Supporting Transformative Research Through Regional Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Gary Crane, Director IT Initiatives

Topics  About SURA  About SURAgrid  SURAgrid Goals & Activities  SURAgrid Supported Research

SURA Mission SURA is a 501(c)3 university association with 64 member institutions whose mission is to:  Foster excellence in scientific research  Strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of the nation and the Southeast  Provide outstanding training opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers

SCOOP – DOD Office of Naval Research/NOAA – to provide IT “glue” to integrate coastal research components Jefferson Lab – DOE Office of Science – to probe nucleus of atom and study quark structure of matter Information Technology - to build cyberinfrastructure foundation (the integration of high performance computing and networking) to support SURA’s scientific and research programs Relations – to formulate and sustain internal and external relations strategy and support for SURA’s scientific and research programs SURA Programs

 37% of the US population  10 EPSCoR states  92% of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)  22% of the nation’s Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs ) SURA Region

IndicatorNational Total SURA Region Total SURA Members Total SURA Members % of Region Total SURA Region % of National Total General Institutional Profile (Source: Carnegie Classifications Data File, June 11, 2008 Institutions4,3911, %32.2% Research Intensive/Extensive %33.7% Medical Schools %37.0% Total Enrollment17,569,3395,740,9311,318, %32.7% R&D Funding Profile (Sources: ) 2006 DoE Awards ($)737,469,000158,941,000100,003, %21.6% 2007 NASA Awards ($)12,677,099,4177,577,088,1901,442,032, %59.8% 2007 NSF Awards ($)5,704,466,0001,746,124,000768,391, %30.6% 2007 NIH Awards ($)21,067,129,2945,454,531,3312,704,508, %25.9% CI (HPC and Networking) Profile NSF HPC Awards (Track 1/Track 2) %66.7% Top 500 Academic Supercomputers %33.3% TeraGrid SUs MRAC/LRAC only (2005)89,451,80515,593,40915,145, %17.4% TeraGrid SUs MRAC/LRAC only (2006)95,120,64113,724,70112,897, %14.4% TeraGrid SUs MRAC/LRAC/DAC (2007)215,113,41529,760,22426,812, %13.8% General Demographics Population301,621,157110,454,786n/a 36.6%

 36 Institutional members  Shared accessible high performance computing environment  Access to group negotiated discounted HPC systems/services  Enabling CI supported research & education  On-Ramp to National CI Lowering Barriers for Deploying and Utilizing CyberInfrastructure

About SURAgrid  Open initiative supporting regional CI strategy and infrastructure development  Applications of regional impact are key drivers  Designed to foster new uses and users of CI  Collaborative research, large and small  Applications beyond those typically expected - Instructional use, student exposure, new communities - Open to what new communities will bring  On-ramp to national HPC & CI facilities (e.g., Teragrid)  Built by, and building, a community of institutional collaborators

About SURAgrid  A community led program  An elected SURAgrid Governance Committee  Contributing and Participating institutional members  Freshly minted multi-year strategic plan  Currently a Globus based distributed HPC environment  Integrates heterogeneous platforms and resources  Exploring grid-to-grid integration  Support range of user groups with varying application needs and levels of grid expertise  Participants include domain scientists, computer scientists IT developers & support staff  Sharing CI knowledge and best practices across the SURA region

SURAgrid Vision - Mission  SURAgrid Vision  Promote excellence for research and education enterprises by fostering collaborative engagement in cyberinfrastructure across the SURA region.  SURAgrid Mission  SURAgrid provides a community for collaborative development and use of cyberinfrastructure services to support the research and education missions of our membership.

SURAgrid Goals  Develop a research outreach program to identify new users and new uses for the evolving regional and national computational and collaborative cyberinfrastructure available to the SURA region.  Plan, manage and support the SURAgrid infrastructure to provide a solid foundation for the evolution of SURA region research and education programs.  Develop a communications strategy for SURAgrid.  Develop a sustainability model for SURAgrid.  Strengthen existing and develop new corporate and organizational partnerships focused on improving regional use of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) services.

Major Areas of Activity  Grid-Building  Access Management Services  Corporate Partnerships  Application Discovery & Deployment  Outreach & Community Building

Community Cyberinfrastructure InstitutionsResourcesCPUsPeak TFlops GBytes Memory GBytes disk September ,755 October ,020 November , ,62656,310 August , ,51646,817

Themes: local autonomy, scalability, leverage enterprise infrastructure Access Management  Two-tiered PKI  Production service and grid-to-grid integration  Preserve environment for learning & development  View towards global structures for sharing  HEPKI, International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF)  Multiple components contributed by UVA  Bridge Certificate Authority (CA)  LDAP-based user account management  SURAgrid CA (under development)

SURA Corporate Partnerships  Significant product discounts  Owned and operated by SURAgrid participants  Integrated into SURAgrid with 20% of capacity available to SURAgrid pool  IBM p575 – 1 and 2 TF configurations  IBM e1350 Linux– 1 rack 3 TF and 2 rack 6 TF configurations  Dell PowerEdge 1950– Single rack 2TF configuration  Microsoft funded CCS 2003/2008 Pilot Project

CI-Enabled Coastal Research  UNC Storm Surge Modeling with ADCIRC  LSU Wave Watch 3 for SCOOP  UFL CH3D Storm Surge Monitoring System with Grid Appliance SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction

CI-Enabled Bioinformatics & Biomedical Research  GSU Multiple Genome Alignment on the Grid  GSU Virtual Screening for Computational Chemistry  ODU Biosim: Bio-electric Simulator for Whole Body Tissue  UAB Dynamic Blast  VCU Virtual Parasite

On-Ramp to National CI NCSU Simulation-Optimization for Threat Management in Urban Water Systems  Staging on SURAgrid, uncovers programming and workflow problems prior to porting to TeraGRID  SURAgrid provides compute a heterogeneous resource pool, low overhead to participate

Outreach & Community Building  SURAgrid monthly con call  SURAgrid Update (community newsletter)  SURAgrid Website (  Participation in Regional CI Day Activities  Spring & Fall All Hands Meetings  Listservs  Active Working Groups

For More Information Q & A Gary Crane,