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Florida Cyberinfrastructure Development: SS ERCA. www.sserca.org. Paul Avery University of Florida avery@phys.ufl.edu. Fall Internet2 Meeting Raleigh, Va October 3, 2011. SSERCA Mission.
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Florida Cyberinfrastructure Development:SSERCA www.sserca.org Paul AveryUniversity of Floridaavery@phys.ufl.edu Fall Internet2 MeetingRaleigh, VaOctober 3, 2011 Paul Avery
SSERCA Mission … to further the development of state-wide computational science infrastructure of advanced scientific computing, communications and education resources by promoting cooperation between Florida’s universities. Paul Avery
Sunshine State Education and Research Computing Alliance What SSERCA is • An alliance of 5 universities: FSU, UCF, UF, UM, USF What SSERCA does • Helps interface researchers to cyberinfrastructure • Provides web catalog to research projects • Offers joint CPU and storage resources • Serves as a vehicle for collaboration How SSERCA communicates • Regular meetings since July 2010 • Quarterly “Summits” w/Directors/CIOs: (3 in 2011) Paul Avery
Motivation • Maximize collective impact of Florida’s scientific and IT assets • Scientists • Computing facilities • Data storage systems • Specialized research instruments • State-wide optical network (FLR) Paul Avery
FLR: 20-Gbps network Paul Avery
SSERCA Goals Build and leverage cyberinfrastructure • … for research across public and private Universities within Florida Provide researchers access • … to advanced computational and data services & expertise Collaborate effectively • … for federal grant opportunities • (NSF panels look for pre-existing collaboration) Paul Avery
Specific Deliverables Catalog high-end resources • Internal use: track assets and progress related to linking assets • Showcase STEM resources: attract positive attention to Florida Build and support collaborative infrastructure • Data sharing • Cycle sharing Three well defined research projects Paul Avery
New Florida Award “New Florida” Funds (Board of Governors) • UF: $200K • FSU: $150K • USF: $100K Internal Matching Funds (university) • UF: $200K • FSU: $150K • USF: $140K Paul Avery
Dedicated SSERCA Staff Distributed dedicated staff • Florida State University: 1.0 FTE • University of Florida: ~1 FTE • University of South Florida: 1.0 FTE • University of Central Florida: Fractional • University of Miami: Fractional All employed by HPC centers at respective universities Paul Avery
Web Updates Internal facing wiki Meeting planning Grant writing & coordination Paul Avery
Five CollaborativeActivities Data sharing CPU sharing CMS experiment at CERN CryoEM Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Paul Avery
(1) Data Sharing Based on Lustre wide-area file system • Shared files appear as local • Experience and expertise at UF and FSU Leverages 20 Gbps FLR infrastructure Leverage ExTENCI project (NSF funded, 2010-12) • Addition of Kerberos-based security • PSC expertise and support Many performance tests completed & ongoing • File movement between UF, FSU, FIU, PSC Paul Avery
(2) CPU Sharing Leverages Open Science Grid (NSF/DOE funded) • “Campus Grids” project (multi-university) • Weekly calls: good support & expertise Successful Condor tests “flocking” jobs from FIU to UF Further tests to be carried out in Fall 2011 Initial resource at FSU (3Leaf donation) • 96 nodes (1,152 cores), 6 GB/core • Other resources expected (modulo power/cooling availability) Paul Avery
(3) CMS Experiment @ LHCUF, FSU, FIU, FIT Paul Avery
(4) CryoEM (FSU, UF) Paul Avery
(5) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models(FSU, USF, UM) Paul Avery