STAR TAP PresentFuture Applications: Enabling Grid Technologies and eScience Advanced Applications

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STAR TAP Present/Future ApplicationsEnabling
Grid Technologies and e-Science
Advanced Applications

• Maxine Brown
• Co-Principal Investigator, STAR TAP
• Associate Director, Electronic Visualization
  Laboratory

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EVL VR Tele-Immersion Display DevicesLarge
Rooms and Shared Environments
CAVE
ImmersaDesk2
Introduced CAVE in 1992
600 Projection VR devices in 2001
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Tele-Immersion Networking
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Tele-Immersion and CAVERNsoft

• Tele-Immersion requires expertise in graphics,
  VR, audio/video compression, networking,
  databases
• Rapidly build new tele- immersive
  applications
• Retro-fit old applications
• CAVERNsoft enables
  applications!

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CAVERNsoft uses Grid Software

• The Grid is a global software development effort
  to enable the use of high-performance networks
  like Abilene (Internet2), APAN, SURFnet, etc.
• Grids are changing the way we do science and
  engineering computation to large-scale data
• Grids are designed to schedule, allocate,
  authenticate and manage advanced networking,
  computing and collaboration services on optical
  networks.

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The GridBlueprint for a New Computing
InfrastructureI. Foster, C. Kesselman
(editors), Morgan Kaufmann, 1999

• ISBN 1-55860-475-8
• 22 chapters by expert authors including Andrew
  Chien, Jack Dongarra, Tom DeFanti, Andrew
  Grimshaw, Roch Guerin, Ken Kennedy, Paul Messina,
  Cliff Neuman, Jon Postel, Larry Smarr, Rick
  Stevens, and many others

A source book for the history of the future --
Vint Cerf
http//www.mkp.com/grids
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Todays Information Infrastructure
O(106) nodes

• Network-centric Simple, fixed end systems few
  embedded capabilities few services no
  user-level quality of service

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Tomorrows Information InfrastructureNot Just
Fatter and More Reliable
O(109) nodes
Caching
Resource Discovery
QoS

• Application-centric Heterogeneous, mobile
  end-systems many embedded capabilities rich
  services user-level quality of service

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STAR TAP International GridDemonstrations
iGrid 2000 at INET 2000 July 18-21, 2000,
Yokohama, Japan
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Cyber InfrastructureNSF Computer and Information
Science Directorate (CISE)

• NSF is proposing a Cyber Infrastructure
  initiative fund a number of Major Research
  Equipment (MRE) facilities that require a similar
  distributed storage and networked computing
  information infrastructure.
• Large MRE projects are the result of strategic
  planning by the broad university research
  community.
• NSF FY 2001 Budget Request to Congress
  138,540,000.

http//www.nsf.gov/bfa/bud/fy2001/mre.htm
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EarthscopeNSF Major Research Equipment

• EarthScope USArray and SAFOD
• 74.81M FY01-04 NSF support requested
• NSF, USGS, NASA Consortium

EarthScope will bring real-time Earth Science
data to our desktops, to provide unprecedented
opportunities to unravel the structure,
evolution, and dynamics of the North American
continent, and to better understand earthquakes
and fault systems, volcanoes and magmatic
processes, and links between tectonics and
surfical processes.

• USArray a dense array of high-capability
  seismometers to be deployed throughout the US to
  improve our resolution of the subsurface
  structure.
• San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) a
  4km-deep hole into the San Andreas fault zone
  close to the hypocenter of the 1966 M6 Parkfield
  earthquake, to access a major active fault at
  depth
• To provide input to NSFs Network for Earthquake
  Engineering Simulation (NEES) project that
  studies the response of the built environment to
  earthquakes.

www.earthscope.org/safod.com.html http//quake.wr.
usgs.gov/research/physics/sanandreas/
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Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
NSF Major Research Equipment

• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
  (NEES)
• 81.8M FY01-04 NSF support requested
• Scoping study managed by NCSA sponsored by NSF

• NEES will provide a networked, national resource
  of geographically-distributed, shared-use,
  next-generation, experimental research equipment
  installations, with tele-observation and
  tele-operation capabilities.
• NEES will shift the emphasis of earthquake
  engineering research from current reliance on
  physical testing to integrated experimentation,
  computation, theory, databases, and model-based
  simulation using input data from EarthScope and
  other sources.
• NEES will be a collaboratory an integrated
  experimental, computational, communications, and
  curated repository system, developed to support
  collaboration in earthquake engineering research
  and education.

http//www.neesgrid.org/ http//www.evl.uic.edu/ca
vern/TIDE/SeattleQuake2001/
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Terascale Computing SystemsNSF Major Research
Equipment

