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!