Cyberinfrastructure Begins at Home
Craig A. Stewart (stewart@iu.edu)
Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute
Associate Dean, Research Technologies
Associate Director, CREST (Center for Research in Extreme Scale
Technologies)
Indiana University - pti.iu.edu
Presented at Rutgers University 20 February 2012
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Introduction and Motivation
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“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there” – Lewis
Carroll
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If you want to go somewhere, set a strategy and pursue it with diligence
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IU wants to go somewhere:
– To be one of the great public universities of the 21st Century (Michael A.
McRobbie, 18th President of IU)
– To be a leader, “in absolute terms for uses and applications of IT”
(Myles Brand, 16th President of IU)
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What is cyberinfrastructure, anyway?
– First used in security briefing by Richard Clark in 1998.
– Cyberinfrastructure consists of systems, advanced instruments and data
repositories, visualization environments, and people, all linked together
by software and high performance networks to improve research
productivity and enable breakthroughs not otherwise possible.
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Outline
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Some background about Indiana University
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How we got here
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Where we think we are going (including comments about clouds….)
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Generalizations and portable lessons
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IU – Campuses and Medical School Centers
IU Campuses
IU School of Medicine campuses and clinics
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IU – Two Core Research/Education Campuses,
Six Regional Campuses
Campus
IUB
IUPUI
IU Northwest
IU South Bend
IU East
IP Fort Wayne
IU Kokomo
IU Southeast
Totals
Academic
appointees
2,973
3,847
393
559
225
838
167
485
8,649
Staff (nonacademic)
5,442
4,793
245
315
152
736
142
250
11,339
Undergraduate
Students
32,367
22,245
5,307
7,790
3,285
12,500
2,978
6,384
80,356
IU community: 121,229 people total
Graduate &
Professiona
l Students
10,097
8,321
662
800
80
800
131
794
20,885
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Key IU Metrics
IU Budget Category
Unrestricted
2010/2011 Budget
$2,002,537,391
Restricted
$615,974,635
Auxiliary
$407,445,800
Total
$3,025,957,826
IU Health Patient Metrics – 2010/11
Admissions
Outpatient visits
Staffed Beds
115,250
1,882,795
2,889
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IU’s Goal – Be One of the Great Public Universities of
the 21st Century
As a great public university we have two fundamental missions: education and
research. Indiana University seeks to provide the best possible education to all
of our students, both undergraduate and graduate. It is an education in both
breadth and depth, grounded in both the practical and the transcendent, and
providing a command of the analytical and the expressive. We also seek to
conduct path-breaking research and scholarship of the highest international
standards from the most theoretical to the most applied. …
We are also a public university supported by and with a responsibility to the
citizens of Indiana. They expect us to provide a great education to their sons
and daughters; they expect us to do the best research and scholarship; and
they expect us to be engaged in the life of the State. Therefore, engagement is
a third mission, and it grows out of excellence in education and research.
-IU President Michael A. McRobbie
McRobbie, M.A. 2008. Inaugural address of Michael A. McRobbie: Endurance, Excellence, and the Energy of Change
at Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~pres/speeches/101807.shtml
Begin with the End in Mind: End Goals for Service –
IU Researchers, Scholars, Artists, and Students
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For IU researchers, scholars, students & artists:
– To use information technology within a policy and security framework
that is a model for academia and the US;
– pursue academic and creative activities without limitations created by
resources for data management, computation, or visualization,
accessible with state-of-the-art ease of use;
– examine and present research data, simulation results, or artistic
creations intuitively to enhance scholarly and artistic efforts;
– and have resources available 24 x 365, immediately when desired.
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Begin with the End in Mind: End Goals for Service –
Indiana Residents, world community
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For Indiana residents:
– To have the benefits of information technology services and information
available from IU;
– the opportunity to obtain a first-class education at all levels; the social
and economic benefits of having IU produce talented graduates, well
educated and ready to pursue interesting and valuable careers;
– a vibrant economy providing satisfying, high-quality jobs with
good pay that provide new career options and entice IU graduates
to stay; a high standard of living and quality of life;
– and an engaging and enjoyable cultural community.
