RT Projects Showcase
Anurag Shankar
University Information Technology Services
Indiana University
March 2, 2012
University Information Technology Services
Outline
• Showcase Characteristics
• Past IUN Projects
– How we have helped IUN research projects
• Other IU Projects
– Projects at IUB and IUPUI
• Statewide Projects
– Collaborative projects across IN
• International Projects
– Projects spanning the globe
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Showcase Characteristics
• The examples here have been tailored
specifically for IUN researchers and
showcase a range that covers the
following:
1. Level of Engagement
2. Project Size
3. Nature of Support
4. RT Systems & Services Used
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Past IUN Projects
• Linux Cluster Teaching Lab (Tunde Abiona,
Computer Information Systems) – TA was
looking for PCs to build a lab to teach students
how to build a Linux cluster.
• We contacted the UITS Student Technology
Center and found and hauled up ten PCs
decommissioned from student labs at IUB for
him to use.
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IUN Projects …
• Northern Indiana Restoration Monitoring
Invesntory (NIRMI) Project (Peter Avis,
Biology) – The project needed to collect field
data from ecosystem restoration monitoring and
to make derived products web accessible to the
public.
• We gathered requirements & consulted on
formulating a solution using RT resources. This
information was used to create a local solution.
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IUN Projects …
• The Great Lakes Innovative Stewardship through
Education Network (GLISTEN) Project (Erin
Argyilan, Geology) – IUN portion of GLISTEN needs
a web site to help develop an undergraduate
curriculum for water quality and ecological
monitoring. The site is to allow IUN and area nonprofits to collaborate and disseminate information.
• We gathered requirements, formulated a solution
that uses a Purdue developed HUB technology
called HUBzero, and provided a budget and timeline
for her grant proposal.
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IUN Projects …
• The Life Stress Project (Linda Delunas, Nursing) –
This 5-year project needed to facilitate the
accumulation of research data in the area of lifestress events and their health impacts by collecting
user survey (HIPAA protected) data in a data
repository and make it web accessible
• We did requirements gathering, a budget, an built a
complete solution based on Oracle, used Oracle
Application Express software to publish it, and now
host the application & provide support.
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Other IU Projects
• Online Museum of Animal Behavior (Emilia
Martins, Biology, IUB) – EM had collected
hundreds of CDs worth of lizard behavior data
(video) over many years and had no place to store
them.
• We not only provided her with 500GB of space on
the SDA to store all the data in one place and
access it via the web, we encouraged her to “think
big”. She was able to start a national collaboration
and get funding to create an online museum of
animal behavior using our resources.
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Other IU Projects …
• Dept. of Radiology PET Scan Analysis Pipeline
Migration (Gary Hutchins, IUPUI) – The IUSM
Imaging Core had an aging Linux cluster to process
PET images and were running into cost and speed
issues.
• We helped migrate the analysis application to the
Quarry supercomputer and data to the RFS/SDA,
resulting in a 10-50x speedup, major reduction in
cost, faster turnaround for Imaging Core customers,
and the ability to accommodate more customers and
thus more revenue for the Core.
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Statewide Projects
• The Indiana CTSI HUB Project (Anantha Shekhar,
Psychiatry, PI) – A large ($25 million), multi-year
grant to IU/Purdue/Notre Dame from the NIH to
create an institute for Clinical and Translation
Sciences needed a central web presence.
• We deployed Purdue’s Joomla-based HUBzero
technology to create the Indiana CTSI HUB, designed a
custom hosting environment, developed custom
software components, added a plethora of functionality
using open source COTS software. And now run it in
production. The HUB is used now by nearly 4000
IU/PU/ND users for nearly every aspect of the CTSI.
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Statewide Projects
• IN Volunteer Registry Project (Ron Ackerman,
General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, PI) – The
project was to create a web site where volunteers
across Indiana could register themselves for
potential clinical trials.
• We did requirements gathering, and designed and
developed a Java based software application from
scratch (INResearch.org), created a custom web
hosting environment, and now provide and support
the application in production.
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International Projects
• Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders (Ed Riley, SDSC, PI) – A
large, multi-year, grant to create an international
collaboration collecting patient data in several
countries needed a central data repository
accessible from all sites.
• We act as the Informatics Core for CIFASD. We did
requirements gathering, planning & design of the
CIFASD central repository, development of the
repository, application hosting, and support.
University Information Technology Services
Contact
Your single point of contact for all things RT:
Anurag Shankar
ashankar@iu.edu
812-325-8629
Local Contact:
Carol Wood
cfwood@iun.edu
219-980-7758
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