1. CIO Council Update Research Computing James Cuff Assistant Dean for Research Computing
Jan 11th 2016
Monday
2:25-2:50p
Gund Hall 522

2. Purpose and Intended Outcome
The purpose of your presentation (Why are you here?)
We have been extremely busy in 2015, and I would like to take a few minutes tell you a little of what we’ve all been working on…
Intended Outcome
What do you need from the CIO Council? (How can we help you?)
Opinion on URCO / RDMS
Continued support
Tea and sympathy

3. 1st up - a quick pitch, and a HUGE thank you!
Taso Markatos
Robert Oatman
Stephen Ervin For 2016 there are two “really big deal” topics!
PRINT & WASTE!

4. Ok, back to the regularly scheduled program 

5. “It’s not a question of ‘Is this
optional?’ Cuff said. “The University has to take this seriously.”

7. Funding from federal sources decreased by about $31 million to $577
Funding from federal sources decreased by about $31 million to $577.5 million in fiscal year 2015

8. FAS IT spending by organization ($84M in FY14):
Teaching:
334 multimedia-equipped classrooms
4,330 class videos recorded by MTS in the last 12 months
1,378 FAS course websites on Canvas (98%)
Other services:
3,722 HWP Open Scholar websites for FAS (6,618 total)
641 FAS servers and over 186 TB of storage
47 College and Athletics applications
43 FAS administrative applications
5,700 managed FAS computing devices
200,000 software deployment tasks per year to FAS computers
44,911 HUIT and 3,118 IQSS service desk tickets in the last 12 months from the FAS
Research:
59K CPUs,190 terabytes of RAM and 25 petabytes of storage in the Odyssey cluster with over 800 users running over 40K jobs every day
281,171 data file uploads / 1,308,304 data file downloads in the Harvard Dataverse
445 research projects assisted by IQSS Research Technology Consulting in the last 12 months (980 hrs consulting)
36 IQSS research technology workshops (with 670 attendees) in the last 12 months

9. University Wide Research Computing Let’s add it all up…
~ 73,000 CPU
~ 450 GPGPU
~ 56,000 terabytes
40+ FTE
$25,000,000 in combined annual operating
$103,000,000 in existing assets!

10. TEN YEARS!
2006
2016

11. University Demand Management
Harvard’s HPC places University in global leadership position!
CPU’s/Network/Storage – an exceptional story to tell!
Faculty have access to resources needed, current capacity meets their needs
Gaps in advanced computational technologies (e.g. GPGPU’s/Accelerators/FPGAs)
Needed for deep learning and computational data science (2-3 years)

12. University Demand Management
Largest challenge to meet Harvard’s future computing needs will be the humans and data scientists to support our future capabilities
Harvard needs:
A strategy to grow and retain data scientists/RCF (Research Computing Facilitators)
A strategy to address growing storage needs (Research data management services)
A data security strategy & associated services

13. A data security strategy & associated services
RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES / UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COMPUTING OFFICE
RDMS / URCO:
A strategy to grow and retain data scientists/Research Computing Facilitators [RCF]
A strategy to address growing storage needs (Research data management services) [RDMS]
A data security strategy & associated services

14. To do that, we will need the best people and systems in the world!
HOW?
Find what is COMMON Enhance and Share what is COMMON Find what is UNIQUE Enhance what is UNIQUE Common: Storage, Archive, Identity, Security Unique: Domain science, Expertise, Local policies
We desire to be the best in the world and recruit the best in the world!
To do that, we will need the best people and systems in the world!

15. Thank you & Questions?