitating a seamless integration for this emerging, multi-faceted ocean observing system, SCOOP will ensure that the value and effectiveness of these investments are maximized. US Ocean Action Plan SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program

OpenIOOS.org The Southeast Region OpenIOOS had real-time storm-surge and wave predictions before Katrina made landfall. This colorful slide shows OpenIOOS.org, a “front end” to the SCOOP service-oriented architecture for prediction. The point is that this site was working in real time (as indicated by the caption) and leveraging activities at SURA universities on 1 Jul 2005, which was the release date for Version 2.0.

SURA IT Strategy: Looking Forward Foundation (Infrastructure) Building Connectivity Regional: Crossroads/Sox/MAX + MATP/SLR/FLR/LONI/LEARN etc National (AT&T GridFiber, NLR, Internet2) International Opportunities (IEEAF, IRNC, Atlantic Wave) Network Research Regional Grid/HPC Infrastructure and Capacity Building Middleware High Performance Computing Data storage Identifying and Enabling “Science Communities” Focused on Support for SURA Science Drivers Jefferson Laboratory SCOOP - Coastal Research Bio-Informatics / Medical Research / Rural Telehealth

Grids as the eScience Enabler Standards & Specifications High Performance Computing Connectivity Last Mile Regional Grid Infrastructure Program (SURAGrid) Network Research Beyond Connectivity…… New Simulation And Modeling Applications (energy,weather Population,etc) SCOOP Tele-Medicine Bio-Informatics

SURAgrid Initiative IT & HPC Leaders formed GridPlan Group Workshop series building awareness - Dec. Grid Applications - Jan. Life Sciences Grid SURAgrid evolving as a regional grid community & shared infrastructure: 800+ nodes 2.5+Tflops 26 SURAgrid participating institutions SURAgrid Portal and Bridge Certificate Authority in operation $200,000 in new grant funding - NSF & TATRC Seeking Corporate partnerships Sun, IBM, …. For more information: http://www.sura.org/suragrid https://gridportal.sura.org

About SURAgrid A “beyond regional” initiative in support of regional strategy Evolved from the SURA NMI Testbed Grid http://www1.sura.org/3000/NMI-Testbed.html Developing grids as general purpose infrastructure Integrate with other enterprise-wide middleware Integrate heterogeneous platforms and resources Support range of user groups with varying application needs and levels of grid expertise Facilitate seamless sharing of resources within a campus, across related campuses and between different institutions Alignment and collaboration with synergistic initiatives (e.g. Open Science Grid, Teragrid, GridChem)

SURAgrid Goals To develop scalable infrastructure that leverages local institutional identity and authorization while managing access to shared resources To promote the use of this infrastructure for the broad research and education community To provide a forum for participants to gain additional experience with grid technology, and participate in collaborative project development

Major Areas of Activity Grid-Building Persistent inter-institutional grid infrastructure, grid portal Key contributor: Texas Advanced Computing Center Authentication & Authorization Scalable secure access and account management Key contributor: University of Virginia Application Discovery & Deployment Scientific advancements; drivers for development Key contributor: Georgia State University Outreach & Funding Development Sharpen and sustain value for new and “traditional” users SURA facilitating; various participating

Grid-Building Growing number of resources Portal development See SURAgrid portal, gridportal.sura.org Compute resources now but looking to expand! Portal development Resource monitor & user interface Eventual support for multiple community “views” Balance heterogeneity with interoperability Determine minimum requirements and work up Expand type of available resources and gateways Themes: heterogeneity, flexibility, interoperability

Project-Specific View Project-specific tools Vision for SURAgrid Expansion SURAgrid Institutional Resources (e.g. Current participants) Gateways to National Cyberinfrastructure (e.g. Teragrid) Industry Partner Coop Resources (e.g. IBM partnership) VO or Project Resources (e.g, SCOOP) Other externally funded resources (e.g. group proposals) Heterogeneous Environment to Meet Diverse User Needs Project-Specific View “MySURAgrid” View SURA regional development: Develop & manage partnership relations Facilitate collaborative project development Orchestrate centralized services & support Foster and catalyze application development Develop training & education (user, admin) Other…(Community-driven, over time…) Project-specific tools SURAgrid Resources and Applications SURAgrid Resources Sample User Portals

SURAgrid Participants (As of April 2006) Bowie State GMU UMD UKY = SURA Member = Resources on-grid UMich UVA UArk GPN Vanderbilt ODU UAH USC NCState OleMiss TTU SC UNCC TACC TAMU UAB UFL LSU GSU ULL Tulane

Grid Portal Resource Monitor

Authentication & Authorization Expanded operation of SURAgrid Bridge CA Increase participation, move to production service Cognizant of emerging trends in PKI (HE, IGTF, Federal, commercial) Promote success of enterprise CAs Provide technology & policy components to bridge gaps short-term, integrate long term Themes: local autonomy, scalability, leverage enterprise infrastructure

Application Development Increase frequency of traffic from initial application set Increase quantity and diversity of both applications and users Identify and document processes to assist in “grid-enabling” of applications Themes: provide immediate benefit to applications; applications drive further development

Initial Applications Underway SCOOP/ADCIRC UNC Marine Science/RENCI/MCNC – Early SCOOP application - ensemble runs in response to data input triggered by hurricanes. TACC, UKY, TAMU, USC, ULL, LSU ENDYNE Texas Tech University – Grid implementation of electron nuclear dynamics (END) theory; multiple trajectory calculations in quantum phase space. TTU, GSU, TACC, TAMU Multiple Genome Alignment Georgia State University – Evaluation and refinement of algorithms for multiple genome sequence alignment in grid & cluster environments. GSU, USC, UVA, TACC UCoMs Louisiana State University – Run time identification and utilization of grid-based resources, supporting petroleum exploration/simulation. LSU, TACC, GSU

Outreach & Funding Pursuit of external support Collaborative proposals among SURAgrid community E.g., SURAgrid as outreach component of LSU-led proposal to NSF HPC Acquisition program (under review) Corporate partnerships (deployment and R&D) E.g., Current partnership forming with IBM Discussions with Sun Recent awards “Developing Regional Grid Technology Support for TATRC Programs” “Creating a Catalyst Application Set for the Development of Large-Scale Multi-purpose Grid Infrastructure” (NSF SGER) Participation in SURA outreach activities Workshop planning, presentation, attendance SURA Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Series, http://www1.sura.org/3000/3200_ITWorkshop.htm

Regional Grid Support for TATRC “Developing Regional Grid Technology Support for TATRC Programs” Funded by Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (www.tatrc.org) Deliverables: Analysis of TATRC-funded research among SURA members Demonstrations to highlight value of grid technologies for applicable projects First version of Grid Technology Cookbook Partners: SURA, GSU, LSU, Mary Trauner (formerly GATech), Open Science Grid (for Cookbook development) $150K over 1 year

Grid Application Set Development “Creating a Catalyst Application Set for Development of Large-Scale Multi-purpose Grid Infrastructure” Funded by NSF SGER (Small Grants for Experimental Research) Deliverables: Identification and prioritization of application candidates Analysis and documentation of implementation process Initial application set illustrating value of SURAgrid $50K over 1 year

“… growing the scientific SURAgrid Partnership “… growing the scientific capacity of our Region and the Nation …”

Questions or comments? For more information, or to join SURAgrid: http://www.sura.org/SURAgrid Mary Fran Yafchak, maryfran@sura.org SURA IT Program Coordinator - SURAgrid project manager