LONI Overview

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LONI Overview
State-wide IT initiative 25M Gov. Mike
Foster, 2001 - present LONI - 40M, Gov. Kathleen
Blanco, 2004 - 2008 LONI - 10M, Gov. Kathleen
Blanco, 2006 LONI Institute - 15M, BoR
Institutions, 2007 CyberTools RII - 12M (NSF),
2007
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The Information Technolgy Initiative

• 25M per year for IT infrastructure
• Helped establish HPC in Louisiana
• SuperMike cluster and Center for Computation
  Technology (CCT) at LSU
• The LA Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE)
  at University of Louisiana Lafayette (partial
  funding)
• The Center for Entrepreneurship and Information
  Technology (CEnIT) at Louisiana Tech.

Helped attract and grow world-class talent, and
laid the foundation for future growth.
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What is LONI?
Louisiana Optical Network Initiative Vision and
Leadership from Ed Seidel, Gov. Blanco, and
Louisiana Board of Regents High-bandwidth optical
network linking graduate-degree granting
institutions in the state. HPC hardware at 6
institutions
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Who all are part of LONI?

• Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge
• Louisiana Tech University-Ruston
• University of Louisiana-Lafayette
• University of New Orleans
• Southern University-Baton Rouge
• Tulane University-New Orleans
• LSU Health Sciences Center N.O.
• LSU Health Sciences Center Sport

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What does LONI do?

• High bandwidth optical network links the research
  institutions within the State
• Links the State to the National LambdaRail
• 85 Teraflops of computing power for
  computational research
• AccessGrid nodes backed by full-motion HD video
  links
• Transforms the way we work
• And problems that we can attack

• Will become a regional resource.

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Mississippi schools plugging in through Jackson,
MS
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LONI layers
CyberTools (EPSCoR RII)
LONI Institute
The Queen Bee
Dell HPC Clusters
Access Grid
IBM P5 Supercomputers
Louisiana Optical Network
LONI Sites
National Lambda Rail
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LONI Hardware
LaTech
LSU
SUBR
The Queen Bee
UNO
ULL
Tulane
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The Queen BeeDedicated facility - Baton Rouge

• 680 nodes 8 cores
• 5440 cores
• 4 Gb RAM per node
• 2.88 Tb
• 50 TFLOPS
• 23 in the world in June 2007
• 7 in an academic environment

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The worker bees

• 5 IBM p5-575 computers at member institutions
• 14 nodes 8 cores
• 112 cores
• 16 Gb memory per node
• 70 Gb disk per node
• 0.85 TFLOPS each

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The worker bees

• 6 Dell Linux clusters
• Located at member institutions
• 132 nodes 4 cores
• 528 cores
• 4 Gb memory per node
• 300 Gb storage
• 5 TFLOPS each

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Access Grid Nodes
High bandwidth optical network makes full-motion
high-definition video links over AccessGrid
possible, with full two-way interactivity and
data exchange. Two semester-length graduate
courses have been taught from LSU over the
AccessGrid and received at Louisiana Tech as well
as other campuses including Europe.
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The next five years The LONI Institute

• Supported by a 7M grant from the Louisiana Board
  of Regents 2007-2012
• About 8M in matching funds
• Hire outstanding senior faculty (12),
  computational scientists (6), provide graduate
  fellowships (18), build towers of strengths in
• Computational sciences
• Computational biology
• Computational materials science

HELP WANTED! NOW HIRING!!
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Summary

• Major strides in the last 5-6 years
• LONI Institute will build CI, especially human
  resources
• LONI has joined the TeraGrid
• CyberTools RII proposal funded, Track-2 in the
  works
• Beginning to have an impact on regions economy
• US Air Force Cybercommand provisionally
  head-quartered at BAFB-Shreveport
• Commitments from local governments to build a
  50M CyberInnovation Center for
  University-Industry-Air Force partnerships
• 8M Center for Secure Cyberspace Louisiana
  Tech-LSU partnership
• Future looks bright

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Thank You!