Collaborative CI Research and Education between CNIC of CAS and FIU CIARA Chinese American Networkin

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Collaborative CI Research and Education between
CNIC of CAS and FIU CIARA Chinese American
Networking Symposium (CANS)August 25-26,
2007Applications SessionAugust 26th 1045
1200

• Presented by Heidi L. Alvarez, Ph.D.
• Director, Center for Internet Augmented Research
  and Assessment

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NSF CI-TEAM Implementation Project Global
CyberBridges (GCB) A Model Global Collaboration
Infrastructure for e-Science between US and
International Partners

• Trans-national and cross-discipline communication
  is the future for
• science and engineering research and education.
• Global CyberBridges extends the CyberBridges
  concept to an
• international level.
• International Partners
• Florida International University Calit2 at UCSD
• Computer Network Information Center of the
  Chinese Academy of Sciences
• City University of Hong Kong
• University of Sao Paulos School of the Future in
  Brazil.

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CyberBridges

• CyberBridges tested the hypothesis that students
  can act as
• bridges, showing researchers how they can use
• cyberinfrastructure (CI) to further their
  knowledge.
• CyberBridges NSF Award OCI-0537464 to Florida
  International University
• Center for Internet Augmented Research
  Assessment

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CIARA Background for the Project

• The Center for Internet Augmented Research and
  Assessment (CIARA) was created in 2003 as a State
  of Florida Type II Research Center at FIU. CIARA
  services institutional collaborators in the U.S.
  and internationally as a bridge linking
  researchers and educators with the infrastructure
  and knowledge they need to perform their work

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CNIC Background for the Project

• The Computer Network Information Center, Chinese
  Academy of Sciences (CNIC, CAS) is a subsidiary
  research institute of the Chinese Academy of
  Sciences (CAS), engaged mainly in the
  construction, operation and supporting service of
  informatization of CAS, RD of computer network
  technology, database technology as well as
  scientific engineering computation.

EUChinaGRID
http//www.cnic.ac.cn/english/index.html
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AMPATH

• Improves research and education high performance
  network connectivity in the Western Hemisphere
• Promotes efficient peering through a distributed
  exchange point model
• Leverages participants network resources to
  foster collaborative research and advance
  education throughout the Western Hemisphere, to
  Europe and Asia
• AMPATH provides CyberBridges fellows with
  connectivity to RE computational grid resources
  at institutions and laboratories around the world

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Western HemisphereResearch EducationNetwork
(WHREN) Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA)

• (1) 2.5Gbps dark fiber segment
• U.S. landings in Miami and San Diego
• Latin America landings in Sao Paulo and Tijuana
• 5M over 5 years from the National Science
  Foundation 5M from the Science Foundation of
  Sao Paulo
• OCI Award 0441095

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An Inter-regional Grid Enabled Center for High
Energy Physics Research and Educational Outreach
(CHEPREO) Tier3 Open Science Grid Cluster

• Current Cluster configuration
• Gigabit Copper backbone with GigE connectivity to
  AMPATH Network
• OSG Computing Element
• 23 node computational cluster
• Supports local user logins
• Serves as the CEs gatekeeper
• Plus all other cluster services
• Augments CyberBridges cluster
• Funded by NSF MPS-0312038.
• www.chepreo.org

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Approaches to e-Learning Sciences
CyberBridges fellows construct models with their
faculty advisors and reproduce them through
computer simulations. Technology permits teams,
possibly in different locations and with
different skills to work toward real world
solutions.
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GCB Year 1 Project structure
4 Fellowships at FIU lead 2 and 3 person teams
-Two semesters long -Interdisciplinary
Collaboration -Annual Assessment
-Normative analysis performed by GCB Assessment
Committee - Case Study Packages
Certification Program
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Hypothesis and assessment

• CyberBridges proposed that graduate students
  engaged in inquiry-based learning activities can
  affect transfer of CI research and that this
  transfer will increase scientists rates of
  discovery and create a CI-empowered workforce.

