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Research CyberInfrastructure. Presentation to the ITC 4/15/11 – Terry Millar. UW-Madison Research CyberInfrastructure ?. $. R CI. Research CyberInfrastructure ?. Resources: Material – C omputer equipment Software Human – core competencies in 1
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Research CyberInfrastructure Presentation to the ITC 4/15/11 – Terry Millar
UW-Madison Research CyberInfrastructure? $ R CI
Research CyberInfrastructure? • Resources: • Material – • Computer equipment • Software • Human – core competencies in 1 • Social – networked core competencies in 1 - 3 How much do we have of each resource and what are their distributions and costs? How much will we need in 5-10 years, and with what distributions and at what costs?
Research CyberInfrastructure? To first order, no one has a clue. Perhaps we should have a clue? A role for the Information Technology Committee? Institution: γνῶθισεαυτόν
Research CyberInfrastructure Possible Strategy: Tackle resources in order, since each will help inform those that follow: • Material – computer equipment • Computer Equipment • Software • Human – core competencies in 1 • Social – networked core competencies in 1 - 3 What follows are some statistics on computer equipment derived from the campus Inventory Warning: Data includes all categories of use, not just for research Question: What is the total initial value of all computer equipment currently in the Campus Inventory, and what is the distribution by fund accounts used for acquisition?
Research CyberInfrastructure What constitutes ‘research equipment’?
Research CyberInfrastructure What is the distribution of computer equipment now in inventory by date of purchase?
Research CyberInfrastructure Questions: What major unit has the greatest investment in computer equipment? Second greatest? What is the distribution of computer equipment by major unit?
Research CyberInfrastructure Computer Equipment by major unit and then by purchase fund
Research CyberInfrastructure Computer Equipment by major unit and then by purchase fund
Research CyberInfrastructure Computer Equipment by major unit and then by purchase fund
Research CyberInfrastructure Who are the people behind the purchases?
Research CyberInfrastructure Statistics on the people ‘behind’ the Computer Equipment Purchases Individuals, in decreasing order of total purchases
Research CyberInfrastructure Patterns in ‘nature’ You are walking along a beach. Ahead you see 8 medium size stones in essentially a straight line spanning several yards. Would you be surprised? When do patterns evoke a sense of curiosity about possible causes?
Research CyberInfrastructure Assume you have a complex technology with many ‘layers’, 1 through N. Assume layer i has 2 i people, with the end users at level N Assume that each layer has about the same amount of financial investment in equipment Assume you know the amount of equipment per person at each level Then what is the distribution of equipment value versus people?
Research CyberInfrastructure N=1 Investment at that level N=9 Level $ size/ Person (N=9)
Research CyberInfrastructure N=9 Note that slope is approximately 1 N=1
Research CyberInfrastructure Why?! One possible reason is that the federal grant size versus number of grants has a similar power law distribution. But: 1. That begs the question of why the federal grant size has that distribution. 2. Federal grants account for only 27% of the computer equipment.
Research CyberInfrastructure Recall This is Inventory over time, therefore it represents a rolling ‘steady state.’ In steady state, every dollar investment in computer equipment used in research and purchased with non-federal funds generates, to first order, the equivalent amount of 150 funds.
Research CyberInfrastructure Therefore either 1) the campus only uses about 10% of its non-federally funded computer purchases to support research; or 2) the campus is not re-investing its Indirect Cost Reimbursement in a way commensurate with its research computing investments from other sources.
Research CyberInfrastructure Finally: It is alleged by people who know that Info Technology computer equipment costs are not included in the indirect calculation with the Feds, because it is not designated as a research unit!
Research CyberInfrastructure And recall, computer equipment is just half of the material resources, and does not touch human or social resources. It seems that someone should wake up each morning with Research Cyberinfrastructure as her/his primary mission. It also is my opinion that that person should report to the Vice Chancellor for Research, in order to best protect research interests. γνῶθισεαυτόν
Research CyberInfrastructure One example to show that the material resources are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg:
Research Cyberinfrastructure Data Center Example Center for High Throughput Computing at B240 Approx imate Annual Services Provided Hardware/Infrastructure Electrical Capacity for Powering machines Cooling Machines ~ 1: 1.5 .7 FTE of ‘evolution’ user support .7 FTE of ‘steady state’ user support 2.2 FTE maintenance and operation support 30 million CPU-hours of computing 1 petabyte spinning disk Software* ~$530K in: Power Water APC equipment Racks ~$2 M in Computers (Of this amount, ~$1M came from collaborators) Harvested cycles from campus desktops Web portals (simplify/automate research computing) 150KW (Green: served as a model for Findorff/Mortenson for WIDs) * To 23 Centers/Collaborations 22 Departments 73 Faculty/Staff 131 Students Firm L&S 2 FTE Annually CHTC Resources Federal $90K/Yr last 5 years Variable WARF $410K/Yr last 5 years (staff and eqpt) Cap Exercise $20K/yr last 5 years * See next slide for more details
Depts/Cont’d Medical Physics Medical Sciences Medicine Nuclear Engineering Physics Statistics Zoology Centers/Collaborations Software Assistance for ATLAS Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank Center for Limnology CMS Computational Nuclear Engineering Research Group Daya Bay Engine Research Center Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center IceCube Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics Nelson Institute Psychiatric Institute and Clinics Social Science Computing Cooperative Synchrotron Radiation Center Value Added Research Center Waisman Center Wisconsin ADRC Medical Imaging Lab Wisconsin Center for Education Research Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research Condor Free Surfer - Brain mapping software Jmag - Finite Element Analysis Matlab - Science Software System Stata - Statistical Package MCNP - A Nuclear Energy Analysis Package R Faculty/Staff NageshAdluru Andrew Alexander Alan Attie BahaBalantekin David Balduzzi SumanBanerjee Vernon Barger John BooskeLev Borisov Kenneth Chiu Michael Coen Qiang Cui Joshua Coon Susan Coppersmith Natalia de Leon Juan dePablo Kurt Feigl Michael Ferris Amit Gandhi Daniel Gianola Susan Hagness Bruce Hansen Paul Hanson KarstenHeeger Bill Hoyt Thomas Jahns Sterling Johnson Shawn Kaeppler Daniel Kingenberg Gregory Kirk Irena Knezevic Tim Kratz Ben Libit Robert Lorenz Mahesh Mahanthappa Manos Mavrikakis Mary Meyerand Julie Mitchell Gregory Moses Dan NegrutHayrettin OkutMutluOzdogan Jignesh Patel Francis Petriello George N. Phillips Warren Porter Rolf Reitz Nicolas RoysRidwanSakidja JR Schmidt Karl Scholz Edwin L. Sibert Jude ShavlikGary Shiu Vikas Singh James Skinner Edgar Spalding Paul Terwilliger Chris Thorn GiulioTononi Ruth Lopez Turley Eldon Ulrich Barry Van Veen Tomy Varghese James Walker Don Waller Herb Wang Kent Weigel l Michael Westphall Paul Wilson Nick Wu Bryan YandellArunYethiraj Li Zhang Departments Animal Sciences Astronomy Biochemistry BiostatisticsBotany Chemical and Biological Eng Chemistry Computer Science Counseling Psychology Economics Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering Physics Geosciences Limnology Material Science and Engineering Math Mechanical Engineering
