The Georgia BioGrid Initiative: Connecting Researchers for Collaborative Advancements

1. The Georgia BioGrid Initiative Cynthia E. Morneweck – OIT-ART Matt Sanders – OIT-ART/CoC Russ Clark – OIT-ART/CoC

2. OIT- Academic and Research Technologies (ART) Goals • Enable researchers in Georgia • Establish a connection among the major Georgia research locations • Promote a more collaborative research environment • Build stronger relationships and leverage the skills among the various Georgia Tech departments.

3. How we got started • Need to support the collaborative nature of research • The National Lambda Rail (NLR) capabilities • Georgia Tech is the Southeastern connection • The Georgia BioGrid = NLR opportunity manifested in Georgia

5. Increased control Increased quality of service Better privacy (hippa,ferpa) Have dedicated fiber from lab to lab Create production items Look into NIH funding Look into DOE funding (ORNL) Not just NSF anymore NLR Artifacts

6. Isn’t this Internet 2? • I2 is really acting as a shared production network • BioGrid could be many networks some of which are for network experimentation projects • Other networks could be for workspace to workspace collaborations • BioGrid would need to be budgeted into a project unlike I2.

7. Bottom Up – Top Down Approach

8. Top Down Approach • Identify researchers with the following potential needs – terabyte database access, real-time collaboration and consulting, real-time remote instrumentation, and high performance computation • Assess the researchers specific needs and verify if the above assumptions are true • Look for common threads among various researchers for future reference

9. Newstetter’s class – CS6455 Spring 2003 • Initial top down approach • Studied a multi-disciplinary group on campus • Identification and verification of need • Learned how to better continue to gather information • Study lead us to other groups

10. Starting with a Simple Test Case • Two lab workspaces, one on Tech campus and one on Emory campus • One graduate student works in both. • While in each workspace, the student needs to access people in the other workspace. • We need to consider how to apply social rules for face to face interaction in a remote context.

11. Interactions of the Test Case

12. How does this work? • Assess each site (Tech / Emory) • Understand short and long term goals in each workspace • Prioritize goals with costs • Start small and simple so we can build the complexity successfully

13. Identified Scenarios

14. Bottom Up Approach • Utilize the National Lambda Rail/BioGrid • Connect researcher’s workspace directly to a high capacity network • Understand what other campuses need to do to get connected • Measure usage of various researchers to see the bandwidth need

15. How can you leverage this opportunity for your research? • Are you working on collaborative applications? • Is your research dealing with huge amounts of data? • Is your research interested in remote control of expensive instrumentation? • Are privacy issues interfering with your progress?

16. The Creamy Filling • The HCI research potential is big • There are funding opportunities for collaborative projects • There are funding opportunities for multi-disciplinary projects

17. Where do we go from here? • $$$$ to write into proposals • OIT as a resource facilitating research on the biogrid • Is there anyone here who needs this help (proposal writing)? • How can we work together (help play match maker)? • We need you to be part of the proposal process and we want to help. • We need to coordinate between campuses.

18. Contact us Cynthia Morneweck – cynthia.morneweck@oit.gatech.edu Matt Sanders – msanders@cc.gatech.edu Russ Clark – rjc@cc.gatech.edu