Recent key achievements in research computing at IU

Craig StewartAssociate Vice President,

Research & Academic Computing

Chief Operating Officer,

Pervasive Technology Labs at IU

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Pervasive Technology Labs

• The mission of the Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University is to:• perform leading-edge research based on the pervasiveness of information

technology in our world, creating new inventions, devices, and software that extend the capabilities of information technology in advanced research and everyday lives;

• attract, encourage, educate, and retain the workforce of tomorrow for the State of Indiana and educate the residents of the State generally about the value of advanced technology;

• accelerate economic growth in the State of Indiana through the commercialization of new software and inventions; and

• develop an income stream through external grant funding and technology transfer revenue that will lead toward self-sustainability for the Labs.

• In carrying out its mission, the Pervasive Technology Labs will help Indiana University attain a position of international leadership in information technology research and enhance the prosperity of the entire State of Indiana.

A commitment to research. A catalyst for economic development.

Community Grids Lab

• Director:– Geoffrey Fox

• Focus on Collaboration– Using the network to help

groups work together.• Information and Computing

“Grid”• Science Applications

– Biocomplexity– Earthquake Science– New Cheminformatics Grant!

Open Systems Lab

• Director

– Andrew Lumsdaine

• Software for Supercomputers and Science

• Tools for building very complex systems.

• Research Scientist

– Kay Connelly

• SURG -Security for Ubiquitous Resources Group

• Electronic Patient Care Project

TeraGrid• IU: Resource provider & GIG participant• Collaborative development of new computer technologies and

delivery of new scientific innovations• IU Knowledge Base to be TeraGrid support tool

Gary

PurdueWest Lafayette

Indianapolis

Bloomington

Statewide IT Infrastructure

Richmond

Chicago

1 TFLOPS SP2 TFLOPS AVIDD 2.2 PB Archival Storage

Data Capacitor• Reliable data services

– Databases via web services

– Metadata servers– Workflow tools– e.g. LEAD on TeraGrid,

GIS services

• Short term storage– Data acts (sort of) as an

incompressible fluid – Data bursts– Parallel I/O of many files – Hold data temporarily

within workflows

INGEN

• Bioinformatics• Genomics• Proteomics• Bioethics• New animal models

• Complements INGEN while building upon strengths of IU Bloomington

• Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and Cytomics climb the level of biological hierarchies – what’s really in a cell

• New research labs in – Molecular Neurosciences– Molecular Evolutionary & Developmental Biology– Analytical Technology Development– Microbial Systems– Cell Signaling & Differentiation

• New Facility-based Centers in– Biochemical Analysis– Chemical Imaging & Assaying– Genomics & Bioinformatics– Computational Cytomics

• Major new facilities – 800MHz NMR, Greenhouse expansion, Supercomputer upgrade, transgenic mice facility

Grant & Tech Transfer SuccessesCash Grants

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• PTL – 6 business created; total of 8 enhanced

• METACyt – first investment already made

• Open Source Software– OpenMPI– NaradaBrokering– Life Science apps– Open source utilities– Security tools

Acknowledgments• The material presented here has been supported by a number of funding agencies,

including the following: – National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0116050. Any opinions, findings and

conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

– Grant number 1U24AA014818-01 from NIAAA/NIH. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIAAA/NIH.

– The Indiana Genomics Initiative. The Indiana Genomics Initiative of Indiana University is supported in part by Lilly Endowment, Inc."

– Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc. – State of Indiana (particularly through support of I-light Initiative and the 21st Century

Fund)• The work described here was made possible by the faculty, students, and staff of

Indiana University. Thanks especially to the staff of RAC, CPO, Telecommunications, PTL, UITS generally, the participants in the Indiana Genomics Initiative, and the participants in the METACyt Initiative.

For additional info

• rac.uits.indiana.edu/

• www.pervasivetechynologylabs.iu.edu

• www.iu.teragrid.org/

• uits.iu.edu/

• metacyt.indiana.edu

• email: stewart@iu.edu