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TeraGrid Science Gateways

TeraGrid Science Gateways. Name, role Gateway field/discipline Start date Project goals Number of users Current # Expected #. Computational requirements Measures of success Interesting tidbit. Project Name. Tom Baltzer – Software Engineer - Data, Tools, Testing and Support

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TeraGrid Science Gateways

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  1. TeraGrid Science Gateways TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  2. Name, role Gateway field/discipline Start date Project goals Number of users Current # Expected # Computational requirements Measures of success Interesting tidbit Project Name TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  3. Tom Baltzer – Software Engineer - Data, Tools, Testing and Support Gateway: LEAD – Meteorology Start: October 2003 Goals: Lowering the barrier for using complex end-to-end weather technologies Dynamic Adaptation to Weather Number of users Current # 70 w/accounts Expected # 100s LEAD is data and compute intensive with visualization requirements Success is measured by use of LEAD in research and education From 1/1/097 to 5/1/07, LEAD participants submitted 6696 jobs, consuming 52925 TG SU's, and generating about 2.6 TB of data Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  4. Adam Brazier, physicist/programmer Astronomy Project commenced: January 2007 Project goals: Finding hundreds of pulsars Number of users Current: 20 Expected: >100 High end database storage for ~50TB of data products, durable large-scale storage for ~1PB of raw data, intensive processing at multiple sites The biggest pulsar survey in history, conducted at the world’s biggest single-dish telescope. Massive Pulsar Surveys using the Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA) TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  5. Julian Bunn, PI. Senior Scientist, Caltech HEP, Astronomy, Geophysics 2001 Bring the scientific analysis power of the Grids (e.g. TeraGrid) to the end user scientist’s computer Number of users Current – a few Expected – a lot Computational requirements – Tens/Hundreds of TeraBytes of storage, powerful front end servers, significant backend, fast networks, clusters/supercomputers Measures of success – Uptake by physicists Interesting tidbit – Our ideas for science gateways began in 2001 at Caltech, and were funded by NSF in the “CAIGEE” Project Caltech Science Gateways TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  6. Cesar da SilvaResearch Associate Pedro da SilveiraResearch Specialist Field: Geophysics, Physics Since October, 2004 Goals: Computational determination of earth forming materials properties at extreme conditions provides today Mostly devoted to distributed workflow management Number of user: Current 10 Expected 3,000 Computational Requirements: Typical Workflow demands ~1020 Floating Point Operations Visit: www.vlab.msi.umn.edu Virtual Laboratory for Earth and Planetary Material TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  7. Xiuyi Fan, Graduate Student, Developer (Grid Access & Computation Resource Management) Discipline: Chemistry Generic platform Project began: 2003 Grid enabled: June 2006 First official public release: March 2007 Project goals Building a sustainable end-to-end cyber-ecosystem that will empower individuals to advance knowledge in computational molecular science and enable increased efficacy in the scientific discovery process. Current Focus: Education Number of users Current Num: 500+ Expected Num (in Five Years) : Thousands Computational Requirements Support a large number of concurrent access System availability Measures of Success Number of users Number of jobs submitted Number of courses taught using our tools CSE-Online TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  8. Jeffrey S. Grethe, Ph.D. Scientific Coordinator, BIRN-CC Gateway field/discipline: Biomedicine Start date: 2001 Project goals: The BIRN is a geographically distributed virtual community of shared resources offering tremendous potential to advance the diagnosis and treatment of disease by enhancing communication and collaboration across research disciplines. Number of users Current: 442 Expected: Expected to continue to increase Computational requirements: Due to the variety of analyses and research being conducted data transfer, large data size, large number of processing cycles are all requirements Measures of success: Science being accomplished. Other metrics tracked include: number of users, amount of data distributed across sites, analyses performed, etc… Interesting tidbit: Important clinical findings have already resulted from BIRN research on TeraGrid. BIRN is the largest production Grid being funded by NIH. Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  9. Jeffrey S. Grethe, Ph.D. Imaging and remote control of bio-imaging instruments Start Date: 1995 Project goals: The Telescience methodology integrates resources, technologies, and applications using standardized Grid middleware technologies and advanced networking to provide an end-to-end solution for challenges like multi-scale biomedical imaging. Number of users Current: 136 Computational Requirements: specimen degradation requires quick turn around of processing to enable results while experiment is on-going. Measures of success: science being accomplished Telecontrol of Ultra-High Voltage Electron Microscope at Osaka Univ. The most important advantage of the 3 MV UHVEM is the remarkable increases of the maximum observable thickness of specimens Telescience TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  10. Joe Insley, lead developer Visualization for all scientific disciplines August 2005 (conceptually) Provide users with simple access to visualization resources and services Number of users Currently a handful Expect many (10s, 100s?) Computational requirements: Yes to all the above: data, compute and