University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NCSA

In Partnership with OAS-ARTCA

Office of Science, Technology, and Innovation

NCSA

In Partnership with OAS-ARTCA

Office of Science, Technology, and Innovation

Danny PowellExecutive Director

National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Washington, DCOctober 18, 2012

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Basic Facts about NCSABasic Facts about NCSA• Applied Research Unit of the University of Illinois

– Established in 1986 with funding from NSF and State of Illinois

• Physical Facilities– NCSA Building: 140,000 sq.ft.– Data Center: 80,000 sq.ft. (20,000 sq.ft. raised floor)

• Computing Resources– Mid-Range Supercomputing systems: ~150 TF – 11+ Petaflop (Largest NSF-funded compute system) – Blue Waters - Cray– Archival storage system: 500+ PB (and growing)

• Staff - 260+ FTE – 90% Technical Staff

• Funding - State/National/International/Industrial sources – 88% project partnerships

• International Program - 25+ institutions from 14+ countries

• Industrial Program - 23+ companies (Fortune 50/100/500, smaller tech companies)

• Intellectual Property (IP) - Open source – openly shared (vast majority)

NCSA – Mission / Goals NCSA – Mission / Goals

• As an NSF-funded National Center– Provide high end compute and data resources to

scientists and engineers.

• As an Applications-Support center– Work with those

scientists/engineers/industry/government communities and teams to

• Understand what it is they are trying to do

• Provide them with (or develop where needed) the tools, software systems, expertise and services to achieve their goals in ways that haven’t been available to them to date.

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Theoretical&

BasicResearch

Commercialization&

Production(.com or .org)

AppliedPrototyping

&Development

Optimization&

Robustification

NCSABridges the Gap

BETWEENBasic Research &

Commercialization

Product Life Cycle

Phase 1Feasibilit

y

Phase 3Prototyping

Phase 4Production/Deployment

Phase 0Concept/

Vision

Universities& Labs

PrivateIndustry

Application

Phase 2Design/

Development

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NCSA Bridges Basic Research and Commercialization with Application

Outline Outline

• Basic info about NCSA

• Blue Waters – PetaScale Computer

• Advanced Information Systems

• Examples of current scientific support role

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Effective Global Science - It’s Not All About the TechnologyEffective Global Science - It’s Not All About the Technology

• Increasingly, more key, complex R&D issues require “Team Science”

• Increasingly, more effective Team Science projects include interdisciplinary and international cooperation

• Successful interdisciplinary/international collaborations require effective collaborative cyber-infrastructure frameworks

• Successful interdisciplinary/international collaborations require effective relationships

• Successful scientific relations, more often require time and effort and trust

• The “Social Engineering” aspects of successful interdisciplinary/international activities are more difficult than the “Technical Engineering” aspects

InternationalInternational

• Founding member of OAS-ARTCA

• Current, active partner of OAS-ARTCA– Joint projects (Pan American Advanced Studies Institute)(Radical

Innovation Summit)

– Enabling supercomputing resources for the OAS-ARTCA Hemispheric Scalable Research Challenge

– Executive Immersion Program – participating resource

– Active participant in multiple working groups – providing network infrastructure for video conference meetings

• Additional active collaborations with:– Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica,

Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tanzania, West Indies,

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International GoalsInternational Goals

• Important that we, as a Global Community, have the opportunities and the environments (technical/social/political) to effectively work together on important problems

• Together we can solve more challenges (and more effectively) than we can individually– Education

– Hazard planning and response

– Technology driven economic development

– Public health

– Environmental management

– Climate modeling

– Scientific discovery

– Human engineered systems

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Example of International Partnership: Natural Hazard Assessment / Response

Example of International Partnership: Natural Hazard Assessment / Response

• 6 years ago - Initially a Seismic Risk Assessment/Planning Tool

– Consequence based risk management for seismic events

– Consortium of 8 universities- Built for Memphis, Tennessee

• Selected by European Consortium as best platform

• Picked up and used by multiple countries

– Austria, China, Korea, New Zealand, Turkey, West Indies, others..

– Discussions w/ MesoAmerica, India, Jamaica, Lebanon, Costa Rica ..

• Extended by international community

– Multi-Hazard – Emergency Response

– Improvement on existing features (e.g. transportation models)

– New models (housing relocation, plume modeling, socio-economic, …)

• New Open Source Consortium – looking to share

– Setting up processes, management – looking for more participation

– Share the technology – share the improvements – coordinate training

– Integrate new community models (urban planning, environmental management, medical response, …)

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ConclusionConclusion

NCSA is one of many partners, and one of many significant assets of the OAS-ARTCA efforts

– We were a founding member

– We have been, and will continue to be actively involved in OAS-ARTCA activities

Scientific R&D is a global “contact sport”. We have a long history of collaborating with international partners – and a strong desire to extend the relationships we have with our Central / South American and Caribbean partners.

We would be happy to discuss potential opportunities !

NCSA website: ncsa.illinois.edu

Contact info:

– Danny Powell

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