Advancing Scientific Discovery through TeraGrid

1. Advancing Scientific Discovery through TeraGrid Scott Lathrop TeraGrid Director of Education, Outreach and Training University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory lathrop@mcs.anl.gov www.teragrid.org

2. 11 Resource Providers, One Facility Grid Infrastructure Group (UChicago) UW PSC UC/ANL NCAR PU NCSA UNC/RENCI IU Caltech ORNL U Tenn. USC/ISI SDSC LSU TACC Resource Provider (RP) Software Integration Partner

3. TeraGrid Objectives • DEEP Science: Enabling Petascale Science • Make Science More Productive through an integrated set of very-high capability resources • Address key challenges prioritized by users • WIDE Impact: Empowering Communities • Bring TeraGrid capabilities to the broad science community • Partner with science community leaders - “Science Gateways” • OPEN Infrastructure, OPEN Partnership • Provide a coordinated, general purpose, reliable set of services and resources • Partner with campuses and facilities

4. TeraGrid Resources • Computing - over 250 Tflops today and growing • 400 Tflop system comes on-line in January at TACC • U Tennesee system to come on-line in 2008 • Centralized help desk for all resource providers • Visualization - Remote visualization servers and software • Data • Allocation of data storage facilities • Over 100 Scientific Data Collections • Access • Shibboleth testbed to facilitate campus access • Central allocations mechanism • Human Support • Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA) • Education and training events and resources • Over 20 Science Gateways

5. Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications Virtualized Resources, Ensembles:FOAM Climate Model Liu (UWisc) Coupled Simulation: Full Body Arterial Tree Simulation Karniadakis (Brown) Sources: Ian Foster (UC/ANL), Mike Papka (UC/ANL), George Karniadakis (Brown). Images by UC/ANL.

6. Requesting Allocations of Time • TeraGrid resources are provided for free to academic researchers and educators • Development Allocations Committee (DAC) for start-up accounts up to 30,000 hours of time are requests processed in two weeks - start-up and courses • Medium Resource Allocations Committee (MRAC) for requests of up to 500,000 hours of time are reviewed four times a year • Large Resource Allocations Committee (LRAC) for requests of over 500,000 hours of time are reviewed twice a year

7. TeraGrid Usage Specific Allocations Roaming Allocations 33% Annual Growth 200 Normalized Units (millions) 100 TeraGrid currently delivers an average of 420,000 cpu-hours per day -> ~21,000 CPUs DC Dave Hart (dhart@sdsc.edu)

8. TeraGrid Usage Modes in CY2006 500 Grid-y Users

9. Science GatewaysBroadening Participation in TeraGrid Workflow Composer • Increasing investment by communities in their own cyberinfrastructure, but heterogeneous: • Resources • Users – from expert to K-12 • Software stacks, policies • Science Gateways • Provide “TeraGrid Inside” capabilities • Leverage community investment • Three common forms: • Web-based Portals • Application programs running on users' machines but accessing services in TeraGrid • Coordinated access points enabling users to move seamlessly between TeraGrid and other grids. Source: Dennis Gannon (gannon@cs.indiana.edu)

10. Gateways are growing in numbers 10 initial projects as part of TG proposal >20 Gateway projects today No limit on how many gateways can use TG resources Prepare services and documentation so developers can work independently Open Science Grid (OSG) Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment (SPRUCE) National Virtual Observatory (NVO) Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) Computational Chemistry Grid (GridChem) Computational Science and Engineering Online (CSE-Online) GEON(GEOsciences Network) Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) SCEC Earthworks Project Network for Computational Nanotechnology and nanoHUB GIScience Gateway (GISolve) Biology and Biomedicine Science Gateway Open Life Sciences Gateway The Telescience Project Grid Analysis Environment (GAE) Neutron Science Instrument Gateway TeraGrid Visualization Gateway, ANL BIRN Gridblast Bioinformatics Gateway Earth Systems Grid Astrophysical Data Repository (Cornell)

11. TeraGrid as a Social Network • Annual TeraGrid conference - TeraGrid ‘08 - Las Vegas - June • LRAC/MRAC liaisons • SGW community very successful • Transitioning to consulting model • CI Days - campus outreach • OSG/Internet2/NLR/EDUCAUSE/MSI-CIEC partnership • HPC University • OSG, Shodor, Krell, OSC, NCSI, MSI-CIEC partnership • Education and Outreach • Engaging thousands of people

12. SC 07-09 Education Program Goals • Multi-year, year-long, Education Program to provide continuity and broader, sustained impact in education • Increase participation of larger, more diverse communities in the SC Conference • Faculty, students, international, under-represented • Integrate HPC into undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics classrooms • Significantly expanded digital libraries of resources for teaching and learning • Sponsors: ACM, IEEE, NCSI, CSERD Intel, Wolfram Research, TeraGrid

13. “HPC University” • Advance researchers’ HPC skills • Catalog of live and self-paced training • Schedule series of training courses • Gap analysis of materials to drive development • Work with educators to enhance the curriculum • Search catalog of HPC resources • Schedule workshops for curricular development • Leverage good work of others • Offer Student Research Experiences • Enroll in HPC internship opportunities • Offer Student Competitions • Publish Science and Education Impact • Promote via TeraGrid Science Highlights, iSGTW • Publish education resources to NSDL-CSERD

14. Broadening Participation in TeraGrid Broaden awareness of TeraGrid Campus Visits (coupled with CI Days) Professional Society Meetings Develop promotional materials Build human capacity for Terascale research In-depth consulting (5-8 consultants) TeraGrid Fellowship Program for faculty and students Mentoring Program Campus Champions Enhance the usability and access of TG via SGs Assess Science Gateway readiness and community requirements Develop replicable strategies for integrating TeraGrid resources into SGs, with an emphasis on under-served community needs

15. CI Days • Working with campuses to take a leadership role applying CI to accelerate scientific discovery • First event held at UC Davis has helped catalyze campus-wide discussions and planning • Collaboration of Open Science Grid, Internet 2, National Lamda Rail, EDUCAUSE, Minority Serving Institution Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition, TeraGrid, and local and regional organizations • Campus Champions Program http://cidays.org

16. For More Information www.teragrid.org www.computationalscience.org www.s-education.org www.nsdl.org cserd.nsdl.org www.nsf.gov/oci/ http://cidays.org lathrop@mcs.anl.gov