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CENTER OF EXCELLENCE Steering Committee Meeting 2009

CENTER OF EXCELLENCE Steering Committee Meeting 2009. The University of Texas at El Paso. Introductions. Agenda. 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Discussion of goals and accomplishments 1:30 pm – 2:05 pm Examples of successes 2:05 pm – 2:50 pm Student presentations

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CENTER OF EXCELLENCE Steering Committee Meeting 2009

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  1. CENTER OF EXCELLENCESteering Committee Meeting 2009 The University of Texas at El Paso

  2. Introductions

  3. Agenda • 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Discussion of goals and accomplishments • 1:30 pm – 2:05 pm Examples of successes • 2:05 pm – 2:50 pm Student presentations • 2:50 pm – 3:15 pm Future needs of the Center • 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Tour of Center; demos; student posters • 4:15 pm – 4:45 pm Closed meeting of Advisory Board members • 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Report to CyberShARE Team

  4. Meeting Objectives • Review the accomplishments and challenges over the year • Seek guidance on how to address the following: • Increase impact of the Center locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally • Promote the use of cyberinfrastructure and interdisciplinary research and education at UTEP • Align CyberShARE goals with the campus IT vision • Create a plan to sustain the center/diversify the funding base supporting the center

  5. Handouts • 2008-2009 Annual Report • 2008-2009 Accomplishments • 2008-2009 NSF Highlight (selected to report to Congress) • Booklets • CyberShARE • TeraGrid Campus Champion

  6. NSF Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology Program: Goals • Enhance research capabilities of MSIs through establishments of centers that integrate education and research • Promote • Development of new knowledge • Enhancement of research productivity of individual faculty • Expanded presence of students historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines

  7. Overview DEFINITION CI GOALS • The technical infrastructure, organizational practices, and social norms required to collectively provide for the smooth operation of work in which interactions may be distributed across time and geographic location. • To create a CI-enabled synergistic environment to advance innovative and interdisciplinary research in science, engineering, and education. • To train and educate a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists who can effectively use CI-based software services and middleware and tools.

  8. NSF-CREST Indicators of Success • Project participants • Publications • Outreach efforts • Patents • Leveraged funding efforts

  9. Publications • See Annual Report.

  10. Outreach • Involved over 300 K-12 students in CI activities • UTEP Mother-Daughter/Father-Son program • Engineering week 73 students Chapin High School • ExciTES program • Pathways • Hosted 3 high school interns • El Paso Country Day school • MESA program Cañada Community College, Redwood City • Participated in “To the Ends of the Earth: UTEP at the Poles” Centennial Museum display • Over 5000 student visitors

  11. Leveraged Funding • Cooperative activity with DOE to support Dr. Evgeny Shafirovich, Research Assistant Professor and three students in the Summer 2009 Faculty and Student Team Program at ANL • Supplement: Advancing Ecological Connectivity Science through Collaboratory Science: Partnership with US Dept. Agriculture and NMSU’s Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research Program • NSF: MRI Acquisition of the Cyber-ShARE Collaborative Visualization Laboratory • NSF GK-12: Science for a Sustainable Future: Developing the Next Generation of Diverse Scientists • NSF URM: Mentoring of Minority Undergraduate Students through Research Focused on the Ecology of Disease in the US-Mexico Borderlands • THECD MSTTPA: Cycle 3 Master Teacher Academies Programs

  12. CyberShARE Project Goal Highlights

  13. Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Document Scientific Processes Crustal Model of the Subsurface of the Earth Modular documents explain the technique of the scientific process Basis for the calculations of travel time curves in a 1D model, J. Gomez and A. Sosa Calculation and interpretation of Receiver Functions, L. Thompson

  14. Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Capture Datasets from Field Experiments Environmental data collection in Barrow, Alaska Real-time seismic data collection Vladik Kreinovich and Tom Dietterich Examining sensors at the Jornada Field sight Seismic field work in the East PotrilloMountains (near El Paso, Texas)

  15. Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Cross-disciplinary Meetings and Projects • Interdisciplinary subproject meetings • Presentations by researchers from different disciplines • Common vocabulary being formed

