Alliance - EPSCoR Liaison Dan VanBelleghem

1. National Computational Science Alliance Alliance - EPSCoR Liaison Dan VanBelleghem ADEC 2001

2. PITAC:President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee • Information Technology Research: Investing in Our FutureFebruary 1999 • Findings and Recommendations • Priorities for Research • The Government’s Essential Role • Recommended Funding Increases ADEC 2001

3. Information Technology: Transforming our Society • Advances in computing and communications have transformed our society in many ways. • The rational for funding long-term research goes beyond economic benefit and national security to societal gains involving “transformations.” ADEC 2001

4. Ten Critical National Challenge Transformations which affect the way we: • Communicate, • Deal with information, • Learn, • Practice health care, • Conduct commerce, • Work, • Design and build things, • Perform research, • Understand the environment, and • Govern ADEC 2001

5. Transformations which affect the way we: Perform Research Challenge: Research problems have become more complex and interdisciplinary; innovative ways to collaborate are needed. Vision: Research is conducted in virtual laboratories in which scientists and engineers can routinely perform their work without regard to physical location - interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, and accessing information in digital libraries. All scientific and technical journals are available on line, allowing readers to download equations and databases and manipulate variables to interactively explore the published research. ADEC 2001

6. PITAC Findings and Recommendations • Federal information technology R&D investment is dangerously inadequate • Federal information technology R&D is too heavily focused on near-term problems • Recommendation: Create a strategic initiative in long-term information technology R&D ADEC 2001

7. PITAC Priorities for Research • Software • Scalable Information Infrastructure • High-End Computing • Socioeconomic Impact & Management and Implementation ADEC 2001

8. National Computation Science Alliance • NSF Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) • National Computational Science Alliance (UIUC/NCSA) • National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (UCSD/SDSC) • Terascale computing facility (Pittsburg) • Alliance (alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu) • Leading Edge Site at NCSA • Approx. 60 partnering institutions • Industrial Partners Program • Alliance Affiliates ADEC 2001

9. National Computation Science Alliance • NSF Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) • National Computational Science Alliance (UIUC/NCSA) • National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (UCSD/SDSC) • Terascale computing facility (Pittsburg) • Alliance (alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu) • Leading Edge Site at NCSA • Approx. 60 partnering institutions • Industrial Partners Program • Alliance Affiliates ADEC 2001

10. PACI Prototyping America’s 21st Century Information Infrastructure The National Technology Grid ADEC 2001

11. Alliance Teams Building the National Technology Grid • Applications Technologies (AT) • Develop grid enabled scientific applications • Enabling Technologies (ET) • Develop the grid middleware • Partners for Advanced Computational Services (PACS) • Develop the grid infrastructure and access (hardware + people) • PACI - Education, Outreach and Training (PACI-EOT) • Develop the human resources ADEC 2001

12. Applications Technologies • Chemical Engineering • Cosmology • Environmental Hydrology • Nanomaterials • Scientific Instrumentation Focus on building community codes ADEC 2001

13. Enabling Technologies • Science portals & user interface • Science portals • Colloborative environments • Visualization and analysis • Grid services and testbeds • Grid services • Virtual Machine Room (VMR) • Access grid • Beta grid • Computing and system tools • Commodity clusters • System software & libraries ADEC 2001

14. PACS: Partners for AdvancedComputational Services Gateway to the Alliance • PACS partner institutions • Argonne National Lab • Boston University • CIC • EPSCoR • NCSA • Ohio Supercomputing Center • SURA • U. Kansas • U. Kentucky • U. New Mexico (AHPCC & MHPCC) • U. Wisconsin ADEC 2001

15. PACS Focus • Advanced Computational Services • Computational Resources • User Services • Training • VMR Deployment • Cluster Computing • Access Grid Deployment • Communities • EPSCoR • SURA • CIC ADEC 2001

16. Resource Allocations • Small Allocations Committee (<10,000) • Available at all ACRS partner sites • Alliance Allocation Board (10,000-100,000) • All Alliance resources • Peer reviewed quarterly • National Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) • Alliance, NPACI & TSF resources • Peer reviewed semi-annually Over 10 million Alliance processor hours delivered in FY00 http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/applying/Overview.html ADEC 2001

