AgendaiPG2P Steering Committee

September 27, 2011

• Welcome Fusheng Wei, Scientific Analyst• Virginia Tech Workshop (Ruth)• iPlant presentation to NSB (Martha)• Phenotyping Meeting (Matt)• Phytobisque (Matt)

Presentation to National Science BoardSeptember 13

• Regular NSB Meeting, at U. Arizona• Eric Lyons gave 45 min. iPlant presentation

• ~20 board members plus upper UA administrators

Talk Outline

• The Problem • big data

• iPlant • mission, how operate, who’s involved, timeline for

deliverables

• Why Plants?• What is Cyberinfrastructure (CI)?• iPlant’s CI

• design, scalability

Talk Outline (cont.)

• Listed what iPlant has to offer; discussed• Data Management, Atmosphere, Discovery

Environment, Tool Integration, CoGe, High Performance Computing

• Scalability Examples• Maize GWAS (P. Schnable)

• Creosote genome in 1 month (E. Lyons)

• NSF-funded products/projects• iRODS, Condor, Shibboleth,

Eucalyptuys,TeraGrid/XSEDE, NESCent, NCEAS, NIMBios, CGIAR, KBASE

NSB (CONT.)

• Talk was well-received• Questions• International competition, private sector interest

• Nirav and Eric attended mixer• Slides• https://pods.iplantcollaborative.org/wiki/display/

library/Presentations• First few are about Bio5 Institute