I-Light: A Network for Collaboration between Indiana

University and Purdue University

Craig StewartAssociate Vice President

Gary BertolineAssociate Vice President

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I-Light as a foundation for collaboration

• Research• Education• Collaboration• Enhancing Indiana

Gary

West Lafayette

Indianapolis

Bloomington

Resources – connected or not?

Linked computational resources

• The I-light network has been used in a Purdue-led simulation of the Sept 11 crash of a jet into the Pentagon

• Global Grid - HPC Challenge award at the SuperComputing 2003 conference

• Support for Center for Computational Homeland Security

• Ongoing cycle sharing agreement

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Aggregated Data Resources

• Purdue Terrestrial Observatory (and IU GIS data)• Life Sciences Data• Crystallography

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TeraGrid• The I-light network is the infrastructure on which Indiana

and Purdue Universities became a part of the NSF-funded TeraGrid.

• Indiana and Purdue have together brought ~$15M of funding into the State in support of TeraGrid activities

• Collaborative development of new computer technologies and delivery of new scientific innovations

Enabling Science: Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum

Disorder• Early diagnosis is important,

difficult• International research

consortium storing data at Indiana University – duplicate copies in Bloomington and Indianapolis enabled by I-light

• Collaborations between IUSM, UITS, and Purdue School of Science developing new diagnostic tools leading to earlier diagnosis and better interventions

Enabling Science: Indiana Center for Insect Genomics

• A 3-way collaboration among– The Center for Tropical

Disease Research and Training – Notre Dame

– The Department of Entomology – Purdue

– The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics – IU Bloomington

• 21st Century Center of Excellence award

• Study economically important insects

• Will use Purdue & Indiana University cyberinfrastructure

HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE SIMULATIONS

Goals• Develop large scale virtual

environment simulations for several disaster scenarios

• Use these virtual simulations to evaluate, validate, and improve the decision making processes and response

• Study different scenarios and prevention measures, coordinated control system of different response groups

• Simulation of different combat scenarios

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• Support - seed money, integration with VPR led environmental initiative and project oversight by CIO office

• Leadership - led by IT staff member (Dr. Gilbert Rochon) who holds appointments in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Agronomy.

• Initial effort - 35 faculty/20 academic departments • Applications include: Precision Farming; Homeland Security; Disaster

Intervention; Forestry & Ecology; Urban Planning; Epidemiology; Oceanography; Industrial Development; and Geology & Mineralogy

• Capability - Multiple data-stream sources including orbiting panchromatic, radar, and multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensors

• Operational – Spring 2005

Purdue Terrestrial Observatory (PTO)

Real-time earth observing multiple satellite receiving station

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Data Resources: IN-Vis• Graphical Interface for viewing and downloading remote sensing image data

• Provided by USGS

Prototype is at: http://pto2.itap.purdue.edu/glovis/lars.htm

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Collaborative Education

• Using I-Light for teaching a course using the Access Grid - Introduction to Virtual Environments -Laura Arns, Purdue, Eric Wernert, Indiana

• Distributed Rendering Environment (DRE) - Computer rendering job submissions from IUPUI to Purdue

Collaboration – Purdue Envision Center

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Collaboration – IU Barco VR Theater

21st Century Workforce Development

• Visualization tour – hundreds of schoolchildren learned about scientific visualization (IU, Indianapolis Public Libraries)

• Dinosaur Breathing - reconstruct breathing based on vertebral column (Purdue, Purdue Calumet, Indianapolis Children’s Museum)

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Promoting Indiana - SuperComputing Conference

• IU and Purdue collaboration on booths starting in 2000

• Excellent national attention

• Helped build many collaborations, including successful TeraGrid proposal

Benefits for Indiana

• Grants– > new innovations– > jobs (pie vs no pie)– e.g. ~$15M aggregate

for TeraGrid

• Better Health• Better jobs• Better quality of life

overall

Acknowledgments

• Funding for projects described in this talk has come from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Lilly Endowment, Inc., Department of Homeland Security, State of Indiana (particularly through support of I-light Initiative the 21st Century Fund)

• The work described here was made possible by the faculty, students, and staff of Purdue and Indiana Universities, and especially IT@P and UITS

For additional info

• www.purdue.teragrid.org/• www.itap.purdue.edu/• www.rcac.purdue.edu/• rac.uits.indiana.edu/• www.iu.teragrid.org/• uits.iu.edu/• email: stewart@iu.edu; bertoline@purdue.edu• See the “TeraGrids account” table, Scott

McCaulay, Sebastien Goasguin, and other Purdue and Indiana staff, and sign up for a TeraGrid account!!!