For others in the United States and the world:
– To have the benefits of information technology services and IT-related
information from IU;
– improved quality of life as a result of economic advancement, improved
health, and artistic and literary creations brought about by the
leadership of IU and the state of Indiana.
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Goals for 2019
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IU researchers, scholars, students, and artists will
– Use information technology within a policy and security framework that
serves as a model for academia and the US in general.
– Be able to pursue their academic and creative activities with no limitations
created by access to data, and few limitations caused by access to
computational power.
– Be able to examine and present research results or artistic creations in ways
that are intuitive and enhance effectiveness through
• 2- and 3-D display and interface resources generally available in offices,
labs, and meeting rooms.
• State-of-the-art large-scale facilities located conveniently throughout IU.
– Have access to resources that
• Grow in capability and capacity predictably, steadily, and in ways that
keep IU researchers at the leading edge of discovery.
• Are available resiliently by design (24 x 365 at never less than 75%
aggregate capacity).
• Are available immediately when immediacy is essential.
• Are accessible through interfaces that are intuitively usable by the large
majority of IU researchers.
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Goals for 2019, con’t
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Indiana residents will
• Have the benefits of information technology services and IT-related information made available to
state residents by IU.
• Benefit from new, high-quality jobs created by IU’s advanced IT environment (at rates exceeding
the present rate of job creation and contributing strongly to the Indiana economy). Such jobs will
be created in three ways:
– Bring federal money into the state to create new jobs.
– Attract existing companies to locate major business operations in Indiana.
– Create new companies through commercialization of innovations from IU.
• Have available education and training so anyone growing up in Indiana can strive for and obtain
one of these high-quality jobs. The School of Informatics and Computing and other IU schools
matriculate well-educated graduates, many of whom stay in Indiana.
• Have an improved quality of life stemming from these achievements:
• Indiana will rise from 23rd in 2008 to at least 18th in overall rank in the AeA’s annual
Cyberstates report.
• UITS and PTI will aid IU biomedical research and health services communities to improve state
rankings in major health indicators like obesity and tobacco use.
• US and world residents will benefit through access to information technology services and ITrelated information made available by IU; and have improved quality of life, enabled at least in part
by the outcomes of IU discoveries and innovations.
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CI Facilities
Machine
room
total ft2
ICTC
IUB Data
Center
Avail. ft2
Power
total
Net
power
avail.
Cooling
capacity
total
(tons)
Cooling
capacity
avail.
(tons)
8,300
1,400
600 kW
208 kW
290
150
30,000
15,000
1.46 MW
592 kW
2200
550
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IU Bloomington Data Center designed to withstand category 5 tornado.
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Informatics & Communications Technology Complex houses IUPUI offices
and Data Center
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Innovation Center, dedicated in November 2009, provides a central location
for collaboration between discipline scientists, computer scientists, and staff
through the Pervasive Technology Institute
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Cyberinfrastructure Building houses OVPIT, UITS staff. To be Gold (or
higher) LEED certified
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We were “first to press
release” about a 100
Gbps network link
To Internet2… now
it’s a race to first light.
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Computational Systems
Name
Architecture
TFLOPS
Total
Local
RAM (TB) disk (TB)
Big Red
IBM PowerPC 970MP (JS21
blades)
40.96
8
73
Quarry
IBM e1350 Intel Xeon (HS21
blades)
8.96
1.2
5
Mason
HP DL580 G7 Intel Xeon servers
3
8
16
IBM Power5 (p575) database
servers, Intel Xeon E5310
N/A
0.14
50
FutureGrid
IBM e1350
12
6
128
FutureGrid
CrayXT5m
6
1.3
5.5
79.29
15.84
211.7
RDC
Totals
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Storage Systems
Name
Research File System
Architecture
Disk (PB)
Tape (PB)
OpenAFS
0.06
NA
Data Capacitor
Lustre
0.94
NA
Scholarly Data Archive
HPSS
0.25
5.7
1.23
5.7
Totals
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An Array of Viz Systems
IUB
IUPUI
Immersive Theaters
Ultra-Resolution
Stereoscopic
The Local Community is Happy –
Spring 2010 User Satisfaction Survey
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Average
Satisfaction
Usage
Central research and high performance computers (Big Red,
Quarry, and RDC clusters) [F, Staff, G]
4.16 ± 0.08
92.9 ± 2.2%
14.6%
Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing (StatMath
Center, statmath@indiana.edu, 855-4724) [All]
4.08 ± 0.06
94.0 ± 1.7%
20.1%
Massive Data Storage Service (MDSS/HPSS) [F, Staff, G]
4.16 ± 0.07
93.5 ± 2.1%
16.2%
Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL); www.avl.iu.edu [F,
Staff, G]
4.32 ± 0.07
97.8 ± 1.3%
7.8%
Support for software applications using IU’s high performing
computing resources [F, Staff, G]
4.11 ±0.08
93.3 ± 2.1%
15.2%
3.91 ± 0.08
91.5 ± 2.3%
8.3%
Support for life sciences research (Bioinformatics, The
Center for Computational Cytomics [F, Staff, G]
Overall, how satisfied are you with the UITS
research technology services available at IUB?
