1. CSG - Research Computing Redux John Holt, Alan Wolf University of Wisconsin - Madison

2. What we have: Infrastructure Projects and Facilities Support

3. Infrastructure 21st Century Network –10 Gb backbone –Fully online (05-06) IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) Northern Tier Network Consortium –Fiber connections for the northern states –Wisconsin to Washington –Wisconsin’s connection live by Fall

4. Abilene & NLR Abilene is the Internet2 network

5. Abilene, NLR & NTNC

6. Projects and Facilities Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory Condor Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) Genome Center Supercomputer facility Others –Sampling of other projects

7. Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory http://wail.cs.wisc.edu/ 50 IP routers and switches 100 end hosts Other networking gear create arbitrary configurations of systems

8. Condor Hunting for wasted computing resoruces http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ Engineering 587 (mixed) CS approximately 750 (dedicated) –Plus most desktops in the department Untapped pools –Infolabs and administrative machines –Difficulty with software licenses –Privacy and security

9. Condor in CS

10. CS Condor pool usage

11. GLOW Another Condor cluster 330 cpus (mostly) Isolated and restricted to contributing PIs Mostly genomics research

12. Genome Center of Wisconsin Donated hardware (36 cpu e10000) V880 (8 cpu) Aging, but useful for large memory model applications not suitable for clusters Local mirror of NCBI genomic databases Subscription model

13. Others Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation –http://loci.wisc.edu/ –http://openmicroscopy.org Social Science Computer Cooperative –Small Condor and statistical analysis –http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/ Space Science and Engineering Center –http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ Sustainability and Global Environment –http://www.sage.wisc.edu/

14. Others, continued Digital Library Projects –Provide access to rare and fragile resources for research –http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/index.html High Energy Physics - GLOW –http://www.hep.wisc.edu/computing Medical Physics - GLOW –http://www.medphysics.wisc.edu/cluster

15. Support Biology New Media Center –Research and teaching –Confederation of DoIT, CBE, and Biotech Center –Centrally supported –Gigabit connectivity to the desktops –Research and learning technology consulting 3D molecular modeling, biosequence analysis and phylogenetic analysis consulting Research communication Access to shared specialized resources

16. Support (continued) Research storage support Local > Shared > Archival DSpace (or something like it) –Provide storage for collected final works Datasets, research reports, etc. –Make these available to all researchers and teachers