University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

AN-MSI Program Meeting

EOT-PACI AN-MSI UpdateOctober 31,2001

Indianapolis

Roscoe Giles

Stephenie A. McLean

Allison Clark

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

EOT-PACI

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

EOT-PACI Goals

To demonstrate the use of NSF PACI technologies and resources among diverse audiences by leveraging PACI thrust / team efforts.

To increase the participation of underrepresented groups, including persons with disabilities, in computer science, and engineering, and information technology.

To enable broad national impact in education, government, science, business, and society with systemic, sustainable, scalable programs.

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EOT-PACI/AN-MSI

• Awarded grant to develop infrastructure and skills needed to take advantage of advanced computational tools and resources.

• Develops partnerships with those MSIs that utilize high performance computing.

• Make emerging technologies accessible to learners and educators at all levels

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EOT-PACI/ANMSI

Overarching Goal:

The overarching goal of EOT-PACI sponsored events within AN-MSI is to foster collaborative relationships between faculty and administrators at participating MSIs and computational research scientists at major research centers, thus increasing awareness and exposure to relevant and current mainstream HPC technologies as well as increasing computational science research and education at MSIs.

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EOT-PACI/AN-MSI Assessment Activities

JUNE/JULYMet with the LEAD Center to continue existing assessments efforts.

Working toward establishing comprehensive data collection process to assess if we are reaching the EOT-PACI/AN-MSI goals.

Developed a database of EOT-PACI/AN-MSI program participants.

Developing a standard program assessment/evaluation for each EOT-PACI/AN-MSI event

LEAD Center working at SC01 to assist with assessment efforts and have developed an on-line survey for SC01 MSI participants

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EOT-PACI-AN-MSI Projects

Supercomputing Conference Minority Participation Program

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SC 2001 MSI Participation Grant Program

Awarded 30 SC01 MSI Grants

HBCU 18

HSIs 8

TCU 4

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SC01 HBCUs

Bethune-Cookman College

Clark Atlanta University

Dillard University

Hampton University

Jackson State University

Langston University

LeMoyne-Owen College

North Carolina A&T University

Prairie View A&M University

Rust College

Spelman College

Winston-Salem University

Total Schools 12

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SC01 HSIs

Cal State University San Bernardino

Florida International University

Our Lady of the Lake University

University of Houston-Downtown

University of Texas at El Paso

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

Total Schools 8

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SC01 TCU (3)

Northwest Indian College

Oglala Lakota Univeristy

Sinte Gleska University

Total Schools 3

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EOT-PACI/AN-MSI Projects

Cluster Computing Demonstrations, Workshops & CD-ROM

AIHEC

Cluster Demo

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alliance Introduces Web-based Access Grid Tutorials Software Deployment Initiatives

The tutorials are available at http://webct.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8900/public/AGIB.

The tutorials are organized as four units:

How to build and install an Access Grid node

How to operate a node

How to produce an Access Grid event

How to set up an Access Grid event.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Grid at the Chautauquas

U of Utah

NCSA

GA Tech UIC-EVL

Alliance Access Center

Argonne

The Grid

Clark-Atlanta University

The Access Grid is an integrated environment that supports group-to-group communication using high-speed networks over the Internet.

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Deployment of AG to Florida International University

Serve as a pathway for research and education networking in the Americas, Mexico, & Caribbean

The goal of this project is to expand the AG user base to assist with further collaboration and research opportunities with MSIs.

FIU will generate projects locally and expand internationally through the Pathway of the Americas (AMPATH)

•Research

•Outreach programs

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Regional Cluster Workshops

Targeted communities: MSIs from the three communities

Number of Workshops: 3-4 workshops slated during 2002-2003

When Held : Quarterly

Save the Date: March 6-9, 2002

San Diego

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High Performance Network Connections

CONGRADULATIONS!

Clark-Atlanta University

Fon du Lac Tribal College

Florida International University

Jackson State University

Awarded

NSF HPNC Grant

AG Node Deployed

1st HBCU with AG Node

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Howard University Advanced Networking Initiative

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How can your institution get involved with HPC?

• Get the support of your Institution • Conduct a self assessment• Place resources behind it• Recognize importance of HPC• Global Grid Forum Working Groups (www.gridforum.org)• Linux Cluster Institute (www.linuxclusterinstitute.org)• In-the-Box Technologies

(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/TechFocus/Deployment)

• EOT-PACI Projects• Supercomputing Conference MSI Grants• MSI-HPC Workshops

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Resources

• Cluster listserv– msiclusters@ncsa.uiuc.edu

• NCSA Access and Inclusion– www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AccessInclusion

• EOT-PACI– www.eot.org

– www.paci.org