Supporting Team Science and Team Shakespeare: Virtual Organizations and Physical Campuses: A short CSG workshop on a large landscape

Workshop Agenda A roadmap of issues Sorting through the terms - Virtual Organizations, National Cyberinfrastructure, Campus Cyberinfrastructure VO and scientific needs and requirements Needs drill down - Chad and Tom Current approaches to meeting those needs Research.yale.edu - Chuck Discussion Break Some interesting new approaches Leveraging enterprises and federations for VO’s MyVOCs – John Paul Robinson GridShib – Tom Barton Qatar Campus – yet another use case…

The Players and their needs Team Science/Team Shakespeare/virtual organizations Small labs and solitary researchers Domain specific resources Integrated general collaboration tools

A Resource-oriented Needs Assessment Cycles and specialized applications Data storage and management Specialized networking – performance, security, private lines Visualization and other specialized systems Training, support and services Traditional systems and new data security Collaboration services

Team Science Major multi-campus, increasingly interdisciplinary projects Centerpieces of NSF, NIH, Energy, Education, etc. Atlas, CMS, NEON, caBIG, Sloan, etc. Particularly “demanding” instances in Physics and Health.

Projects with Globus Alliance Participants Globus Alliance members participate in e-Science and e-Business projects in a wide range of fields. The following projects have Globus Alliance members working directly with them, either as funded project participants or as close collaborators. Astronomy ChemistryCivil EngineeringClimate StudiesCollaborationComputer Science Sloan Digital Sky Survey National Virtual Observatory CMCSNEES LEAD Earth System Grid Access Grid Condor Condor DOE e-Services GridLab GriPhyN NMI GridShib NMI Performance Monitoring OGCE OGSA-DAI SciDAC CoG SciDAC Data Grid SciDAC Security vGRADS GridLab GriPhyN NMI GridShib NMI Performance Monitoring OGCE OGSA-DAI SciDAC CoG SciDAC Data Grid SciDAC Security vGRADS EcologyGeologyInfrastructureMedicineOceanographyPhysics LTER SEEK GEON SCEC ASCI (HPSS) EGEE Grid3 GRIDS Center iVDGL NorduGrid Open Science Grid TeraGrid UK e-Science BIRNLOOKING FusionGrid LIGO Particle Physics Data Grid

Virtual organizations The core of our academic collaborative nature More than a “group”; less than an “institution” A source of authority about the use of a set of resources Could move from standalone ad-hoc approaches to leverage the new federated infrastructure Use cases often require integration of campus infrastructure (e.g. a class list) with external VO pieces (e.g. to permit limited Grid capabilities to students of the PI)

Small labs and solitary researchers Often the “bulk” of institutional research. Tend to be much less visible nationally, and so need more campus cyberinfrastructure than the team players… Wield quirky influence on campus directions (Not the particular focus of our workshop)

Domain specific systems Big base of Grid-type systems – Globus, Sun, Condor, etc. Often with add-ons (eg SRB). Clusters, condos, and blades Caves and other specialized tools Institutional repositories

General collaboration tools The standard suite… List serve, protected wiki, IM buddy list, audioconferencing, access-controlled web site, videoconferencing, shared calendaring, etc… Integrated with enterprise-based systems No separate calendars to maintain Consistent user interface in managing local and virtual lives

Parts of the solution NSF Activities Teragrid, Open Science Gateways, etc. NMI OCI office with Dan Atkins Campus CyberInfrastructure Workshop Educause CCI WG …

The National Gridspace The Teragrid as a national resource (The Petascale Facility as another) Virtual organizations gain allocations Expanding from centralized services to campus leveraged and mediated approaches Campus partnerships – contribute resources; receive general purpose allocations Federated identity and integrated privilege management

Grids, part 2 Campus Grids, either distributed or central Purdue TACC Wisconsin condor pools Virginia, Penn State, Harvard, etc in a modest state Major community science packages customized to Grid architectures.

