Purdue University CI Investment
Strategies
Jim Bottum
Vice President for
Information Technology and CIO
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Cyberinfrastructure 2005
August 15-16, 2005
Outline
 Purdue in Transition
 Strategic Plan and Vision
 IT Strategy
 Resources
 Partnerships
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Purdue in 2000
 High degree of local autonomy
 Numerous IT organizations including multiple
“central” organizations
 Trustees recruited new President with a
mandate to develop a strategic plan for
preeminence
 President brought in a new team including
Purdue’s first CIO – non-traditional candidate
 CIO position based on a plan developed by
the University community
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Purdue Strategic Plan
Strategy
• Enhance library and other information
resources, and provide state-of-the-art
computational and information
technology resources supporting
campus wide research, learning
environments, and the business enterprise
Metrics
• Library acquisitions
• Electronic library and other information access services and usage
• Computational and information technology improvements and
expenditures, and annual assessment of needs met
Source: Purdue University Strategic Plan
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Funding the Plan
 Strategy
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Purdue's vision … will require a carefully constructed funding scheme to support and implement
the strategic plan.
The University strategic plan, along with the strategic plans of the schools and other major units, will
establish the framework for setting annual priorities and guiding the major budgetary decisions.
 Interdependence of various funding sources and the importance
of a partnership of these funds in supporting key initiatives
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State Appropriations
Federal Appropriations
Fees and Tuition
Sponsored Funding
Internal Reallocation
Private Giving
Revenues from Licenses and Patents
 Key Investment Areas
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Strengthening the infrastructure including facilities and information technology
Source: Purdue University Strategic Plan
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Translating the IT Vision
Into Action
 Develop IT strategic plan in collaboration with
both central and distributed IT staff
 Consolidate and integrate central IT activities
creating ITaP
 Update, upgrade and in some cases reengineer the infrastructure (lifecycle
replacement strategies)
 Build alliances with faculty and distributed IT
support staff
 Began to think as an enterprise!
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IT Strategic Plan
 The Information Technology Strategic Planning Task Force
was charged with developing a vision and implementation
plan for creating a world-class digital information
infrastructure and building services that support all of
Purdue’s strategic efforts.
 Strategic principles drove the development of the plan:
• Collaboration is essential for this plan to succeed.
• Applications drive the need for technology and
technology should never be thought of as an end in itself.
• An enterprise approach assures leverage.
• Users must have ubiquitous access to resources.
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IT Planning Process –
Strategy to Implementation
Purdue Strategic Plan
Current IT Environment
IT Strategic Plan
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
4 High Nodes (16 CPU, 64 GB)
IBM SP
64 Thin Nodes
Future SP Upgrade / Replacement
1 Regatta (32 CPU, 64 GB)
Clusters
250 PIII/550 MHZ
500 PIV/1.6 GHZ
PC Recycled Clusters
250 PII/450M 500 PIII/933 MHZ
500 PIV/1.8 GHZ
IA - 64
New Clusters
Second IA - 64
Sun Recycled Clusters
50 Sparc Ultra 5 450 MHZ
50 Blade 100 500 MHZ
Distributed
600 PIV / 1.6 GHZ
PC Distributed
600 PIV / 1.8 GHZ
550 PIII/933 MH
Sun/Solaris Distributed
90 Sparc Ultra 5 450 MHZ
600 PIV 2.2 GHz
90 Sparc Blade 100 500 MHZ
Legend: Commitment Level
Committed
Limited Commitment
Uncommited (but in LRP)
Road Maps
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Resources
FY04-05 ITaP Budget
Administration, 7%
Customer
Support,9%
Learning, 25%
Cross-Cutting
Infrastructure, 31%
General Fund Budget
Auxiliaries
NR Technology Reserve
Grants (0% - 2001)
68%
24%
3%
5%
Enterprise
Applications,19%
Discovery, 9%
(5% in 2002)
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Resource Initiatives
“cheap cycles”
High Throughput Computing
Capturing unused cycles, 2,800
desktops
Community Cluster
Massively parallel & large memory
IBM SP3
Sun F6800 Servers
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HPC Community Cluster
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Schools/Departments/Faculty buy into a the cluster by purchasing individual
identical compute nodes
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current participation: Science; Engineering; Agriculture; Bio; ME; ECE; EAS; Mgmnt;
Physics
ITaP aggregates all nodes together and operates as a single cluster
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in practice this has become multiple clusters and we have gone from 1 to 15 teraflops
on the floor in a little over a year
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Through scheduling (Maui) ITaP guarantees that a contributor can receive on
demand the number of nodes that were contributed
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Priority access to additional nodes is given to contributors to the community
cluster
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Benefits:
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three layer strategy using Condor
Leveraging a larger resource with their investment
No burden of administration, i.e. purchasing and managing
Professionally managed off site
Housed in centralized facilities freeing departments from converting academic space to