  16. Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Assist Local Projects with HPC Applications • Became a TeraGrid Campus Champion Program • Facilitate • Use of HPC • Consult with experts scientific visualization and other

  17. Build Cyber-Infrastructure: Collaborative Visualization System • Support multi-disciplinary and collaborative research and education • 32 workstations with display resolution of 131 megapixels

  18. Train Next-Generation Scientists: Workshops and Tutorials HPC, Parallel Programming workshops Data interoperability workshop • Attendance: • 9 faculty • 5 staffers • 26 undergraduate students • 22 Master’s students • 19 Ph.D. students 12 departments

  19. Train Next-Generation Scientists: Computational Science • Cyber-ShARE has provided space for two core computational science courses • Classes held in CyberShARE conference room • CyberShARE laboratory used to apply and practice what is learned • Cyber-ShARE (Dr. Rodrigo Romero) conducts basic computational science workshops • Attended by 19 doctoral students (13 advanced) • Provides administrative and other skills needed to succeed in CPS and CS courses

  20. Distinguished Lecture Series • Dr. Juan Meza, head of the HPC Research Department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “A Direct Constrained Optimization Method for Solving the Kohn-Sham Equations.” • Dr. Ann Zimmerman, Research assistant professor in the School of Information of the University of Michigan, “Data Sharing and Reuse in the Age of Cyber-Enabled Research and Discovery.” • Dr. Tom Ditterich, Professor Oregon State University, “Automated Cleaning of Sensor Network Data using Bayesian Networks”

  21. Subproject Successes

  22. Future Needs of Center

  23. Needs: Facilities • Cyber-ShARE has outgrown current capacity • Adding a systems specialist and two graduate students • C2ViS Visualization Laboratory • Proposed location: Geology 123 • Advantages: Close proximity to Center; classroom setting; space for audience of 70 • Disadvantages: Availability for researchers; visibility; remote collaboration; loss of seats • Space request Made to Assoc. Provost Coronado through VP of Research

  24. Next Step:Cyber-ShARE • Others scenarios include: • Software development • Web-content development • Cyber-ShARE publications • Systemize collaboration HPC resources System Administration support from UTEP IT Ad Hoc collaboration Application support from Cyber-ShARE • Results • Run-around to customers • Duplication of efforts • Resource contingency • Lack of follow-through • Lack of acknowledgement Customers

  25. Needs: Systemize Collaboration • Integrative environment for collaboration • IBM Lotus Live (integrated environment: web conferencing, social networking, file storage), $15/person x month • Establish the practices of collaboration among the community

  26. Needs: Scalable Services, Applications, Adapters • Reliable development framework • IBM’s Websphere SOA product line, $65,000 subscription and annual license • Deployment hardware • Servers: $10,000 - $20,000 • Storage: $20,000 - $30,000 • Establish the development practices among Cyber-ShARE staff, students, and third-party contributors

  27. Needs: Scale Up Existing Resources • Research cluster ( Replace Sakagawea, Geon, & Felina) • Support current and future users (Cesar Carrasco, Jack Chessa, Max Schpak, Center workshops, Computational Science workshops and labs) • Administrative support • Reliable deployment environment • Additional servers to support the testing/production environments of experimental application deployments • Extend service agreements on existing hardware where possible • Reliable storage • Storage for Datasets • Servers for Web Services and Websites • Collaborative software • Scheduling, data sharing, video conferencing

  28. CyberShARE Tour

  29. Board of Advisors

  30. Feedback from Board of Advisors • Create a sustainability plan • Emphasize model for interdisciplinary student training • Be clear of award structure for faculty to become involved in CyberShARE • Demonstrate integration across projects • Develop statement for “Big Win” • Need to align with vision for IT and CI support

  31. Guidance • Increase impact of the Center locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally • Promote the use of cyberinfrastructure and interdisciplinary research and education at UTEP • Align CyberShARE goals with the campus IT vision • Create a plan to sustain the center/diversify the funding base supporting the center

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