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Radha Nandkumar EU-Med Event 2 National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Sustaining e-Infrastructures

Radha Nandkumar, Ph.D., MBA

Senior Research Scientist &

Director, ICARE- International & CAmpus Relations

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[email protected]

Panel session: Role of EU, governments and private sector in

sustaining e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean region


Introducing Myself

• In a nutshell

– At NCSA since inception & a UIUC Physics Department graduate

– Participant and contributor in NCSA’s evolution

• Current Activities

– Directing the Faculty Fellows Program

• Working with NCSA Staff and a wide community of Campus Faculty

• Working with non-UIUC faculty interested in NCSA Activities

– Directing the International Affiliates Program

• Enabling International partnerships and collaborations for NCSA

– Enabling and monitoring interdisciplinary computational science research at NCSA

– Active involvement SCxx Tech Pgm, Diversity in Computing, and Women in Computing, Grid/ HPC/CI Forums

– Advisory Boards of Multiple Institutions nationally and internationally

• Professional preparation

– Ph.D. (Astrophysics) from the Department of Physics, UIUC

• Condensed Matter Physics in Astrophysical Systems (neutron stars) – Thesis Advisor – Prof. David Pines

– Completed an Executive MBA in May 2002 – Cosmic ray physics (Univ. of Chicago & in India), Observational X-ray Astronomy

(in India) and Solid State Physics and X-ray crystallography (in India) prior to the above.


Where in the world is NCSA?


NCSA’s Strength of Innovation

NCSA Telnet

NCSA Image

Mosaic

PSP Program

Scientific Visualizations

Virtual Director

HDF, D2K, Open source software, CAVElib

“In-a-Box” Software Suite

LES for Alliance and the TeraGrid

SCC, PACI, SCI, DTF, ETF, TG

High End Computing – Top 500 Lists

MyProxy, ECID, CyberIntegrator, MAEviz etc. etc.

Innovative Systems

Petascale Computing

Applications Breakthroughs



• NCSA

– a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 200+ staff

– a U.S. NSF HPC center started in 1985 with international collaboration, in its 22nd year

• federal, state, university, and industry funded

– Transition from SCC & HPCC (12 yrs) to PACI Center (7 yrs) to OCI Center (now)

– a globally recognized leader in high end computing and computational science, scientific visualizations, innovative software and systems

– Leading edge site for the Alliance and TeraGrid in the past

– NSF Funded Petascale Computing Award

• Mission

– providing access to leading computing and information technologies

• academia and industry; Imaginations Unbound

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Engagements with Academia & Industry

• IACAT (Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies) – Significantly integrates applied research at NCSA with basic research on campus

– Themes Established; Projects funded now

• Advanced Information Systems – Virtual Environmental Observatories

• Center for Petascale Computing

– Synergistic Research on Parallel Programming for PetaScale Applications

– Next-Gen Accelerator Systems for Advanced Science and Engineering

– Multiscale Modeling in Science and Engineering

• Computing and Creativity

– Cultural Informatics

http://www.iacat.uiuc.edu

• Private Sector Partners Program – 16+ companies (Fortune 100/500, smaller technology companies)

– Partners include: ACNielsen, Boeing, Caterpillar, John Deere, Dell, ExxonMobil, IBM, JPMorgan, Microsoft, Motorola, and State Farm

• International Affiliations

– 20+ institutions from 12+ countries

– Faculty and student exchanges, joint projects, workshops, technology sharing; International Fellowships (to be initiated in 2008)

– Nationally/internationally recognized for our level of functional interaction, technology transfer, affiliate engagement

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NCSA’s Focus (23 years’ experience)

* Developing and deploying powerful, reliable computing, data, and

networking resources that enable researchers to solve the most demanding science and engineering problems in a timely manner. We

develop and explore innovative architectures and techniques to achieve petascale science.

