Transcript CyberBridges Integrating Advanced Grid Infrastructure with

Collaborative CI Research and
Education between CNIC of CAS
and FIU CIARA
Chinese American Networking Symposium (CANS)
August 25-26, 2007
Applications Session
August 26th 10:45 – 12:00
Presented by Heidi L. Alvarez, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment
NSF CI-TEAM Implementation Project:
Global CyberBridges (GCB); A Model Global Collaboration Infrastructure
for e-Science between US and International Partners
Trans-national and cross-discipline communication is the future for
science and engineering research and education.
Global CyberBridges extends the CyberBridges concept to an
international level.
International Partners
• Florida International University & Calit2 at UCSD
• Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences
• City University of Hong Kong
• University of Sao Paulo’s School of the Future in Brazil.
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CyberBridges
CyberBridges tested the hypothesis that students can act as
“bridges,” showing researchers how they can use
cyberinfrastructure (CI) to further their knowledge.
CyberBridges NSF Award OCI-0537464 to Florida International University;
Center for Internet Augmented Research & Assessment
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CIARA; Background for the Project
The Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment
(CIARA) was created in 2003 as a State of Florida Type II Research
Center at FIU. CIARA services institutional collaborators in the U.S.
and internationally as a bridge linking researchers and educators with
the infrastructure and knowledge they need to perform their work
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CNIC; Background for the Project
The Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CNIC, CAS) is a subsidiary research institute of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS), engaged mainly in the construction,
operation and supporting service of informatization of CAS, R&D of
computer network technology, database technology as well as
scientific engineering computation.
EUChinaGRID
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http://www.cnic.ac.cn/english/index.html
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AMPATH
Improves research and education high performance
network connectivity in the Western Hemisphere
Promotes efficient peering through a distributed
exchange point model
Leverages participants’ network resources to foster
collaborative research and advance education
throughout the Western Hemisphere, to Europe
and Asia
AMPATH provides CyberBridges fellows with
connectivity to R&E computational grid
resources at institutions and laboratories around
the world
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Western Hemisphere
Research & Education
Network (WHREN) Links
Interconnecting Latin
America (LILA)
(1) 2.5Gbps + dark fiber
segment
U.S. landings in Miami and
San Diego
Latin America landings in
Sao Paulo and Tijuana
$5M over 5 years from the
National Science
Foundation & $5M from the
Science Foundation of Sao
Paulo
OCI Award# 0441095
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An Inter-regional Grid Enabled Center for High Energy
Physics Research and Educational Outreach (CHEPREO)
Tier3 Open Science Grid Cluster
Current Cluster configuration:
• Gigabit Copper backbone with GigE
connectivity to AMPATH Network
• OSG Computing Element
23 node computational cluster
Supports local user logins
Serves as the CE’s gatekeeper
Plus all other cluster services
• Augments CyberBridges cluster
• Funded by NSF MPS-0312038.
• www.chepreo.org
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Approaches to e-Learning Sciences
CyberBridges fellows
construct models with their
faculty advisors and
reproduce them through
computer simulations.
Technology permits teams,
possibly in different
locations and with different
skills to work toward real
world solutions.
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GCB Year 1 Project structure
4 Fellowships at
FIU lead 2 and 3
person teams
-Normative analysis
performed by GCB
Assessment Committee
-Two semesters long
-Interdisciplinary Collaboration
-Annual Assessment
- Case Study Packages
Certification
Program
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Hypothesis and assessment
CyberBridges proposed that graduate students engaged in
inquiry-based learning activities can affect transfer of CI
research and that this transfer will increase scientists’ rates of
discovery and create a CI-empowered workforce.
