1. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Science Gateways on the TeraGrid Nancy Wilkins-Diehr TeraGrid Area Director for Science Gateways SDSC Director of Consulting, Documentation, Training San Diego Supercomputer Center wilkinsn@sdsc.edu

2. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 What is the TeraGrid? NSF-funded facility to offer high end compute, data and visualization resources to the nation’s academic researchers

3. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 TeraGrid Technology Data 18.8 Petabytes Storage Memory Intensive Resources Computation Visualization 100+ Teraflops Computation 40gigabit/second cross-country network

4. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Over 100 Tflops in Computing Power

5. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 TeraGrid Resources Available to Academic Researchers at No Cost TeraGrid creates integrated, persistent, and pioneering computational resources that significantly improve our nation’s ability and capacity to gain new insights into our most challenging research questions and societal problems. Proposal-based access, researchers can use resources at no cost –Collaborative opportunities, but Principal Investigators must be from the U.S.

6. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 TeraGrid PI’s By Institution as of May 2006 TeraGrid PI’s Blue: 10 or more PI’s Red: 5-9 PI’s Yellow: 2-4 PI’s Green: 1 PI

7. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Gateways are part of TeraGrid’s 3-pronged strategy to further science DEEP Science: Enabling Terascale Science –Make science more productive through an integrated set of very- high capability resources Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA) projects WIDE Impact: Empowering Communities –Bring TeraGrid capabilities to the broad science community Science Gateways OPEN Infrastructure, OPEN Partnership –Provide a coordinated, general purpose, reliable set of services and resources Grid interoperability working group

8. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Science Gateways A new initiative for the TeraGrid Increasing investment by communities in their own cyberinfrastructure, but heterogeneous: Resources Users – from expert to K-12 Software stacks, policies Science Gateways –Provide “TeraGrid Inside” capabilities –Leverage community investment Three common forms: –Web-based Portals –Application programs running on users' machines but accessing services in TeraGrid –Coordinated access points enabling users to move seamlessly between TeraGrid and other grids. Workflow Composer

9. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Gateways are growing in numbers 10 initial projects as part of TG proposal >20 Gateway projects today No limit on how many gateways can use TG resources –Prepare services and documentation so developers can work independently Open Science Grid (OSG) Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment (SPRUCE) National Virtual Observatory (NVO) Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) Computational Chemistry Grid (GridChem) Computational Science and Engineering Online (CSE- Online) GEON(GEOsciences Network) Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) SCEC Earthworks Project Network for Computational Nanotechnology and nanoHUB GIScience Gateway (GISolve) Biology and Biomedicine Science Gateway Open Life Sciences Gateway The Telescience Project Grid Analysis Environment (GAE) Neutron Science Instrument Gateway TeraGrid Visualization Gateway, ANL BIRN Gridblast Bioinformatics Gateway Earth Systems Grid Astrophysical Data Repository (Cornell) Many others interested –SID Grid –HASTAC

10. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 What Did We Learn About Common Gateway Requirements? Accounting –Support for accounts with differing capabilities –Ability to associate compute job to a individual portal user –Scheme for portal registration and usage tracking –Dynamic accounts Security –Community account privileges –Need to identify human responsible for a job for incident response –Acceptance of other grid certificates Web Services –Many will build on the Globus Toolkit, but additional interfaces may be needed –Web Service security –Interfaces to scheduling and account management are common requirements Software –Interoperability of software stacks between TeraGrid and peer grids –Software installations for gateways across all TG sites –Community software areas –Management (pacman, other options)

11. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 National Virtual Observatory Facilitating Scientific Discovery Access to telescope images from around the world NVO provides access to combined sky surveys –Different views of the same cosmological phenomenon can reveal new insights New science enabled by enhancing access to data and computing resources –Data correlation –Understanding of physical processes –Identification of new phenomenon NVO is a set of tools used to exploit the data avalanche

12. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 NanoHub Harnesses TeraGrid for Education Nanotechnology education Used in dozens of courses at man universities Teaching materials Collaboration space Research seminars Modeling tools Access to cutting edge research software And much more

13. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Biomedical and Biology Gateway Renaissance Computing Institute, North Carolina Avalanche of data in biology community –Genomics data, –Proteomics and expression analysis –Need to move beyond current desktop tools Access to –Common sequence and protein structure databases –Over 140 software packages Collaboration infrastructure to engage the best talent regardless of location

14. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery Providing tools that are needed to make accurate predictions of tornados and hurricanes Meteorological data Forecast models Analysis and visualization tools Data exploration and Grid workflow

15. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER NUCRI Advisory Board Meeting November 9, 2006 Would development of a gateway help your research? Think about your current bottlenecks –What would you like to explore if only you had Lots of disk Lots of compute resources Powerful analysis capabilities A nice interface to information www.teragrid.org Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, wilkinsn@sdsc.eduwilkinsn@sdsc.edu