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Research Technologies:
what a long, strange trip it’s been
(and will continue to be)
Craig A. Stewart
[email protected]
http://rtinfo.indiana.edu/
April 2008
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4/8/2008
Outline
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What we do
Some history
Warping time
Making the currently possible easier
Improving quality of life in Indiana, the US, and
beyond
• Money
• Closing thoughts
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What do we do and whom do we
serve?
• What do we do
– Things that are unique to research, scholarship, and artistic
production (sometimes)
– Engage in research, development, and deployment
– Enhance IU research – new capabilities, increased importance,
productivity, 2nd order benefits (staff critical mass, grant
competiveness)
• Whom do we serve
– Everyone engaged in research, scholarly discovery, and artistic
creation at IU (Clients & Collaborators), including students
learning research techniques or doing research
– Researchers and residents of Indiana, the US
– People everywhere
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With whom do we do it?
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We don’t originate the damage to the
English language…
• Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems, data storage
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
• High Performance Computing, Supercomputing
• Data-centric Computing
• High Throughput Computing
• Grid Computing
• Translational research, Transformative research
• Important events and lists: SCxy, International Supercomputer
Conference, Top500 list
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In practical terms
• Develop, deploy, and operate supercomputers, massive
data storage systems, advanced visualization systems
(advanced cyberinfrastructure deployment)
• Manage site licenses for software, create software, tune
software
• Make data sources available – scientific, humanities, arts
• Consulting and training
• Pursue grants, execute grant funded activities
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Research Technologies organization
Applications
HPA
Scientific
Programming
Stat/Math
Systems
Online
Support
Open Science
Grid
HPS
Visualization
AVL
TeraGrid Viz
Data
Capacitor
MWT2
Research
Storage
Life Sci
IDAH
CCC
Biomedical
Apps
Advanced IT
Core
Core Services
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Pervasive Technology Labs
Pervasive
Technology Labs
Community Grids
Lab
Open Systems
Lab
Knowledge
Acquisition and
Projection Lab
Advanced
Network
Management Lab
Visualization and
Interactive
Spaces Lab
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Research Technologies mission
• The mission of the Research Technologies Division of UITS is to
develop, deliver, and support advanced technology solutions that
improve productivity of and enable new possibilities in scholarly and
creative activity at Indiana University and beyond; and to
complement this with education and technology translation activities
to improve the quality of life of people in Indiana, the nation, and the
world.
• “The future is unevenly distributed” – Larry Smarr
• We want to have the future concentrated at IU!
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An historical perspective
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Accomplishments 1956 – 1995
Notable events (RT unless noted)
Grants and awards
Marshall Wrubel named first Director of Research
Computing Center
Stanley Hagstrom, Franklin Prosser, Stephen
Young FASTRAN (FAST FORTRAN II) for IBM
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CDC key research resource at IUB; IBM key
research resource at IUPUI
IU key site for porting BMDP to CDC NOS
1955
1963
DEC grant for equipment purchase
($10M)
Hondo
Unix Workstation Support Group created
Center for Innovative Computer Applications
established
Stat/Math established
Scalar Technology Array of Risc Research Systems
LETRS service established (DLP&UITS)
SoM Library Variations Project
LETRS facility established (DLP&UITS)
DIDO Image Bank goes online (DLP)
Victorian Women Writers Project begins (DLP)
Year
1970s-mid
1980s
1970s
1980s
Late 1980smid 1990s
1988
1989
I-Way - HPC Challenge award (Gannon)
1991
1991
1992
1993
1994
1994
1995
Accomplishments 1996 – 2001
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Notable events (RT unless noted)
Grants and awards
IBM SUR - SP2 (RT), Variations SUR grant
(DLP)
SCAAMP
vBNS ($394K)
Variations first goes online (DLP)
IUB CAVE (RT), IUPUI Immersadesk.
