Marla Meehl University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

1. Marla MeehlUniversity Corporation for Atmospheric Research New Mexico Cyberinfrastructure Capstone Event Wednesday, November 2, 2016

2. Acronym soup • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR; http://www.ucar.edu) • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) • Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) • Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) • Western Regional Network (WRN) • Rocky Mountain Cyberinfrastructure Mentoring and Outreach Alliance (RMCMOA) • Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Collaboration (RMACC) • Questions and discussions throughout as needed – and as for acronym soup ingredients, please ask if I miss one or check decoder page at http://bit.ly/acronym-soup

3. Regional Network Collaborations • Manage UCAR NETS/FRGP/BiSON • Principle Investigator (PI) on the National Science Foundation (NSF) CC*IIE Collaborative Research: CC*IIE Region: Rocky Mountain Cyberinfrastructure Mentoring and Outreach Alliance (RMCMOA) Grant • Focus on the power and value of regional partnerships, collaborations, and communities

4. Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) • http://www.frgp.net • The FRGP enables advanced scientific research and education, supports experimental and production networks, fosters networking and application research, and facilitates interconnectivity among regional, national, and international high-performance research and education networks • 17 years of operation • Started new 5-year agreement cycle 7/1/14

5. What is the FRGP – Cont’d • The FRGP is a consortium of Universities, research organizations, non-profit corporations, government agencies, cities, counties, States, and K-12s that cooperate to share wide area networking services including Internet2, intra-FRGP, commodity Internet, caching, and peering connectivity • UCAR provides the management, engineering, and network operations center support for the FRGP

6. FRGP Benefits • FRGP participants, including UCAR, typically enjoy reduced costs, shared expertise, shared services, increased buying power, and economies of scale • Aggregated and direct intra-participant network access - “what happens in the FRGP stays in the FRGP” • Provides connectivity to the Internet2 network • Either directly for Internet2 members or qualifying community anchor institution via the US UCAN program • 100Gbps to Chicago, 100Gbps to Los Angeles, 100Gbps to Seattle via WRN

8. Current FRGP voting participants - 11 • Colorado School of Mines • Colorado State University - Fort Collins • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Boulder • State of Colorado • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR/NCAR) • University of Colorado - Boulder • University of Colorado - Colorado Springs • University of Colorado - Denver • University of Denver • University of Northern Colorado • University of Wyoming

9. Johnson & Wales University Fort Lewis College I2-USDA JeffcoSD Metropolitan State University of Denver University Information Systems (CU system) NEON NREL State of Wyoming SHEPC/WICHE/NCHEMS University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO) FRGP participants – non-voting - 21 • Auraria Higher Education Center • Colorado College • Colorado Community College System • City of Boulder • Colorado Department of Higher Education • Colorado Mountain College • Colorado State University - Pueblo • Colorado Telehealth Network • Community College of Denver • Educational Access Gateway Learning Environment Network

10. Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) • The Bi-State Optical Network, or BiSON, is a collaboration of research and educational institutions in Colorado and Wyoming that utilize long-haul fiber for high performance optical networking • BiSON participants receive robust, redundant access to regional and Wide Area Network (WAN) services • Partner with CDOT, Level3, PRPA and others on fiber • BiSON agreement part of FRGP agreement 4

12. Western Regional Network (WRN) • The Western Regional Network is a multi-state partnership to provide advanced, robust high-speed networking for research, education, and related uses. WRN is a collaboration of the Pacific Northwest GigaPoP (PNWGP) in Washington, the Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) in Colorado, the University of New Mexico on behalf of the State of New Mexico, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), and the University of Hawaii. • Share Internet2, intra-WRN, and commodity Internet • Access to Pacific Wave

14. Westnet • Westnet is an affinity group that grew out of the NSFnet regional network called Westnet • Westnet holds bi-annual meetings that include technical presentations from members and vendors • Westnet provides powerful political and technical contacts with universities that share common concerns • The current Westnet participants include organizations from Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

15. Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) • A collaboration among academic and research institutions located throughout the intermountain states. The mission is to facilitate widespread effective use of high performance computing throughout the Rocky Mountain region by: • Educating graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, researchers, and industry partners on the use of computational science and high performance computing. • Coordinating multi-institutional efforts to advance research, practice, and education in computational science in order to address important regional problems. • Bringing together a broad range of researchers, faculty, and industry partners with a depth of experience and expertise not available at any single institution and facilitate their collaboration in multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams.