vis intensive; collaborative and distributed Measures of success: no tangible metrics at this point Making use of dynamic accounts for community users TeraGrid Visualization Gateway TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  11. Gerhard Klimeck Disciplines: Nano-(electronics, mechanics, bio) Mostly computation, some data History 1994: PUNCH - 1000 users 2002: NCN, funded by NSF 2005: Rappture (interactive apps!!!) ‘05 In-VIGO, ‘06 Narwhal, ’07 Maxwell Goals Simulation before building Serve a population underserved by modeling and simulation: Experimentalists / educators / students Experts in related / other fields Enable HPC simulation for masses Current (Future) User Numbers: >5,000 (>25,000) simulation users50% in USA, 80% in academia9% of all .edu in USA >23,000 (>100,000) total users Computational requirements: Most users: rapid ‘what if’ questions => moderate CPU load, 100-1,000CPUs Heavy users – TBD, some million SUs Metrics: Change mode of operation Citations, quotes, user/usage numbers nanoHUB TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  12. Wilfred Li, Executive Director, NBCR Integrative Biology/Multiscale Modeling Aug 31, 2006 Transparent Access to Grid Resources for biomedical researchers, with increasing emphasis on translational research support Number of users Current 50 registered Expect to have ~1000 Reproducible infrastructure, so actual users may be more http://nbcr.net/ Computational requirements Still in prototype stage Expect to leverage TG for applications such as Continuity, APBS, SMOL, 3DMyocyte, in addition to other MD applications Job types vary from low latency network requirement to serial applications Measures of success Active users Scientific publications Adoption of infrastructure Interesting tidbit Use of metascheduler- Gfarm, CSF4 International collaborations, leverage of PRAGMA Grid Avian flu N1 Simulation that utilized the TeraGrid My WorkSphere – TeraGrid Science Gateways for Multiscale Modeling and Integrative Biology TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  13. Philip Maechling – IT Architect/Project Manager Seismic Hazards/Earthquake Processes Robust, Verified, Regional Scale Earthquake Wave Propagation Simulations Number of users Current 10 Expected 200 Multi-step computational processes including parallel computation and visualization. Calculated seismograms match observed seismograms. System is used in graduate work. System produces images and animations for every Ml4.0 and larger in Southern California. System has been used to run earthquake simulations for British Columbia SCEC Earthworks Science Gateway TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  14. Geosciences Network (GEON) Ashraf Memon, Chief Software Engineer Geoscience Network/Earth Science October 2002 Create collaborative space for geosciences to share and integrated resources Number of users Current # 1448 Expected # 10000 Need tera-scale computing for computing Synthetic Siesmograms and Parallel Databases for storing and processing LIDAR Data TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007 TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  15. Steve Miller Gateway field/discipline Start date Project goals Number of users Current # Expected # Computational requirements Measures of success Interesting tidbit Neutron Science Instrument Gateway TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  16. Sudhakar Pamidighantam, Lead Architect Chemistry/Molecular Sciences Start Date: October 2004 Project goals: Provide Seamless Grid resources and Services for Molecular Sciences Number of users Current 222 Expected 1000 Computational requirements: High End Resources for High throughput Computations and Visualization Measures of success Number of Satisfied Users Number of Publications by Users Interesting tidbit: Delivered about 380 000 Sus last year which resulted in 6 Publications GridChem Science Gateway TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  17. 1999 Ruth Pordes, Fermilab, Executive Director of the OSG a science drivencollaborative cross-domain self-managed national distributed cyber-infrastructure Consortium bringing together campus and community infrastructures and Virtual Organizations at all scales Users: 1000 different DNs have accessed the infrastructure; Double in ~2 years. Computational Requirements of contributing users: 100,000 cores in 2009. 10 Petabytes tape and disk storage. Measures of success: Effective and appreciated contributions to the full range from large physics collaborations e.g. LHC, LIGO to small research groups e.g. Virtual Cell, SPGrid and sought after training programs. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2008 iVDGL (NSF) OSG GriPhyN Trillium Grid3 (NSF) (DOE+NSF) PPDG (DOE) Open Science Grid (OSG) TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  18. Shaowen Wang, PI Yan Liu, Developer Gateway field/discipline: Geography and Regional Science; Geosciences Start date: 7/1/2003 Project goals: see a summary at www.gisolve.org Number of users Current: ~40 Expected by the end of 2007: ~150 Computational requirements: compute intensive, data intensive, demand visualization, need to collaborate across disciplines and distance Measures of success: capabilities for solving large- scale, multi-scale, and/or ill-structured geospatial problems using cyberinfrastructure Interesting tidbit: broad impact on the fields that rely on geospatial information science and technologies GISolve TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

  19. Roy Williams • Nesssi is the • National Virtual Observatory • framework for secure, asynchronous services • Service oriented architecture • Click or Code (no Globus) • Sophisticated security • Developers welcome • Nesssi can do • Image mosaicking from any VO-enabled survey • Multiple cutouts from multiple VO surveys • Mock observations from ENZO http://us-vo.org/nesssi TeraGrid Planning Workshop — June 7, 2007

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