Information technology, collaboration, and achieving IU’s

research goalsCraig A. Stewartstewart@iu.edu

13 November 2003

Director, Research and Academic Computing, UITSSpecial Assistant for the Life Sciences, OVPIT/OVPR

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Outline• Next generation research & collaboration

– The changing nature of the research endeavor– Information technology for collaboration– Data storage, management, and access– Cutting-edge computation

• Some research collaboration examples• Making it matter – an effort that requires

collaboration• Looking ahead

Changes in the research endeavor• Many new research projects

require collaborative teams• High energy physics –

ATLAS will produce 1 PB/year

• Astronomy – SLOAN digital sky survey – 15 TB

• Geology – TBs/year acquisition

• Arts!– Digital art– VARIATIONS project

http://pdg.lbl.gov/atlas/etours_exper/etours_exper01.html

http://dolinsky.fa.indiana.edu/CAVE/

The revolution in biology

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/genbankstats.html

http://www.ncbi/nlm/nih/gov

Information technology for collaboration

• IT for collaboration• Networking• Data storage• Advanced computation

John-E-Box

Invented by John N. Huffman, John C. Huffman, & Eric Wernert, IU

Videoconferencing• Desktop

videoconference system: $509

• Polycom Cart: $4,534• Smartboard: $15,000• John-E-Box: $28,000

Massive Data Storage System• Transparent to users• Reliable and robust• Free (in most cases)• Based on HPSS (High Performance

Software System)• First HPSS installation with

distributed movers; STK 9310 Silos in Bloomington and Indianapolis

• Automatic replication of data between Indianapolis and Bloomington, via I-light.

• 180 TB capacity with existing tapes; total capacity of 480 TB. 100 TB currently in use; >1 TB for biomedical data.

Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercialpurposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

IBM Research SP (Aries/Orion Complex)

• 1.005 TeraFLOPS. 1st University-owned supercomputer in US to exceed 1 TFLOPS peak theoretical processing capacity.

• Geographically distributed at IUB and IUPUI

• Initially 50th, now 170th in Top 500 supercomputer list

• An enabler of collaborative research using very large scale computations

Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercialpurposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

AVIDD

• Analysis and Visualization of Instrument-Driven Data

• Distributed Linux cluster. Three locations: IUN, IUPUI, IUB

• 2.164 TFLOPS, 0.5 TB RAM, 10 TB Disk

• First distributed Linux cluster to achieve more than 1 TFLOPS on Linpack benchmark – currently 50th on Top500 list

• Result of and enabler of collaboration

IU – advancing locally & globally

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I-Light• Very high speed optical fiber network

– connects IUB, IUPUI, and Purdue University

– multiple strands of the most modern fiber– first higher ed owned in nation

• Provides enough networking capacity for the next 10-20 years between the three main research campuses (IU, Purdue, IUPUI)

• The networking infrastructure for collaboration of many sorts

Some research collaboration examples

Collaborative sharing of data• “Any research within the IU

School of Medicine should be able to transparently query all relevant public external data sources and all sources internal to the IU School of Medicine to which the researcher has read privileges”

• Centralized Life Sciences Data Service– Based on use of IBM

DiscoveryLink(TM) – BLAST is accessible via DL’s

wrappers.– Implemented in partnership with

IBM Life Sciences via IU-IBM strategic relationship in the life sciences

– IU contributed writing of data parsers

The goal of the GlueX experiment is to map the spectrum of gluonic excitations using linearlypolarized photons with the ultimate goal of understanding the confinement of quarks and gluons - the novel feature of QCD. A collaboration of nearly 100 researchers from 24 institutions …

GlueX

Gamma Knife• An idealized head

model is used for target planning

• Solution: use a model of individual patient’s head to plan targeting

• UITS assisting Radiation Oncology in code development

fastDNAml

• HPC Challenge project at SC2003: Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, UITS, HLRS (Stuttgart)

• Will analyze major questions in evolution of arthropods

Orders of magnitude of collaborations• AVIDD – 20 faculty, dozens of

staff, $1.8M in NSF funding• Research in Indiana – 3

universities, dozens of faculty• Simulation of 747 crashing

into Pentagon: dozens of engineers, 1 network, 2 supercomputers

• IP-Grid – 2 universities, dozens of faculty, $3M in NSF

• INGEN – 100+ faculty, hundreds of staff, $105M funding from Lilly Endowment, Inc.

