Transcript SURA Information Technology Strategy and Programs

Southeastern Universities
Research Association
2004 Assessment of Progress Against
the SURA IT Strategic Goals
Presented to the SURA Board and IT Committee
November 4, 2004
H. David Lambert
SURA IT Committee Chair
New SURA IT Strategy – Highest
Priorities
• Foundation-Building
– Connectivity
• Regional (USA Waves, Crossroads)
• National (National Lambda Rail, Internet2)
• International Opportunities
– High Performance Computing
– “Grids”
• Data storage
• Middleware
• Program Development
– SCOOP
– Bio-Informatics/ Medical Research
New SURA IT Strategy – Secondary
Priorities
• Nuclear Physics
– Still need a vehicle for more collaboration
• what does JL/DOE need from the CIOs
• Homeland Defense and Bio-Terrorism
– Awaiting clarity on funding opportunities
• Information Assurance and Security
• Minority Serving Institutional
Advancement
New SURA IT Strategy –
Lower Priority
• Video-Conferencing
– Let ViDe stand on its own
– Focus video conferencing expertise developed
on supporting high priorities
• Middleware
– Do not pursue extension of Middleware grant
– Focus middleware efforts on grid and
authentication services to support high
priorities
SURA IT Program
Evaluation Criteria and Process
• IT Program will be be managed against the goals
identified in the IT strategic plan
– Plan updated annually.
– Replaced every three years.
• Annual Report on progress against the plan will be
provided to the executive committee at the annual
Fall meeting by the IT Steering committee
• SURA IT Fund status will be reported at each
executive committee and full board meeting.
Regional and National Connectivity
Goals
• Secure new resources/tools to facilitate
infrastructure improvements
• Build the Regional Infrastructure: SURA
Crossroads
• Establish National and International
Connectivity and Visibility
• Impact digital divide issues
Regional and National Connectivity
• Completed USAWaves Agreement
• Built Partnership with Lambda Rail
– Expanded NLR’s reach in the region
• Catalyzed new involvement
– LONI, LEARN,ONENet, LOTA
• Aligned goals with SGA Crossroads
– Presentations to Governors
– SGA Resolution
• New New State Investment
– Louisiana $40m, Texas $7.5m, Arkansas $10m
Originally Planned NLR National Footprint
New National LambdaRail Architecture
Regional and National Connectivity
• Leveraged SURA investments for the
Region
– Total SURA Region Commitments to new
Lambda Infrastructure: $95M - $100M
– SURA’s Investment Commitments: $3.4M
• Enabled Atlantic Wave collaboration
– Enhancing University and JLab connectivity to
Europe
• Facilitated ‘Tidewater’ coalition in support
of JLab recompete
Atlantic Wave
Program Goals
High Performance Computing
• Create greater levels of collaboration
among high performance computing
programs in the SURA Region.
• Increase Federal Funding for high
performance computing programs in SURA.
• Establish a compelling ‘application’ vision
for the next decade of high performance
computing.
• Seek extra-regional and international
partnerships that provide advantage to
SURA universities’ high performance
computing goals.
Program Goal:
Middleware/Grids
Establish a comprehensive
program to develop a SURA
regional Grid and to aid SURA
institutions in establishing interinstitutional and intra-institutional
grids and the campus deployment
of middleware.
“The confluence of High
Performance Computing, Grid
Computing and Middleware has
caused a fundamental
realignment in relationships
within technology communities
nationally and within the SURA
region.”
HPC, Grid, Middleware
• Critical March meeting in DC attracted
the broad community
– A decision to collaborate was made
• SURA HPC/Grids Initiatives Planning
Group was created
– Participants represent critical mass of
computational scientists, grid project
directors, and computer scientists
HPC/Grids Initiative Planning
Group
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Ed Seidel, Louisiana State University, Director, Center for
Computation and Technology (chair)
Jed Diem, Tulane, Mathematics professor and past chair of the
SURA IT Steering Group (co-chair)
Paul Avery, University of Florida - Professor Physics and Director of
GriPhyN and iVDGL projects
Amy W. Apon, University of Arkansas, Associate Professor
Computer Science & Computer Engineering
John (Jay) R. Boisseau, University of Texas at Austin - Director,
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma - Director, Center
for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
HPC Group (cont’d)
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Sara J. Graves, University of Alabama in Huntsville - University
Professor of Computer Science
Peter Highnam, National Institutes of Health, Special Assistant to
the Director National Center for Research Resources
Stephen P. Moore, Georgetown University - Director, Advanced
Research Computing and Grid Innovation Center
Richard Newman, Florida Institute of Technology, Associate Vice
President IT and Professor Computer Sciences
Daniel A. Reed, University of North Carolina - Chancellor's Eminent
Professor and Director, Institute for Renaissance Computing
John R. Rose, University of South Carolina - Associate Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Art Vandenberg, Georgia State University - Director, Advanced
Campus Services
HPC Group Priorities
• Awareness
– Grid resource clearing house
• Funding
– Fostering grid enabled proposals
• Infrastructure
– SURA-wide computational grid
• Applications
– SCOOP and Bio-Grid
– Others?
SCOOP IT Program Goals
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Establish day-to-day collaborations between SURA IT
community and the SCOOP program
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Assure that the SCOOP program has a solid technology
foundation.
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Assure that SCOOP (Coastal ocean research) assumes parity
with other research applications (high energy physics,
informatics, computational chemistry, etc) in impacting the
priorities of the NSF cyber-infrastructure program.
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Assure that SCOOP research efforts are characterized by
leading edge computational and information science activity.
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Engage IT Industry partners in supporting SCOOP
infrastructure and applications.
SCOOP Activities
• IT Fellow (Riley) and IT Director (Crane) are
participating actively in SCOOP planning.
• Have worked to establish communications
with IT leaders in the ‘LOOKING’ Project
– "Laboratory for an Ocean Observatory Knowledge
INtegration Grid
• Joint meeting between IT and SCOOP
committees this afternoon to explore how to
strengthen the collaboration and explore
opportunities to engage CIOs and GRID
leaders more actively.
Bio-Informatics/Bio-Grid Program
Goals
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Establish increased collaboration of regional Bioinformatics
resources with view toward establishing a regional BioGrid
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Increase Federal Funding for bioinformatics in the region
through the development and support of intrastate and
regional Biomedical Research Infrastructure Networks
(BIRNs)
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Seek extra-regional and international partnerships that
enhance SURA region activities and advance research
competitiveness of biomedical research at member
institutions.
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Leverage NIH’s Division of Research Infrastructure (in the
National Center for Reseach Resources) Programs for the
benefit of member Universities and the region.
Bio-Informatics/Bio-Grid Activities
• INBRE Workshop sponsored by the
Development Committee
– defer to the Development Committee update
• Focus HPC/GRID group on Bio-Grids
• Explore partnership with Southern
Governors’ healthcare and tele-medicine
initiatives
– Jay Sanders invited to address SURA Board and
discuss collaborations with the IT Committee.
Update on SURA IT Fund
$729,603
$964,270
Crossroads Initiative
Atlantic Wave
ViDe & Security
Regional GigaPop Support
Uncommitted
$641,727
$481,472
$182,928