Supporting Transformative Research Through Regional Cyberinfrastructure (CI)

1. Supporting Transformative Research Through Regional Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Gary Crane, Director IT Initiatives

2. Topics • About SURA • About SURAgrid • SURAgrid Goals & Activities • SURAgrid Supported Research www.sura.org/SURAgrid

3. SURA Mission SURA is a 501(c)3 university association with 64 member institutions whose mission is to: • Foster excellence in scientific research • Strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of the nation and the Southeast • Provide outstanding training opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers www.sura.org/SURAgrid

4. SURA Programs Jefferson Lab – DOE Office of Science – to probe nucleus of atom and study quark structure of matter SCOOP – DOD Office of Naval Research/NOAA – to provide IT “glue” to integrate coastal research components Information Technology- to build cyberinfrastructure foundation (the integration of high performance computing and networking) to support SURA’s scientific and research programs Relations – to formulate and sustain internal and external relations strategy and support for SURA’s scientific and research programs www.sura.org/SURAgrid

5. 37% of the US population 10 EPSCoR states 92% of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) 22% of the nation’s Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) SURA Region www.sura.org/SURAgrid

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7. 36 Institutional members Shared accessible high performance computing environment Access to group negotiated discounted HPC systems/services Enabling CI supported research & education On-Ramp to National CI Lowering Barriers for Deploying and Utilizing CyberInfrastructure www.sura.org/SURAgrid

8. About SURAgrid • Open initiative supporting regional CI strategy and infrastructure development • Applications of regional impact are key drivers • Designed to foster new uses and users of CI • Collaborative research, large and small • Applications beyond those typically expected • Instructional use, student exposure, new communities • Open to what new communities will bring • On-ramp to national HPC & CI facilities (e.g., Teragrid) • Built by, and building, a community of institutional collaborators www.sura.org/SURAgrid

9. About SURAgrid • A community led program • An elected SURAgrid Governance Committee • Contributing and Participating institutional members • Freshly minted multi-year strategic plan • Currently a Globus based distributed HPC environment • Integrates heterogeneous platforms and resources • Exploring grid-to-grid integration • Support range of user groups with varying application needs and levels of grid expertise • Participants include domain scientists, computer scientists IT developers & support staff • Sharing CI knowledge and best practices across the SURA region www.sura.org/SURAgrid

10. SURAgrid Vision - Mission • SURAgrid Vision • Promote excellence for research and education enterprises by fostering collaborative engagement in cyberinfrastructure across the SURA region. • SURAgrid Mission • SURAgrid provides a community for collaborative development and use of cyberinfrastructure services to support the research and education missions of our membership. www.sura.org/SURAgrid

11. SURAgrid Goals • Develop a research outreach program to identify new users and new uses for the evolving regional and national computational and collaborative cyberinfrastructure available to the SURA region. • Plan, manage and support the SURAgrid infrastructure to provide a solid foundation for the evolution of SURA region research and education programs. • Develop a communications strategy for SURAgrid. • Develop a sustainability model for SURAgrid. • Strengthen existing and develop new corporate and organizational partnerships focused on improving regional use of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) services. www.sura.org/SURAgrid

12. Major Areas of Activity • Grid-Building • Access Management Services • Corporate Partnerships • Application Discovery & Deployment • Outreach & Community Building www.sura.org/SURAgrid

13. Community Cyberinfrastructure www.sura.org/SURAgrid

14. Access Management • Two-tiered PKI • Production service and grid-to-grid integration • Preserve environment for learning & development • View towards global structures for sharing • HEPKI, International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF) • Multiple components contributed by UVA • Bridge Certificate Authority (CA) • LDAP-based user account management • SURAgrid CA (under development) Themes: local autonomy, scalability, leverage enterprise infrastructure www.sura.org/SURAgrid

15. SURA Corporate Partnerships • Significant product discounts • Owned and operated by SURAgrid participants • Integrated into SURAgrid with 20% of capacity available to SURAgrid pool • IBM p575 – 1 and 2 TF configurations • IBM e1350 Linux– 1 rack 3 TF and 2 rack 6 TF configurations • Dell PowerEdge 1950– Single rack 2TF configuration • Microsoft funded CCS 2003/2008 Pilot Project www.sura.org/SURAgrid

16. CI-Enabled Coastal Research • UNC Storm Surge Modeling with ADCIRC • LSU Wave Watch 3 for SCOOP • UFL CH3D Storm Surge Monitoring System with Grid Appliance SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction www.sura.org/SURAgrid

17. CI-Enabled Bioinformatics & Biomedical Research • GSU Multiple Genome Alignment on the Grid • GSU Virtual Screening for Computational Chemistry • ODU Biosim: Bio-electric Simulator for Whole Body Tissue • UAB Dynamic Blast • VCU Virtual Parasite www.sura.org/SURAgrid

18. On-Ramp to National CI NCSU Simulation-Optimization for Threat Management in Urban Water Systems • SURAgrid provides compute a heterogeneous resource pool, low overhead to participate • Staging on SURAgrid, uncovers programming and workflow problems prior to porting to TeraGRID www.sura.org/SURAgrid

19. Outreach & Community Building • SURAgrid monthly con call • SURAgrid Update (community newsletter) • SURAgrid Website (www.sura.org/suragrid) • Participation in Regional CI Day Activities • Spring & Fall All Hands Meetings • Listservs • Active Working Groups www.sura.org/SURAgrid

20. For More Informationwww.sura.org/suragridQ & A Gary Crane, gcrane@sura.org www.sura.org/SURAgrid