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Steven Luis, Assoc. Director for IT Florida International University School of Computer Science

School of Computer Science Research and Education Laboratories. Steven Luis, Assoc. Director for IT Florida International University School of Computer Science April 2004. School of Computer Science Facts. 1000+ undergraduate students in ABET/CSAB accredited CS BS program & IT BS program

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Steven Luis, Assoc. Director for IT Florida International University School of Computer Science

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  1. School of Computer Science Research and Education Laboratories Steven Luis, Assoc. Director for IT Florida International University School of Computer Science April 2004

  2. School of Computer Science Facts • 1000+ undergraduate students in ABET/CSAB accredited CS BS program & IT BS program • 70+ MS students, 50 Ph.D. students • BS degree program in Jamaica, MS program in China • 18 ranked faculty 8 instructors, 35 research assistants, 4 research associates, 12 staff members. • Average $2 million competitive research funding annually

  3. SCS R&D Programs • Research Areas: • Database – high performance semantic/object-oriented DBMS, internet-based database applications, visualization • Software engineering – software modeling, design, verification and testing, component technology and middleware, architecture • Computer communication and networking • Software security • Multimedia systems • Internet technology and mobile computing • Real time systems • Multidisciplinary R&D – Bioinformatics, healthcare and medicine, disaster management, transportation, environment, material science, etc. • Funded by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, ARO, BMDO, AFRL, FEMA, DOI, USGS, IBM, and other agencies and corporations.

  4. SCS Research Centers and Laboratories • High Performance Database Research Center (HPDRC) • POC: Naphtali Rishe, rishen@cs.fiu.edu, http://hpdrc.cs.fiu.edu • $10M+ funding, NSF, NASA, USGS, IBM etc. • 20+ graduate students, 6 research staff/postdoc/visiting professor • Center for Advanced Distributed System Engineering (CADSE) • POC: Xudong He, hex@cs.fiu.edu, http://cadse.cs.fiu.edu • $3M+ funding, NSF, NASA, ARO, AFOSR, etc. • 20+ graduate students, 1 postdoc • NSF Center for Advanced Information Processing and High Confidence Systems (CREST) (new) • POC: Yi Deng, deng@cs.fiu.edu • $4.5M funding, NSF, 10+ faculty members, 20 graduate students • Distributed Multimedia & Information System Laboratory (DMIS) • POC: Shu-Ching Chen, chens@cs.fiu.edu, 20 graduate students • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory (BCB) • POC: Giri Narasimhan, giri@cs.fiu.edu, 7 graduate students. • Secure Software Architecture Laboratory (SSA) • POC: Raimund Ege, ege@cs.fiu.edu, 9 graduate students

  5. High Performance Database Research Center • NASA Regional Applications Center • $27 million in research funding: NSF, NASA, USGS, IBM and others • 20 TB+ of public data (Largest public GIS-like DB) • The TerraFly project • Web-enabled GIS system for supporting visualization of spatial and remote sensed imagery data • Featured in the Nature, Yahoo’s weekly picks, USA today … • http://terrafly.fiu.edu

  6. NSF Center for Advanced Information Processing and High Confidence Systems • $4.5M funding from NSF, joint effort with Computer Engineering • Multidisciplinary Research with 4 major components • High confidence real-time system design • Multi-dimensional data modeling and query research • Safety critical assistive technology research • Information processing with neuroscience applications • 10+ faculty members, 20 Ph.D. students, external partners • www.crest.fiu.edu

  7. SCS Laboratory Overview • Multi-million dollar facility funded primarily by research grants and industry donations. • 25+ instructional and dedicated research labs in ECS. • 350+ workstations/desktops. • Over 100+ servers: File, compute, web, email… • Microsoft Windows XP, Redhat Linux, and Sun Solaris. • Over 1.5TB+ of regularly backed up storage. • Extensive automated network and server monitoring 24x7.

  8. SCS Networking Capabilities • Laboratories interconnected by a redundant fiber-optic network. • Gigabit connected servers, routers, and primary switches. • Native IPV6 enabled via Abilene. • Campus network is connected to Internet 2, Americas Path (South/Central American Research Network), Starlight/Startap and other international networks. • 802.11b Wireless access in offices, research and instructional labs. • Laptop bars in open labs. • Native Multicast (PIM-SM) available. • Access Grid, Polycomm station, and other video conferencing technologies.

