Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Applications in Latin America Panama City Graduate Studies Center Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá November 19, 2007 Julio Ibarra, Executive Director Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment Florida International University

Outline Overview of the WHREN-LILA project and infrastructure Activities enhancing international science research collaborations Activities integrating Research, Education and Outreach

WHREN-LILA IRNC Award year NSF Cooperative Agreement –Florida International University (IRNC awardee) –Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) –Project support from the Academic Network of Sao Paulo (award #2003/ ) –CLARA, Latin America –CUDI, Mexico –RNP, Brazil –REUNA, Chile Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) aims to Improve connectivity in the Americas through the establishment of new inter-regional links Western-Hemisphere Research and Education Networks (WHREN) serves as a coordinating body whose aim is to leverage participants’ network resources to foster collaborative research and advance education throughout the Western Hemisphere

WHREN-LILA 2.5Gbps circuit + dark fiber segment U.S. landings in Miami and San Diego Latin America landing in Sao Paulo, Tijuana and Miami Interregional links improve connectivity in the Americas Fosters collaborative research and advance education throughout the Western Hemisphere

AtlanticWave is a distributed international exchange and peering fabric along the Atlantic coast of North and South America 1 and 10GigE Add/Drops in NYC, WDC, ATL and MIA with extension to Sao Paulo Collaborating Organizations –SURA –FIU-AMPATH –University of Maryland (NGIX) –Southern Crossroads (SoX) –Internet2 - MANLAN Founding Affiliates –IEEAF and FLR AtlanticWave is an integral component of the NSF IRNC WHREN-LILA project

Activities Enhancing International Science Research Collaborations Biodiversity and ecological research International Genomics Research High-energy physics Astronomy Distributed Computing Application Communities Education and Outreach

Cyberinfrastructure for International Biodiversity Research Collaboration Workshop Examined trends where Cyberinfrastructure is likely to effect change in biodiversity research and ecological informaticsExamined trends where Cyberinfrastructure is likely to effect change in biodiversity research and ecological informatics Supported by participation from five national science funding agencies: the U.S. NSF, Panama (SENACYT), Mexico (CONACYT), Costa Rica (CR-USA), Colombia (Colciencias). Hosted in PanamaSupported by participation from five national science funding agencies: the U.S. NSF, Panama (SENACYT), Mexico (CONACYT), Costa Rica (CR-USA), Colombia (Colciencias). Hosted in Panama 60+ biology researchers, cyberinfrastructure technologists and funding agency directors participated60+ biology researchers, cyberinfrastructure technologists and funding agency directors participated Funding priorities, science collaboration objectives and the application of cyberinfrastructure to support those objectives were addressedFunding priorities, science collaboration objectives and the application of cyberinfrastructure to support those objectives were addressed The result of the workshop led to the following three research, education and outreach activitiesThe result of the workshop led to the following three research, education and outreach activities Award #

PAN-AMERICAN SENSORS for ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORIES (PASEO) workshop Goal: To bring together N. and S. American engineers and scientists to identify and pursue collaborative pathways for advancing environmental sensor network based science and technology Workshop Site: Bahia Blanca, Argentina, Collaborative Research Opportunities: Data sharing and data analysis using international network cyberinfrastructure Extending environmental research systems internationally (WATERS, GLEON)

International Collaborations in Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Genomics Scope: Bring together N. and S. American scientists, practitioners and stake holders to identify issues and challenges, and pursue collaborative pathways for advancing cyber-infrastructure- based genomics science Location: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima January 16-19, gen08/ Collaborative work on genome annotation can be enabled through cyber infrastructure Sequence processed through existing pipeline in which annotation is performed using computing power of host Send BSML files to remote site via HPNs & loaded into RDB Compute grid processes create BSML result files CHADO Database Remote Site Send DNA sequence via HPNs connection to host site Viewing & Editing of annotation Apollo Editor and Genome browser

