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Purdue University CI Investment Strategies Jim Bottum Vice President for Information Technology and CIO University of Nebraska Lincoln Cyber infrastructure 2005 August 15-16, 2005. Outline. Purdue in Transition Strategic Plan and Vision IT Strategy Resources Partnerships. Purdue in 2000 .

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  1. Purdue University CI Investment StrategiesJim Bottum Vice President for Information Technology and CIOUniversity of Nebraska LincolnCyberinfrastructure 2005August 15-16, 2005

  2. Outline • Purdue in Transition • Strategic Plan and Vision • IT Strategy • Resources • Partnerships

  3. Purdue in 2000 • High degree of local autonomy • Numerous IT organizations including multiple “central” organizations • Trustees recruited new President with a mandate to develop a strategic plan for preeminence • President brought in a new team including Purdue’s first CIO – non-traditional candidate • CIO position based on a plan developed by the University community

  4. Purdue Strategic Plan Strategy • Enhance library and other information resources, and provide state-of-the-art computational and information technology resources supporting campus wide research, learning environments, and the business enterprise Metrics • Library acquisitions • Electronic library and other information access services and usage • Computational and information technology improvements and expenditures, and annual assessment of needs met Source: Purdue University Strategic Plan

  5. Funding the Plan • Strategy • Purdue's vision … will require a carefully constructed funding scheme to support and implement the strategic plan. • The University strategic plan, along with the strategic plans of the schools and other major units, will establish the framework for setting annual priorities and guiding the major budgetary decisions. • Interdependence of various funding sourcesand the importance of a partnership of these funds in supporting key initiatives • State Appropriations • Federal Appropriations • Fees and Tuition • Sponsored Funding • Internal Reallocation • Private Giving • Revenues from Licenses and Patents • Key Investment Areas • Strengthening the infrastructure including facilities and information technology Source: Purdue University Strategic Plan

  6. Translating the IT Vision Into Action • Develop IT strategic plan in collaboration with both central and distributed IT staff • Consolidate and integrate central IT activities creating ITaP • Update, upgrade and in some cases re-engineer the infrastructure (lifecycle replacement strategies) • Build alliances with faculty and distributed IT support staff • Began to think as an enterprise!

  7. IT Strategic Plan • The Information Technology Strategic Planning Task Force was charged with developing a vision and implementation plan for creating a world-class digital information infrastructure and building services that support all of Purdue’s strategic efforts. • Strategic principles drove the development of the plan: • Collaboration is essential for this plan to succeed. • Applications drive the need for technology and technology should never be thought of as an end in itself. • An enterprise approach assures leverage. • Users must have ubiquitous access to resources.

  8. IT Planning Process – Strategy to Implementation IT Strategic Plan Current IT Environment Road Maps Purdue Strategic Plan

  9. Resources

  10. Resource Initiatives Capturing unused cycles, 2,800 desktops “cheap cycles” High Throughput Computing Community Cluster Massively parallel & large memory IBM SP3 Sun F6800 Servers

  11. HPC Community Cluster • Schools/Departments/Faculty buy into a the cluster by purchasing individual identical compute nodes • current participation: Science; Engineering; Agriculture; Bio; ME; ECE; EAS; Mgmnt; Physics • ITaP aggregates all nodes together and operates as a single cluster • in practice this has become multiple clusters and we have gone from 1 to 15 teraflops on the floor in a little over a year • Through scheduling (Maui) ITaP guarantees that a contributor can receive on demand the number of nodes that were contributed • Priority access to additional nodes is given to contributors to the community cluster • three layer strategy using Condor • Benefits: • Leveraging a larger resource with their investment • No burden of administration, i.e. purchasing and managing • Professionally managed off site • Housed in centralized facilities freeing departments from converting academic space to machine rooms • MOU’s and SLA’s are established to cover a three year commitment

  12. Resource Initiatives Purdue Terrestrial Observatory • Real-time earth observing multiple satellite receiving station • Support - seed money, integration with VPR led environmental initiative and project oversight by CIO office • Add’l funding: 3 WL colleges, IUPUI • Initial effort - 35 faculty/20 academic departments • Capability - Multiple data-stream sources • 3 grants funded; 5 pending; 6 in development Envision Center • Faculty driven initiative • Managed & supported by ITaP • Funded by Purdue (operations); NSF grant, (equipment); vendors (IBM, Intel) • Over 50 projects & center written into 34 proposals

  13. Discovery – Visualization T4 bacteriophage infecting an Escherichia coli cell – Led by:Michael G. RossmannVadim V. MesyanzhinovFumio ArisakaVenigalla B. Rao

