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State of SURAgrid for All-Hands meeting September 2007

State of SURAgrid for All-Hands meeting September 2007. Mary Fran Yafchak SURA IT Program Coordinator maryfran@sura.org. SURAgrid. Industry Partner Coop Resources (e.g. IBM partnership). Institutional Resources (e.g. Current participants). Gateways to National Cyberinfrastructure

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State of SURAgrid for All-Hands meeting September 2007

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  1. State of SURAgridfor All-Hands meeting September 2007 Mary Fran Yafchak SURA IT Program Coordinator maryfran@sura.org

  2. SURAgrid Industry Partner Coop Resources (e.g. IBM partnership) Institutional Resources (e.g. Current participants) Gateways to National Cyberinfrastructure (e.g. Teragrid) VO or Project Resources (e.g, SCOOP) Other externally funded resources (e.g. group proposals) Heterogeneous Environment to Meet Diverse User Needs “MySURAgrid” View Project-Specific View • SURA regional development: • Develop & manage partnership relations • Facilitate collaborative project development • Orchestrate centralized services & support • Foster and catalyze application development • Develop training & education (user, admin) • Other…(Community-driven, over time…) SURAgrid Resources Project-specific tools SURAgrid Resources and Applications Sample User Portals SURAgrid Vision

  3. Expanded SURA Commitment • May 06 - SURA Board resolution recognizing SURAgrid as a major SURA program • Brought additional SURA IT staff • Linda Akli, IT Application & Outreach Specialist (as of January 2007) • Dali Wang, Grid Infrastructure Specialist (as of August 2007) • Mary Trauner, independent contractor, April through October 2007 • Highlighted the need for more formal structure to mature the program

  4. SURAgrid Participant Growth • Start-up (Late 2003, coming out of the NMI project) • 8 participants, 25% non-SURA • Start-up to Board Resolution (Spring 06) • 19 participants, 21% non-SURA • Board Resolution to the present • 33 participants, 27% non-SURA NOTE: Numbers do not include institutions that are presently only running applications on SURAgrid (Key: Black type indicates SURA member and blue is non-member)

  5. SURAgrid Application Growth From one demo application in 2003 to eleven “in the works”

  6. SURAgrid Resource growth • Number of resources fluctuates often but good trends overall… • Several test resources being replaced by larger resources, or those from production environments • Several institutions now contributing multiple resources • New participants approaching SURAgrid with initial interest in adding resources

  7. And Other Milestones… • New features in SURAgrid portal (Thanks, TACC!) • Expanded SURAgrid user documentation • Formation of SURAGrid Governance Committee • Expanded Corporate Partnerships (Thanks, Gary!) • SURAgrid Stack Install Package (Thanks Jerry, Alan & TIGRE!) • First steps towards SURAgrid accounting system • Initiate next-level PKI (Thanks, Jim/UVA!) • (Just this year - so far!) Three new funding proposals • STCI - core infrastructure & support improvements w/TACC & UVA • C-TEAM w/TTU & partners - collaborative CI training development • CI-TEAM “MSI On-Ramp” - targeted involvement of early adopter MSIs in SURAgrid as on-ramp to CI participation

  8. Active SURAgrid Implementation Team SURAgrid Teaching Environment Working Group SURAgrid Accounting WG SURAgrid Software Stack Team SURAgrid SCOOP Applications Deployment Team How Work is Getting Done • Major component contributors (TACC, UVA, ODU) • SURA commitment • SURAgrid Governance Committee • Working groups On Hiatus • SURAgrid Funding Group • SURAgrid Environment Variables Working Group

  9. Suggested Meeting Mindset Remember: This is a working meeting. Seize the opportunity to work together face-to-face! • Confirm that current work is good and useful • Insure we have ways to get the work done

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