Research & Research & Academic Academic

Computing @ IUComputing @ IU

Bradley C. WheelerAssociate Vice President & Dean

Office of the VP for Information Technology & CIO

bwheeler@iu.edu

A mission to support researchers and artists in co-creating the future

A foundation of sustainable production services

All computing/research images from Indiana University sites

Researcher Consulting & Education

EngineeringComputing

Frontiers

Grant Initiation & Collaboration

SystemsAdministration

Front Office Back Office

Our Work

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Services

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Dr. Kate Pilachoski, Professor of Astronomy

Central Research Computing at Central Research Computing at IUIU

$8.6M Budget

68 Staff9 Ph.D.sNew TeraGrid SiteLead Appointment

Assoc VP for University-wide (8 campuses)IUB & IUPUI two core research campuses

Of CSG Interest…Of CSG Interest…

Philosophy of Activities and Funding

High Performance ComputingLeveraged Facilities Management ApproachCentral-edge partnering

Rethinking the Research Front Office

I-LightI-Light

Very high speed optical fiber network connects IUB, IUPUI, and Purdue

University multiple strands of the most modern

fiber first higher ed owned in nation

Provides enough networking capacity for the next 10-20 years between the three main research campuses (IU, Purdue, IUPUI)

The networking infrastructure for collaboration of many sorts

IBM Research SP IBM Research SP (Aries/Orion Complex)(Aries/Orion Complex)

1.005 TeraFLOPS. 1st University-owned supercomputer in US to exceed 1 TFLOPS peak theoretical processing capacity.

Geographically distributed at IUB and IUPUI

Initially 50th, now 170th in Top 500 supercomputer list

An enabler of collaborative research using very large scale computations

AVIDDAVIDD

Analysis and Visualization of Instrument-Driven Data

Distributed Linux cluster. Three locations: IUN, IUPUI, IUB

2.164 TFLOPS, 0.5 TB RAM, 10 TB Disk

First distributed Linux cluster to achieve more than 1 TFLOPS on Linpack benchmark – currently 50th on Top500 list

Massive Data Storage SystemMassive Data Storage System

Easy to use, no cost to users

Reliable and robust HPSS (High Performance

Software System) Automatic replication of

data between Indianapolis and Bloomington, via I-light.

180 TB capacity with existing tapes; total capacity of 2.4 PB.

100 TB currently in use; >5 TB for biomedical data

John-E-Box - CommercializedJohn-E-Box - Commercialized

R&D DisclosuresR&D Disclosures

7 inventions disclosed since 1997 6 open source

software commercialization permitted

John-E-Box design licensed and now in commercial production by an Indiana firm

Mellon Foundation grant helps create digital video archive of world music

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new world of music from around the globe will soon be available to students and scholars. A research team from Indiana University and the University of Michigan has received an $875,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation… 5 May 2003

Digital Libraries…Digital Libraries…Co-creating & Co-creating & ProductionProduction

Production Digital Library Production Digital Library ServicesServices

Centralization vs Centralization vs DecentralizationDecentralization

Leveraged Centralized Resources3 HPC systemsMass storageVisualizationNetworking (Teragrid, etc.)

Leveraged ServicesStat/Math Consulting/SoftwareLinux/Unix SupportMarkup Language Services

Funding Mix• One-time cash• Recurring base• Many grants• Some fee for service

Centrally Funded…Broad AccessCentrally Funded…Broad Access

No charge backHigh Performance ComputationMassive Data Storage (online, nearline)

» Possible negotiated chargeback in excess of >50 TB

Lots of partnershipsWith faculty on vendor equipment grantsWith faculty on major NSF equipment

grants Partnerships supporting faculty research.

Partnering Example:Partnering Example:Facilities Management AgreementFacilities Management Agreement

Offer to researchers:Buy our equipment specificationsPut your equipment in our machine roomYou have priority on job queue to that

equipmentWe leverage it for broader use when you

aren’t using itYou get extra “hero runs” against the

entire cluster as neededWe handle the system admin work

Partnering Example: Partnering Example: Centralized Life Science Data ServiceCentralized Life Science Data Service “Any research within the IU School of Medicine should be able to

transparently query all relevant public external data sources and all sources internal to the IU School of Medicine to which the researcher has read privileges”

Based on use of IBM DiscoveryLink(TM)

BLAST is accessible via DL’s wrappers.

Implemented in partnership with IBM Life Sciences via IU-IBM strategic relationship in the life sciences

IU contributed writing of data parsers

Example: Example: Demonstrating New CapabilitiesDemonstrating New Capabilities

Global analysis of the evolutionary relationships of arthropods

HPC Challenge Award winner at SC03 Conference Demonstrates new capabilities in grid computing

while advancing research in evolutionary biology

6 Continents641 Processors

1st

Partnering &CollaborationsPartnering &Collaborations AVIDD – 20 faculty, dozens of

staff, $1.8M in NSF funding

Research in Indiana – 3 universities, dozens of faculty

Simulation of 747 crashing into Pentagon: dozens of engineers, 1 network, 2 supercomputers

IP-Grid – 2 universities, dozens of faculty, $3M in NSF

INGEN – 100+ faculty, hundreds of staff, $105M funding from Lilly Endowment, Inc.

GlobalNoc – dozens of staff supporting thousands of researchers worldwide

New Front OfficesNew Front Offices

Consolidation of Research Support Services into “one stop shopping”

All research technology consulting (HPC, storage, Linux, visualization, statistics, markup languages…)

Reference librarians, Institutional Review Board, Technology Transfer, Contracts & Grants, …

IU-BloomingtonResearch Commons

Coming Soon!

Miscellaneous WinsMiscellaneous Wins

“The Least You Need to Know” series

Leverage in licensing Fully subsidized Low per user

Ongoing work… Leveraging IU’s general

support KnowledgeBase for research support

More internal partnering for leverage in services

National and International National and International AgendaAgenda

NSF: National Cyberinfrastructure Report

Recognition that IT infrastructure is essential for advancing scientific research

Planning for leverage and scale are essential – the “one off” project model is inadequate

Unfunded roadmap…but influential

http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report

The “Business” of “eScience”The “Business” of “eScience”

Establishing effective organizational designs and shared organizational routines that achieve investment objectives

» We will develop or they will be imposed by NSF

Developing economies of scale beyond a “lab” mentality

» Service Level Agreements from Resource Providers

Maturing support mechanisms, security, and documentation for the masses

Dear Colleagues…Dear Colleagues…

“…NSF has identified a management model to support ETF management and operations. The model identified includes one System Management Group (SMG), nine Resource Providers (RPs) and an ETF Advisory Board (EAB). The respective roles and responsibilities of the SMG, the RPs and the EAB are defined below…”

Economies of Scale?Economies of Scale?

Are there economies of scale in activity X? Can universities capture these economies?

Cost $

Number Participating

Domains:•Faculty Member & School?•School & Campus?•Campus & Univ System?•Among Universities?•Among Nations•Between Domains

Research & Research & Academic Academic

Computing @ IUComputing @ IU

Bradley C. WheelerAssociate Vice President & Dean

Office of the VP for Information Technology & CIO

bwheeler@iu.edu