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Fueling Discovery and Education through
Advanced Internet Technologies
John P. McGowanVice President & CIOFlorida International University
Outline• An Institutional Perspective• FIU & Collaborative Partnerships Building the
Infrastructure– Center for Internet Augmented Research and
Assessment (CIARA)– AMericas Path (AMPATH)– An inter-regional grid-enabled Center for High-Energy
Physics Research Education and Outreach (CHEPREO)
– Connected Cities
• Distributed Computing
An Institutional Introduction
• An International University• Carnegie Research Extensive• 35,000 Students• 3,300 Residents• 2,400 Faculty / Staff• Multi-campusVoIP & Wireless
– 6000 handsets– Wireless initiative– PeopleSoft & Oracle
• Committed to Outreach & Collaboration
University Park Fountain
About CIARA
• The center is uniquely designed to leverage research to benefit FIU and partner institutions: – Augmenting the rate of discovery for all investigators - collaboration– Enabling interdisciplinary research activities mediated through
advanced information and communications technologies– Invigorating scholarship for graduate students, undergrads, and
students in the community– Providing leadership in international networking– Developing culturally diverse distributed learning communities– Foster enabling synergies between faculty driven research, graduate
students, and research scientists/technologists• Leverage the institution’s research programs with its advanced ICT
investments• Assess effectiveness and disseminate results• Implement techniques that effectively augment the pace of research and
discovery
AMPATH Background & Summary Industry support from Global
Crossing (GX), Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks and Terremark Worldwide
Enables network communications between the US research and education networks and National Research and Education Networks in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico
Funded by National Science Foundation (STI-023184)
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu
Metrics of Success• Connections themselves being instantiated
– A significant effort:• Scientists in previous workshops expressed
significant interest in complete access to collaborators, students, and instruments in Central and South America
• Grand Challenge Science being enabled– ARECIBO, CHEPREO, Gemini
• Education and Outreach– PASI
Goals & Accomplishments• FIU has joined the CMS experiment
– Added two faculty positions in CMS physics– Added one Physics Educator Position (now open!)– Contributing to Detector Control Systems
• Headquarters for education and outreach efforts in thePhysics Learning Center– Modeling Introductory University Physics– Partnering with local High Schools– QuarkNet Partner
• Leverage Networking– AMPATH provides an enabling technology infrastructure– FIU is a member of iVDGL & becoming a member of OSG– Brazilian HEP led by Professor Alberto Santoro (UERJ) and
Professor Sergio Novaes (USP)
FIU Contributions to CMSFIU Contributions to CMS
• Detector controls High Voltage (HV) Graphical User Interface (GUI) and interface to database
• Contributions to Data Acquisition (DAQ) prototyping
• Networking/infrastructure building on AMPATH
• Partnerships allow FIU to take additional responsibility as expertise and manpower grows
• Students at CERN as part of the initiative.
• Headquarters for Education & Outreach efforts adjacent to research facilities
• Integrating Education and Research• Ties to Miami-Dade Public School System• Teacher support
– Content, Career Development, Research• Class Space
– Modeling Workshops• Intro to Physics Course
– Peer Tutoring Center– Grid workshops
Physics Learning CenterPhysics Learning CenterFIU committed 3000 sq. ft. of new space for lab, classrooms
Developing a Globally Distributed Developing a Globally Distributed Collaborative Learning CommunityCollaborative Learning Community
• CMS research experience for students
• Pre-service experiences for K-12 teachers
• QuarkNet research opportunities for teachers
• Participation and support from area high schools
• International exchanges, workshops, summer schools
• Networking internships and experience at NAP of the America's
• Science Education Fellowships
• Test-bed schools• Web-based resources
Networking ActivitiesNetworking Activities
• FIU, UFL, FSU form State of Florida Research Grid
• Int'l starting point is FIU's AMPATH initiative
• Extend iVDGL to South America
• Serve as pathway for research and education networking
Implications of Building Petascale Global Grids
• The transition to Global Grids will transform research in science, engineering, and society
• If these developments are successful, and deployed widely as standards they will create– Profound advances in industry, commerce and society at large
and– Change relationships between people and “persistent”
information in their daily lives within the next five to ten years
• Realizing the benefits of these developments for society, and creating a sustainable cycle of innovation helps us to close the digital divide
International ActivitiesInternational Activities
• Build upon global e-science networks and CIARA partnerships in South America
• LAGRID provides future data grid with Brazil
• CHEPREO collaborations with Brazil proposed 3 initial activities:– Incorporate LISHEP workshop series into CHEPREO– International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL)
Membership– Participation in US-Latin America student exchange
Integration of FIU in iVDGL• International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory• UF lead institution (2001-2006)
– Build international Grid laboratory– Many U.S. sites (plus Brazil, Korea) participating
• FIU is a member of iVDGL– Joint leadership of iVDGL/GriPhyN Outreach– Participation in CMS Grid– New relationships with South American institutions (via
AMPATH)– Help drive LAGRID
Florida LambdaRail: Optical Network
UWF FSU
UF
UM
FIT
NSUFAU
FLR Hub
FLR Connection
UCF
NLRCERN, FNAL, Caltech,
JLab
FIU
A Statewide Grid Using FLR
UWF FSU
UF
UM
FIT
NSUFAU
HurricaneCenter
HPC Center
CSITFLR Hub
USFFiberGLASS Site
FLR Connection
UCF
NLRCERN, FNAL, Caltech,
JLab
AMPATHSouth
America
ScrippsFlorida
NASA
NCS
CHEPREOFIU
The Digital City Initiative
• Collaboration within the City of Miami – building the next layer of infrastructure
• For cities to change the way enterprises have will require the kind of information exchange environment that enterprises now take for granted– It becomes the next pervasive social infrastructure to follow roads,
water, power and telecoms
– A new model for the polis becomes possible when new ways of working are combined with a new pervasive social infrastructure to serve the community
• The City of Stockholm• Barcelona• The Province of Alberta, Canada
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