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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
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