Cooperating Across VOs

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Cooperating Across VOs

• The Role of Gateway Organizations in Cultivating
  New Communities of TeraGrid Users

Ann Zimmerman Collaboratory for Research on
Electronic Work UM School of Information BEVO
Workshop January 15, 2008
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• SDSC San Diego Supercomputer Center
• NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
• TACC Texas Advanced Computing Center
• NCSA National Center for Supercomputing
  Applications
• JICS Joint Institute for Computational Sciences
  (Univ. of Tennessee)

• UC/ANL University of Chicago/ Argonne Lab
• PU Purdue University
• IU Indiana University
• ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• PSC Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• LON Louisiana Optical Network

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Supercomputers

• Used by a small portion of the scientific
  community
• Difficult to use
• Specialized

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Ecology

• Small spatial temporal scales
• Single investigator or small research teams
• Minimal management structure
• Small datasets

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Ecology as big science
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Science Gateways

• Cultivating New TeraGrid Users

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gateway technologies
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Science Gateways

• Discipline-specific
• Community-driven
• In development

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TeraGrid Visualization Gateway
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Common Goals

• Support new types of science
• Hide the cyberinfrastructure

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Gateway Organizations

• Attract new users by
• helping them conceptualize a use for the
  infrastructure,
• increasing their willingness and ability to use
  it, and
• facilitating interaction between the
  infrastructure and new users.

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Cooperating Across VOs

• Aligning motivations and needs
• Taking appropriate credit
• Remaining flexible

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Acknowledgments

• NSF Grant No. OCI 0603525
• University of Michigan colleagues
• TeraGrid personnel
• Science Gateways