FIU Academic Community Workshop

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FIU Academic Community Workshop Date November
21, 2005
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Whos Who?

• Special Advisors
• John McGowan, VP/CIO
• Yi Deng, Dean of Computing and Information
  Sciences
• External Assessments Consultant
• Paul Avery, Professor of Physics PI for GriPhyN
  and iVDGL at UF

• Investigators
• Heidi Alvarez, Principal Investigator
• Julio Ibarra, Co-PI
• Eric Johnson, Co-PI
• Chi Zhang, Co-PI
• Advisory Committee
• Kelsey Downum, Associate VP of Sponsored Research
• Ken Furton, Associate Dean of Arts Sciences
• Norman Munroe, Associate Director, Applied
  Research Center (ARC)

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What is CyberBridges?

• Funded by the NSF Cyber Infrastructure
  (CI)-TEAM program solicitation
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05560/nsf05560.htm
  
• 11 Awards for 250,000 each
• CI-TEAM is a demonstration program now
• Expected to expand to multi-year program
• Will increase the effectiveness, penetration,
• and utilization of CI

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CyberBridges Benefits

• Brings together graduate students faculty
  from various disciplines
• Offers greater understanding of RE CI
• Increases opportunity for cross-disciplinary
  RE
• Increases scientists rate of discovery
• Creates a CI empowered workforce.
• Full load tuition for Spring Summer 2006
• Research fellowship stipend
• 6,000 for the project

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Anticipated Results

• A new generation of scientists engineers
• Capable of fully integrating CI into the whole
  educational, professional, and creative process
  of their diverse disciplines.
• Measured in publication acceptance and conference
  participation

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Fellowship Requirements

• 2 Mini Courses- Spring 2006
• Advanced Networking
• Grids/Distributed Computing
• 8 weeks each
• Independent Study- Summer 2006
• Students and faculty will collaborate on a paper
  based on the research
• Research results to be published presented at a
  conference
• Students travel expenses covered

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Fellowship Qualifications

• Candidates must be on a research path that can be
  augmented by CI
• Open to graduate students in science or
  engineering
• PhD students preferred
• Some programming background desired
• C or C preferred, JAVA or Fortran OK

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Special Topics in High-Performance Networking and
Grid Computing Spring 2006

• Eric Johnson, Instructor, Networking
• Tuesdays, 1700 2000 1st 8 weeks
• Chi Zhang, Assistant Professor, Grid Computing
• Wednesdays, 1700 2000 2nd 8 weeks

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High-Performance NetworkingSyllabus

• Introduction to Ethernet physical components
• Copper
• Fiber
• Switches
• Debugging Tools
• Introduction to IP networking
• a. Address space
• b. Routing
• c. Debugging Tools

• 3. Review of issues in high performance computing
• a. Bandwidth Delay Product
• b. Frame size
• c. Latency/Jitter
• Design of cluster networks
• Implement cluster networks

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High-Speed Networking

• Critical to High-Performance Cluster/Grid
  Computing
• 1Gbps 100 Gbps
• TCP/IP protocols
• How to construct a high-speed network?
• How to achieve the maximum throughput?

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High-Performance Grid-ComputingSyllabus

• 1. Cluster Computing
• Hardware and Software Concepts
• MPI
• 2. XML and Web Service
• a. XML and XML Schema
• b. SOAP
• c. WSDL and UDDI
• 3. Grid Computing
• a. Introduction
• b. Compute Grid and Data Grid
• c. Globus Toolkit
• d. OGSA
• 4. High-Performance Networking
• a. High-Speed TCP
• b. Performance Monitoring

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Cluster Computing

• A computing environment consists of many
  workstations connected together by a high-speed
  local area network.
• Divide and distribute a computing task to
  different workstations
• Improve computation speed over that provided by a
  single computer

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Grid Computing

• Sharing the computing resources of many separate
  computers connected by a wide area network
  (Internet) to solve large-scale computation
  problems.
• Resources are located in different places
  belonging to different institutions
• Resources are heterogeneous
• Using open standards to virtualize computing
  resources

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Grid Computing

• Compute Grids sharing CPU cycles of high-end
  computers for computationally-Intensive
  application.
• Data Grids controlled sharing and management of
  large amounts of distributed data.
• Difference with cluster computing Resources are
  not all within the same administrative domain.
• Secure authorization to allow remote users to
  control computing recourses.