machine rooms
MOU’s and SLA’s are established to cover a three year commitment
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Resource Initiatives
Purdue Terrestrial Observatory
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Envision Center
Faculty driven initiative
Managed & supported by ITaP
Funded by Purdue (operations); NSF grant,
(equipment); vendors (IBM, Intel)
Over 50 projects & center written into 34
proposals
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Real-time earth observing multiple
satellite receiving station
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Support - seed money, integration with
VPR led environmental initiative and
project oversight by CIO office
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Add’l funding: 3 WL colleges, IUPUI
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Initial effort - 35 faculty/20 academic
departments
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Capability - Multiple data-stream
sources
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3 grants funded; 5 pending; 6 in
development
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Discovery – Visualization
T4 bacteriophage infecting an Escherichia coli cell –
Led by:
Michael G. Rossmann
Vadim V. Mesyanzhinov
Fumio Arisaka
Venigalla B. Rao
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Learning Resources
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Replacing WebCT Campus Edition
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Fall 2004
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Encompass libraries system integration
Business Process Redesign for SIS
Integration with media and content development
tools (Macromedia Breeze, etc)
Scantron grade integration (> 1 M grades loaded)
Implementation of foreign language components
Security assessment
Archival and monitoring
Spring, 2005
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Continue statewide phased Vista deployment
integration with e-instruction
e-portfolios analysis
integration with Turn-It-In (plagiarism checker)
online “end of semester” course evaluations
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August, 2005 – Retire Campus Edition
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Research Delivery Vehicle – see NCN
• Campus Edition 1,400 courses and
26,000 students
• Vista – 1,290 courses
and 27,000 students
(system-wide)
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Learning Resources
 mLearning - Learning –
any time, any where
 eInstruction - Building
interactions and feedback
within large courses
Student
Response
Pad
Receiver
Personal
Computer
 Active Notes connecting student notes with
the instructor’s presentation
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Learning Resources
 To find an open seat visit:
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/
• On August 16 at 1:45 PM the STEW 102 lab
showed the following
Status
The lab is OPEN.
There are 59 computers in use.
There are 67 total computers.
 Virtual Lab - remote server-based
educational applications
• 86,461 connections/semester
 High Performance Classroom
• 278 student labs
• 5,424 machines
• Many open 19 hrs/day;
some 24/7
• 158,530 pages/day printed
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Networking Initiatives
Campus
 Gbit + to all buildings
 All new fiber (SMF)
 Full campus wireless deployment
($1.3 M) + 54 Mbps
 “Shadow network” (dark fiber)
provides experimental
environment
To CIC Fiber
Ring
State
National
 I-Light - $5M (2
Gbps) Purdue – IU
 TeraGrid
(pictured)
 I-Light2 $10M in
progress
 Also participate
in:
 CIC Chicago Fiber
Ring
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Internet2
NLR via CIC
 Pending Northwest
Indiana Grid
proposal
I-Light 2
• Partners Notre
Dame and Purdue
Calumet
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External Recognition
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ITaP Organizational
Information Technology at Purdue
Office of the VP for IT
Security & Privacy
Deputy CIO
Jim Bottum
Greg Hedrick, interim
Brett Coryell
Business Areas Aligned With IT Strategic Plan
Teaching &
Learning
Discovery
Resources
Infrastructure
Enterprise
Applications
Customer
Relations
John Campbell
Gary Bertoline
Tilt Thompkins
Jeff Whitten
Julie Kercher-Updike
Learning Spaces
Envision Center for
Perceptualization
Operations
Project & Process
Management
Customer Education
Enterprise learning
Technologies
Instructional Development
Center
Project Process Quality
Management
Networks
Collaborative Research &
Engagement
Resource Planning &
Scheduling
Customer Service Center
Telecommunications
Organizational
Effectiveness
Web Administration
Application Services
Departmental Support
Desktop Computing
Support
Systems
Purdue Terrestrial
Observatory
Rosen Center for
Advanced Computing
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Criteria for IT-Faculty
Partnerships
 Project has to be part of University’s strategic direction
• Work out priotities with the VPR
 Extra points for interdisciplinary projects
• Consistent with Purdue strategic directions
 Funding potential
• Two approaches to proposals
 Both sides have something to gain (in each other’s critical
path)
• In addition to monetary
 Project should be innovative
 Write it down (project management)
 Resources (have done loss leaders but…)
• Loss leaders early to establish credibility
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Building Partnerships – One
Metric of Success
Contracts and Grants Awarded*
$12,000,000
$10,748,181
$10,000,000
$7,176,556
$8,000,000
$6,000,000
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$862,01
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$1,320,000
$0
2001-02
ITaP Portion
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05 YT D
School/Dept Portion
*Includes total amount of grants that have an ITaP PI/Co-PI.
