Advancing Scientific Discovery REVITALISE

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Advancing Scientific DiscoveryREVITALISE

• Scott Lathrop, TeraGrid Director of Education,
  Outreach and Training
• lathrop_at_mcs.anl.gov
• University of Chicago and Argonne National
  Laboratory
• April 7, 2006

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On Demand Predicting Severe Weather Droegemeier
(OU) and LEAD
Large Data Virtualized Resources Earthquake
Simulation Olsen (SDSU), Okaya (USC), Southern
California Earthquake Center
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Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Large Hadron
Collider
CMS experiment is looking for the Higgs
particles, thought to be responsible for mass,
and to find supersymmetry, a necessary element
for String theory.
Coupled Simulation Full Body Arterial Tree
Simulation Karniadakis (Brown)
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Modeling Information Processing and Public Opinion
How do people assess political candidates? How do
campaign events and new information change their
views? The researchers integrated both cognitive
and affective information-processing theories
into a computational model (dubbed John Q.
Public) that simulates how voters? political
opinions fluctuate during a campaign. Using data
from the 2000 National Annenberg Election Survey
(NAES), they constructed virtual voters, or
agents, each with a unique mindset. Campaign
messages were gleaned from news accounts and
reduced to simple sentences ("Bush said Gore is
dishonest" or Gore said Bush is anti-abortion,"
for example). The computational model parses each
sentence, retrieves relevant concepts from the
long-term memory of each agent, and updates each
agent's knowledge and attitudes accordingly.
Using 100 agents, this simulation was repeated
100 times, returning results that accord well
with the actual 2000 polling data.
The researchers relied on the computational power
of the TeraGrid, employing systems at SDSC and
NCSA.
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Social and Behavioral Science
For social and behavioral scientists, comparing
apples to oranges is essential. Understanding
neural, cognitive, and social behaviors can
depend on the ability to uncover coherent
patterns among disparate data collected at
different times and places. Researchers correlate
subjects videotaped reactions with eye
movements, heart rates, electroencephalogram
results, and answers to written surveys. A
multidisciplinary team of more than a dozen
scientists are working to develop a set of
cybertools to help collect and analyze behavioral
data, collaborating with the TeraGrid Science
Gateways Program.
In two years, when the SID Grid is complete,
psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists,
economists, and neuroscientists can share notes
across the globe and use software interfaces like
the ones shown above to synthesize numerous forms
of streaming data at once.
Adapted from University of Chicago Magazine
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TeraGrid Resources for Discovery
Over 100 TeraFlops in Computing Resources
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Science Gateways Portals Tailored to Science
Community Needs

• Increasing investment by communities to address
  their cyberinfrastructure needs
• TeraGrid capabilities
• Resources
• Users from expert to K-12
• Software stacks, policies
• Three common forms
• Web-based Portals
• Application programs running on users' machines
  accessing services in TeraGrid
• Coordinated access points enabling users to move
  seamlessly between TeraGrid and other grids.

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Data Collections
Instruments Sensors
Science/Education Portal
Colleagues
Data Collections
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Education Impact
NanoHub Harnesses TeraGrid for Education
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
(LEAD)
Nanohub is used by undergraduate and graduate
students in dozens of courses.
Howard University and Millersville University are
deploying education materials through LEAD.
SC05-09 Education Programs Year-long professional
development and curriculum development with
educators across the country.
National Computational Science Institute
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Making Effective Choices
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Opportunities to Learn and Engage

• Workshops and on-line tutorials on topics from
  introductory to advanced uses of
  cyberinfrastructure
• www.teragrid.org
• www.eotepic.org
• www.computationalscience.org
• www.nsdl.org
• sc06.supercomp.org
• www.opensciencegrid.org
• Cyberinfrastructure Partnerships (CIP) monthly
  seminars
• CI-Channel web accessible recordings of seminars
  and presentations
• http//cichannel.org
• CyberInfo Beat newsletter
• www.eotepic.org

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TeraGrid 06 ConferenceAdvancing Scientific
Discovery

• June 12-15, 2006
• Indianapolis, Indiana
• Keynotes - Arden Bement, Dan Atkins, Kelvin
  Droegemeier, etc.
• Tutorials - half and full-day - June 12
• Three tracks - Science, Technology, EOT
• 2 Student Competitions
• www.teragrid.org/events/2006conference

Scott Lathrop (lathrop_at_mcs.anl.gov)
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TeraGrid Student Contest

• What Does Cyberinfrastructure Mean to You?
• Win an iPOD and a trip to SC06 in Tampa
• Showcase your talents and creativity to convey to
  others how cyberinfrastructure will impact your
  world!
• Tell the world how cyberinfrastructure will touch
  your life well into the future, and how it will
  benefit scientific discovery, learning, and
  society.
• Use any medium you prefer - essay, video, audio,
  Podcast, etc.
• Submissions are due April 28, 2006!

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For More Information

• Scott Lathrop
• lathrop_at_mcs.anl.gov
• www.teragrid.org
• www.eotepic.org
• www.computationalscience.org
• sc06.supercomp.org
• www.opensciencegrid.org