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4 Graduate Student FellowshipsBegins Spring
Semester 2006

• Students receive instruction on High-Performance
  Networking and Grid Computing
• Required for CI enabled e-Science research
• Special section offered Spring 2006
• Research inquiry and experimentation
• Takes place during the Summer 2006
• Independent Study Section
• Results dissemination
• Collaborative research paper
• Submission and presentation at a conference
  planned

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How to Apply

• Submit a 1 page proposal
• Describe a problem in your area of research
• Provide a hypothesis on how the use of CI would
  benefit the research process.
• Attach a one-page bio/CV
• Show any networking, grid, or related CI
  experience
• Submit all documents to info_at_cyberbridges.net
• Faculty advisor must indicate support via letter
  of support
• Due week of November 28th, 2005
• Selection announced week of December 12, 2005

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Grid Computing and Advanced Networking e-Science
Applications
Providing Tools for e-Science
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An International Grid Enabled Center for High
Energy Physics Research Educational Outreach
at FIU
An integrated program of research, network
infrastructure development, and education and
outreach at one of the largest minority schools
in the US
http//www.chepreo.org
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International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL)

• Computing, storage and networking resources
• Testing and validation of grid technologies
• Influences future of data grids

http//www.ivdgl.org/projinfo
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Grid Physics Network

• Grid technologies for science and engineering
• Used in CMS Experiment for storage
• Used in QuarkNet for Education
• Create Petascale Virtual Data Grids with VDT
• Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT)
• Grid middleware
• Can be easily installed and configured

http//www.griphyn.org
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Particle Physics Data Grid

• Global Collaboration of Laboratories
• Effective end-to-end capabilities
• Experiment-specific applications
• Grid technologies
• Storage resources

http//www.ppdg.net
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UltraLight
http//ultralight.caltech.edu

• Explores cutting-edge network technology
• Grid computing and data infrastructure
• Support for LHC-HEP and eVLBI-Astronomy
• Natl / Intl e-Science Collaborations

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UltraLight
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Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment

• Multi-purpose particle detection measurement
• Designed to run at highest luminosity at the LHC
• CMS magnet will be largest solenoid ever built
• Collaboration of 1889 physicists engineers

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

• Requires high-speed, real-time data filtering
• Next-generation particle collision machine
• Largest superconductor installation
• Unprecedented energy range and sensitivity
• Mimics early universe conditions

http//lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc
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Gemini Observatory

• Telescopes in Chile and Hawaii
• Data Center in Canada
• Remote observation from partner sites
• Tracks deep space activity

http//www.gemini.edu
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Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

• Test bed projects for brain imaging
• Human neurological disorders
• Associated animal models
• Neurological Disease Studies
• Function BIRN
• Morphometry BIRN
• Mouse BIRN

http//nbirn.net
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BIRN
Studies on Neurological Disease

• Functional Imaging Research of Schizophrenia
• Brain Morphometry Test Bed
• Multi-Scale Mouse Models of Disease Test Bed

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Important Dates

• Submit a 1 page proposal week of November 28th to
  info_at_cyberbridges.net
• Advisory Committee Meets week of December 5th
• Announcement of fellowships week of December 12th

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Proposal Information Summary

• 1 Page
• Submitted by student and faculty advisor
• Faculty letter of support requested
• Describe research interest
• How might CI augment the research?
• Is there any multidisciplinary synergy?
• Include qualifications including any previous
  programming experience

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Questions?
Email info_at_cyberbridges.net Website
www.cyberbridges.net