I-Light: A Network for
Collaboration between Indiana
University and Purdue University
Craig Stewart
Gary Bertoline
Associate Vice President
Associate Vice President
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for Collaboration between Indiana University and Purdue University. 2005.
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I-Light as a foundation for
collaboration
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Research
Education
Collaboration
Enhancing Indiana
Gary
Resources – connected
or not?
West Lafayette
Indianapolis
Bloomington
Linked computational resources
• The I-light network has
been used in a Purdueled simulation of the Sept
11 crash of a jet into the
Pentagon
• Global Grid - HPC
Challenge award at the
SuperComputing 2003
conference
• Support for Center for
Computational Homeland
Security
• Ongoing cycle sharing
agreement
© Trustees Purdue University
Aggregated Data Resources
© Trustees Purdue University
• Purdue Terrestrial Observatory (and IU GIS data)
• Life Sciences Data
• Crystallography
TeraGrid
• The I-light network is the infrastructure on which Indiana
and Purdue Universities became a part of the NSFfunded TeraGrid.
• Indiana and Purdue have together brought ~$15M of
funding into the State in support of TeraGrid activities
• Collaborative development of new computer
technologies and delivery of new scientific innovations
Enabling Science: Collaborative
Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder
• Early diagnosis is important,
difficult
• International research
consortium storing data at
Indiana University – duplicate
copies in Bloomington and
Indianapolis enabled by I-light
• Collaborations between
IUSM, UITS, and Purdue
School of Science developing
new diagnostic tools leading
to earlier diagnosis and better
interventions
Enabling Science: Indiana Center
for Insect Genomics
• A 3-way collaboration among
– The Center for Tropical
Disease Research and
Training – Notre Dame
– The Department of
Entomology – Purdue
– The Center for Genomics
and Bioinformatics – IU
Bloomington
• 21st Century Center of
Excellence award
• Study economically important
insects
• Will use Purdue & Indiana
University cyberinfrastructure
HOMELAND SECURITY AND
DEFENSE SIMULATIONS
Goals
• Develop large scale virtual
environment simulations for
several disaster scenarios
• Use these virtual simulations
to evaluate, validate, and
improve the decision making
processes and response
• Study different scenarios and
prevention measures,
coordinated control system
of different response groups
• Simulation of different
combat scenarios
© Trustees Purdue University
© Trustees Purdue University
Purdue Terrestrial Observatory
(PTO)
Real-time earth observing multiple
satellite receiving station
© Trustees Purdue University
• Support - seed money, integration with VPR led environmental initiative and project
oversight by CIO office
• Leadership - led by IT staff member (Dr. Gilbert Rochon) who holds appointments
in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Agronomy.
• Initial effort - 35 faculty/20 academic departments
• Applications include: Precision Farming; Homeland Security; Disaster
Intervention; Forestry & Ecology; Urban Planning; Epidemiology; Oceanography;
Industrial Development; and Geology & Mineralogy
• Capability - Multiple data-stream sources including orbiting panchromatic, radar,
and multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensors
• Operational – Spring 2005
Data Resources: IN-Vis
• Graphical
Interface
for
viewing
and
download
ing
remote
sensing
image
data
• Provided
by USGS
Prototype is at: http://pto2.itap.purdue.edu/glovis/lars.htm
© Trustees Purdue University
Collaborative Education
• Using I-Light for
teaching a course
using the Access Grid
- Introduction to
Virtual Environments
-Laura Arns, Purdue,
Eric Wernert, Indiana
• Distributed Rendering
Environment (DRE) Computer rendering
job submissions from
IUPUI to Purdue
Collaboration – Purdue Envision
Center
© Trustees Purdue University
Collaboration – IU Barco VR Theater
21st Century Workforce
Development
• Visualization tour –
hundreds of
schoolchildren learned
about scientific
visualization (IU,
Indianapolis Public
Libraries)
• Dinosaur Breathing reconstruct breathing
based on vertebral column
(Purdue, Purdue Calumet,
Indianapolis Children’s
Museum)
© Trustees Purdue University
Promoting Indiana - SuperComputing
Conference
• IU and Purdue
collaboration on
booths starting in
2000
• Excellent national
attention
• Helped build many
collaborations,
including
successful
TeraGrid proposal
Benefits for Indiana
• Grants
– > new innovations
– > jobs (pie vs no pie)
– e.g. ~$15M aggregate
for TeraGrid
• Better Health
• Better jobs
• Better quality of life
overall
Acknowledgments
• Funding for projects described in this talk has come from
the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of
Health, Lilly Endowment, Inc., Department of Homeland
Security, State of Indiana (particularly through support of
I-light Initiative the 21st Century Fund)
• The work described here was made possible by the
faculty, students, and staff of Purdue and Indiana
Universities, and especially IT@P and UITS
For additional info
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www.purdue.teragrid.org/
www.itap.purdue.edu/
www.rcac.purdue.edu/
rac.uits.indiana.edu/
www.iu.teragrid.org/
uits.iu.edu/
email: stewart@iu.edu; bertoline@purdue.edu
See the “TeraGrids account” table, Scott
McCaulay, Sebastien Goasguin, and other
Purdue and Indiana staff, and sign up for a
TeraGrid account!!!