17. Alliance Resources http://alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu • Computational resources • Small to huge resources available • Software • Community codes • Cluster tools (Condor) • Metacomputing tools (e.g. Globus) • Making the Grid seamless - Computers/People • Training and education ADEC 2001

18. Making the Grid Seamless Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science and Software The ACCESS Facility ADEC 2001

19. Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science, and Software (ACCESS) • 7000 square feet in the Washington D.C. metro area • Remote and local presence of Alliance technologies, leaders, researchers, and partners • Collaborative Demonstrations, Training and Advanced Video Teleconferencing • ImmersaDesk, PowerWall, and advanced high bandwidth applications • Part of the network of Alliance Distributed Computational Centers throughout the Nation ADEC 2001

20. ACCESS Mission The mission of ACCESS is to advance scientific research in computational science: Explore the development and use of advanced technologies Foster national and international partnerships between academic, government, public, and private sectors Accelerate technology transfer ADEC 2001

21. ACCESS Floor Plan High-end Demonstration Area (1290 square feet) ADEC 2001

22. ACCESS Floor Plan High-endTraining Center (908 square feet) ADEC 2001

23. ACCESS Floor Plan Executive Conference Room (458 square feet) ADEC 2001

24. The Grid Links People with Distributed Resources on a National Scale ADEC 2001 http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Tools/IPG

25. Access Grid Computational Grid Layered Approach to the GRID Science Portals & Workbenches Perform-ance Analysis Science Portals Twenty-First Century Applications Build the GRID Access Services & Technology Computational Services GRID Architecture Grid Services (resource independent) Grid Fabric (resource dependent) Capability Computing Networking, Devices and Systems ADEC 2001

26. The Access Grid Alliance is prototyping a collaborative virtual workspace that allows group-to-group, real time interactionover the Internet. ADEC 2001

27. What is the Access Grid? • Experimental suite of hardware, software, tools for live group collaboration over Internet • Audio, video conferencing, Power Point: one computer advances slides on multiple remote computers • Led by Argonne National Lab team ADEC 2001

28. Access Grid Kits Mural Displays, Front or Rear Projected, Software to Drive System, Audio Cost Effective Base System ~ $50k, Driven by PCs, Desktop Accessible 10 Sites in FY99 - 34 Sites in FY00 - +50 sites in FY01 Access GridEnabling Groups to Interact With Grid Resources ADEC 2001

29. Visualization at ACCESS ImmersaDesk Projection based virtual reality system for 3D scientific modeling and collaboration ADEC 2001

30. ACCESS Collaborative Workspaces ACCESS studios facilitate real-time collaboration among geographically dispersed Alliance-partner researchers ADEC 2001

31. June, 2000 Chautauqua NSF CISE Assistant Director Dr. Ruzena Bacjzsy addresses audience at the fourth Alliance Chautauqua via the Access Gridfrom the ACCESS Center ADEC 2001

32. Distinguished Lecture Series Vinton Cerf, Internet Pioneer, developer of TCP/IP, formerly of DARPA, head of MCI WorldCom addresses audience at Distinguished Lecture Series ADEC 2001

33. High School Community Outreach Maryland Virtual High School sponsors 4-day Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) training for high school students, July 2000 ADEC 2001

34. Computational Science Summer Workshop - ARL PET Training, OSC, MVHS, NCSA program at Alliance ACCESS Center, DC - High School teachers, students - Weeklong workshop to foster engineering & science careers & train trainers. Aug. ‘99 ADEC 2001

35. Workshops and Seminars Feb., 2000: Committee on Institutional Cooperation Visualization Workshop: NCSA researcher Donna Cox presents from UIUC, in Champaign-Urbana, IL. to Washington DC audience ADEC 2001

36. ACCESS Key Contact Dan VanBelleghem Alliance - EPSCoR Liaison 703-248-0121 dvanbell@ncsa.uiuc.edu or Janet Thot-Thompson NCSA Associate Director, ACCESS 703 248-0072 jtt@ncsa.uiuc.edu ADEC 2001