  14. Learning Resources • Replacing WebCT Campus Edition • Fall 2004 • Encompass libraries system integration • Business Process Redesign for SIS • Integration with media and content development tools (Macromedia Breeze, etc) • Scantron grade integration (> 1 M grades loaded) • Implementation of foreign language components • Security assessment • Archival and monitoring • Spring, 2005 • Continue statewide phased Vista deployment • integration with e-instruction • e-portfolios analysis • integration with Turn-It-In (plagiarism checker) • online “end of semester” course evaluations • August, 2005 – Retire Campus Edition • Research Delivery Vehicle – see NCN • Campus Edition - 1,400 courses and 26,000 students • Vista – 1,290 courses and 27,000 students (system-wide)

  15. Learning Resources • mLearning - Learning – any time, any where • eInstruction - Building interactions and feedback within large courses • Active Notes - connecting student notes with the instructor’s presentation Student Response Pad Receiver PersonalComputer

  16. Learning Resources • To find an open seat visit:http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/ • On August 16 at 1:45 PM the STEW 102 labshowed the following Status The lab is OPEN. There are 59 computers in use. There are 67 total computers. • Virtual Lab - remote server-based educational applications • 86,461 connections/semester • High Performance Classroom • 278 student labs • 5,424 machines • Many open 19 hrs/day; some 24/7 • 158,530 pages/day printed

  17. Networking Initiatives I-Light 2 Campus • Gbit + to all buildings • All new fiber (SMF) • Full campus wireless deployment ($1.3 M) + 54 Mbps • “Shadow network” (dark fiber) provides experimental environment To CIC Fiber Ring State • I-Light - $5M (2 Gbps) Purdue – IU • I-Light2 $10M in progress • CIC Chicago Fiber Ring • Pending Northwest Indiana Grid proposal • Partners Notre Dame and Purdue Calumet National • TeraGrid (pictured) • Also participate in: • Internet2 • NLR via CIC

  18. External Recognition

  19. ITaP Organizational

  20. Criteria for IT-Faculty Partnerships • Project has to be part of University’s strategic direction • Work out priotities with the VPR • Extra points for interdisciplinary projects • Consistent with Purdue strategic directions • Funding potential • Two approaches to proposals • Both sides have something to gain (in each other’s critical path) • In addition to monetary • Project should be innovative • Write it down (project management) • Resources (have done loss leaders but…) • Loss leaders early to establish credibility

  21. Building Partnerships – One Metric of Success

  22. Partnership Example: Nanotechnology integrated nanosystems devices chemistry/ materials atoms • NSF funded Purdue to lead the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN); $10.5M/5 year; added $1.5M/year since inception. • NCN is about computing: new algorithms, approaches, and software tools with capabilities not yet available commercially. • NanoHUB (science gateway): on-line resources via web-based clearing-house that makes software and simulations available to researchers. • Partners: Purdue, UTEP; UF; UIUC; Stanford; Northwestern • Origins: PUNCH developed by research group, but ITaP has taken over the operation and support of this resource • Serves nanotechnology researchers at Purdue and several thousand others worldwide. • Jointly appointed staff & faculty members • Leveraged into a grid service for heterogeneous computing under a National Middleware Initiative deployment grant. Research • web-based computing • new software • collaborative services Education “We could not do this without ITaP” Mark Lundstrom,Scifres distingushed professor in ECE, at the NSF site review

  23. Web Presence Physical Machine Virtual Machine Application Middleware Resource Mgmt Cluster nanoHUB Architecture Propphet – device simulator RAPTURE - GUI PUNCH in-VIGO High throughput Grid Computing High-end Computing Grid

  24. Online simulations and MORE collaboration animations learning modules seminars online simulations courses, tutorials nanoHUB.org

  25. Leveraging Educational Standards XML-based Standard Compliant Content Description in a ZIP file Course ManagementSystems National Learning Module Database - MERLOT nanoHUB Thousands Of Users At Many Universities Many Users in progress

  26. Leverage and Focus • Bridge the gaps from top to bottom ! NSF-funded effort to build computational tools for a scientific community… Purdue developed - provides a “Gateway” to distribute scientific knowledge and applications Using middleware that makes the user experience seamless and rich (Recent $3M award to Purdue with UWisconsin and UFlorida as subs) And ties to a new infrastructure that goes beyond traditional HPC

  27. Other Partnerships • Physics - new faculty recruitment > Tier 2 Center • CERIAS – security • Purdue Terrestrial Observatory • Climate Change Center • Bioinformatics • Community (condominium) Clusters from 1 – 15 teraflops in 18 months

  28. Purdue Cyber Center - Planning • Faculty Task Force commissioned Summer 2003 • Report delivered Spring 2004 • Proposal to administration to become Discovery Park Center funded July 2005 (Lilly Endowment)

  29. Having Fun: e-Stadium • Part of “living laboratory” concept • Partnership • Intercollegiate Athletics • Center for Wireless Systems & Applications • ITaP • Corporate Sponsorship • $600,000 from Cisco Systems(total gift = $1.2 M) • $200,000 from Verizon • Programmatic • Infotainment • Safety & Security • Technology • Mobile Devices • PDA (802.11x) • Smart Phone (Cellular) Action-Packed Ross-Ade Stadium

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