Shaowen Wang

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GROW FY06 Review

• Shaowen Wang
• Grid Research educatiOn group _at_ Iowa (GROW)
• ITS Academic Technologies Research Services
• Department of Geography
• The University of Iowa
• Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
• May 8, 2005

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Who We Are?
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What We Do? Selected Key Projects

• HawkGrid The University of Iowa Campus Grid
• GROW A cyberinfrastructure initiative with the
  State of Iowa
• US DOE/NSF Open Science Grid
• US NSF TeraGrid
• GISolve one of 18 TeraGrid Science Gateway
  projects

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FY06 External Funding

• NSF iVDGL (www.ivdgl.org)
• 100K
• DOE/NSF Large Hadron Collider Research Program
• 150K
• TeraGrid computational resource award
• 90,000 computing hours

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Major Pending Funding

• DOE/NSF Large Hadron Collider Research Program
• 800K for FY07 FY11
• Open Science Grid proposal submitted to both the
  DOE and NSF
• 700K for FY07 FY11

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Existing Applications

• Particle physics - Compact Muon Solenoid
  collaboration
• GIScience (Geographic Information Science)
• Optimization problem solving
• Bayesian computing
• Bioinformatics
• Medical imaging reconstruction
• Nano-scale simulation

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Education and Outreach

• Training
• HawkGrid
• Open Science Grid
• TeraGrid
• Industry

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Working With GROW

• If you have computationally intensive problems
• Looking for a large number of CPUs
• Looking for solutions to handling massive data
• Investigating how to parallelize and scale-up
  your applications
• Considering joining Grids
• Figuring out better ways of configuring your
  local schedulers to support multiple user
• Contact
• Email me shaowen-wang_at_uiowa.edu
• Technical questions about Grid technologies
• grow-help_at_list.uiowa.edu
• Be interested in getting informed about CI ideas
  and information
• grow-dev_at_list.uiowa.edu
• Give a talk at GROW weekly meetings
• http//grow.its.uiowa.edu/education/meetings/index
  .shtml

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Thanks!

• Questions and Comments?