Average
How helpful has the information technology
environment at IUB been in your research activities?
Average
4.17 ± 0.06
4.19 ± 0.09
Satisfaction
95.5 ± 1.5%
Satisfaction
95.9 ± 2.2%
Usage
50.0%
Usage
83.9%
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Early history
Year
Notable Events, Grants, and Awards
1955 Marshall Wrubel named first permanent director of Research Computing Center
Establishes ‘open access’ principle
1960 Marshall Wrubel publishes “The digital computer as an astronomical instrument
1964 Frank Prosser, Stan Hagstrom, Steve Young publish FASTRAN compiler
1970s IU develops significant CDC environment, major location for BMDP ports from IB =>
CDC
1981 Bloomington Academic Computing Services formed, first full time administrator (Daniel
W. DeHayes, Business Professor)
1990s IU major VAX facility, focus on computing in humanities, some significant scientific
computing. We experience significant turbulence in mid 1990s
1997 Michael A. McRobbie comes to IU as first full VP for IT and University COI
IU has its first display at the IEEE/ACM SCxy conference
1998 IU IT Strategic Plan adopted
We’ve Come a Long Way
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In 1997, when IU had its first display at SCxy, the
most common question we heard was “Why does IU
have a booth at the supercomputing conference?”
No one asks us that anymore. So how did we do it?
1998 Indiana University Strategic Plan (Architecture
for the 21st century) adopted
10 Recommendations, 68 Actions
Mostly focused on technology stacks and the spectra
from “competent to excellent” and “no longer needed
to phased out”
Year
1998
1999
1999
1999
Notable Events, Grants, and Awards
GRNOC: Internet2 network engineering and operations support ($3,700,000 contact)
Lilly Endowment, Inc. funds Pervasive Technology Labs ($29M)
Indiana General Assembly funds I-Light Network ($5.300,000)
NSF funds network connectivity to Asia (TransPAC) ($10,100,100)
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Year
Notable Events, Grants, and Awards
2000 NSF funds Variations2 digital music library project ($3,100,000M)
2000 Research @ Indiana Display at SC2000 – first time at this conference that all of the
major research universities of any state coordinate a display promoting their home
state as a whole
2000 Lilly Endowment, Inc. funds Indiana Genomics Initiative ($105,000,000 total;
$6,700,000 for advanced Information Technology)
2001 John-E-Box invented
2001 IU announces first 1 TFLOPS supercomputer owned by a US university; it appears as
the 50th fastest supercomputer on the on Top500 list in the world in November
2001 I-Light activated on December 11
2001 NSF funds AVIDD, first university-owned teraflops supercomputer ($1,800,000)
2001 GRNOC: Indiana Gigapop supporting Higher Education access to national R&E
($500K)
2002 IU establishes first distributed, disaster-resilient tape archive running under the highly
secure HPSS (High Performance Storage Software). Data written to data in tape silos
simultaneously in Indianapolis and Bloomington to ensure reliability of data
preservation
2002 IU joins in life sciences initiative as part of Central Indiana’s life sciences corridor
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Year
Notable Events, Grants, and Awards
2003 AVIDD achieves more than 1 Trillion calculations per second on standard benchmark
application – the First distributed supercomputer cluster to surpass the 1 TFLOPS
barrier. AVIDD appears in 50th place on Top500 list in June.