• Terascale Computing Systems
• 136M FY00-02 NSF support requested
• Distributed Terascale System to be awarded in
  June 2001 PSC Terascale awarded 2000

• As part of the ITR initiative, the Terascale
  project enables US researchers to gain access to
  leading-edge computing capabilities.
• The project is aligned with NSFs Partnerships
  for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)
  initiative, and is coordinated with other
  agencies, such as DOE, to leverage the software,
  tools, and technology investments.
• The two Terascale Computing Systems will receive
  regular upgrades to take advantage of technology
  trends in speed and performance while providing
  the most advanced, stable systems possible to the
  research users.

http//www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0151 http//w
ww.psc.edu/machines/tcs/status/
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National Ecological Observatory NetworkNSF Major
Research Equipment

• National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
• 100M FY01-06 NSF support requested
• 10 observatories nationwide sponsored by NSF,
  Archbold Biological Station and SDSC

• 10 geographically distributed observatories
  nationwide to serve as national research
  platforms for integrated, cutting-edge research
  in field biology
• To enable scientists to conduct experiments on
  ecological systems at all levels of biological
  organization from molecular genetics to whole
  ecosystems, and across scales from seconds to
  geological time, and from microns to regions and
  continents.
• Observatories will have scalable computation
  capabilities and will be networked via satellite
  and landlines to each other and to specialized
  facilities, such as supercomputer centers.
• By creating one virtual installation via a
  cutting-edge computational network, all members
  of the field biology
  research
  community will be able to
  access
  NEON remotely.

http//www.sdsc.edu/NEON/
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Atacama Large Millimeter ArrayNSF Major Research
Equipment

• Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA),
• an expanded Millimeter Array (MMA)
• 32M FY98-01 NSF support requested for Design
  and Development
• US National Radio Astronomy Observatory and
  Associated Universities, Inc. with NSF funding
• Europe European Southern Observatory, Centre
  National de la Recherche Scientifique,
  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Netherlands Foundation
  for Research in Astronomy and Nederlandse
  Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie, and the UK
  Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

• Prior to developing ALMA, the US conceived the
  MMA as an aperture-synthesis radio telescope
  operating in the wavelength range from 3 to 0.4
  mm.
• ALMA will be the worlds most sensitive, highest
  resolution, millimeter-wavelength telescope. It
  will combine an angular resolution comparable to
  that of the Hubble Space Telescope with the
  sensitivity of a single antenna nearly 100 meters
  in diameter.
• ALMA will consist of no less than 64 12-meter
  antennas located at an elevation of 16,400 feet
  in Llano de Chajnantor, Chile

http//www.alma.nrao.edu/
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Large Hadron ColliderNSF Major Research Equipment

• Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
• 80.9M FY99-04 NSF support requested
• CERN (Switzerland) and international Consortium

• Construction of two detectors of the LHC ATLAS
  (A Toroidal Large Angle Spectrometer) and CMS
  (Compact Muon Solenoid)
• The research, design, and prototyping of
  Petascale Virtual Data Grids, which will support
  the LHC as well as the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky
  Survey) and LIGO (Laser Interferometer
  Gravitational-wave Observatory), is being carried
  out by GriPhyN, a multi- institutional team that
  received the largest NSF ITR grant in FY00.

http//lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
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Grid Physics Network

• Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN)
• 11.9M FY00 NSF for RD Development (largest
  ITR award)
• Led by Univ Florida and Univ Chicago includes US
  institutions

• Team of physicists and computer scientists who
  plan to implement Petascale Virtual Data Grids
  (PVDGs) computational environments for
  data-intensive science
• Four physics experiments CMS, ATLAS, LIGO, SDSS
  share common challenges massive datasets,
  large-scale computational resources and diverse
  communities of thousands of scientists spread
  across the globe
• The LHC CMS and ATLAS experiments will search
  for the origins of mass and probe matter at the
  smallest length scales
• LIGO will detect the gravitational waves of
  pulsars, supernovae and in-spiraling binary stars
• SDSS will carry out an automated sky survey
  enabling systematic studies of stars, galaxies,
  nebula, and large-scale structure
• GriPhyN estimates 20 Tier 2 sites (6 CMS, 6
  ATLAS, 5 LIGO and 2 SDSS), with a projected
  five-year cost of 85M-90M, half of which is for
  hardware

SDSS Apache Point Observatory, Cloudcroft, New
Mexico
LIGO Livingston Observatory, Louisiana
(Caltech/MIT project)
http//www.griphyn.org, http//www.sdss.org/,
http//www.ligo.caltech.edu/
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Future Directions of theUS National Science
Foundations Division of Advanced Networking
Infrastructure Research

• Tom Greene
• National Science Foundation