Transcript November 7, 2015 XAB Meeting 13April2012 WBS 1.6.5 Campus Bridging Please cite as: Stewart, C.A..

November 7, 2015
XAB Meeting
13April2012
WBS 1.6.5 Campus Bridging
Please cite as:
Stewart, C.A.. 2012. “Campus Bridging.” Presented at
XSEDE (eXtreme Enviroment for Science and Engineering
Discovery) Advisory Board Meeting, 23 Apr 2012, Chicago,
IL. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14443
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What is campus bridging?
• Term originated by Ed Siedel as he charged six task forces of the NSF
Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. Considerable info and final
ACCI Task force report, online at pti.iu.edu/campusbridging
• The Taskforce definition:
Campus bridging is the seamlessly integrated use of cyberinfrastructure
operated by a scientist or engineer with other cyberinfrastructure on the
scientist’s campus, at other campuses, and at the regional, national, and
international levels as if they were proximate to the scientist . . .
• Catchy name, great ideas … interest > our ability to implement yet
• XSEDE is more a world view that informs everything XSEDE does than it is a
“thing in itself”
• Vision:
– Help XSEDE create the software, tools and training that will allow excellent interoperation
between XSEDE infrastructure researchers local (campus) cyberinfrastructure;
– Enable excellent usability from the researcher’s standpoint for a variety of modalities and
types of computing: HPC, HTC, and data intensive computing
– Promote better use of local, regional and national CI resources
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WBS 1.6.5 PY2 Strategic Plan
• Leveraging the XSEDE process of implementing new services
via the systems engineering process (Architecture & Design =>
Software Development and Integration => Operations), begin
deploying some new services that deliver campus bridging
services
• Communicate effectively via Campus Champions
• Develop relationship and terminology with OSG, since they
have been doing campus bridging all along
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WBS 1.6.5 PY2 Strategic Plan
• Complete use case analysis
• Complete planned pilot projects
• GFFS Pilot Program
• CUNY – PI: Paul Muzio, Champion: none
• KU – PI: Thorbjorn Axelsson, Champion: McMullen
• Miami – PI: Joel Zysman, Champion: none
• TAMU – PI: Guy Almes, Champion: will designate
• Strengthen Focus on Campus Champions and OSG
• Begin delivering selected campus-bridging related tools
– GFFS
– Documentation
– ROCKS Rolls
• Communicate “what is campus bridging”
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WBS 1.6.5 Use Cases
– InCommon Authentication
– Economies of scale in training and usability
– Long term remote interactive graphic session
– Use of data resources from campus on XSEDE, or from XSEDE at a campus
– Support for distributed workflows spanning XSEDE and campus-based
data, computational, and/or visualization resources
– Shared use of computational facilities mediated or facilitated by XSEDE
– Access to “____ as a Service” mediated or facilitated by XSEDE
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Example: More consistency in CI setups
=> economies of scale for all
• In reality, the four cluster admins depicted here
being in agreement are all right.
• Experienced cluster admins all learned how to
use what they learn when the tools were still
developing, so the tool each sysadmin knows
the best is the tool that lets that sysadmin do
their work the best
• The only way to develop consistency is to
provide installers that will make their work easier
• The XSEDE architecture group is developing
installers for file management tools
• *A la Steven Colbert, the “4 out of 5…” comment
is not intended to be a factual statement
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WBS 1.6.5 PY2 Strategy Discussion
• What campus bridging challenges do you face
on your campus?
• What does campus bridging mean to you?
• How should we evaluate campus usage and
acceptance?
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