2003 NSF funds IP-grid project providing $1,500,000 for IU to become part of TeraGrid, and
$1,400,000 to fund Purdue’s participation
2004 Lilly Endowment, Inc. funds Indiana METACyt Initiative ($53M total; $6.25M for life
sciences IT)
2004 Informatics and Communication Technology Complex Building dedicated on IUPUI
campus – new home for School of Informatics, UITS, and Pervasive Technology Labs
2005 NSF funds IU’s early operations participation in TeraGrid ($440,000)
2005 NSF funds IU as a TeraGrid Resource Partner ($4,100,000)
2005 NSF funds network connectivity to Asia (TransPAC2) ($5.1M)
2005 GRNOC: National Lambda Rail engineering and operations support ($7.5M)
2005 NSF funds Data Capacitor – very fast data storage system ($1,720,000)
2006 Big Red: fastest academic supercomputer in western hemisphere, 23rd fastest
supercomputer in the world on the June Top500 list.
2006 IEDC/IBM grant to double Big Red. Big Red listed as ###___ fastest supercomputer in
the world on Top500 list.
2006 I-Light: First customer connection to backbone ($15.5M)
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Year
Notable Events, Grants, and Awards
2007 NSF funds PolarGrid ($1.9M) (Fox PI)
2007 NSF funds network connectivity to Pakistan ($950K)
2007 Bandwidth Challenge award – IU moves data across international and national networks
faster than any other supercomputer center competing in this contest at the 2007
Supercomputing Conference
2008 Lilly Endowment, Inc. funds Pervasive Technology Institute ($15M)
2008 I-Light: Network backbone complete ($4.9M)
2009 IU research systems approved by IU Counsel – meets standards for alignment with
HIPAA regulations. IU researchers now able to use IU research systems to analyze
electronic protected health information, thus speeding research
2009 IU Professor Alex Vespignani uses Big Red and I-Light to predict spread of H1N1 virus
and transmit that data to federal agencies in Washington
2009 NSF funds GRNOC: Global Environment for Network Innovations ($330K)
2009 NSF funds FutureGrid ($10.1M) – the fourth of the so-called Track I and II systems
announced officially by the NSF. IBM, Cray major partners
2009- Stewart chairs NSF ACCI Task force on Campus Bridging
2010
2011 IU $4.9M Subcontract as part of XSEDE
2011 NSF funding $1.5M for National Center for Genome Analysis Support
2011 CREST opens – Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies
2011 IU announces partnership with Penguin Computing, Inc. for cluster as a service
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Consolidation of CI facilities has been a driver for success
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Based on:
Competence and trust
– Summaries of all survey data and every comment (minus obscenities
and identifying references) from 1986 on is available on the web
Facilities and gear
– Especially systems obtained through collaborative grants
Mission orientation
– Constantly asking: what is the mission of IU – are we following it
– We ask the faculty and students to trust our competence…. We trust
their scholarly and artistic leadership
– Serve the home crowd first, the national community when it reinforces
service to the home community. And serve all of the home crowd
– Vendor partnerships. The best partnerships have been based on
complementary strengths and shared goals, and those that persisted
even when there was no money on the table
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Campus Scholarly Infrastructure
Domain Specific
Discovery & Innovation,
Teaching & Learning
Genomics
Anthropology
Innovation
Innovation
Innovation,
Publication
Arts
Innovation
Visualization
Models
Shared Cyberinfrastructure Line Here?
Physics
Metadata
Visualization
Visualization
Computation
Searching &
Retrieving
Retrieval &
Analysis
Metadata
Metadata
Models
Metadata
Curation
Shared Cyberinfrastructure Line Here?
