Russ Hobby Program Manager Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Architect UC Davis

Nature of Today’s Research Research by Discipline Groups Researchers at Multiple Organizations They use technology to work as a team There is often more connection within the Discipline Group than to researchers institution 2

What do Researchers Want? Data Collection Computation and Data Manipulation Visualization Sharing Resources Location Independent Collaboration Good Performance in all Technology Used Good Security that does not inhibit ease of use or performance 3

Problems Currently Faced Different human interfaces for each system Components not compatible with each other Not Easy to switch or combine resources Access Management different for each system Performance problems when switching component configurations 4

Performance CI is a System. Individual components may perform well but the overall performance depends on the components working well together. Work is needed so that users can determine the best combination of components and how to determine the problem when there are performance is lacking 5

Security Security is often a hindrance to the user and to performance Without a coordinated CI system, each component must provide security against all other components 6

What’s New in CI at NSF Ed Seidel Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure Jennifer Schopf joins OCI Complex problems from science to humanities drive everything Increasingly, DATA is the big problem, not compute cycles themselves Need to develop coherent, integrated high performance CI from campus to national level 7

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CI Reuse (internal) TF1: Software TF2: Campus Bridging TF3: Education and workforce development TF4: Computing infrastructure (HPC, clouds, grids...) TF5: Data, Visualization TF6: Grand Challenge Communities: VOs and next generation grand challenge applications OCI Task Forces

NSF, CIOs positioned to address CI issues with strategic research perspective What would you like to see NSF do to help support campus CI and drive campus-national CI integration? (Or anything else?) How best to partner on the Task Forces? How to best help us promote computational science agenda on campuses? What would you like to see if stimulus funding comes? NSF Questions

CI Days Workshops Started by TeraGrid, Open Science Grid, Internet2, NLR and EDUCAUSE, and now other regional and national groups have come together to help campuses in their CI planning. “CI Days” are held by campuses to assist in their CI planning. The workshop brings together players from the campus, region and nation to share information and plan how to provide CI functions for the campus. Campus participation typically includes faculty, IT staff, librarians and administrators The national and regional groups will also learn about the campus needs to help better direct the evolution of the services. 11

UC Grid Vision Provide a uniform, consistent interface to resources for researchers even as resources change Expand to other CI resources such as visualization, specialized instrumentation and data repositories Provide control mechanisms to accommodate private and shared resources Integrate with resources outside the UC System 12

13 UC Grid Summit, April 1, 2009, UCLA

State Efforts? Should the UC Grid concept be extended to all CA? CSU has needs for multiple campus resources Caltech, USC and Stanford wrestle with similar issues Possibilities for Green State-wide resources? 14

CI is not just for Researchers The current focus on CI is its use by Researchers. However this is an emerging technology that will be used by all, just as the individual computer and the Internet has become a regular work tool. 15

What Can We Do to Make CI Better? Define an overarching architecture that fully defines the function each CI component. Define the detailed interface for communications between components Let specialized groups work on the details within a component to implement the function and adhere to the interface Performance Monitoring and Security built into all components, not added on later 16

Reusable Software Modules Component architecture broken into Subcomponents with well defined interfaces Software modules written to implement the Subcomponent Applications are built by linking together standard software modules 17

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