Presentation to Cyberinfrastructure Symposium

Jim BottumCIO, Clemson University

Presidential Fellow, Internet2

February 13, 2013

Strategy

Clemson: Strategy Alignment

“Cyberinfrastructure is the primary backbone that ties together innovation in research, instruction, and service to elevate Clemson to the Top 20.”

Doris Helms

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Getting Started: Clemson 2007

Research and Education Bandwidth

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National Backbone Network 1986

Original NSFNet design, NCAR, Boulder, CO, September 17, 1985

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5US Higher Ed still has to provision REN for itself

First South Carolina regional optical network, CLight, integrated with national research networks

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Clemson – 2012 and beyond

Network must continue to grow to support new initiatives and growing data volume

Deployment of Internet2 Innovation Platform – 100 Gb/s

Infrastructure Supporting and Empowering Computer Science Research

ActiveCDNActiveCDN

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Clemson

Benefits of ActiveCDN:• Dynamic deployment based on load• Localized services such as weather, ads and news

GPO

Jae Woo Lee, Jan Janak, Roberto Francescangeli, SumanSrinivasan, Eric Liu, Michael Kester, Salman Baset,

Wonsang Song, and Henning SchulzrinneInternet Real-Time Lab, Columbia University

Program content distribution services deep into the network, adapt distribution in real

time as demand shifts

The Next Generation“It’s time to rethink the entire university as ONE research team and to collaborate globally with any collaborators with ease.”

“From NSF’s GENI project to the White House US Ignite program, the nation is building not just the infrastructure, but a national community to pave way for this integrated tomorrow. CCIT is clearly taking the lead in this national effort.”

-KC Wang – Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research feeds back into infrastructureNational Science Foundation CC-NIE Award ($1M)

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Physicist John Kogut, UIUC,

Simulating Quantum

Chromodynamics

Circa 1986

Computing: Communities and Technology Changes – Support Process Does Not

Non-Traditional Communities - Open Parks Grid Network

• Partnership between PRTM, Library, CCIT, SoC• Spoken into existence• Connecting Parks & professionals around the world.• Open Parks Grid Hub

• The Hub provides us with the capability to search data sets, people, papers, funding requests and maps to create strength values and provide answers to questions by creating linkages. http://www.openparksgrid.org http://archive.org/details/scstateparksamer00unse

Non-Traditional Communities - Social Media Listening Center

Jason Thatcher, faculty lead from Department of Management

1 facility in College of Business, 1 facility in College of Arts & Humanities

First NSF award in Management Department

First facility of its kind in higher education

Partnership with Dell and Salesforce.com

* 1 of app drivers in CC-NIE grant

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The Invisible Supercomputer -Condor

Started Summer 2007Over 12,000,000 cpu

hours delivered first 5 years

Clemson Condominium Cluster

Community HPC Clusters – Shared Investments

Highly leveraged instrument for research

#4 among public academic institutions

Technology Change

Impacts: Community Growth

Departments using HPCHPC Users – FY08

Total Depts. = 19

HPC Users – FY13Total Depts. = 36

Infrastructure as a Competitive Advantage

• “As a computational materials scientist, I was seeking a university that was investing not only in supercomputing facilities but also in providing the users an efficient support system. In my experience, the latter was usually missing in most universities.

However, when I asked to test Palmetto before deciding to join Clemson, I quickly realized that Palmetto had both, and both were very topnotch.

• That definitely put Clemson on top of my list as future destination.

• Most importantly, I have been able to focus on science, rather than worrying about overheating of my cluster, that too without the hassle of waiting forever on queues - for once, I am having my cake and eating it too!”

Sapna Sarupria – Chemical EngineeringFormer Faculty at Princeton University

HPC Impacts: Research

•Funding•$47.2 M – awards to HPC users since FY10

• For FY11 ($23.4M) alone, this is nearly 25% of research funding for entire University ($96M)

•Degrees Conferred•36 PhD degrees produced from research groups that make use of the Palmetto Cluster (August ‘08-August ’12)

•Publications•115 publications made possible because of Palmetto Cluster (since FY10)• Majority of these are refereed journals

Impacts: South Carolina

Greenville Tech

Clemson HPC Allocations in the State of South Carolina

132 non-Clemson Palmetto Trainees

Impacts: Economic Development

• SC SmartState Endowed Chair ($4M)

• Dell/Intel Center of Excellence in Next Generation Computing • “Dell and Leading Research Universities Increase

Access to Research Computing Supported By Internet2”

• http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/10/02/dell-and-leading-research-universities-increase-ac/

Futures

Condo of Condos

NSF grant to expand Clemson’s condominium HPC model to a national scale

What is the Condo of Condos?

• Inter-institutional aggregation of resources• Building a community through leveraging

campus expertise• Marginal investments to create a

“transformational” change• Makes this possible across multiple campuses:

Questions/Discussion