1. Research & Academic Computing @ IU Bradley C. Wheeler Associate Vice President & Dean Office of the VP for Information Technology & CIO bwheeler@iu.edu

2. A mission to support researchers and artists in co-creating the future A foundation of sustainable production services All computing/research images from Indiana University sites

3. Researcher Consulting & Education Engineering Computing Frontiers Grant Initiation & Collaboration Systems Administration Front Office Back Office Our Work Reliable Production Services Co-Creating the Future Our Objective Research & Academic Computing Dr. Kate Pilachoski, Professor of Astronomy

4. Central Research Computing at IU  $8.6M Budget  68 Staff 9 Ph.D.s New TeraGrid SiteLead Appointment  Assoc VP for University-wide (8 campuses) IUB & IUPUI two core research campuses

5. Of CSG Interest…  Philosophy of Activities and Funding  High Performance Computing Leveraged Facilities Management Approach Central-edge partnering  Rethinking the Research Front Office

6. I-Light  Very high speed optical fiber network connects IUB, IUPUI, and Purdue University multiple strands of the most modern fiber first higher ed owned in nation  Provides enough networking capacity for the next 10-20 years between the three main research campuses (IU, Purdue, IUPUI)  The networking infrastructure for collaboration of many sorts

7. IBM Research SP (Aries/Orion Complex)  1.005 TeraFLOPS. 1st University-owned supercomputer in US to exceed 1 TFLOPS peak theoretical processing capacity.  Geographically distributed at IUB and IUPUI  Initially 50th, now 170th in Top 500 supercomputer list  An enabler of collaborative research using very large scale computations

8. AVIDD  Analysis and Visualization of Instrument-Driven Data  Distributed Linux cluster. Three locations: IUN, IUPUI, IUB  2.164 TFLOPS, 0.5 TB RAM, 10 TB Disk  First distributed Linux cluster to achieve more than 1 TFLOPS on Linpack benchmark – currently 50th on Top500 list

9. Massive Data Storage System  Easy to use, no cost to users  Reliable and robust  HPSS (High Performance Software System)  Automatic replication of data between Indianapolis and Bloomington, via I- light.  180 TB capacity with existing tapes; total capacity of 2.4 PB.  100 TB currently in use; >5 TB for biomedical data

10. John-E-Box - Commercialized

11. R&D Disclosures 7 inventions disclosed since 1997 6 open source software commercialization permitted John-E-Box design licensed and now in commercial production by an Indiana firm

13. Mellon Foundation grant helps create digital video archive of world music BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new world of music from around the globe will soon be available to students and scholars. A research team from Indiana University and the University of Michigan has received an $875,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation… 5 May 2003 Digital Libraries… Co-creating & Production

14. Production Digital Library Services

15. Centralization vs Decentralization  Leveraged Centralized Resources 3 HPC systems Mass storage Visualization Networking (Teragrid, etc.)  Leveraged Services Stat/Math Consulting/Software Linux/Unix Support Markup Language Services Funding Mix One-time cash Recurring base Many grants Some fee for service

16. Centrally Funded…Broad Access  No charge back High Performance Computation Massive Data Storage (online, nearline) »Possible negotiated chargeback in excess of >50 TB  Lots of partnerships With faculty on vendor equipment grants With faculty on major NSF equipment grants Partnerships supporting faculty research.

17. Partnering Example: Facilities Management Agreement Offer to researchers: Buy our equipment specifications Put your equipment in our machine room You have priority on job queue to that equipment We leverage it for broader use when you aren’t using it You get extra “hero runs” against the entire cluster as needed We handle the system admin work

18. Partnering Example: Centralized Life Science Data Service  “Any research within the IU School of Medicine should be able to transparently query all relevant public external data sources and all sources internal to the IU School of Medicine to which the researcher has read privileges” Based on use of IBM DiscoveryLink(TM) BLAST is accessible via DL’s wrappers. Implemented in partnership with IBM Life Sciences via IU-IBM strategic relationship in the life sciences IU contributed writing of data parsers

19. Example: Demonstrating New Capabilities  Global analysis of the evolutionary relationships of arthropods  HPC Challenge Award winner at SC03 Conference  Demonstrates new capabilities in grid computing while advancing research in evolutionary biology 6 Continents 641 Processors 1 st

20. Partnering &Collaborations  AVIDD – 20 faculty, dozens of staff, $1.8M in NSF funding  Research in Indiana – 3 universities, dozens of faculty  Simulation of 747 crashing into Pentagon: dozens of engineers, 1 network, 2 supercomputers  IP-Grid – 2 universities, dozens of faculty, $3M in NSF  INGEN – 100+ faculty, hundreds of staff, $105M funding from Lilly Endowment, Inc.  GlobalNoc – dozens of staff supporting thousands of researchers worldwide

21. New Front Offices  Consolidation of Research Support Services into “one stop shopping”  All research technology consulting (HPC, storage, Linux, visualization, statistics, markup languages…)  Reference librarians, Institutional Review Board, Technology Transfer, Contracts & Grants, … IU-Bloomington Research Commons Coming Soon!

22. Miscellaneous Wins “The Least You Need to Know” series Leverage in licensing Fully subsidized Low per user Ongoing work… Leveraging IU’s general support KnowledgeBase for research support More internal partnering for leverage in services

23. National and International Agenda NSF: National Cyberinfrastructure Report  Recognition that IT infrastructure is essential for advancing scientific research  Planning for leverage and scale are essential – the “one off” project model is inadequate  Unfunded roadmap…but influential http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report

24. The “Business” of “eScience”  Establishing effective organizational designs and shared organizational routines that achieve investment objectives »We will develop or they will be imposed by NSF  Developing economies of scale beyond a “lab” mentality »Service Level Agreements from Resource Providers  Maturing support mechanisms, security, and documentation for the masses

25. Dear Colleagues… “…NSF has identified a management model to support ETF management and operations. The model identified includes one System Management Group (SMG), nine Resource Providers (RPs) and an ETF Advisory Board (EAB). The respective roles and responsibilities of the SMG, the RPs and the EAB are defined below…”

26. Economies of Scale?  Are there economies of scale in activity X?  Can universities capture these economies? Cost $ Number Participating Domains: Faculty Member & School? School & Campus? Campus & Univ System? Among Universities? Among Nations Between Domains

27. Research & Academic Computing @ IU Bradley C. Wheeler Associate Vice President & Dean Office of the VP for Information Technology & CIO bwheeler@iu.edu