First RAC staff @ IUPUI
Digital Library Program launched in its
current form (IU Libraries, UITS, OVPIT, SoI)
First SC display
IU Information Technology Strategic Plan
Industrial Mold filling HPC Challenge award
(Bramley et al), Digital Library IBM SUR
grant (DLP)
Hoagy Carmichael Collection (IMLS) (DLP)
Pervasive Technology Labs ($30M), Letopis'
Zhurnal' nykh Statei - Russian Periodical
index (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP)
Variations2 ($3,132,596) (DLP)
SPSS ELA
Research Indiana Display at SC2000 (RT), Wright INGEN ($105M; $6.7 to IT), US Steel Gary
American Fiction joint CIC project begins (DLP)
Works Photo Collection (LSTA) (DLP)
Charles Cushman Photo Collection (IMLS)
John-E-Box invented (Huffman^2, Wernert)
(DLP)
HPSS Distributed movers developed and
implemented
Year
1996
1996
1997
1997
1998
1998
1999
2000
2000
2001
2001
Accomplishments 2001 – 2005
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Notable events (RT unless noted)
Grants and awards
First university-owned 1 TFLOPS
supercomputer
SAS Site License
AVIDD ($1.8M)
Film Literature Index Online (NEH) (DLP)
Ist distributed cluster > 1 TFLOPS Linpack
TeraGrid ETF ($1,517,430) (RT), Stone,
EVIA Digital Archive Development Phase
(Mellon) (DLP)
Global Arthropod Evolution - HPC
Challenge Award (Stewart et al)
Hess, Digital Library of the Commons
(Mellon) (DLP)
Newman, The "Chymistry" of Isaac Newton
(NSF) (DLP)
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
(IMLS) (DLP), Digital Libraries Education
Program (IMLS) (DLP)
Digital Audio Archives Project (IMLS, JHU
ICTC!!!!!
subcontract) (DLP)
Variations2 goes online for IU students and faculty TeraGrid RP ($3,416,693) (RT), IN
(DLP)
Harmony (DLP), Variations3 (IMLS) (DLP)
IUScholarWorks institutional repository goes
Gould, CAMVA (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP)
online (DLP)
Year
2001
2001
2002
2003
2003
2003
2003
2004
2004
2005
2005
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Accomplishments 2005 – present
Notable events (RT unless noted)
Grants and awards
METACyt ($53M; 6.25 to IT), Stone, EVIA
Digital Archive (Mellon) (DLP)
Data Capacitor ($1,720,000) (RT), Indiana
Authors and their Books (LSTA) (DLP)
Reed, Sound Directions R&D Phase (NEH)
(DLP)
Big Red - 20 TFLOPS, 23rd on Top500,
All in a day’s work Bandwidth Challenge
fastest academic supercomputer in western Honorable Mention (Simms et al.),
hemisphere (RT), Fedora-based IU digital library Sakaibrary (Mellon) (DLP)
object repository goes into production (DLP)
Stone, EVIA Digital Archive
BARCO VR Theatre
Implementation Phase (Mellon) (DLP)
Life Sciences Strat Plan
PolarGrid ($1,964,049), DLF Aquifer
American Social History Online (IMLS, DLF
subcontract) (DLP)
Building a Bridge Bandwidth Challenge
award (Simms et al), Reed, Sound
Directions Preservation Phase (NEH) (DLP)
IUScholarWorks e-journal hosting pilot (DLP)
Year
2005
2005
2005
2006
2006
2006
2007
2007
2008
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Growth of Storage
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3000
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Year
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Growth in spinning disk storage of centralized (UITS)
cyberinfrastructure
2500
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2000
TB
TB
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1500
1000
500
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Year
Growth in archival tape storage capacity of IU’s HPSS archival
research storage system
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Growth of computational capability
TFLOPS over time
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TFLOPS
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20
15
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Year
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From the past to the future present
Nuclear pasta
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Collaborative Initiative on Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
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Early diagnosis is important, difficult
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Collaborations between IUSM, UITS,
and Purdue School of Science
developing new diagnostic tools
leading to earlier diagnosis and better
interventions – improving quality of life
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International research consortium
storing data at Indiana University
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Largest study ever published about
CIFASD (in terms of sample size)
made possible by this consortium and
IU data repository
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DLP images
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Open Science Grid
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TeraGrid: 11 Resource Partners, 1 Instrument
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Making the doable easier
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LEAD (http://portal.leadproject.org)
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PolarGrid/CReSis
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$1.96M NSF MRI grant
for infrastructure to study
polar ice sheets
Center for Remote
Sensing of Ice Sheets,
Kansas University, IU,
ECSU
New Science Gateway
for data access/analysis
PI Dr. Geoffrey Fox of
Indiana University’s
Community Grids Lab
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Focusing attention on Indiana
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Improving quality of life
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Grant success (economic development
disguised as capability enhancement)
Grants for RT, DLP, Hardware and Software
$9,000,000
$8,000,000
$7,000,000
$6,000,000
Software
$5,000,000
Hardware
DLP
$4,000,000
RT
$3,000,000
$2,000,000
$1,000,000
$0
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1996
1997
1998
1999
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2005
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2007 Year
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Can you really measure quality of life?
Cyberstates Ranking
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Employment
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Payroll in Billions, current
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R&D Expenditures
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A few of the seven Laws of Money
First Law
• Do it! Money will
come when you are
doing the right thing
Staff over time
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Grant FTE
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The Seven Laws of Money. Michael Phillips. (c) 1996 Shambala Publications, Inc.
