1. Panel: Building the NRP Ecosystem
Dan Stanzione
NATIONAL RESEARCH PLATFORM MEETING
August 2018
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2. Stampede 2
Funded by NSF as a renewal of the original Stampede project.
The largest XSEDE resource (and largest university-based system).
Follow the legacy of success of the first machine as a supercomputer for a *broad* range of workloads, large and small.
Install without ever having a break in service – in the same footprint.

3. TACC At a GLANCE Personnel 160 Staff (~70 PhD) Facilities
12 MW Data center capacity
Two office buildings, Three Datacenters, two visualization facilities, and a chilling plant.
Systems and Services
~35,000 users in ~3,000 projects on fifteen production platforms
200+ Data collections in 60+ PB
Hikari
380V DC Green computing system parternship with NEDO and NTT. 10k Haswell cores. HVDC and Solar (partial)
Support for container ecosystem
HPC - Stampede-2, Lonestar 5, Hikari
Data - Wrangler
VIS/ML - Maverick
Cloud/Interactive – Chameleon, Jetstream, Roundup
Storage Stockyard, Corral, Ranch
Experimental – Fabric, Catapult, etc.
Talk a little about what we mean by BIG INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS
Then, spend the rest of my time talking about how we are HELPING PEOPLE GO FAST
Cloud systems weave all this together
We also have testbed systems online or coming in next 6 mo
Altera FPGA, POWER/NVIDIA, HP APOLLO powered by solar HVDC
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4. And more to Come. . .
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5. THE EVOLUTION OF A CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Ten years ago, cyberinfrastructure was largely about building the hardware and networks to support large scale science.
Today, it’s about new interfaces to support data analysis, collaboration and sharing,reproducibility as well as easy access to simulation
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7. Opportunities for NRP
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8. Opportunities for NRP
Reproducibility, and the impact of data reuse, are sort of non- existent factors that we must improve upon.
This doesn’t really require scale to make progress –
- but does require integration to achieve.
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9. The role of National centers
We focus, perhaps too much, on the physical infrastructure of the platform.
The thing I can’t scale is “help down the hall”.
The network is *necessary* to enable remote resources, collaboration, data-sharing, etc., but is not *sufficient*.
A more tightly integrated collection of *people* will be key for NRP success, and future science.
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