LONI Overview

State-wide IT initiative: $25M – Gov. Mike Foster, 2001 - present

LONI - $40M, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, 2004 - 2008

LONI - $10M, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, 2006

LONI Institute - $15M, BoR + Institutions, 2007

CyberTools RII - $12M (NSF), 2007

The Information Technolgy Initiative

$25M per year for IT infrastructure

Helped establish HPC in Louisiana• “SuperMike” cluster and Center for Computation &

Technology (CCT) at LSU• The LA Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) at

University of Louisiana – Lafayette (partial funding)• The Center for Entrepreneurship and Information

Technology (CEnIT) at Louisiana Tech.

Helped attract and grow world-class talent, and laid the foundation for future growth.

What is LONI?Louisiana Optical Network Initiative

Vision and Leadership from Ed Seidel, Gov. Blanco, and Louisiana Board of Regents

High-bandwidth optical network linking graduate-degree granting institutions in the state.

HPC hardware at 6 institutions

Who all are part of LONI?• Louisiana State University-Baton

Rouge• Louisiana Tech University-

Ruston • University of Louisiana-Lafayette• University of New Orleans• Southern University-Baton

Rouge• Tulane University-New Orleans• LSU Health Sciences Center

N.O.• LSU Health Sciences Center

S’port

What does LONI do?• High bandwidth optical network links the research

institutions within the State

• Links the State to the National LambdaRail

• 85+ Teraflops of computing power for computational research

• AccessGrid nodes backed by full-motion HD video links

• Transforms the way we work And problems that we can attack

• Will become a regional resource.

DOTD via Qwest

DOTD via McLeodUSA

Qwest

AT&T/SURA

ITC^DeltaCom

Sun America

WilTel

Mississippi schools plugging in through Jackson, MS

National Lambda Rail

Louisiana Optical Network

IBM P5 Supercomputers

LONI Sites

Dell HPC Clusters

Access Grid

The “Queen Bee”

LONI layers

LONI Institute

CyberTools (EPSCoR RII)

LONI Hardware

50 TF

Centerpiece

5 TF

Satellite

5 TF

Satellite

5 TF

Satellite

5 TF

Satellite

5 TF

Satellite

5 TF

Satellite

LSU

SUBR

UNO

Tulane

ULL

1 TF

Satellite

LaTech

1 TF

Satellite

1 TF

Satellite

1 TF

Satellite

1 TF

Satellite

The “Queen Bee”

The Queen BeeDedicated facility - Baton Rouge

• 680 nodes × 8 cores

= 5440 cores

• 4 Gb RAM per node

= 2.88 Tb• ~ 50 TFLOPS• #23 in the world in

June 2007• #7 in an academic

environment

The worker bees

5 IBM p5-575 computers at member institutions

• 14 nodes × 8 cores

= 112 cores

• 16 Gb memory per node

• 70 Gb disk per node

• ~ 0.85 TFLOPS each

The worker bees

6 Dell Linux clusters

Located at member institutions

• 132 nodes × 4 cores

= 528 cores

• 4 Gb memory per node

• ~ 300 Gb storage

• ~ 5 TFLOPS each

Access Grid Nodes

High bandwidth optical network makes full-motion high-definition video links over AccessGrid possible, with full two-way interactivity and data exchange.

Two semester-length graduate courses have been taught from LSU over the AccessGrid and received at Louisiana Tech as well as other campuses including Europe.

The next five years: The LONI Institute

• Supported by a $7M grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents 2007-2012

• About $8M in matching funds

• Hire outstanding senior faculty (12), computational scientists (6), provide graduate fellowships (18), build “towers of strengths” in– Computational sciences– Computational biology– Computational materials science

HELP WANTED! NOW HIRING!!

Summary• Major strides in the last 5-6 years

• LONI Institute will build CI, especially human resources

• LONI has joined the TeraGrid

• CyberTools RII proposal funded, Track-2 in the works

• Beginning to have an impact on region’s economy

• US Air Force Cybercommand provisionally head-quartered at BAFB-Shreveport

• Commitments from local governments to build a $50M CyberInnovation Center for University-Industry-Air Force partnerships

• $8M Center for Secure Cyberspace: Louisiana Tech-LSU partnership

• Future looks bright …

Thank You!