16. RMCMOA • NSF CC*IIE Regional Grant – Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Infrastructure, Innovation and Engineering • PIs/Organizations: Colorado State University (Pat Burns), UCAR (Marla Meehl), University of Colorado (Thomas Hauser) , University of Utah (Joe Breen (replaced Steve Corbato)), IRON (Michael Guryan – Senior Personnel) • The partners have a long and fruitful history of collaboration, leadership and innovation in regional and state networking, cyberinfrastructure (CI), and high performance computing (HPC) technology and infrastructure operations • Leverage expertise and organizational structures to lead and manage an outreach effort to better inform, educate and drive adoption and expansion of advanced networking and CI technologies to small colleges and universities in the western region of the United States, specifically those in the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming

17. RMCMOA Activities to Date • First RMCMOA workshop held, 1/13/15, at Arizona State University in conjunction with Westnet • Targeted at small institution CIOs and strategic positioning of HPC and High Performance Networking (HPN), proposal writing, and collaborating with researchers • Second RMCMOA workshop held, 8/11-13/15, at the University of Colorado in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium Symposium (RMACC) • Targeted at small institution engineers with sessions on HPC and HPN related topics, e.g. security, PerfSONAR, other performance tools, Globus, Open Science Grid (OSG), and XSEDE

18. RMCMOA Activities to Date • Third RMCMOA workshop held, 1/5/16, at the University of Arizona in conjunction with Westnet • Targeting CIOs of small institutions to interact with NSF on successes, challenges, and futures; integrating small campuses with regional and national networking efforts; HPN tools to benefit researchers on campus (e.g. Globus, OSG, XSEDE); interacting with researchers; • FinalRMCMOA workshop held, 8/9 - 11/16, at Colorado State University in conjunction with RMACC • Focused on researcher engagement including a hands on sessions with the Energy Science Network (Esnet) Team; follow-up on HPN tools including PerfSONAR, flow tools

19. CC*DNI Related Proposals Submitted - 3/24/15 • Boise State - CI Engineer - AWARDED • Boise State - Network Infrastructure - AWARDED • CSM - CI Engineer - AWARDED • CSU-P - Network Infrastructure - AWARDED • NMSU - CI Engineer - AWARDED • Operating Innovative Networks (OIN) - ESnet, I2, IU - AWARDED • UH Mauna Loa - AWARDED • UNM - Regional - AWARDED • UW - CI Engineer - AWARDED • CU-Boulder/Wyoming/NCAR DIBBS - NOT AWARDED

20. RMCMOA Activities to Date • Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) supplement to RMCMOA submitted and awarded • A partnership between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER) • Five women (19 applicants) received funding to participate in the 2015 Supercomputing Conference (SC15) while gaining valuable hands-on training in building one of the world’s premier IT networks, known as SCinet • The program is an effort to expand the diversity of the SCinet volunteer staff and provide professional development opportunities to highly qualified women in the field of networking

21. Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) • SC 15 highly successful • Report outs to raise awareness of diversity issues and build WINS professional networks and exposure to broader networking community: Westnet, Quilt, KINBER, MERIT, CENIC, NLIT, Internet2 • A follow-on three-year NSF proposal will fund up to seven women to participate in SC 16, 17, 18 • Eight women have been funded for SC 16 (5 NSF and 3 DOE) in Salt Lake City, UT – 33 applicants • Original WINS team: Mary Hester (ESnet), Wendy Huntoon (KINBER), Marla Meehl (UCAR - PI), Lauren Rotman (ESnet), Jason Zurawski (ESnet) • Kate Mace (ESnet) joined the team going forward with Jason stepping off • Mary Hester (Esnet) will leave the team 12/1/16

22. NSF CC* 2016 • Due 8/23/16 • Seven areas: • Data Driven Multi-Campus/Multi-Institution Model Implementations awards will be supported at up to $3,000,000 total for up to 4 years. • Cyber Team awards will be supported at up to $1,500,000 total for up to 3 years. • Data Driven Networking Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher awards will be supported at up to $500,000 total for up to 2 years. • Network Design and Implementation for Small Institutions awards will be supported at up to $400,000 total for up to 2 years. • Network Integration and Applied Innovation awards will be supported at up to $1,000,000 total for up to 2 years. • Campus Computing awards will be supported at up to $500,000 for up to 3 years. • Innovative Integrated Storage Resources awards will be supported at up to $200,000 for up to 2 years.

23. NSF CC* 2016 • Cyber Team awards will be supported at up to $1,500,000 total for up to 3 years. • This program area recognizes the organizational dimension of CI and the ability of multi-institutional teams and regional organizations to knit together the potentially limited cyberinfrastructure resources available at individual sites, campuses, and institutions. As a result this program area seeks to build centers of expertise and knowledge in cyberinfrastructure whose impact is multi-institutional and transcends specific projects.

24. Quilt CC* Committee • Quilt is a consortium of regional research and education networks • FRGP and New Mexico are members • There were six regional NSF CC*IIE grants awarded • FRGP, New Mexico, KINBER, Great Plains, LEARN, OARnet • The PIs meet monthly • Lessons learned • Shared resources • Panels for NSF and Quilt

25. Summary • Great experience for me and the RMCMOA team • I have learned a lot about the resources available, challenges of small institutions, ways to do things better at NCAR/UCAR • Highly recommend your organization's consider submitting a proposal in one of the areas next year

26. Questions/Discussion?