  9. SCS Computing Capabilities • 120+ open lab desktop systems to run distributed processing experiments (in user mode). • 20+ node Linux Beowulf cluster. • Sun and Dell enterprise servers for compute intensive work. • Databases like POSTGRESQL, MySQL, and Oracle. • Middleware technologies like Globus Toolkit, CORBA and other Web Services toolkits. • Microsoft .NET Framework, IIS, MS SQL, and other MS technologies. • Open Source Infrastructure. Our environment takes advantage of hundreds of open source software solutions including Apache with full mods., PHP, Perl, and other tools.

  10. SCS Undergraduate and Graduate Labs • John C. Comfort laboratory (JCCL): 61 workstations running Windows XP (55 seats), RedHat Linux (5 seats) and Mac OS X (1 seat). • Graduate lab: 18 XP and 4 Linux. • Services 70+ SCS classes. • Students assigned accounts on semester basis. • Intel Pentium 4, 2.0GHz,512MB of RAM, 24x CD-RW, 19" color monitor. • Windows XP software: MS Office, MS Visual Studio.Net and MSDN libraries, Masm 6.15, Visio 2002, Rational Rose 2000e, Jcreator 2.5 pro, Eclipse 2.1, Xwin32: X server, and a number of Internet connectivity tools. • Each student is given 100MB of file storage space. • Students can login remotely into several Linux and Solaris file and compute servers.

  11. Instructional Lab • Dedicated computer training lab. 16 Intel Pentium 4, 2.0GHz, 512MB RAM, 24x CD-RW, 17" flat panel display. • Windows XP with Xwin32, X Server for Unix/Linux apps. • Classroom instructional software, NetOp School, which allows an instructor to lockdown the systems, isolate one system and redisplay on the computer data projection system. • Instructors can use a wired workstation in the room or a wireless PC tablet to operate their presentation.

  12. Service and Operations • Support staff: 4.5 full-time employees plus part-time lab asst. • Project management for lab development. • Network layer 1, 2 and 3 service. • Server/Desktop OS installation, tune, patch, debug and security. • Procurement and asset management. • Web-based application development. • Web-based Trouble Ticket system. • Annual faculty and semesterly student customer surveys • Free Seminars on lab relevant topics: Dev. tools, environment. • Free MS Software for faculty/students academic work. • Free Sophos anti-virus for faculty/students.

  13. Challenge: Linux/Microsoft Integration • Goal: Seamless heterogeneous computing. • Current environment: Separate file-systems and credentials with cross-mounting capacity. • Preparing Samba 3.0 implementation • Unified account credentials. • Web page to change p/w. • LDAP hooks. • Unified file-system. • MS Desktop, MS profile, and Linux/MS user home file systems can be placed under one home directory location. • Improved quota management. • One Windows domain model consolidation. • Interoperate with Windows 2003 Server.

  14. Challenge: Desktop Image management and deployment • Goal: On-demand OS/application installation. • Norton Ghost 7.x. • Image server. • Multicasting images. • Kernel dependencies and multiple architectures: Intel and AMD. • Legacy equipment and image management. • Desktop Support end-of-life. • LanDesk application management • SUS vs. LanDesk Patch Manager?

  15. Challenge: Network, Server, Desktop Security • Goal: Secure and reliable computing environment. • Patch, patch, patch… • Minimize MS outlook. • Consolidate IIS/ MS SQL dependency. • Sophos antivirus on all desktops. • Antivirus mail filtering. • Firewall around at risk systems. • Restricted admin account usage. • Monitoring of all servers and network devices. • What more can be done??? • Improved patch management. • Advanced network monitoring tools to identify infected systems. • More education…

  16. Challenge: Software Development Environment • Goal: Provide innovative environment for instruction and research. • Console manageable web-hosting environment for students. • Limited control of sub-domain. (“Sandbox” model) • Web services management. • Quota report on file system, compute and other resources. • Open Source application installation. • Create db and other accounts. • Monitor activity of web services. • User-mode Linux? • MS 2003, Longhorn, Studio.NET, IIS and MS SQL tool integration. • Java and Eclipse

  17. Challenge: Collaboration tools • Goal: Provide collaboration infrastructure to improve communication and productivity. • Courseware/Student relationship management. • Groupware: CMS, Calendaring, Forums, Blogs… • Document management • Workflow/Authorization • Grant proposal preparation. • Materials archive. • Search. • Access control. • PantherSoft integration. • Intellectual Property portfolio.

  18. SCS Goals: Five Years • 1300 undergraduate students • 200 graduate students • 70 Ph.D. students • $3M annual external research funding • 10 new tenure-track or tenured faculty members • Top 50 rank nationwide in competitive research funding • The leading provider of computing and IT talent and resources in the region

  19. Steven Luis, Assoc. Dir for IT 305-348-6215 (office) (305) 348-2336 (fax) luiss@cs.fiu.edu www.cs.fiu.edu Contact & Information

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