1. Making Campus Cyberinfrastructure Work for Your Campus Guy Almes Patrick Dreher Craig Stewart Dir. Academy for Dir. Advanced Computing Associate Dean Advanced Infrastructure and Research Technologies Telecommunications Systems COO, Pervasive and Learning Technology Labs Technologies Texas A&M University Renaissance Computing Indiana University Institute

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3. In early 2008 the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing (CASC) and the Educause Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group agreed that there has been insufficient planning directed toward implementing a seamless Cyberinfrastructure among –Individual Principal Investigators –Central Campus Support Organizations –The National facilities Joint CASC/Educause CCI workshop proposed

4. Developing a Coherent Cyberinfrastructure from Local Campus to National Facilities: Challenges and Strategies Sponsored by CASC and the Educause CCI Working Group

5. Workshop Organizing Committee –Patrick Dreher (Chair) RENCI –Vijay Agarwala Penn State University –Stan Ahalt Ohio Supercomputer Center –Guy Almes Texas A&M University –Sue Fratkin Fratkin Associates –Thomas Hauser Utah State University –Jan Odegard Rice University –Jim Pepin Clemson University –Craig Stewart Indiana University

6. Workshop Goals Produce a document with strategies and recommendations that: –argue for a pervasive national CI strategy –include recommendations to enable campus CI implementation –Promote CI coordination at all levels –develop model building blocks for enhancing CI at all levels

7. An invitation-based Workshop was held at the Indiana University Purdue University Conference Center in late July 45 participants represented a cross section of campus IT leaders, faculty, and national computing facilities (but not federal agencies)

8. Workshop Foci Workshop included three themes: –Computational systems –Information management –Human/social aspects of Cyberinfrastructure For the purposes of this workshop, the following definition was adopted: “Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems, data storage systems, data repositories and advanced instruments, visualization environments, and people, all linked together by software and advanced networks to improve scholarly productivity and enable breakthroughs not otherwise possible."

9. Workshop Strategies and Recommendations

10. Integrating Campus and National Resources Flexible use of campus and national computing resources Integrate national resources with campus layer to achieve: –Transparency –Scalability –Ease of use Implement architecture for interoperability among Computing/Storage/etc Resources among the Individual/Campus/National Layers Two examples : –Access data coherently from campus/national resources –Workflows where job steps use campus/national computing resources

11. Integrating Campus and National Resources (cont’d) Opportunities for leadership: –Focus the campus CIO on value of non-local resources and enable the use resources at all levels –Understand and leverage technology trends, e.g., CPUs, storage, and network –Understand and respond to stresses in campus networks and computing environments created by edge devices

12. Network Issues Delivered end-to-end network capacity is not keeping up with growth in data and even processing capacity Backbones are in relatively good shape (and could deliver 100 lambdas at 10 Gb/s each) But we lack the architectures and optronics to permit this on a large end-to-end scale Secure network edge devices rather than the network Design campus network for what it is being used for versus what it is being protected against

13. Identity Management, Authentication, and Authorization Identity management (AAA: authentication, authorization, accountability) A coherent CI will need transparent and scalable AAA Campus credentials need to be appropriately trusted by CI resources at all layers Hence, effective federated AAA is needed This will require highly competent campus identity management and authentication

14. Identity Management, Authentication, and Authorization (cont’d) Opportunities for leadership: –Build a consensus and set a national strategic direction for interoperable federated AAA –Implement that direction at all levels –A standards-based solution could be accepted and in wide use within the US in the near term

15. Data Life Cycle Data life cycle: accessibility, usability, and sustainability Problems of the data deluge are well understood – solutions are not! Some data will be of value in perpetuity Granting agencies now demand data management and retention

16. Data Life Cycle (cont’d) Opportunities for leadership: –Need standards for entire data life cycle – e.g., data provenance, metadata, discoverability, and openness –Funding for research vs funding for preservation an ongoing issue -- roles need to be clarified. –Standards needed for university ‘librarianship’ of data similar to library standards for books –How are data providers and curators recognized? –Strategies include creating common guidelines for all life-cycle steps.

17. Human/Organizational Dynamics “Islands” with artificial barriers frustrate effective CI interoperability As scholarship becomes a “team sport”, our organizational structures need to adapt This applies to both research and teaching

18. Education, Outreach, and Training The coming generation of students must be taught to make effective use of CI in their careers CI-driven approaches are becoming normative Better and more transparent access to actual data for use in teaching undergraduates Develop programs both in STEM, in social sciences, and in the humanities Education done locally – create high-quality resources

19. Next Steps Workshop Report published this year Future workshops focused on each of these thematic areas Educause CCI Working Group will follow through on needed actions Implementing the “think global and act local” paradigm for CI will be important