Necessary
Infrastructure Leveraged
Computation,
Storage
Curation
Curation
Distributed
Storage
Storage
Storage
Networks
Networks
Networks
Networks
Primary
Storage
Discipline Research Stacks…
© Brad Wheeler, Indiana University, Creative Commons Attribution License 2.5
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Evolution of IT Services
2008 – IU IT Strategic Plan
•15 Recommendations
• 15 Recommendations
• 72 Action Items
• Role and function based, not
technology based
•72 Action Items
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PTI - History and Goals
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Started by $30M grant from the Lilly Endowment to create the Pervasive Technology
Labs and fuel growth of the IU School of Informatics and Computing. 2nd round
funding of $15M to create Pervasive Technology Institute in 2008
Overall:
– Invent, develop, deploy, deliver
– Serve IU’s flagship ‘brand’ re this activity in advanced IT
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Consists of two types of centers:
– Research Centers: D2I; CACR; DSC; CREST. Needs and communication
coordinated by Managing Director. Research Centers goal: research excellence
– PTI Service & Cyberinfrastructure Centers Goals. Support Development,
deployment, support of research IT. Support research-related activities by IU
community generally, PTI Research Centers particularly, and national research
community when in IU’s interests. Aid state of Indiana (baseline level of
workforce & economic development activities). Research Technologies Division
of UITS, National Center for Genome Analysis Support
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Money Matters
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Money is everything (or money can be converted into most anything). Or:
Money is distilled personality
– We know how our money is spent: Activity Based Costing metrics. We
know what our services are, and what the aggregate and units costs of
each service are
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Our approach has been to build a philosophy of abundance in systems,
people, pay for the people, travel, and opportunities for innovation [No or
minimal internal nuisance fees]
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Hardware can be a good substitute for money early on if you can get it and
are careful to pay for people to support the hardware and its users
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Much of IU’s success in many dimensions comes from combining hard-tocombine streams of money
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Some of the 7 Laws of Money (Michael Phillips,
Shambala Sun)
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1. Do it! Money will come when you are doing the right thing.
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3. Money is a dream
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4. Money is a nightmare
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6. You can never really receive money as a gift.
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Why do we (OVPIT/PTI/RT) pursue grant awards?
– In the sincere belief that we are better suited to do some particular task
than anyone else in the world and that the world will benefit from us
doing those tasks
– In the belief that pursuit of a grant award will provide local as well as
national benefits
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Positive Feedback Loop
Graphic by Bradley C. Wheeler. Used under Creative Commons 3.0 unported attribution license
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Staff Funding Sources
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PTI Soft
PTI Base
100
RT Soft
FTE
80
RT Base
60
40
20
96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Fiscal Year
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Economic Development
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437 full time job-years of employment created within IU by grants brought
into Indiana since 1999
Based on economic multipliers, 2,705 full time job-years of employment in
the state of Indiana since the start of PTL in 1999
2002
2004
2008
2010
Indiana
30
29
33
28
Illinois
19
21
21
20
Kentucky
46
48
47
47
Michigan
24
25
26
26
Ohio
27
24
36
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Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science
Index for Indiana and bordering states
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Cyberinfrastructure Begins at Home,
But it Doesn’t End There
Some CI Resources Available to Science and
Engineering Researchers in the US (March 2011)
NSF Track 1
Track 2 and other major facilities
Campus HPC/ Tier 3 systems
Workstations at Carnegie research
universities
Volunteer computing
Commercial cloud (Iaas and Paas)
0
2,000
4,000
6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000
TFLOPS
Based on: Welch, V.; Sheppard, R.; Lingwall, M.J.; Stewart, C. A. 2011. Current structure and past history of US
cyberinfrastructure (data set and figures). http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13136
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Adequacy of Research CI
Never (10.6%)
Some of the
time (20.2%)
Most of the time
(40.2%)
All of the time
(29%)
Responses to question asking if researchers had sufficient access to
cyberinfrastructure resources – survey sent to 5,000 researchers selected
randomly from 34,623 researchers funded by NSF as Principal Investigators 20052009; Results based on 1,028 responses.
Stewart, C.A., D.S. Katz, D.L. Hart, D. Lantrip, D.S. McCaulay and R.L. Moore. Technical Report: Survey of
cyberinfrastructure needs and interests of NSF-funded principal investigators. 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/9917
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Campus Bridging Taskforce Report – Highlights of
Conclusions
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Stop the madness – just adopt InCommon / XSAML certificates (Rutgers has
already done this)
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NSF must lead the community in establishing a blueprint for a National CI
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Every institution of higher education should have a strategic plan for IT
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The NSF should fund activities that support the evolution and maturation of
cyberinfrastructure through careful analyses of needs (in advance of creating
new CI facilities) and outcomes (during and after the use of CI facilities)
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Take advantage of economies of scale on several fronts – make US
cyberinfrastructure easier to use and more effectively used overall
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pti.iu.edu/campusbridging
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Clouds Look Serene Enough
Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768391365/sizes/z/in/photostream/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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The good & the uncertain?