• GlobalNoc – dozens of staff supporting thousands of researchers worldwide

Making it matter – an effort that requires collaboration

• Improving health – Indiana Genomics Initiative

• Improving quality of life by improving the economy

• The workforce of tomorrow

Indiana Genomics Initiative• Collaboration among IUSM, UITS, IUB basic

sciences• Basic research • Transferable research• Collaboration with central Indiana hospitals• Education to build the high-tech workforce in

central Indiana

Improving the Indiana Economy - Technology Transfer, part 1

• “We not only have a compelling responsibility, but a sacred obligation to future generations to transform the Indiana economy to make it more globally competitive”– IU President Adam W. Herbert

• “If you want your innovation to make a difference in someone’s life, somebody someplace has to be able to make money from it” – F. Raymond Salemme, President and Chief Scientific

Officer, 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

ARTI Statistics for 98-03

Slide courtesy of Mark Long, President & CEO, ARTI

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InventionDisclosures 61 59 66 57 81 104Received

Patents 28 25 24 29 35 35Issued

Start-up 1 1 0 0 2 3Companies

Commercialization of John-E-Box

Invention disclosure is the critical step between creation and utilization!

Improving the Indiana Economy -Technology Transfer, part 2

• “Open source software pays too” • Open source software is a way to get

innovation into use without needing to commercialize

• Judicious use of licensing terms can permit subsequent commercialization

Collaboration pays – hardware grants

Hardware Grants

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Building the workforce of tomorrow

• The high-tech workforce of the State of Indiana should be pulled from the full richness of our society

• This is not the situation we enjoy today• Changing the current situation will require

collaboration within and outside the boarders of IU – information technology can help

• Examples: AVIDD at IUN, JETT, Bilingual outreach and education by IUSM

• Why does this matter to IU’s research endeavors?

The challenges ahead• Continuing to support ‘single-investigator’ style

research, and other creative activity, effectively• Pursue large, important, innovative projects to be

funded with new federal research funding. “…we will need to pursue (grants) as a united university. That means aggregating our research expertise and working together”– VP Michael A. McRobbie

• Pursue collaborations with the private sector• “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”

– Alan Kay

As you create the future..• “The Research and Academic Computing Division

has as its mission to provide robust production services and work with IU researchers to co-create the future” – AVP Bradley Wheeler

• RAC, and UITS generally, are deeply involved in supporting the research process, do so effectively, and would like to do more!

• Contact us! – http://uits.iu.edu– stewart@iu.edu– bwheeler@indiana.edu

Acknowledgments• This research was supported in part by the Indiana Genomics Initiative. The

Indiana Genomics Initiative of Indiana University is supported in part by Lilly Endowment Inc.

• This work was supported in part by Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc. to Indiana University.

• This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0116050 and Grant No. CDA-9601632. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

• UITS Research and Academic Computing Division managers: Mary Papakhian, Stephen Simms, Richard Repasky, Matt Link, John Samuel, Eric Wernert, Anurag Shankar

• Indiana Genomics Initiative Staff: Andy Arenson, Chris Garrison, Huian Li, Jagan Lakshmipathy, David Hancock

• UITS Senior Management: Associate Vice President and Dean Bradley Wheeler, Associate Vice President and Dean (Retired) Christopher Peebles, RAC (Data) Director Gerry Bernbom

• Assistance with this presentation: John Herrin, Malinda Lingwall, W. Les Teach