Faculty + Student + CI-Scientist
Domain specific metrics
CyberBridges Assessment
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Project implementation
1. Continuous cross-disciplinary dialogue
2 .Collaborative proposal writing
3. Faculty review of proposals
4. Normative assessment
5. Nesting of graduate students in lab
6. CI scholastic certification program
7. Case study package
8. Student outreach
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Year 1 GCB Project Case Studies
1. Computational Modeling & Simulation of Biodegradable Starch based polymer
composites (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Sachin Joshi (FIU student), Zhang
Yuming, Zhuang Yuxin (CNIC students) and Alexander Mebel (faculty)
2. Collaborative Platforms (Computer Science) David Villegas (FIU Student) and
Hang Xing (CNIC student) with Masoud Sadjadi and Kuldeep Kumar (faculty)
Congratulations! Paper accepted for publication in i-Society 2007
3. Grid Enablement of Hurricane Simulation Application
(Computer Science in collaboration with Earth Sciences) Diego J. Lopez (FIU
student) , Hao Yunxiao (CNIC student) and S. Masoud Sadjadi (faculty) and
Hugh Willoughby (faculty)
4. On-Demand Weather Forecast Visualization via Efficient Resource Utilization in
Grid Computing (Computer Science) Khalid Saleem (student) and Shu-Ching
Chen (faculty)
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Pilot Project Case Studies
1—Alejandro de la Puente (student) and Rajamani S. Narayanan (faculty)
Interplay between Random Matrix Theory and Quantum Field Theory
Physics
2—Cassian D’Cunha (student) and David Chatfield (faculty)
Parallel Computations for Macromolecular Simulation
Chemistry and Biochemistry
3—Tom Milledge (student) and Giri Narasimhan (faculty)
Unsupervised Pattern Discovery in Protein Structures
Computing and Information Sciences
4—Ronald A. Gutierrez (student) and Eric T. Crumpler (faculty)
Computational Enhanced Mesh Design in Tissue Engineering: Measuring Wall Shear
Stress in Cell/Scaffolds
Biomedical Engineering
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Outcomes of CyberBridges Pilot
• Re-focusing expenditures from technology support
functions to synchronous fellowships can have a
profound impact on the effectiveness of scientific
investigations.
• CyberBridges fellows and their advisors have
benefited from such re-focusing. They have
successfully implemented CI into their research and
teaching.
• Globally distributed institutions can replicate the
CyberBridges model.
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CyberBridges’ Pilot Success
•
CyberBridges exposed over 200 students and
researchers to CI during Super Computing Conference
in Tampa, Florida USA 2006, when the four
CyberBridges fellows gave talks on their work.
•
CyberBridges made it possible for each of the fellows to
acquire competitive summer internships.
•
Publications accepted at CCGRID, TeraGrid, and
domain specific journals
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CyberBridges Fellows Present & Graduate
SuperComputing 2006, Tampa, Florida November 11-17
www.sc06.supercomp.org
Top from left: Professor Yan BaoPing, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor Paul Avery,
UF; Dr. Miriam Heller, NSF; Tom Milledge; Ronald Gutierrez; Alejandro de la Puenta;
Cassian D’Cunha
Bottom row from left: Ernesto Rubi, FIU/CIARA; Michael Smith, FIU/CIARA; Dr. Eric Crumpler,
FIU Engineering; Julio Ibarra, Co-PI & Executive Director CIARA; Heidi Alvarez, PI & Director
CIARA, Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi, FIU SCIS.
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Presentation & Publication
Ronald Gutierrez presenting
“CyberBridges: A Model
Collaboration Infrastructure for eScience", Proceedings of the 7th
IEEE International Symposium on
Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May
2007 at CCGRID
“After the presentation, I met some
PhD students that wanted to know if I
could present this collaboration
program (CyberBridges) in another
conference (CLCAR-07, Santa Marta,
Colombia).”
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谢 谢!
Thank You!
Heidi Alvarez
Peter Arzberger
Kuldeep Kumar
Julio Ibarra
S. Masoud Sadjadi
Baoping Yan
LambdaVision 100-Megapixel display
and SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics
Environment) software developed by
the Electronic Visualization Laboratory
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Major funding provided by NSF.
Kai Nan
Fang Qian
Email [email protected]
Website www.cyberbridges.net
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