ASCED: Advanced Scientific Collaboration Environment and DMZMark Gardner, Steven Ellingson, Keith Bisset, R. Benjamin Knapp and Eric Brown

ASCED Components

Science DMZ

HPCResources

CollaborationEnvironments

ASCED

Summary• Collaboration Environments

– Science DMZ: improve data transfers– Collaboration is more than data transfer– Private cloud infrastructure hosts project-specific

collaboration environments in virtual machines• Timeline

– Infrastructure installed 2013– Collaboration environments deployed early 2014

2013-01-07

ASCED

Info• GENI Contact:

– Mark Gardner mkg@vt.edu

• Projects:– ASCED– SDN-capable core

• Collaborators– Steven Ellingson – ECE, Long Wavelength Array (Radio Astronomy)– Keith Bisset – Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), EpiSims

(modeling the spread of infections diseases)– R. Benjamin Knapp – Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology

(ICAT), Emotion in Motion (music and emotion)– Eric Brown, Office of IT, Network Architect (SDN)

2013-01-07