Research Technologies at Indiana University – Brown

Bag Series PresentationCraig Stewart

stewart@iu.edu

Associate Dean, Research Technologies

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Audience, Services & Philosophy• Provide cyberinfrastructure to support

research at Indiana University• Engage with national research community• Indiana Economic Development Corp.• Computing, storage, software, consulting,

visualization, domain expertise, data management, workflow, usability…

• …enabling a philosophy of abundance…• Working with clients and collaborators

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Research Technologies Systems9/24/08

Photos © Tayagen Miller.May not be reused without permnission

Computing Systems

• Big Red [TeraGrid System, 25% Purdue]• 40 TFLOPS IBM JS21 SuSE Cluster • (1024) 2.5 GHz PPC 970MP blades• 8GB & 4 cores per blade• Myrinet 2000• LoadLeveler v3.4 & Moab

• Quarry [Local Usage]• 7 TFLOPS IBM HS21 RHEL Cluster• (112) 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon 5335 blades• 8GB & 8 cores per blade• Gigabit Ethernet Only• PBS (Torque) & Moab

Computing Systems

• Libra • 1.5 TFLOPS IBM JS20 AIX Cluster • (42) 2-way 2.3 GHz PPC 970 4GB blades• (1) 32-way 1.3 GHz 192GB p690• (9) 8-way 1.9 GHz 16-64GB p575• LoadLeveler & Moab

• AVIDD [retired]• 2 TFLOPS IBM RHEL Cluster• (208) 2.4 GHz Pentium4 Xeon nodes• 2.5GB & 2 cores per blade• Myrinet 2000• PBS (PBS Pro) & Moab

High Performance Storage

• Massive Data Storage System [HPSS]• 1.6 PB Geographically Distributed Tape Archive• 165 TB Disk Cache (DDN Storage) • HPSS v6.2 • pFTP, HSI, GridFTP, SFTP, SMB, MDSSWeb

• Big Red GPFS• 266 TB IBM GPFS File System• 1 GB/s aggregate write• (8) S2A9500 DDN Controllers• (16) IBM p505 Storage Servers

High Performance Storage

• Research File System• 50 TB OpenAFS System• Native AFS Clients, SFTP, RFSWeb

• Data Capacitor • 535 TB Lustre File System • 14.5 GB/s aggregate write• (12) S2A9500 Data Direct Networks Controllers• (24) Dell 2950 OSS Servers (w/Myricom 10G)

High Performance Networks

• IU Global NOC - http://globalnoc.iu.edu/• Internet2, National LambdaRail, TransPAC2, CIC OmniPOP,

Indiana GigaPOP

• I-Light Fiber Optic Network - http://www.ilight.net/• State Funded 1999 & Expanded in 2006• 36 Fibers connecting IUPUI & IUB• 24 Fibers connecting IUPUI & Purdue

• Force10 Research Backplane• Two E1200 switch connecting IUPUI & IUB at 40Gb• 3 additional E600 switches

High Performance Applications

• Support users of IU's HPC systems• Researchers at IU and TeraGrid users

• Migrate applications to HPC systems• Installation and configuration• Optimization for the target architecture

• Performance analysis• Profiling and tracing of serial and parallel codes

• Extended Consulting • Advanced support through TeraGrid• In depth collaborations with scientists at IU

LEAD portal

Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL)

• Started in 1997 with IU’s VR initiative• Consulting, development, hardware & software, EOT…• Support research in a broad range of arts and sciences

AVL Services• Central facilities: VR Theater and Ultra-high-resolution display

wall (IUPUI), Lindley Hall 120 (IUB)• On-site and re-deployable mid-range systems:

John-e-Boxes/3DTVs, tracking systems, haptics, other projector and large-screen displays

• Software support: commercial tools, open source, custom-developed applications and modules

• Short-term consultations: facilities use & support, software help• Long-term consultations/projects: coding, content development• K-12 and community outreach + public relations

