TeraGrid Extension Gateway Activities

Nancy Wilkins-Diehrwilkinsn@sdsc.edu

TeraGrid Quarterly, September 24-25, 2009

The Extension Proposal!

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PY5 starting point

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Project ID Prj/Ops Project Total FTEs Sites

SGW   Science Gateways  

0 0 0 0.00

SGW.Coord Ops Area Coordination 0.99 SDSC, ANL

SGW.HDN PrjHelpdesk, new communities 0.20 NCSA

SGW.CA Prj Community Accounts 0.45 SDSC, NICS

SGW.UCnt Prj Gateway User Count 1.00 NCSA

SGW.GCD Prj Gateways Code Discovery 0.40 RENCI

SGW.Sppt PrjTargeted Support Coordination 0.20 SDSC

SGW.Gdoc Ops Gateway Documentation 0.65 SDSC, RENCI

SGW.GC Prj GridChem or Other New 0.50 IU

SGW.PG Prj PolarGrid or Other New 1.00 IU

SGW.GGS Prj General Gateway Support 1.00 U Chicago

SGW.OSG Prj RENCI-OSG 0.20 RENCI

SGW.SG Prj SimpleGrid 0.90 NCSA

SGW.ES PrjEnvironmental Science Gateway 1.00 NCAR

SGW.CIG PrjCIG/Galaxy Collision Gateway 0.40 Caltech

    Area Totals 8.89

Extension Budget

Project ID Prj/Ops Project Total FTEs Sides

SGW   Science Gateways  

    GIG  

SGW.Acct Prj Accounting 0.50 TACC

SGW.Coord Ops Area Coordination 1.39SDSC, U Chicago

SGW.HDN Prj Helpdesk, new communities 1.70 NCSA, Purdue

SGW.CA Prj Community Accounts 0.30 NICS

SGW.VM Prj Virtual Machines 0.60 IU, NCSA

SGW.Ed Prj Education and Training 0.20 IU, NCSA

SGW.Gdoc Ops Gateway Documentation 0.43 NCSA, SDSC

SGW.GTS Prj Gateway Targeted Support 6.85

IU, LONI, NCAR, NCSA, ORNL, Purdue,

SDSC, U Chicago

SGW.Vis PrjRemote visualization for gateways 1.02 ORNL

    GIG sub-totals 12.99

    Area Totals 12.99

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Extension additions

•5.5 extra FTEs (4 new, 1.5 as a result of conclusion of Caltech and RENCI work)–Thanks you RPs!–2.0 new FTEs committed for RP activities through extension

negotiations•1.5 at ORNL – SNS, REDDnet, Datanet, vis•.5 at IU – Quarry

–Lots of good ideas from all sites for new activities

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What’s ending in PY5and what’s staying the same

•Work at Caltech and RENCI concludes in PY5–Move by TeraGrid to reduce the cost of subcontracts for sites

with more smaller FTE budgets

•Development attribute-based authentication work concludes in the gateway area in PY5

•The return of Nancy and Stu to coordinate the program

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New in the Extension

•Helpdesk support expanded–From .2 FTE in PY5 to 1.7 in Extension [NCSA, Purdue]

•Helpdesk and Condor support, new GIS communities, SimpleGrid extensions

•Accounting– Improved views for gateways now that we have attributes [TACC]

•Community accounts–Continued work toward improved standardization [NICS]

•Prebuilt VMs with gateway software–OGCE, SimpleGrid [IU, NCSA]

•Online tutorials with CI Tutor and the EOT team–OGCE, SimpleGrid [IU, NCSA]

•More example-based documentation–Less talk, more action, short videos, based on user feedback [NCSA,

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Targeted Support in the ExtensionAll staff available for assignments as new projects come in

•Cactus–Meet the needs of several groups with large TG allocations [LONI]

•GridChem, PolarGrid, Ultrascan–Scheduling, vis, Matlab processing, processing of centrifuge data

for large international project [IU]

•CCSM-ESG–Continuing work to combine capabilities [NCAR, Purdue]

•New earth science gateway [NCAR]•SNS [ORNL]•Improved web service support [SDSC]•Continued OpenSocial work [U Chicago]•Improved use of remote vis resources by gateways [ORNL]

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Where did the new FTEs go?

•Recall 2 were committed and 3.5 remained to be assigned•IU, LONI, NCAR, SDSC, TACC up by .5•Purdue up 1.0•U Chicago up .2 – Globus gadget work•NCSA staffing reoriented from attributes to help desk

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What else is exciting?

•SGW funding a Cyberinfrastructure in GIS workshop in conjunction with the UCGIS meeting in DC in February–Co-led by Shaowen Wang at NCSA and Nancy–Approved by UCGIS board after a lengthy voting process–Winter UCGIS meeting will focus on CI and includes a White

House briefing•Workshop attendees welcome to attend the briefing•Briefing will include very short recap of the workshop

–Expected outcome of the workshop•Increased visibility•New partnerships for TeraGrid, UCGIS, and other pertinent organizations

•Workshop report•Interesting collaborative proposal ideas•Potential future publications

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Questions?

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