russ hobby program manager internet2 cyberinfrastructure architect uc davis
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Russ Hobby
Program ManagerInternet2
CyberinfrastructureArchitectUC Davis
Nature of Today’s ResearchResearch by Discipline GroupsResearchers at Multiple OrganizationsThey use technology to work as a teamThere is often more connection within the
Discipline Group than to researchers institution
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What do Researchers Want?Data CollectionComputation and Data ManipulationVisualizationSharing ResourcesLocation Independent Collaboration Good Performance in all Technology UsedGood Security that does not inhibit ease of use
or performance
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Problems Currently FacedDifferent human interfaces for each systemComponents not compatible with each otherNot Easy to switch or combine resourcesAccess Management different for each systemPerformance problems when switching
component configurations
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PerformanceCI is a System. Individual components
may perform well but the overall performance depends on the components working well together.
Work is needed so that users can determine the best combination of components and how to determine the problem when there are performance is lacking
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SecuritySecurity is often a hindrance to the
user and to performanceWithout a coordinated CI system,
each component must provide security against all other components
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What’s New in CI at NSFEd Seidel Director of the Office of
CyberinfrastructureJennifer Schopf joins OCIComplex problems from science to humanities
drive everything• Increasingly, DATA is the big problem, not
compute cycles themselvesNeed to develop coherent, integrated high
performance CI from campus to national level
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CI Reuse (internal)TF1: SoftwareTF2: Campus BridgingTF3: Education and workforce developmentTF4: Computing infrastructure (HPC, clouds,
grids...)TF5: Data, VisualizationTF6: Grand Challenge Communities: VOs and
next generation grand challenge applications
OCI Task Forces
NSF, CIOs positioned to address CI issues with strategic research perspectiveWhat would you like to see NSF do to help support
campus CI and drive campus-national CI integration? (Or anything else?)
How best to partner on the Task Forces?How to best help us promote computational science
agenda on campuses?What would you like to see if stimulus funding
comes?
NSF Questions
CI Days WorkshopsStarted by TeraGrid, Open Science Grid, Internet2, NLR and EDUCAUSE, and now other regional and national groups have come together to help campuses in their CI planning.
“CI Days” are held by campuses to assist in their CI planning. The workshop brings together players from the campus, region and nation to share information and plan how to provide CI functions for the campus.
Campus participation typically includes faculty, IT staff, librarians and administrators
The national and regional groups will also learn about the campus needs to help better direct the evolution of the services.
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UC Grid Vision
Provide a uniform, consistent interface to resources for researchers even as resources change
Expand to other CI resources such as visualization, specialized instrumentation and data repositories
Provide control mechanisms to accommodate private and shared resources
Integrate with resources outside the UC System
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UC Grid Summit, April 1, 2009, UCLAhttp://www.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=2905&SecID=2902
State Efforts?Should the UC Grid concept be extended to
all CA?CSU has needs for multiple campus
resourcesCaltech, USC and Stanford wrestle with
similar issuesPossibilities for Green State-wide resources?
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CI is not just for ResearchersThe current focus on CI is its use by Researchers. However this is an emerging technology that will be used by all, just as the individual computer and the Internet has become a regular work tool.
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What Can We Do to Make CI Better?Define an overarching architecture that fully
defines the function each CI component.Define the detailed interface for
communications between componentsLet specialized groups work on the details
within a component to implement the function and adhere to the interface
Performance Monitoring and Security built into all components, not added on later
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Reusable Software ModulesComponent architecture broken into
Subcomponents with well defined interfaces
Software modules written to implement the Subcomponent
Applications are built by linking together standard software modules
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