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CCI WorkshopSnowmass, CO

CCI Roadmap DiscussionJim Bottum and Patrick Dreher

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Building the Campus Cyberinfrastructure

Roadmap

Campus Cyberinfrastructure WorkshopSnowmass, CO

August 5, 2006



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Engines/drivers of Campus Cyberinfrastructure

• Campus Communities and Constituencies: Enabler in partnerships with researchers, not as an IT service provider

• Computing and Communications: Opportunities, synergies (grids), economies of scale for high performance computing, research networks and enhanced support facilities

• Information Management: Various aspects of data creation, storage, handling, retrieval, distribution interpretation, security, policies on research data, including partnerships and opportunities with libraries and repositories

• Virtual communities:Opportunities associated with scholars partnering with IT organizations to create the software environments that facilitate discovery among distributed communities

• Partnership Strategies:Development of proposals and relationships that enhance the partnership among researchers, universities, and funding organizations to enhance the nation’s cyberinfrastructure (local, state, federal, international, private)



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Communities and Partnerships

• Students including undergraduates

• IDM

• Campus partnership strategies

• Education – workforce

• Engaging some number of communities as part of this discussion



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Computing and Communications• Questions how should CI be structured

– Central versus local funding/support?– How should central/local units interact to maximize

• Economies of scale• Data centers• Storage environments

– Support for massive number crunching computational resources versus needs of many researchers for smaller but more varied levels of computing cyberinfrastructure.

– Policy regarding petascale machine for small number of users w/o equivalent emphasis on HPCC and other cyberinfrastructure needs of much larger percentage of user community

• identify smaller scale needs and requirements• Readily available CPU cycles (not just HPC)• Specific metrics to judge balanced approach

– Campus networks to include interfaces to research networks– Information and data security

• Special attention to the effects of network rearchitecting w/r/t security



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Information Management• Which should be the hardware architecture(s) for mass storage/archival • Policies on data management (disks are cheap, data management is not)

– Document repository– Image repository– Research data repositories– Sharing knowledge– Security and privacy– IP ownership and rights management– Metadata– Effects of sponsor requirements– Standards

• Top priority in data lifecycle management,– mitigate the problems caused by transient graduate student data managers– Simple visualization systems– Database designs and planning

• Who is responsible for planning and data mangement? • Does a data survey exist at your institution?• Who is responsible for potential legal liability to provide resources and/or access to data

promised by PIs who are no longer active/resident at the institution?



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Virtual Communities

• Software to support VOs• How to better coordinate Institutional Research

Boards (IRBs) for inter-institutional data collaborations

• Policy on federated identity management– How can campuses effectively move beyond local

boundaries with inter-organizational collaborations• Attention to leveraging existing campus

infrastructure in creating federated IDM • Care, feeding and coordination of VO’s • Security and privacy



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Partnership Strategies• What should be the CCI recommendations

– Internet2 report• Review panels do not consider the security and sustainability of research computing

resources that may be awarded • Shared leveragable resources not a factor

• Several major funding agencies seem to favor "autonomous, small clusters in closets" over more sustainable and secure resources.

– Encouraged to analyze this assumption• Total cost of ownership

– Funding for maintenance and operations of HPCC hardware– Sustainability - autonomous clusters hidden in closets make support issues more challenging.

• Inter-agency cooperation, communication and coordination of strategies• What should be the balance between large hardware projects versus more distributed CI

support• Balance between partnership and competition• Restrictions brought on by different types of support• Personnel

– Staffing

– Capabilities • Range of support

– Collaborator enabler– Service



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Strategic Planning and Resource Coordination

• Who are the stakeholders & decision makers?• What is the strategic vision• How/who/where could cyberinfrastructure be managed/located in the university?

– Central IT - blended model– VP for Research - Provost/VPAA– Local research groups - Libraries– Local IT groups

• Extrernal Review (Educause encouraged to organize service)• Who addresses CI policies (CI strategic planning, data surveys, resource coordination (ex data

centers) etc.)• Should cyberinfrastructure components be in

– Central IT - Physical Plant/Facilities– Distributed/local units– Which CI components in each?

• Funding– What should be the model(s) for funding research computing and cyberinfrastructure– Sponsored research?, the university?, mixed funding – Sustainability (rapid renewal of HPCC hardware)

• Encouraged to add set of successful use case studies• Convincing statement/story that CI needs to be managed institutionally



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Long-term Roadmap for the CCI Working Group

• Goals and objectives– Discuss and identify major key cyberinfrastructure issues in each area

• Prioritized list of projects and issues– In each of the 5 areas

– Top overall 3 – 5 topics/issues/projects

• Schedule and planning• Education and outreach

– Information dissemination and interface to the larger Educause community – Document repository

• From Discussion:– Provide CI strategies for university admin

• What is the elevator story to allow for effective communication• Catalog of best practices• Key faculty buy-in validation

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