Fueling Discovery and Education through

Advanced Internet Technologies

John P. McGowanVice President & CIOFlorida International University

Outline• An Institutional Perspective• FIU & Collaborative Partnerships Building the

Infrastructure– Center for Internet Augmented Research and

Assessment (CIARA)– AMericas Path (AMPATH)– An inter-regional grid-enabled Center for High-Energy

Physics Research Education and Outreach (CHEPREO)

– Connected Cities

• Distributed Computing

An Institutional Introduction

• An International University• Carnegie Research Extensive• 35,000 Students• 3,300 Residents• 2,400 Faculty / Staff• Multi-campusVoIP & Wireless

– 6000 handsets– Wireless initiative– PeopleSoft & Oracle

• Committed to Outreach & Collaboration

University Park Fountain

Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment

(CIARA)

About CIARA

• The center is uniquely designed to leverage research to benefit FIU and partner institutions: – Augmenting the rate of discovery for all investigators - collaboration– Enabling interdisciplinary research activities mediated through

advanced information and communications technologies– Invigorating scholarship for graduate students, undergrads, and

students in the community– Providing leadership in international networking– Developing culturally diverse distributed learning communities– Foster enabling synergies between faculty driven research, graduate

students, and research scientists/technologists• Leverage the institution’s research programs with its advanced ICT

investments• Assess effectiveness and disseminate results• Implement techniques that effectively augment the pace of research and

discovery

AMPATH Background & Summary Industry support from Global

Crossing (GX), Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks and Terremark Worldwide

Enables network communications between the US research and education networks and National Research and Education Networks in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico

Funded by National Science Foundation (STI-023184)

http://www.ampath.fiu.edu

AMPATH - a community effort

Metrics of Success• Connections themselves being instantiated

– A significant effort:• Scientists in previous workshops expressed

significant interest in complete access to collaborators, students, and instruments in Central and South America

• Grand Challenge Science being enabled– ARECIBO, CHEPREO, Gemini

• Education and Outreach– PASI

An Inter-Regional Grid-Enabled

Centerfor

High-Energy Physics Research and Educational Outreach

CHEPREO IS…

• Good CMS Science

• Educational Outreach

• Cyberinfrastructure

Goals & Accomplishments• FIU has joined the CMS experiment

– Added two faculty positions in CMS physics– Added one Physics Educator Position (now open!)– Contributing to Detector Control Systems

• Headquarters for education and outreach efforts in thePhysics Learning Center– Modeling Introductory University Physics– Partnering with local High Schools– QuarkNet Partner

• Leverage Networking– AMPATH provides an enabling technology infrastructure– FIU is a member of iVDGL & becoming a member of OSG– Brazilian HEP led by Professor Alberto Santoro (UERJ) and

Professor Sergio Novaes (USP)

FIU Contributions to CMSFIU Contributions to CMS

• Detector controls High Voltage (HV) Graphical User Interface (GUI) and interface to database

• Contributions to Data Acquisition (DAQ) prototyping

• Networking/infrastructure building on AMPATH

• Partnerships allow FIU to take additional responsibility as expertise and manpower grows

• Students at CERN as part of the initiative.

• Headquarters for Education & Outreach efforts adjacent to research facilities

• Integrating Education and Research• Ties to Miami-Dade Public School System• Teacher support

– Content, Career Development, Research• Class Space

– Modeling Workshops• Intro to Physics Course

– Peer Tutoring Center– Grid workshops

Physics Learning CenterPhysics Learning CenterFIU committed 3000 sq. ft. of new space for lab, classrooms

Developing a Globally Distributed Developing a Globally Distributed Collaborative Learning CommunityCollaborative Learning Community

• CMS research experience for students

• Pre-service experiences for K-12 teachers

• QuarkNet research opportunities for teachers

• Participation and support from area high schools

• International exchanges, workshops, summer schools

• Networking internships and experience at NAP of the America's

• Science Education Fellowships

• Test-bed schools• Web-based resources

Networking ActivitiesNetworking Activities

• FIU, UFL, FSU form State of Florida Research Grid

• Int'l starting point is FIU's AMPATH initiative

• Extend iVDGL to South America

• Serve as pathway for research and education networking

Implications of Building Petascale Global Grids

• The transition to Global Grids will transform research in science, engineering, and society

• If these developments are successful, and deployed widely as standards they will create– Profound advances in industry, commerce and society at large

and– Change relationships between people and “persistent”

information in their daily lives within the next five to ten years

• Realizing the benefits of these developments for society, and creating a sustainable cycle of innovation helps us to close the digital divide

International ActivitiesInternational Activities

• Build upon global e-science networks and CIARA partnerships in South America

• LAGRID provides future data grid with Brazil

• CHEPREO collaborations with Brazil proposed 3 initial activities:– Incorporate LISHEP workshop series into CHEPREO– International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL)

Membership– Participation in US-Latin America student exchange

Integration of FIU in iVDGL• International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory• UF lead institution (2001-2006)

– Build international Grid laboratory– Many U.S. sites (plus Brazil, Korea) participating

• FIU is a member of iVDGL– Joint leadership of iVDGL/GriPhyN Outreach– Participation in CMS Grid– New relationships with South American institutions (via

AMPATH)– Help drive LAGRID

National Lambda Rail

Florida LambdaRail: Optical Network

UWF FSU

UF

UM

FIT

NSUFAU

FLR Hub

FLR Connection

UCF

NLRCERN, FNAL, Caltech,

JLab

FIU

A Statewide Grid Using FLR

UWF FSU

UF

UM

FIT

NSUFAU

HurricaneCenter

HPC Center

CSITFLR Hub

USFFiberGLASS Site

FLR Connection

UCF

NLRCERN, FNAL, Caltech,

JLab

AMPATHSouth

America

ScrippsFlorida

NASA

NCS

CHEPREOFIU

The Digital City Initiative

• Collaboration within the City of Miami – building the next layer of infrastructure

• For cities to change the way enterprises have will require the kind of information exchange environment that enterprises now take for granted– It becomes the next pervasive social infrastructure to follow roads,

water, power and telecoms

– A new model for the polis becomes possible when new ways of working are combined with a new pervasive social infrastructure to serve the community

• The City of Stockholm• Barcelona• The Province of Alberta, Canada

Thank You!

For more information, please contact us at:

305-348-4105

www.ciara.fiu.edu