CENTER OF EXCELLENCE Steering Committee Meeting 2009 The University of Texas at El Paso

Introductions

Agenda  1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Discussion of goals and accomplishments  1:30 pm – 2:05 pm Examples of successes  2:05 pm – 2:50 pm Student presentations  2:50 pm – 3:15 pm Future needs of the Center  3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Tour of Center; demos; student posters  4:15 pm – 4:45 pm Closed meeting of Advisory Board members  4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Report to CyberShARE Team

Meeting Objectives  Review the accomplishments and challenges over the year  Seek guidance on how to address the following: 1. Increase impact of the Center locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally 2. Promote the use of cyberinfrastructure and interdisciplinary research and education at UTEP 3. Align CyberShARE goals with the campus IT vision 4. Create a plan to sustain the center/diversify the funding base supporting the center

Handouts  Annual Report  Accomplishments  NSF Highlight (selected to report to Congress)  Booklets  CyberShARE  TeraGrid Campus Champion

NSF Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology Program: Goals  Enhance research capabilities of MSIs through establishments of centers that integrate education and research  Promote  Development of new knowledge  Enhancement of research productivity of individual faculty  Expanded presence of students historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines

Overview  The technical infrastructure, organizational practices, and social norms required to collectively provide for the smooth operation of work in which interactions may be distributed across time and geographic location.  To create a CI-enabled synergistic environment to advance innovative and interdisciplinary research in science, engineering, and education.  To train and educate a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists who can effectively use CI-based software services and middleware and tools. DEFINITION CIGOALS

NSF-CREST Indicators of Success  Project participants  Publications  Outreach efforts  Patents  Leveraged funding efforts

Publications  See Annual Report.

Outreach  Involved over 300 K-12 students in CI activities  UTEP Mother-Daughter/Father-Son program  Engineering week 73 students Chapin High School  ExciTES program  Pathways  Hosted 3 high school interns  El Paso Country Day school  MESA program Cañada Community College, Redwood City  Participated in “To the Ends of the Earth: UTEP at the Poles” Centennial Museum display  Over 5000 student visitors

Leveraged Funding  Cooperative activity with DOE to support Dr. Evgeny Shafirovich, Research Assistant Professor and three students in the Summer 2009 Faculty and Student Team Program at ANL  Supplement: Advancing Ecological Connectivity Science through Collaboratory Science: Partnership with US Dept. Agriculture and NMSU’s Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research Program  NSF: MRI Acquisition of the Cyber-ShARE Collaborative Visualization Laboratory  NSF GK-12: Science for a Sustainable Future: Developing the Next Generation of Diverse Scientists  NSF URM: Mentoring of Minority Undergraduate Students through Research Focused on the Ecology of Disease in the US-Mexico Borderlands  THECD MSTTPA: Cycle 3 Master Teacher Academies Programs

CyberShARE Project Goal Highlights

Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Document Scientific Processes Modular documents explain the technique of the scientific process 1.Basis for the calculations of travel time curves in a 1D model, J. Gomez and A. Sosa 2.Calculation and interpretation of Receiver Functions, L. Thompson Crustal Model of the Subsurface of the Earth

Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Capture Datasets from Field Experiments Seismic field work in the East Potrillo Mountains (near El Paso, Texas) Environmental data collection in Barrow, Alaska Real-time seismic data collection Vladik Kreinovich and Tom Dietterich Examining sensors at the Jornada Field sight

Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Cross- disciplinary Meetings and Projects  Interdisciplinary subproject meetings  Presentations by researchers from different disciplines  Common vocabulary being formed

Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Assist Local Projects with HPC Applications  Became a TeraGrid Campus Champion Program  Facilitate  Use of HPC  Consult with experts scientific visualization and other

Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Collaborative Visualization System  Support multi- disciplinary and collaborative research and education  32 workstations with display resolution of 131 megapixels

Train Next-Generation Scientists: Workshops and Tutorials HPC, Parallel Programming workshopsData interoperability workshop Attendance: 9 faculty 5 staffers 26 undergraduate students 22 Master’s students 19 Ph.D. students 12 departments

Train Next-Generation Scientists: Computational Science  Cyber-ShARE has provided space for two core computational science courses  Classes held in CyberShARE conference room  CyberShARE laboratory used to apply and practice what is learned  Cyber-ShARE (Dr. Rodrigo Romero) conducts basic computational science workshops  Attended by 19 doctoral students (13 advanced)  Provides administrative and other skills needed to succeed in CPS and CS courses

Distinguished Lecture Series  Dr. Juan Meza, head of the HPC Research Department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “A Direct Constrained Optimization Method for Solving the Kohn-Sham Equations.”  Dr. Ann Zimmerman, Research assistant professor in the School of Information of the University of Michigan, “Data Sharing and Reuse in the Age of Cyber-Enabled Research and Discovery.”  Dr. Tom Ditterich, Professor Oregon State University, “Automated Cleaning of Sensor Network Data using Bayesian Networks”

Subproject Successes The Quest to Understand and Trust Scientific Results CS Effective Development of 3-D Models of Earth Structure GEO Advancing the Utility of CI in Environmental Science ES

Future Needs of Center

Needs: Facilities  Cyber-ShARE has outgrown current capacity  Adding a systems specialist and two graduate students  C2ViS Visualization Laboratory  Proposed location: Geology 123  Advantages: Close proximity to Center; classroom setting; space for audience of 70  Disadvantages: Availability for researchers; visibility; remote collaboration; loss of seats  Space request Made to Assoc. Provost Coronado through VP of Research

Next Step: Cyber-ShARE 1. Systemize collaboration HPC resources System Administration support from UTEP IT Application support from Cyber-ShARE Customers Ad Hoc collaboration Results Run-around to customers Duplication of efforts Resource contingency Lack of follow-through Lack of acknowledgement Others scenarios include: - Software development - Web-content development - Cyber-ShARE publications

Needs: Systemize Collaboration  Integrative environment for collaboration IBM Lotus Live (integrated environment: web conferencing, social networking, file storage), $15/person x month  Establish the practices of collaboration among the community

Needs: Scalable Services, Applications, Adapters  Reliable development framework IBM’s Websphere SOA product line, $65,000 subscription and annual license  Deployment hardware Servers: $10,000 - $20,000 Storage: $20,000 - $30,000  Establish the development practices among Cyber- ShARE staff, students, and third-party contributors

Needs: Scale Up Existing Resources  Research cluster ( Replace Sakagawea, Geon, & Felina)  Support current and future users (Cesar Carrasco, Jack Chessa, Max Schpak, Center workshops, Computational Science workshops and labs)  Administrative support  Reliable deployment environment  Additional servers to support the testing/production environments of experimental application deployments  Extend service agreements on existing hardware where possible  Reliable storage  Storage for Datasets  Servers for Web Services and Websites  Collaborative software  Scheduling, data sharing, video conferencing

CyberShARE Tour

Board of Advisors

Feedback from Board of Advisors  Create a sustainability plan  Emphasize model for interdisciplinary student training  Be clear of award structure for faculty to become involved in CyberShARE  Demonstrate integration across projects  Develop statement for “Big Win”  Need to align with vision for IT and CI support

Guidance 1. Increase impact of the Center locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally 2. Promote the use of cyberinfrastructure and interdisciplinary research and education at UTEP 3. Align CyberShARE goals with the campus IT vision 4. Create a plan to sustain the center/diversify the funding base supporting the center