Leveraging NYS Resources to Maintain Your
Competitiveness.
Michael Ridley, Director HPC Program, NYSTAR
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What is NYSTAR?
• Fund (~$50 Million/year)
• Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs)
• Strategically Target Academic Research Centers
(STARs)
• Advanced Research Centers (ARCs)
• Technology Law Center
• HPC Consortium (HPC2)
• Regional Technology Development Centers(RTDC)
• Venture Fund (SBTIF)
• Other University Based Programs
How do regional technology
clusters form?
Public
Most Successful
Partnerships
Academic
Private
NYSTAR Technology Clusters
NYSTAR’s 15 CATs
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Center for Advanced Ceramic
Technology
Alfred University, Alfred
Future Energy Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy
Integrated Electronics Engineering
Center
Binghamton University, Binghamton
Sensor CAT
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook
CAT in Photonics Applications
City University of New York, New York
City
Center for Advanced Materials
Processing
Clarkson University, Potsdam
Center for Advanced Information
Management
Columbia University, New York City
Center for Life Science Enterprise
Cornell University, Ithaca
CAT in Telecommunications
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
Center for Automation Technologies and
Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
CAT in Medical Biotechnology
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook
CASE Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse
Center for Advanced Technology in
Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics
University at Albany, Albany
Center for Advanced Technology in
Biomedical and Bioengineering
University at Buffalo, Buffalo
CAT for Electronic Imaging Systems
University of Rochester, Rochester
How is the (PPA) Model Working?
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Patents
• Grants Received (non-state)
• Companies Created
• New Jobs
• Many More
• Some Examples of our ROI
• Alfred - $36.40 to $1
• Binghamton - $21.92 to $1
• Clarkson - $29.96 to $1
• Overall
• CAT $41.54 to $1
Success Stories
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NanoDynamics, located in Buffalo, has worked with Clarkson University’s Center for
Advanced Technology Materials Processing to develop nanosized copper powder
technologies.
– RESULT - The company has raised over $16 million in private equity funding.
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Endomedix is an early stage medical device company started in July 2005 at the
Long Island High Technology Incubator with the help of the Stony Brook Center for
Biotechnology.
– RESULT - Securing an initial private investment of $325,000. They have negotiated a
milestone based licensing agreement with a publicly traded life sciences company
worth a total of $1,600,000, with an upfront cash payment of $500,000.
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WetStone Technologies of Cortland develops digital security technologies including
time-stamping, forensic infrastructures, and intrusion detection technologies. CASE
has worked with WetStone facilitating the design and commercialization of
WetStone's products.
– RESULT - WetStone credits its collaboration with CASE for creating over 44 new jobs
and in excess of $10 million in increased revenues, cost savings, and equity funding.
The Next 20 Years
• The problems to be solved will be huge,
multifaceted, multi dimensional requiring
numerous collaborations and partnerships.
• In order to manage and understand complexity,
computer modeling and simulation will be key.
• HPC has only recently reached the level of speed
necessary to achieve real world modeling at the
nano scale.
What is SBES?
Simulation-Based Engineering Science (SBES) is defined as the discipline
that provides the scientific and mathematical basis for the simulation of
engineered systems. Such systems range from microelectronic devices to
automobiles, aircraft, and even the infrastructures of oil fields and cities.
In a word, SBES fuses the knowledge and techniques of the traditional
engineering fields—electrical, mechanical, civil, chemical, aerospace, nuclear,
biomedical,and materials science—with the knowledge and techniques of
fields like computer science, mathematics, and the physical and social sciences.
As a result, engineers are better able to predict and optimize systems affecting
almost all aspects of our lives and work, including our environment, our security
and safety, and the products we use and export. (Source, NSF, May 2006)
SBES Skills
(Simulation Based Engineering Science)
21 Century Skills
Math
Science Domain
Computers
SBES (Simulation Based Engineering Science)
The Root
BIO
SBES
NANO
INFO
HPC Allocation Program
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Allocate super computing resources
– Business
– Academia
– Government
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Steps to receiving time
– Online application http://www.nystar.state.ny.us/hpc/Application_For_Use.html
– Sign user agreements from assigned Centers
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Restrictions
– Must be a NYS entity (academic or business)
– Other considerations
• Costs may be levied on closed research.
• Some software does not work in these environments.
• Massive allocations may require cost sharing
• Proprietary research is handled on a case by case basis by the centers
directly.
Goals of HPC Assistance Program
• Provide assistance in the use of HPC assets in New
York
• Build off of NYSTAR and NY’s substantial research
investments
• Advance the science (academia)
• Apply the science (business)
• Create a knowledge repository (build the culture)
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Code
Know how
Applications
• Create a viable self sustaining community
• Make New York industries more competitive in the
global economy through the application of HPC.
HPC Program
Develop /
Identify
Apply
Use
NYSTAR CATs
HPC2
HPC Allocation Program
NYSTAR
High
Performance
Computing
Program
New York State HPC2
NYSERNET
U. Buffalo
RPI
World Class
Networking –
Research
network assets
– Internet2
Toolset
User
Interface, Bio
Related
Sciences
Physical
Sciences,
Engineering,
and others
Stony Brook
BNL
Energy, Bio
Related
Sciences
HPC Knowledge Repository
BIO
Knowledge
and Applications
HPC
HUB
NANO
INFO
Illustrative Examples of HPC in New
York (Business Use)
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Upstate Biotechnology Company
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Fortune 50 Company
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Using CCNI computing facilities to do design work and proof of concept on what they believe
will be a breakthrough in generator design.
Big Pharma
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Trying to develop better materials and designs to aid in reducing the power consumed by
their product, this will allow them to leap over their competition.
Upstate Startup
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Using HPC at Stony Brook/ BNL to do research on energy transmission and distribution
systems to make them more reliable and efficient.
Upstate Manufacturer
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Using supercomputers at CCNI to do analysis on billions of what was seen as unrelated
pieces of data to aid in drug discovery.
Using facilities at Stony Brook / BNL CCNI and Buffalo to advance their drug discovery and
speed up time to market.
IBM
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Using supercomputers at CCNI to solve the complex challenges in new innovative chip
design.
The Experiment
A Statewide Research Cyber-Infrastructure
NYSTAR has funded nearly $500 Million in research instrumentation
since 2000.
This exercise will begin the process of providing shared resources
throughout NYS. All taxpayer funded assets available to everyone.
What we do here with this collaboration, portals and conferences will set
the stage for these type of practices in other domains and set precedent
on how we share instrumentation statewide.
We must do this, its much too expensive to build duplicative services
throughout the state.
Thank You!
http://nystar.state.ny.us
Michael P. Ridley
518-292-5700
mridley@nystar.state.ny.us