Open Science Gateways “Integrated” presentation of domain tools to one or more virtual organizations in the domain The new buzz – promises ease of use and expanded outreach opportunities. Maintenance, security, real ease of use, privacy and other concerns…

NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) Has funded much of the MACE work with Internet2 Supported other middleware components, including Globus, video directory standards, myVOCS, etc. Was initially cutting edge, but investments in other countries, such as the UK and Australia, are overtaking…

OCI Office of CyberInfrastructure, reporting directly to NSF Director Major investments in Grids, PetaScale machine; smaller investments in NMI, international networking, etc. Recent creation of a general NSF cyberinfrastructure advisory committee Campus Cyberinfrastructure on their radar

CRCC Campus CyberInfrastructure workshop, sponsored by NSF, a joint effort of Penn State and Internet2 Highly productive 1.5 day workshop at end of I2MM Lots of issues identified, from algorithm/architecture fitting to NSF funding policies that favor closet clusters over cyberinfrastructure Output at Grist for future activities; perhaps some follow-ons

EDUCAUSE CCI EDUCAUSE working group, chaired by Jim Bottum and Pat Dreher Just in their gelling stage Lots of possible areas for engagement Awareness and Education Technology Policy – Inducements and mandates

An Archetype: Jean Blue and VOGUE Professor Jean Blue Professor of Micro-astro Physics at Sandstone U, teaching MAP 1010 PI of international VOGUE project Fiscal authority of local VOGUE funds Parking permit for Lot 421 ID Card

Things that Jean Blue wants to do As PI of VOGUE, she gets lots of VOGUE privileges. She wants to Assign to students of MAPS 101 permission to read the VOGUE mass-hypometer Assign to the four TA/discussion leaders permission to reset the mass-hypometer Facilitate on-line discussions among the students taking classes at other universities from her co-PI’s Have read/write privileges on the VOGUE wiki, and give her students read access to parts of the Wiki

Current approaches discussion Networking Performance, latency, etc Friction-free paths (gridftp’s, external visibility, etc.) Security VO’s create their own identities Identities are also often authorization Collab tools Research.yale.edu

Break

Post break New approaches to supporting team science The basic vision A collaborative tools implementation – JPR A domain-specific tools implementation – Tom Barton And there’s a related problem – the Qatar campus – Carrie et al

Vision in one slide Build a campus/enterprise core middleware infrastructure that Serves the overall enterprise IT environment, providing business drivers and institutional investment for sustainability and scalability Is designed to support the research and instructional missions Implies consistent approaches and common practices across campuses and internationally Build, plumb, and replumb the tools of research on top of that emergent infrastructure Domain-specific middleware (grids, sensor nets, etc) Common collaboration tools (video, protected wikis, shared calendaring, audioconferencing, etc.)

Why Ease of use Common tools used in a consistent fashion Allow students to access research capabilities in instructional environments Better security Integrate with local security Facilitate flexible options for effective use Preserve privacy but maintain accountability Facilitate advanced networking and science Trust-mediated transparency Transparent-to-use tools for collaboration Better diagnostics Realizes efficiencies, economic and strategic, that serves both the institution and its individuals

VO Functions and Roles for Jean Blue Lead scientist Run experiments Manage instruments and data Administer rights for others to manage I&D Collaborator – audioconferences, IM, wikis Co-PI Manage local financial accounts Approve local hires Edit and electronically submit proposals Disseminator Provide editorial content for outreach wiki Mentor K-12 teachers in community programs Educator Teach undergraduate classes using research tools Supervise graduate students, TA’s, etc.

The Current Kool-aid Campuses build consistent and sustainable middleware infrastructures Federating software and federations create effective inter-institutional collaboration infrastructure Federations peer internationally and across sectors to extend the value Virtual organizations leverage campus infrastructure and peered federations for user- centric enterprise-manageable teams