Goals, Resources, and Services SuperComputing 2012, Salt Lake City Nov 12-15, 2012

1. Goals, Resources, and Services SuperComputing 2012, Salt Lake City Nov 12-15, 2012

2. Overview What is SSERCA? What are achievable and sustainable goals? What resources does SSERCA represent? What services can SSERCA provide? SC12

3. What is SSERCA? • Sunshine State Education and Research Computing Alliance • Runs on top of Florida Lambda Rail infrastructure • Website: http://www.sserca.org • Add value to members and affiliates • Provide cyberinfrastructure • Collaboration • Innovation SC12

4. SSERCA supports SC12

5. What is research computing? • computing and data management activities related to research • including, but not limited to • high-performance computing (HPC) • parallel computing (GPU and MPI) • high-throughput computing (HTC) • collection, management, searching, mining of large sets of data (BIGDATA) Nov 12-15,2012

6. Who is the SSERCA audience? • Faculty and investigators at Florida • universities, • colleges, • academic research institutions, and • later: startup companies • And their students and collaborators SC12

7. SSERCA • Is a lightweight virtual entity to • Empower members and affiliates • Enable collaborations of faculty in the state • With others in the state and elsewhere • Is not a small • OSG • XSEDE • Cloud service provider SC12

8. SSERCA acts through members • All SSERCA coordinated activities • are executed by the members and affiliates • SSERCA owns no resources SC12

9. Overview What is SSERCA? What are achievable and sustainable goals? What resources does SSERCA represent? What services can SSERCA provide? SC12

10. Achievable goals • Source for communication • Place to collect and share expertise • Conduct coordinated research • On delivering cyberinfrastructure services • By and to the members and affiliates • Develop • best practices • relationships SC12

11. Sustainable goals • These goals are sustainable • Operating • Hardware • Software • Services • Are not sustainable for SSERCA • Those remain the tasks for members SC12

12. Service flow SC12

13. Focus on collaboration • SSERCA members set up • Processes • Cyberinfrastructure (hard and soft) • Services • Coordinate and document while doing this • To make it easier and faster next time SC12

14. Need to be nimble • To help faculty be responsive • We need to be ready • SSERCA members must invest • In preparatory work • Research and development • Need for dedicated staff at each member institution SC12

15. Overview What is SSERCA? What are achievable and sustainable goals? What resources does SSERCA represent? What services can SSERCA provide? SC12

16. SSERCA resources • All hardware resources are • At the member institutions and in FLR • Owned, operated, maintained • Human resources are • At member and affiliates • See bylaws: need for local support person • Collaborative framework • Communication channels are asset SC12

17. SSERCA services Information Documentation Coordination Best practices Gateway to services provided by members SC12

18. SSERCA services • Cannot be sustained if • they do not align • with the goals and mission • of the member institution • that is providing resources • It is critical to keep this alignment SC12