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Maine’s Cyberinfrastructure Plan

Maine’s Cyberinfrastructure Plan. Jeff Letourneau Bruce Segee Maine EPSCoR State Conference 097/29/08. If infrastructure is required for an industrial economy, then we could say that cyberinfrastructure is required for a knowledge economy.

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Maine’s Cyberinfrastructure Plan

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  1. Maine’s Cyberinfrastructure Plan Jeff Letourneau Bruce Segee Maine EPSCoR State Conference 097/29/08 If infrastructure is required for an industrial economy, then we could say that cyberinfrastructure is required for a knowledge economy. Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, January 2003 Cyberinfrastructure is about more than the technology; it involves creating a culture of collaboration, both within and across disciplines Educause Review - July/August 2008

  2. Cyberinfrastructure Technologies • High Performance Computing Resources • Supercomputers • Clusters • Data Storage and Management Resources • Large scale storage for both real time and archival use • Facilities, software,and procedures for periodic backups of research data sets

  3. Cyberinfrastructure Technologies • Advanced Network Infrastructure Resources • Both on campus and to high-performance networks • Massive data transfers to/from clusters • Visualization • Remote instrumentation • Resources for Collaboration and Virtual Communities • Teleconferencing Collaboration tools • Identity management Middleware • CI Applications and Tools • Support research - not discipline specific • Simulation Visualization • Parallelization Job Scheduling

  4. Today At this point the promise of grids of computers cannot replace the need for both local mid-level facilities and highest-end national resources. Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, January 2003 • 512 CPU Cluster Computer • High level of usage • Jobs regularly queued • 0.8 Teraflops • 4 years old • 140 TBytes of Storage • Researchers and students from all disciplines

  5. Today Seeing is believing A picture is worth a thousand words • Nine Tile Visualization Wall • Resolution in excess of 10 Mpixels • Sixteen Tile Visualization Wall • Resolution in excess of 20 Mpixels

  6. Today More than 80 percent of teachers reported that the quality of their students' work has improved since the implementation of the laptop program. Research Brief, Maine’s Middle School Laptop Program: Creating Better Writers • Laptop Computers for in all middle schools • Only state to do this • Some schools, cities and counties catching up • High schools in Maine scheduled for September 2009 • Powerful conduit for outreach

  7. Today • MaineREN • Bar Harbor to Portland • Operational • 40 Gbps initially • Scalable to 400 Gbps • Portland to Boston • Next year • Direct fiber optic access • The Jackson Lab U Maine • MDI Bio Lab USM • College of the Atlantic UMA • Bowdoin LA College • Bates Colby • MMC-RI MIHGH* • Bangor Schools Waterville Schools

  8. CI Plan - Scale up and Expand Resources • Advanced Networking • Regional Optical Network – EPSCoR RII Track-2 • Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware • Diverse connectivity throughout region • Rural Access • Wireless

  9. CI Plan - Scale up and Expand Resources • HPC – Data Storage / Management • Regional Data Center(s) • Shared resource • Reduced operational support costs • Concentration of technical expertise • Bowdoin-Brunswick Naval Air Station? • UMaine? • Target HPC Refresh • 20 TFlop cluster

  10. CI Plan – Cultural Change • Develop CI expertise • Researchers do research, not manage infrastructure • Build Trust • Shared resources must be rock solid • 1,000’s of successes go unnoticed • 1 failure is never forgotten • Stress Collaboration

  11. CI Plan - Raise Awareness • Recognize that cyberinfrastructure IS infrastructure • Installed and maintained for wide scale usage • Individuals don’t install and maintain their own roads and bridges • Focus on collaboration and shared resources • Recognize that cyberinfrastructure is a necessity, not a luxury • Imagine electric power 100 years ago • Recognize that “good” cyberinfrastructure is a moving target • Cutting edge->adequate->poor happens rapidly • If you stand still, you fall behind Maintaining leading-edge cyberinfrastructure requires continuing investment, not one-time purchase. Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, January 2003

  12. CI Plan - Concentrate on Strengths • Quality of Place • Live in Maine/work anywhere • Work in Maine/live anywhere • Virtual organizations • Geographic crossroads for US, Canada and Europe • Should be network crossroads • Green Power Potential (wind, tidal, bio) • No electron should leave the state with its head on • “Value added” works with power as well as raw material • Don’t ship power to the rest of the world, ship INFORMATION • Not Gigawatts, Gigabytes

  13. CI Plan - Funding • Pursue funding opportunities • Target message to audience • Local, State, Federal, Private Sector all benefit from CI • Each can and should play a roll

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