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This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential
characteristics (On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource
pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service); three service models (Cloud
Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)); and, four deployment models (Private
cloud, Community cloud, Public cloud, Hybrid cloud).
http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/index.cfm
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In the cloud, do you know:
– Where your data are?
– What laws prevail over the physical location of your data?
– What license you really agreed to?
– What is the security (electronic / physical) around your data?
– And how exactly do you get to that cloud, or get things out of it?
– How secure your provider is financially? (The fact that something seems
unimaginable, like cloud provider such-and-such going out of business
abruptly, does not mean it is impossible!)
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Net+ Services
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"We are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university — a transcendent,
accessible, empowering, dynamic, communally constructed framework of
open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide
can be constructed or enhanced.” Charles Vest, president emeritus of MIT,
2006
“Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education” – Wheeler
and Waggener
Goal: achieve economy of scale and retain reasonable measure of control
Examples:
– Internet2 and HP
– IU, UM, UVa, Penguin Computing Inc.
See: Brad Wheeler and Shelton Waggener. 2009. Above-Campus Services:
Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education.
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 6 (November/December 2009): 52-67.
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume44/AboveCa
mpusServicesShapingtheP/185222
Some Things We Really Got Right from the Start
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Key assets for any university: faculty
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Key assets for the IT organization: reputation for good character, people, then
everything else
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It takes a lot of Ph.D.s, and a mix of domain scientists and computer scientists
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Put health and family first, no matter what, at least in times of crisis
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Mix of funding sources
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Publish, even if we wouldn’t perish otherwise
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Participate in community, partner effectively
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Engage faculty as partners and leaders
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Timing, some days (SC, challenges, Top500)
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Truth is a wonderful thing; no cynicism zone
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Lots of feedback – difference between input rights and decision rights (and
sometimes input rights don’t exist)
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Understanding how it is we do economic development
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And Some Things We Didn’t Get Right to Begin With
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Leading where faculty aren’t
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FIFO
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Believing we had to put up with staff who didn’t want to be part of our team
because they said they were unique and we had to
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Reading Sun Tzu without Lao Tzu, and vice versa
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Believing too much that if we paid attention to 4-space, press-space would
take care of itself
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Listening to funding agencies too much
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Work overload, insufficient attention to life balance and creativity
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If I (Stewart) had one thing to do over … we would have done fewer projects
each at larger scale early on
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And Things We Think We Have Learned
and Now Internalized
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Play to win, or not at all
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The community is too good for any one group to win very often, unless you’re
very very good and have lots of money to pitch in
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Being good is often not enough
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One time money is too easy to get without base
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Heroic effort is not a sustainable strategy
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Partnering and openness
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Don’t hone in on bad ideas too quickly (but be careful of the side effects in terms
of project thrash)
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Assertions about CI at Home and Beyond
1) Well-tuned campus CI enables greater research outcomes
2) Well-tuned campus CI is very expensive …though less expensive than other
models
3) Well-tuned CI is possible only in the presence of clear strategy at the institutional
level
4) Campus CI is (mostly) a coordination problem in the guise of a money problem
5) NET+ CI is not magic, and does not take away responsibility for delivering
service to local CI users… but properly employed can be a useful strategic tool
6) Leadership in service of mission is the essential means of creating sustainable
campus CI. Leadership matters, as does teamwork
7) Effective partnership is essential – colleagues, community, institutions, vendors
If I Were Starting from Scratch or Nearly So I Would
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Educate leadership, build consensus for some pilot projects among faculty,
and use that to start building trust
Assign one person the full time job of supporting people in use of XSEDE
and Open Science Grid – particularly the process of applying to XSEDE
Pay close attention to public relations, but lead with the scholarly results
and why they matter, not where you are on the Top500 list
Get Some Facts and Have Fact-based Discussions
– Pay someone else to do a real, human-subjects approved survey of
your clients and repeat it every year, and start an activity based costing
analysis
– Publish, including effective self-publishing:
• NSF-format scholarly nuggets
• Technical reports
– Communicate concisely and well
– Make the economic and workforce case to your community and state
– Remember highlights of your history and repeat them often
– Remember lowlights of your history, study and understand then,
remember the lessons, but don’t proactively remind the people you
serve about them
– Study history of leadership, contention, and conflict
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Work This Cycle – and record the data as you go
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NB: Of the things we have done, the cyberinfrastructure service over the years has
been the easier. The development of PTL and PTI has been by far the harder. Some
Institutions that have not done well have started with the research center first, ignored
CI services, and made unrealistic claims about economic development
Graphic by Bradley C. Wheeler. Used under Creative Commons 3.0 unported attribution license
The University community must participate in local, national,47
and international communities
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The definitions of friends and colleagues are different. An organization is
effective when colleagues collaborate effectively.