AVL – Sampling of Recent Projects• VR Realistic Lighting Simulation – Jan Cowan, Design Studies, IUPUI• Pathview information visualization tool – Scott Long, Sociology, IUB• Illuminated Diagram display for traveling exhibit on mapping science –

Katy Borner, SLIS, IUB• Stereo display and tracking system – Jake Streepey, Kinesiology, IUPUI• 3D Color Printing – Nicole Jacquard, Sculpture and Malcolm Smith,

Ceramics, IUB• Temporal volume reconstruction from radiovideographs (“BirdsWords”)

– Rod Suthers, Medical Sciences, IUB• Virtual moon rocks display – Brownsburg (IN) Challenger Center –

community outreach • Haptics tool for testing and training for Developmental Coordination

Disorder – Geoff Bingham, Psychology, IUB

Digital Library Program Services

• Project Planning including selection guidelines, grant-writing, financial planning and copyright consulting

• Digitization Services for digitization of images, audio and video

• Electronic Text Services for digitization and encoding of text

• Metadata Services for help with creation and mapping of metadata

• Interface Design & Usability Services for wire framing, prototyping, design and usability assessment

The Chymistry of Isaac NewtonWith the support of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton is producing a scholarly online edition as one part of an integrated project that includes new research on Newton's chymistry. Currently, the project focus is to build a repository of searchable transcriptions with page images. Our ultimate goal is to provide complete annotations for each manuscript and comprehensive interactive tools for working with the texts. To date, about seven hundred pages have been transcribed and encoded in TEI/XML. Of these, roughly six hundred have been edited and are available online, including Newton's Most Complete Laboratory Notebook.

Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities (IDAH)

• OVPR initiative begun in 2007• led by Dr. Ruth Stone• links a network of disciplinary experts and highly

technical faculty and support staff who work in interdisciplinary teams on collection-building, tool-building, and methods for study and analysis of collections.

• Goal: to redefine research and scholarship in the arts and humanities on the IU Bloomington campus.

Stat and Math Software• Most heavily used service within RT• 30+ software packages supported

• Matlab, R, SAS, SPSS, Maple…

• Consulting services, custom tutorials• Data Management Services• Linux, AIX, Windows, Macintosh

GIS Enterprise Services

http://gis.iu.edu

• Archives large geospatial datasets ~ 14 TB• Enterprise Oracle geodatabase (ArcSDE) 4.45 TB• Map publishing services (ArcIMS)• Supports IndianaMap Project

RT Programs in Life Sciences

• First domain-specific support group in RT

• Support Bloomington/IUPUI/IUSM

• Advanced Information Technology Core AITC - formal IUSM “Core” facility

• Gateway to all RT services; research data storage, supercomputers, visualization, and biomedical applications

Recent AITC Success Stories

• 100x speed up in drug discovery research (Dr. Samy Meroueh, CCBB)

• 25x speed up in post-acquisition image processing of 3D PET scans (Dr. Gary Hutchins, Radiology)

• Center for Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Hub project (www.indianactsi.org)

• HIPAA Compliance (soon!)

Grid Projects

• Open Science Grid• IU provides central operations center function

for the Open Science Grid• DOE & NSF funding, primary audience high

energy physics

• TeraGrid• IU is one of 11 resource providers to the NSF-

funded TeraGrid• TeraGrid now provides more than 1 petaflop

of aggregate computing power

The Future of RT

• Grids? Clouds?• Virtualization, commoditization, performance

• Multicore Processors, Cells, GPUs?• Teraflop on a single chip

• Workflow and Data Movement

• Complexity Hiding Interfaces

• When HPC becomes commodity…

Some Survey Results

• Can you move stat/math online so I don't need to walk to their offices to buy software

• I did not appreciate being harassed to take this survey. • need faster, friendlier MDSS for research storage.

IU CyberInfrastructure Newsletter

• http://rtinfo.uits.iu.edu/news/

IU Knowledge Base• http://kb.iu.edu

For more information:

http://researchtechnologies.uits.indiana.edu/

Or send email to researchtechnologies@iu.edu

Or contact Associate Dean Craig Stewart at stewart@iu.edu