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Partnership Example:
Nanotechnology
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NSF funded Purdue to lead the Network for
Computational Nanotechnology (NCN); $10.5M/5
year; added $1.5M/year since inception.
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NCN is about computing: new algorithms,
approaches, and software tools with capabilities not
yet available commercially.
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Research
integrated
nanosystems
NanoHUB (science gateway): on-line resources via
web-based clearing-house that makes software and
simulations available to researchers.
devices
chemistry/
materials
Partners: Purdue, UTEP; UF; UIUC; Stanford;
Northwestern
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Origins: PUNCH developed by research group, but
ITaP has taken over the operation and support
of this resource
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Serves nanotechnology researchers at Purdue and
several thousand others worldwide.
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Jointly appointed staff & faculty members
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Leveraged into a grid service for heterogeneous
computing under a National Middleware Initiative
deployment grant.
atoms
Education
“We could not do this without ITaP”
Mark Lundstrom, Scifres distingushed professor in ECE, at the NSF site
review
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nanoHUB Architecture
Propphet – device simulator
RAPTURE - GUI
Physical Machine
Virtual Machine
High throughput Grid Computing
Web Presence
PUNCH
in-VIGO
Application
Middleware
Resource Mgmt
Cluster
High-end Computing Grid
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Online simulations and
MORE
collaboration
animations
learning modules
nanoHUB.org
seminars
courses, tutorials
online simulations
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Leveraging Educational
Standards
National Learning Module
Database - MERLOT
online simulations and more
Molecular Conduction Learning Module
Q uickTim e™ and a
decom pr essor
ar e needed t o see t his pict ur e.
I ntr oductor y L
ect ure in Breeze
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
nano HUB.org
online simulations and more
Q uickTim e™ and a
decom pr essor
ar e needed t o see t his pict ur e.
Con
cr et eExam p
le Pr o
blem s
XML-based
Standard Compliant
Content Description
in a ZIP file
Molecular Conduction Learning Module
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
nano HUB.org
online simulations and more
Molecular Conduction Learning Module
An Interactive Simulation Tool
in progress
Course Management
Systems
Thousands Of Users
At Many
Many Universities
Users
nanoHUB
nano HUB.org
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
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Leverage and Focus
 Bridge the
gaps from
top to
bottom !
NSF-funded effort to build
computational tools for a
scientific community…
Purdue developed - provides
a “Gateway” to distribute
scientific knowledge and
applications
Using middleware that makes the
user experience seamless and rich
(Recent $3M award to Purdue with
UWisconsin and UFlorida as subs)
And ties to a new infrastructure that goes beyond
traditional HPC
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Other Partnerships
 Physics - new faculty recruitment > Tier 2
Center
 CERIAS – security
 Purdue Terrestrial Observatory
 Climate Change Center
 Bioinformatics
 Community (condominium) Clusters from 1 –
15 teraflops in 18 months
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Purdue Cyber Center Planning
 Faculty Task
Force
commissioned
Summer 2003
 Report
delivered
Spring 2004
 Proposal to
administration
to become
Discovery Park
Center funded
July 2005 (Lilly
Endowment)
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Having Fun: e-Stadium
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Part of “living laboratory” concept
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Partnership
• Intercollegiate Athletics
• Center for Wireless Systems &
Applications
• ITaP
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Corporate Sponsorship
• $600,000 from Cisco Systems
(total gift = $1.2 M)
• $200,000 from Verizon
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Programmatic
• Infotainment
• Safety & Security
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Technology
• Mobile Devices
» PDA (802.11x)
» Smart Phone (Cellular)
Action-Packed
Ross-Ade Stadium
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