• * Working with research communities to develop the tailored

cyberenvironments that provide the means to fully exploit the

extraordinary resources available on the Internet (computing systems, data sources and stores, and tools).

• * Researching and developing software, techniques, and tools to

improve national cybersecurity and to help law enforcement better respond to cyberattacks.

• * Providing insights into complex systems and sharing the thrill of

scientific discovery with the broadest possible audience through artful visualizations of scientific phenomena.

• * Preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers to

effectively use the growing national cyberinfrastructure.

• NCSA is at the heart of the Institute for Advanced Computing

Applications and Technologies at the University of Illinois.



What is the TeraGrid?

18.8 Petabytes

Storage

500+ Teraflops

Computation

40gigabit/second

cross-country network

Data Memory Intensive

Resources

Computation

Visualization


NCSA’s Science Thrusts

• Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

• Biological and Biomedical Informatics

• Chemistry

• Engineering

• Environmental Sciences

• Geosciences

• Material and Nanosciences

• Weather and Climate

International Affiliations are in sync and focused on science driven activities in the above areas supported with cyberenvironments and technologies & Multi-Inter-Trans disciplinary activities.

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Recent Scientific Studies at NCSA

Computational Biology Weather Forecasting

Molecular Science Earth Science Astronomy


Modeling and Visualizing a Tornado

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International Engagements

• NCSA’s Current Affiliates – ANU, VPAC, Monash in Australia

– COPPE, LNCC, CPTEC in Brazil

– CNIC, CAS, China

– CENAT, Costa Rica

– Cyprus Institute/UIUC, Cyprus

– INRIA, France

– CDAC, SSSU, U of Hyderabad in India

– Osaka University, Japan

– KISTI, Korea

– Kurchatov Institute, Russia (up for renewal)

– PRAGMA Membership – The Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly

– A*STAR/UIUC, IHPC in Singapore

– CHPC, South Africa

– NCHC, Taiwan

– CCLRC, UK e-Science Program, OMII in UK

Plus our involvements in OGF, OSG, IVOA, SKA, CARMA, etc.


ASIA

United

Kingdom

Americas

Africa


NCSA International Affiliate Institutions


GLIF Map of European Region & World



Our EU-Med Connections

• Cyprus Institute & CSTRC

• LinkSCEEM and its Partners

• Knowledge Exchange; Visitors’ Program

• Workshops and Training

• Distance Learning

• Extending Virtual School Efforts in CSE

• Future HD Transmission of Virtual

School Lessons



Concluding Messages

• Universal Issues

– Societal advancement

– Overcoming digital divide

– Education for all

– Eliminating Brain Drain

– Building local expertise

– ICT Affordability & Sustainability

– Disaster management

– Climate change, human health, large sciences, HPC

• Newer modes

– Communication, collaboration and cooperation

– G/U/I Relationships

– eLearning

– eGovernment

– Virtual Schools

• Networking is a must for all these. National Center for Supercomputing Applications


Grand Thought, In Conclusion

“The Universe is a University,

The World a School.

Education is the Bridge

Between Earthhood and Heavenhood.”

Chancellor, Sri Sathya Sai University.

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Parallel Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Simulations

micro meso

10-10 m 102 m

10-15 s 106 s

macro

macro

Source: Keshav Pingali, UT,Austin


Systems Biology: Exaflop Challenges

DNAsequence

Proteinstructure

Homology basedprotein structure

prediction

Protein sequence and regulation

SequenceAnnotation

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RCGT

TAC

CAG

TATA

Pro

mo

ter

Mes

sag

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Protein/enzymefunction

Molecularsimulations

Bacteria and cells

Pathwaysimulations

Metabolic pathwaysand regulatory networks

Networkanalysis

Multi-proteinmachines

Dataintegration

Organs, Organisms and Ecologies


Modern Day Miracles in Ancient Lands

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Additional Information

Details on NCSA

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

International Affiliations & Fellowships:

http://fellowships.ncsa.uiuc.edu

Contact [email protected]

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