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November 6, 2015
Do it (where it = grants)
• A key reason to pursue particular grant opportunities, and not
others, is the belief that in certain areas IU is better
positioned to achieve an important task than any other
university in the US
• We do make value judgments, based on IU priorities
• There is a competitive element to pursuit of grants
• Once you have grants, it becomes important to keep getting
them – dismounting a tiger can be difficult
• Growth of staff has recently been, and will likely continue to
be, primarily through grant funding
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3, 4, and 6
• 3rd Law: Money is a
dream
• 4th Law: Money is a
nightmare
• 6th Law: You can
never accept money
as a gift
• The combination of a
commitment to local
service and national
prominence creates
real but hopefully
productive tension
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Research Technologies values
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We value IU faculty as the intellectual leaders of the university and aim to
support and collaborate with them in achieving the goals of Indiana
University, and IU students as the researchers of today and tomorrow
We value our collaborators locally, nationally, and globally, and strive to
learn from those who are our competitors in scholarly and artistic pursuits
We value the intellectual, technical, and service skills of the staff of
Research Technologies (and UITS) and the intellectual freedom to push
back boundaries of human scholarly and artistic accomplishment through
the application of these skills.
We strive to provide a working environment that enables professional and
personal growth, respects the skill and value of each and every staff
member, is intellectually stimulating and joyful, and creates a sense of
satisfaction for our employees.
We have come a long way
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• Image below is from a Research & Academic Computing Senior
Leadership retreat in 1997.
• The big question: ?Achieve national prominence in research
computing, enabling this to be an area of competitive
advantage for IU?
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A part of OVPIT/UITS
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“The Indiana University Office of the Vice President for Information
Technology and Chief Information Officer provides leadership for the
continued development of a modern information technology environment
throughout the university. The primary responsibility of this office is the
development and use of information technology in support of the university's
vision for excellence in research, teaching, outreach, and lifelong learning.
University Information Technology Services reports to the Office of the Vice
President for Information Technology.”
Networks: TransPAC, Abilene Ops, NLR, I-Light
Infrastructure: (More, more, more)
Support: KB; History of excellence in support generally
Enterprise software (OnCourse)
Learning Technologies (OnCourse, collaboration in STCs, etc.
Information Assurance (No hackers, please!)
Research Technologies delivers value to UITS as well!
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New new things
• Data-centric computing & Datanet
• Track II solicitation
• Data librarians and self-serve scholarly archiving
managed by IU workflow engines
• CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Awards)
• Semantic web
• Supercomputing that’s (much more) usable
• Evening out the experience of our users
• Cloud computing?
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A few closing thoughts
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The thing about change is, things are different after.
I’d rather be right than consistent. (Winston Churchill)
We must know. We will know. (David Hilbert)
It’s been a long, strange trip, but there are common
threads that go back more than 50 years and will
continue into the future as far as we can see.
• Working with UITS staff and IU researchers, scholars
and artists, we are deciding what is the right course for
the future in support of Indiana University’s missions in
research, scholarship, artistic creation, education, and
engagement. We will know, and we will put our
knowledge to the use of the betterment of the human
condition.
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Acknowledgements
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IU’s involvement as a TeraGrid Resource Partner is supported in part by the National Science
Foundation under Grants No. ACI-0338618l, OCI-0451237, OCI-0535258, and OCI-0504075.
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The IU Data Capacitor is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS0521433.
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This research was supported in part by the Pervasive Technology Labs and the Indiana METACyt
Initiative. Both Indiana University initiatives are supported by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
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This work was supported in part by Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc. to Indiana
University.
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The LEAD portal is developed under the leadership of IU Professors Dr. Dennis Gannon and Dr. Beth
Plale, and supported by NSF grant 331480. Marcus Christie and Surresh Marru of the Extreme!
Computing Lab contributed the LEAD graphics
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Many of the ideas presented in this talk were developed under a Fulbright Senior Scholar’s award to
Stewart, funded by the US Department of State and the Technische Universitaet Dresden.
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Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the
author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF), National
Institutes of Health (NIH), Lilly Endowment, Inc., or any other funding agency.
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This work is made possible by the dedicated efforts of the expert staff of the Research Technologies
Division of University Information Technology Services, the faculty and staff of the Pervasive Technology
Labs, and the staff of UITS generally.
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Thanks to the faculty and staff with whom we collaborate locally at IU and globally (within the US via the
TeraGrid, and internationally via collaboration with Technische Universitaet Dresden)