loni overview
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LONI Overview. State-wide IT initiative: $25M – Gov. Mike Foster, 2001 - present LONI - $40M, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, 2004 - 2008 LONI - $10M, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, 2006 LONI Institute - $15M, BoR + Institutions, 2007 CyberTools RII - $12M (NSF), 2007. The Information Technolgy Initiative. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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LONI Overview
State-wide IT initiative: $25M – Gov. Mike Foster, 2001 - present
LONI - $40M, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, 2004 - 2008
LONI - $10M, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, 2006
LONI Institute - $15M, BoR + Institutions, 2007
CyberTools RII - $12M (NSF), 2007
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The Information Technolgy Initiative
$25M per year for IT infrastructure
Helped establish HPC in Louisiana• “SuperMike” cluster and Center for Computation &
Technology (CCT) at LSU• The LA Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) at
University of Louisiana – Lafayette (partial funding)• The Center for Entrepreneurship and Information
Technology (CEnIT) at Louisiana Tech.
Helped attract and grow world-class talent, and laid the foundation for future growth.
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What is LONI?Louisiana Optical Network Initiative
Vision and Leadership from Ed Seidel, Gov. Blanco, and Louisiana Board of Regents
High-bandwidth optical network linking graduate-degree granting institutions in the state.
HPC hardware at 6 institutions
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Who all are part of LONI?• Louisiana State University-Baton
Rouge• Louisiana Tech University-
Ruston • University of Louisiana-Lafayette• University of New Orleans• Southern University-Baton
Rouge• Tulane University-New Orleans• LSU Health Sciences Center
N.O.• LSU Health Sciences Center
S’port
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What does LONI do?• High bandwidth optical network links the research
institutions within the State
• Links the State to the National LambdaRail
• 85+ Teraflops of computing power for computational research
• AccessGrid nodes backed by full-motion HD video links
• Transforms the way we work And problems that we can attack
• Will become a regional resource.
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DOTD via Qwest
DOTD via McLeodUSA
Qwest
AT&T/SURA
ITC^DeltaCom
Sun America
WilTel
Mississippi schools plugging in through Jackson, MS
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National Lambda Rail
Louisiana Optical Network
IBM P5 Supercomputers
LONI Sites
Dell HPC Clusters
Access Grid
The “Queen Bee”
LONI layers
LONI Institute
CyberTools (EPSCoR RII)
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LONI Hardware
50 TF
Centerpiece
5 TF
Satellite
5 TF
Satellite
5 TF
Satellite
5 TF
Satellite
5 TF
Satellite
5 TF
Satellite
LSU
SUBR
UNO
Tulane
ULL
1 TF
Satellite
LaTech
1 TF
Satellite
1 TF
Satellite
1 TF
Satellite
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Satellite
The “Queen Bee”
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The Queen BeeDedicated facility - Baton Rouge
• 680 nodes × 8 cores
= 5440 cores
• 4 Gb RAM per node
= 2.88 Tb• ~ 50 TFLOPS• #23 in the world in
June 2007• #7 in an academic
environment
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The worker bees
5 IBM p5-575 computers at member institutions
• 14 nodes × 8 cores
= 112 cores
• 16 Gb memory per node
• 70 Gb disk per node
• ~ 0.85 TFLOPS each
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The worker bees
6 Dell Linux clusters
Located at member institutions
• 132 nodes × 4 cores
= 528 cores
• 4 Gb memory per node
• ~ 300 Gb storage
• ~ 5 TFLOPS each
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Access Grid Nodes
High bandwidth optical network makes full-motion high-definition video links over AccessGrid possible, with full two-way interactivity and data exchange.
Two semester-length graduate courses have been taught from LSU over the AccessGrid and received at Louisiana Tech as well as other campuses including Europe.
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The next five years: The LONI Institute
• Supported by a $7M grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents 2007-2012
• About $8M in matching funds
• Hire outstanding senior faculty (12), computational scientists (6), provide graduate fellowships (18), build “towers of strengths” in– Computational sciences– Computational biology– Computational materials science
HELP WANTED! NOW HIRING!!
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Summary• Major strides in the last 5-6 years
• LONI Institute will build CI, especially human resources
• LONI has joined the TeraGrid
• CyberTools RII proposal funded, Track-2 in the works
• Beginning to have an impact on region’s economy
• US Air Force Cybercommand provisionally head-quartered at BAFB-Shreveport
• Commitments from local governments to build a $50M CyberInnovation Center for University-Industry-Air Force partnerships
• $8M Center for Secure Cyberspace: Louisiana Tech-LSU partnership
• Future looks bright …
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Thank You!