LIGO- G020001-00-Z E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 1 Education &...

E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002) LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 1

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Education & Outreach Activities of the GriPhyN & iVDGL projects

Manuela Campanelli & Joe Romano The University of Texas at Brownsville

GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)

LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 2

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GriPhyN & iVDGL E/O Members

• GriPhyN E/O team:» Manuela Campanelli

(coordinator) » Joe Romano» All GriPhyN members!

• iVDGL E/O team: » Manuela Campanelli» Keith Baker» Tim Olson» Rick Cavenaugh» All iVDGL Members!

• UT Brownsville: » MSI (90% of students are

Hispanic)» Close ties with LIGO (LSC

member institution)» Center for Research and

Excellence Technology

• iVDGL Tier3 Centers:» UT Brownsville » Hampton University

(Quarknet Center etc)» Salish Kootenai College

(LIGO etc)



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Past Activities

• Hire E/O coordinator for GriPhyN:» UT Brownsville administration approved the hiring of a full-time

tenure-track faculty member to serve as GriPhyN E/O coordinator.» Search began in Fall 2000; search complete in Spring 2001.» Manuela Campanelli hired to start Fall 2001:

– Attended GGF1 and GriPhyN All-Hands meetings. – Made contacts with heads of dissemination programs for European data

grid projects (e.g., DataGrid, EuroGrid) and ThinkQuest.– Helped prepare the iVDGL proposal, which will increase MSI participation

in grid-related activities.

• Construct UT Brownsville Linux cluster:» Benchmarking for Linux cluster begins in Fall 2000 (primarily for

LIGO data analysis, but can also serve as a testbed for GriPhyN software).

» Construction of 96-node cluster complete in Fall 2001.



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Present Activities

• Development of E/O Web Site:`GriPhyN Education and Outreach Center ‘

http://www.phys.utb.edu/griphyn» Basic educational material about data grids, information about

the physics experiments, activities etc. » Reference point: has already been visited by several journalists

and students.

• Spread News about GriPhyN/iVDGL:» Interview in`Financial times’ in Germany and ‘Brownsville

Herald’ in Texas.» MOG article `Grid Physics, the Virtual Data Grid and LIGO’

(Patrick Brady & Manuela Campanelli). » Organize “First E/O Meeting” (March 1, 2002) at UT Brownsville

and encourage the participation of local schools and universities to it.

• Development of E/O Web Site:`GriPhyN Education and Outreach Center ‘

http://www.phys.utb.edu/griphyn» Basic educational material about data grids, information about

the physics experiments, activities etc. » Reference point: has already been visited by several journalists

and students.

• Spread News about GriPhyN/iVDGL:» Interview in`Financial times’ in Germany and ‘Brownsville

Herald’ in Texas.» MOG article `Grid Physics, the Virtual Data Grid and LIGO’

(Patrick Brady & Manuela Campanelli). » Organize “First E/O Meeting” (March 1, 2002) at UT Brownsville

and encourage the participation of local schools and universities to it.



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Present Activities

• Grid-enable UT Brownsville Linux cluster:» Work with Scott Koranda (UW Milwaukee) as part of LIGO-

GriPhyN to grid-enable UTB beowulf.» Undergraduate student (Sean Morris) at UTB currently

learning how to install and run Condor, Globus, gridftp, etc.» Hiring a new graduate student (Santiago Pena) at UT

Brownsville, who is very excited to do grid-related work!

• Increase MSI participation with iVDGL:» Construct/upgrade small clusters (Tier3 centers) at UT

Bownsville, Hampton University, and Salish Kootenai College.

» Support additional undergraduate and graduate students at these institutions.

» Tier3 Centers need to discuss, coordinate and plan activities!



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Present / Future activities

• Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU):» Preparing a proposal for a REU supplement from NSF to support 10

to 20 undergraduate students doing grid-related research during the summer at the various GriPhyN/iVDGL Institutions.

» Started to contact several interested mentoring Institutions: iGOG, TransPAC group at Indiana U (James Williams, John Hicks), Caltech (Harvey Newman, Eric Aslakson), Fermilab (Ruth Pordes), UW Milwaukee (Bruce Allen).

» We propose to build a soft version of the VDT and simple databases to allow an easier access to students !

• Extend E/O web site:» Add more technical support information (e.g., documentation, users

manuals, “how-to” guides) as the VDT become ready.» Add web-based interface for accessing real data, illustrating some

concepts of virtual data (e.g., http://skyserver.sdss.org website for SDSS data, and http://www.virtualsky.org ).



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Present / Future activities

• Leverage existing E/O programs:» QuarkNet centers at Indiana U, U Florida, UT Arlington, Hampton U.

Incorporate grid-related components into already existing activities. Keith Baker (Hampton U. ) will lead this activity.

» EOT-PACI: discuss with Roscoe Giles (Boston U.), Scott Lathrop (NCSA) and Valerie Taylor (PI of Coalition to Diversify Computing project) to explore ways to link E/O activities.

» ThinkQuest: talk with Harvey Newman and Eric Aslakson to develop special challenge projects based on application sciences and grid technology. Provide interesting data sets for ThinkQuest competitions.

» SDSS Skyserver: Alex Szaley and Jordan Raddick (Johns Hopkins U)» Collaboration with E/O and dissemination programs of other grid

projects (Susanna Tosi, Fabrizio Gagliardi).



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Present/Future Activities

• Workshops and tutorials: » Organize special E/O meetings,“how-to” workshops and

tutorials at theTier3 centers.» “All-Hands Meeting” at a MSI to get a large number of

minority students directly involved. (Propose UT Brownsville in Spring or Fall 2003.)

• Course development: » Include grid concepts in the classes we are teaching.» Identify interested MSIs and match with GriPhyN senior

investigators who can give talks at these institutions.



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E/O Activities among Tier3 Centers

• Manuela Campanelli: » Coordination and planning (GriPhyN, iVDGL Tier 3 Centers).» Web Pages and CVS repositories.» Prepare a proposal for REU supplement.» Explore connection with E/O programs of LIGO, SDSS (UTB

has strong interest in E/O astronomy because of the NASA and ENLACE programs), provide links to ThinkQuest.

» Keep in touch with other European Projects (e. g. DataGrid, EUDG etc). Possible video documentary with members of European DataGrid and PPDG.

» Organize how-to workshops and tutorials, All-Hands at MSI and special E/O days.

» Construction and grid-enabling Linux clusters and introducing students to VDT and grid-related research projects.



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Coordinating E/O Activities among Tier3 Centers

• Tim Olson: » Work in E/O of SDSS ( e.g. SkyServer, Virtualsky) and LIGO, provide

links to ThinkQuest. » Construction and grid-enabling Linux clusters and introducing

students to VDT and grid-related research projects.

• Keith Baker: » Work with Rick Cavenaugh in E/O programs of CMS/ATLAS, PPDG,

and QuarkNet, provide links to EOT-PACI.» Construction and grid-enabling Linux clusters and introducing

students to VDT and grid-related research projects.

• All iVDGL/GriPhyN Members:» Give talks at other US institutions, in particular MSI (All-Hands

meetings at MSI is an opportunity!)» Introduce grid concepts in their courses. » Mentoring REU students during summer months.» Provide data samples and research projects to E/O coordinators for

EOT-PACI and ThinkQuest programs.



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