Remember who your competition is (and isn’t)
Collaborate well, and maintain strong partnerships with other academic
organizations and vendor(s).
Participate in community
– Volunteer for conferences, serve on review panels
– Join appropriate groups (CASC perhaps)
– Submit benchmarks to SPEC, HPCC, Graph500, Green500
– Join InCommon (DONE at Rutgers)
– Get someone to become an XSEDE Campus Champion (DONE at
Rutgers)
– Make your materials reusable under a sensible license (Creative
Commons for docs / some reasonable public license for data)
– Remember credit is a nonconserved property
Alternate Financial Models
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IU operates on Responsibility Center Management with a non-optional
financial allocation for certain central services … including IT
IU has also benefitted greatly from support of the Lilly Endowment
The relationship models IU has developed are likely fairly portable
Financial models at different universities vary
If you want to look at different financial and organizational models, I
suggest:
– Purdue – the best current example of a community funding model (Penn
State was the pioneer in this area)
– Texas Advanced Computing Center – they do things big in Texas, but
the model of excellent science and strong relations to alums and donors
might be more transportable than one would imagine at first blush
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Remember That We Are Living in the Myth of Sisyphus
"The struggle itself...is
enough to fill a [person’s]
heart. One must imagine
Sisyphus happy.”
–Albert Camus
Sisyphys (1548-1549) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punishment_sisyph.jpg
This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those
countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or
fewer.
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Absolutely Shameless Plugs
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XSEDE12: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyond
July 16-20, 2012 | Chicago
The XSEDE12 Conference will be held at the beautiful Intercontinental
Chicago (Magnificent Mile) at 505 N. Michigan Ave. The hotel is in the heart
of Chicago's most interesting tourist destinations and best shopping.
Watch for Calls for Participation – coming early January
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And please visit the XSEDE and IU displays in the SC11 Exhibition Hallway!
Thanks
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Manish Parrashar for the invitation to speak today and for a long history of
research excellence and service to the US research community.
All of the IU Research Technologies and Pervasive Technology Institute staff
who have contributed to the development of IU’s advanced cyberinfrastructure
and its support
All of our faculty collaborators, especially the PTI-affiliated faculty
Thanks to the colleagues who have contributed directly to this presentation:
Malinda Lingwall, Vince Cannon, Greg Moore, Rob Lowden, Duane Schau, Eric
Wernert, Mike Boyles, Bill Sherman
Those involved in campus bridging activities: Guy Almes, Von Welch, Patrick
Dreher, Jim Pepin, Dave Jent, Stan Ahalt, Bill Barnett, Therese Miller, Malinda
Lingwall, Maria Morris, Gabrielle Allen, Jennifer Schopf, Ed Seidel
NSF for funding support (Awards 040777, 1059812, 0948142, 1002526,
0829462, 1062432, OCI-1053575 – which supports the Extreme Science and
Engineering Discovery Environment)
Lilly Endowment, Inc. and the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute
Any opinions presented here are those of the presenter and do not necessarily
represent the opinions of the National Science Foundation or any other funding
agencies
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And thank you!
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Questions?