Faculty Student CI-Scientist
Domain specific metrics
CyberBridges Assessment
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Project implementation

• 1. Continuous cross-disciplinary dialogue
• 2 .Collaborative proposal writing
• 3. Faculty review of proposals
• 4. Normative assessment
• 5. Nesting of graduate students in lab
• 6. CI scholastic certification program
• 7. Case study package
• 8. Student outreach

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Year 1 GCB Project Case Studies

• 1. Computational Modeling Simulation of
  Biodegradable Starch based polymer composites
  (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Sachin Joshi (FIU
  student), Zhang Yuming, Zhuang Yuxin (CNIC
  students) and Alexander Mebel (faculty)
• 2. Collaborative Platforms (Computer Science)
  David Villegas (FIU Student) and Hang Xing (CNIC
  student) with Masoud Sadjadi and Kuldeep Kumar
  (faculty)
• Congratulations! Paper accepted for publication
  in i-Society 2007
• 3. Grid Enablement of Hurricane Simulation
  Application
• (Computer Science in collaboration with
  Earth Sciences) Diego J. Lopez (FIU student) ,
  Hao Yunxiao (CNIC student) and S. Masoud Sadjadi
  (faculty) and Hugh Willoughby (faculty)
• 4. On-Demand Weather Forecast Visualization
  via Efficient Resource Utilization in Grid
  Computing (Computer Science) Khalid Saleem
  (student) and Shu-Ching Chen (faculty)

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Pilot Project Case Studies

• 1Alejandro de la Puente (student) and Rajamani
  S. Narayanan (faculty)
• Interplay between Random Matrix Theory and
  Quantum Field Theory
• Physics
• 2Cassian DCunha (student) and David Chatfield
  (faculty)
• Parallel Computations for Macromolecular
  Simulation
• Chemistry and Biochemistry
• 3Tom Milledge (student) and Giri Narasimhan
  (faculty)
• Unsupervised Pattern Discovery in Protein
  Structures
• Computing and Information Sciences
• 4Ronald A. Gutierrez (student) and Eric T.
  Crumpler (faculty)
• Computational Enhanced Mesh Design in Tissue
  Engineering Measuring Wall Shear Stress in
  Cell/Scaffolds
• Biomedical Engineering

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Outcomes of CyberBridges Pilot

• Re-focusing expenditures from technology support
  functions to synchronous fellowships can have a
  profound impact on the effectiveness of
  scientific investigations.
• CyberBridges fellows and their advisors have
  benefited from such re-focusing. They have
  successfully implemented CI into their research
  and teaching.
• Globally distributed institutions can replicate
  the CyberBridges model.

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CyberBridges Pilot Success

• CyberBridges exposed over 200 students and
  researchers to CI during Super Computing
  Conference in Tampa, Florida USA 2006, when the
  four CyberBridges fellows gave talks on their
  work.
• CyberBridges made it possible for each of the
  fellows to acquire competitive summer
  internships.
• Publications accepted at CCGRID, TeraGrid, and
  domain specific journals

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CyberBridges Fellows Present Graduate
SuperComputing 2006, Tampa, Florida November
11-17 www.sc06.supercomp.org
Top from left Professor Yan BaoPing, Chinese
Academy of Sciences Professor Paul Avery, UF
Dr. Miriam Heller, NSF Tom Milledge Ronald
Gutierrez Alejandro de la Puenta Cassian
DCunha Bottom row from left Ernesto Rubi,
FIU/CIARA Michael Smith, FIU/CIARA Dr. Eric
Crumpler, FIU Engineering Julio Ibarra, Co-PI
Executive Director CIARA Heidi Alvarez, PI
Director CIARA, Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi, FIU SCIS.
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Presentation Publication

• Ronald Gutierrez presenting CyberBridges A
  Model Collaboration Infrastructure for
  e-Science", Proceedings of the 7th IEEE
  International Symposium on Cluster Computing and
  the Grid (CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May
  2007 at CCGRID
• After the presentation, I met some PhD students
  that wanted to know if I could present this
  collaboration program (CyberBridges) in another
  conference (CLCAR-07, Santa Marta, Colombia).

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? ?! Thank You!
Heidi Alvarez Peter Arzberger Kuldeep Kumar Julio
Ibarra S. Masoud Sadjadi Baoping Yan Kai Nan Fang
Qian
LambdaVision 100-Megapixel display and SAGE
(Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) software
developed by the Electronic Visualization
Laboratory at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. Major funding provided by NSF.
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