Research and Academic Computing Division University Information Technology Services Services overview for School of Medicine and Indiana Genomics Initiative Craig Stewart 28 August 2001

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Guiding Principles for UITS IU’s goal: “To be a leader in absolute terms in … information technology” -IU president Myles Brand, 1996 Indiana University Information Technology Strategic Plan (sets out goals for all areas of IT, including research computing) The entire University community is the UITS customer base; faculty members are partners as well as customers.

IU IT Strategic Plan: High Performance Computing Action 29. In order to maintain its position of leadership in the constantly changing field of high-performance computing, the University should plan to continuously upgrade and replace its high-performance computing facilities to keep them at a level that satisfies the increasing demand for computational power. Action 31. The University should plan to evolve its high-performance computing and communications infrastructure so it has the features to be compatible with and can participate in the emerging national computational grid.

IU IT Strategic Plan: Data-intensive computation Action 30. The University needs to provide facilities and support for computationally and data-intensive research, for non-traditional areas such as the arts and humanities, as well as for the more traditional areas of scientific computation. Action 33. The University, through UITS, should provide support for a wider range of research software including database systems, text-based and text-markup tools, scientific text processing systems, and software for statistical analysis. UITS should investigate the possibilities for enterprise-wide agreements for software acquisitions similar to the Microsoft Enterprise License Agreement.

IU IT Strategic Plan: Massive Data Storage Action 32. The University should evaluate and acquire high-capacity storage systems, capable of managing very large data volumes from research instruments, remote sensors, and other data-gathering facilities.

IU IT Strategic Plan: Collaboration Action 27. UITS should launch an aggressive program to systematically evaluate and deploy across the University state-of-the-art tools and infrastructure that can support collaboration within the University, nationally and globally.

IU IT Strategic Plan: IT Research Action 34. UITS should participate with faculty on major research initiatives involving information technology, where it is appropriate and of institutional advantage. Further UITS should provide proactive encouragement and supportive services that create opportunities where faculty from diverse disciplines might come together on collaborative projects involving information technology.

Pervasive Technology Labs Establishing by grant from Lilly Endowment Early success was one of several factors facilitating the INGEN grant. Includes six laboratories: Grid Computing Advanced Networking Tools Open systems Visualization for science, research, and education Human-computer interfaces Wireless technologies and convergence Smart devices

Michael A. McRobbie Vice President for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer

RAC Services/Subunits Computation (Director Craig Stewart) System management: Research and Technical Services (RATS) High Performance Computing Support Team (HPCST) Stat/Math software management and support: Center for Statistical & Mathematical Computing (Stat/Math) Unix workstation support: Unix Workstation Support Group (UWSG) Data (Director Gerry Bernbom) Advanced visualization/VR: Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) Massive data storage/academic storage infrastructure: Distributed Storage Services Group (DSSG) Digital libraries: Digital Music Library (DML)Project Online texts: Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS)

Guiding principles for RAC RAC mission: The mission of the Research and Academic Computing Division of University Information Technology Services (UITS) is to enable Indiana University to be on the cutting edge of intellectual and artistic achievement by providing world-class systems, services, and support for IU's researchers, clinicians, engineers, artists, and students. In so doing, we help advance human knowledge and quality of life. Provide services on a base-funded (no chargeback) basis whenever possible and appropriate Engage in in-depth collaborations with research faculty whenever beneficial

Objectives for systems and support at IUPUI University-wide access to RAC systems (SP, E10000, Steel) Good local support - physical location of the computing systems should be irrelevant Achieve economies of scale – university as a whole should have access to larger systems than any individual campus could manage Support critical new initiatives, especially INGEN

Particular problems @ IUPUI for RAC As of 1997, no staff devoted to research support Distrust between campuses, particularly in terms of using research systems physically located in Bloomington. RSM environment Lack of established community of high performance computer (HPC) usage

Where are we right now? Successes: AutoCAD license Consolidation and expansion of site licenses for research software, esp. SPSS Enterprise License Agreement Better availability of Unix OS media Participation in INGEN Obstacles that remain: Account creation system Engrained belief sets & lack of community history Filling new positions and climbing learning curves

RAC Systems Overview Research SP (IBM RS/6000 SP, funded in part by INGEN). IU’s most powerful supercomputer, and the recommended choice for INGEN activities. Sun E10000. Supoprts shared memory parallel programming, recommended only for researchers with particular needs of this type. PC Cluster. Cluster of Linux PCs. Due for a refresh. Steel. For instructional activities that require a Unix environment.

Research SP Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercial purposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

STK Robotic Tape Storage Silo Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercial purposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

Sun E10000 Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercial purposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

Parallel PC Cluster Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercial purposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

Grants and Partnerships INGEN IBM Shared University Research grant – 2001 grant involved several SoM researchers and resulted in grant of $1.2 M ( retail value) NSF Major Research Infrastructure – pending

IBM RS/6000 SP expansion Funded by INGEN, OVPIT, and hardware grant from IBM Key goal: to get this hardware in use supporting work by IU researchers, especially INGEN researchers

Current

Life Sciences Partnership

NSF MRI Grant - Proposed AVIDD Architecture

INGEN IT Core Staff Systems administrators – 2 HPC consultants – 2 Advanced visualization consultants – 3 Data management consultants - 1

Critical points for SoM Computer accounts and computer time are provided at no additional cost to you or your department Massive data storage up to 0.5 TB for research purposes is free. (Detailed discussions ongoing in this area with other parts of INGEN) HPC programming and Advanced Visualization consulting through the normal base-funded model is free, although more limited at IUPUI than IUB due to differences in base funding availability Consulting in support of INGEN in the areas of programming, databases, and visualization is available and funded by INGEN for INGEN-affiliated researchers

What we would like to do Meet with researchers, departments, cores to discuss your IT needs and how the Research&Academic Computing Division of UITS can help Help get you set up with accounts and introductory training Help consult with you on particular needs Provide software Through UITS and INGEN budgets on central systems For workstations, at highly reduced costs through existing or new site licenses.

What we cannot do Provide desktop technology Operational management or implementation in toto of IT systems within other Programs and Cores Provide services funded by RCM base funds for auxilery units (clinical activities are often challenging to sort out in this regard and it is difficult to make a blanket statement)

What we can do only on a cost-recovery basis Provide short-term assistance with Unix systems administration

Management of IT Core Craig Stewart. Overall coordination, Director of RAC (Computation). stewart@iu.edu David Hart. HPC support, including introductory training. dhart@indiana.edu Mary Papakhian. Systems management. mpapakhi@indiana.edu Gerry Bernbom. Director of RAC (Data) Anurag Shankar. Massive Data Storage Systems. ashankar@indiana.edu Eric Wernert. Advanced visualization. ewernert@indiana.edu.

Existing areas of collaboration related to biomedical research Radiology – image processing Advanced visualization of optical imaging Bioinformatics (BioSIFTER) Computational phylogenetics Medical genetics (just starting)

Important urls RAC Web page: www.indiana.edu/~uits/rac UITS Web page: www.indiana.edu/~uits Account generation: iuaccts.ucs.indiana.edu/ Questions and problems: send email to rac@iu.edu

Thank you. Any Questions?