Statewide CI Resources TNSCORE12

Statewide Cyberinfrastructure

Resources

James Perry, Interim CIOUniversity of Tennessee

Systemjperry1@tennessee.edu

Thomas Danford, CIOTennessee Board of Regents

Thomas.Danford@tbr.edu

TNSCORE Annual Conference – June 15, 2012

The Cyberinfrastructure

Three Pillars for Research

Strategic InteractionConnectivity enables access to computational powerAccess to computational power enables new types of research to more universitiesCommunication ties it together and exposes opportunities

ConnectCommunicate

Compute

ConnectHistorical (2005)

TNII -> OneTenn -> NetTN

ORNL FutureNet

Chicago, IL

Atlanta, GAStarkville, MS

Tennessee Connectivity

Chicago, IL

Atlanta, GAStarkville, MS

Compute

Shared cluster-scale facilities:• FedEx Institute of Technology at University of Memphis• Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education at Vanderbilt

University• Newton & Spanier clusters at University of Tennessee at Knoxville• SIM Center at UT Chattanooga

Large-scale computational facilities• Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

• DOE Cray XT Jaguar Supercomputer• UT/ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Science (JICS)

• NSF Funded National Institute for Computation Sciences (NICS)• UT Cray XT5 Kraken Supercomputer• UT SGI Altix UV 1000 Nautilus Visualization • Georgia Tech HP Keeneland Cluster

ComputeState of Tennessee’s New Tier 4 Data Center

Communicate Engendering an atmosphere of mentoring and research incubation where strengths can be matched to create effective research pairsMoving from a fragmented view of research to a holistic view of research partnerships and their integration across the stateConnecting research needs with resources and tools to create tasks that were not possible a few short years ago

TN-SCORE Partnerships

TN-SCORE Pairings

Leveraging ResourcesSC-TN Desktop to TeraGrid

3 yr NSF Grant to Support Bioinformatics Concentration

Support to connect withTN-SCORE Thrust 1

Support through HPC training and facilities access

CI Plan

1.) Inter-institutional collaboration and innovation capacity

2.) Effective utilization of the computational infrastructure within the state

Ongoing Bandwidth

Evaluations/Im

prov

ements

Internet2 Upgrade

TNSCOREWeb Portal

Web-conferencing Collaboration tools

Account

Federation

Improved

Awareness &

Access

Computational ResearchSeed Projects

NSF EPS - 1004083

Summary

ConnectivityComputationCommunication