Astronomy Gemini and NOAO will be leveraging LILA link from Sao Paulo Collaborating with CLARA and AURA to establish shared network infrastructure from Santiago to Sao Paulo that will then interconnect with LILA Transports over 19,760,000,000 bytes/ day of data to 3 widely separated storage/ archive sites on 2 continents ALMA, Atacama Desert Chile Cerro Pachón Chile 9,000 ft

Activities Integrating Research, Education and Outreach Integrated program of High-Energy Physics Research, Education and Outreach Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) –Short course involving lectures, demonstrations, research seminars and discussions at the advanced graduate and post-doctoral level Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) –Five year program to enable U.S. institutions to develop long-term, collaborative research and education programs with international partners Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM) –One year demonstration or 3 year implementation programs aimed at preparing current and future generations of scientists, engineers, and educators to design and develop as well as adopt and deploy, cyber-based tools and environments for research and learning, both formal and informal

An integrated program of research, network infrastructure development, and education and outreach at one of the largest minority schools in the US An International Grid Enabled Center for High Energy Physics Research & Educational Outreach at FIU Supports Brazil’s and South America’s access to Tier2s and Tier1s in the U.S. and to CERN Collaboration with Florida State University (FSU), the University of Florida (UF), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Leverages IRNC WHREN-LILA infrastructure to support data-intensive science from High-Energy Physics and Astronomy communities Collaborations with Open Science Grid, GridUNESP, Kyatera, UltraLight and others to enable data intensive science in the western hemisphere

CHEPREO: A Community of Learning Ninety-one high school teachers have participated in summer workshops Modeling courses are overwhelmingly popular, requests roughly three to four times the enrollment capacity Test scores are 30% higher. Failure rates are 4 times lower than those in the traditional classes. Modern physics enrollment is up 130% in Fall 2007 as compared to enrollment averages from Enhancing program by facilitating student exchange between U.S.-Brazil

PRAGMA Institutions and Testbed AIST OSAKAU TITECH Japan CNIC GUCAS China KISTI Korea ASCC NCHC Taiwan UoHyd India MU Australia BII IHPC NGO Singapore KU NECTEC Thailand NCSA USA SDSC USA CICESE Mexico UNAM Mexico UChile Chile QUT Australia UZurich Switzerland JLU China MIMOS USM Malaysia IOIT-HCM Vietnam BU USA UMC USA 29 Resource Clusters from 26 institutions in 14 countries Cindy Zheng, WCC2006, 8/20/2006

PASI on Grid Computing and Advanced Networking Technologies for e-Science CIARA, along with collaborators from the U.S., Argentina and Brazil, is organizing a PASI to offer a series of lectures on the role of Grid Computing and Advanced Networking for High-Energy Physics and Astronomy Held in Mendoza, Argentina on May 15-20, 2005 Approximately 40 students from the Americas learned of the major experiments, Grid and advanced networking technologies and how the growing interdependence between the science and the technologies are forming global collaborations Mendoza Argentina

Pan-American Studies Institute (PASI): Cyberinfrastructure for International Collaborative Biodiversity and Ecological Informatics - Costa Rica, Summer 2008 NSF Award# Expose students to advanced concepts in distributed network-based science enabled by cyberinfrastructure tools Promote a new organizational form for doing science, that is collaborative and interdisciplinary Enhance students with a strong biodiversity or ecology background with distributed computing and research network tools for collaborative research Establish a community of learning based on network-enabled cyberinfrastructure to enhance research and training collaborations among the participating nations

Global Cyber Bridges NSF CI-TEAM Implementation Project, OCI Improve the technology training for a new generation of scientists Collaborators: –Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing –City University of Hong Kong, China –University of Sao Paulo’s School of the Future, Brazil –FIU in Miami, USA WHREN-LILA provides Global CyberBridges fellows and faculty with connectivity to R&E computational grid resources at institutions and laboratories around the world LambdaVision 100-Megapixel display and SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) software developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Major funding provided by NSF.

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