Grid Education and Communication Soma Mukherjee Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Texas at Brownsville OSG Consortium meeting, Milwaukee, July 20-22, 2005

Who are we ? UTB, situated on the Mexican border, is an MSI with >90% students of Hispanic origin. Masters program, Ph.D. program in collaboration with UT-Dallas. The CGWA is NASA funded Center for doing research on gravitational wave detection. Main areas of interest are: LIGO/ LISA data analysis (2 faculty members, 2 post-docs, 2 graduate students) Astrophysics (1 faculty member, 1 post-doc and 1 undergraduate student) Numerical Relativity (3 faculty members, 4 post-docs, 4 graduate students) Physics education (1 faculty member, several staff members). CGWA director Mario Diaz is committed to Education.

UTB and Grid E&O : a brief history of the evolution of Grid Summer Workshop GriPhyN E&O : Romano and Anderson lead the effort. Lobizon cluster built New faculty line opened : Manuela Campanelli hired to do Grid E&O; iVDGL E&O funds come to UTB. Several undergraduate students hired to install condor, globus and VDT on the cluster. Postdoctoral researchers hired to do LISA template calculation on the cluster using these facilities Workshop organized to train some 5 students from Salish Kootenai College on how to install VDT. Undergraduate students from UTB were sent to Grid meetings continuation of the above efforts. Funes cluster built for Numerical Relativity research with partial funds from iVDGL SM begins UTB Grid E&O supervision. First Grid Summer Workshop (supported by NSF) at South Padre Island : first of its kind in U.S NSF funded Grid Summer Workshop 2005 last week !

Grid Summer Workshop June 21-25, 2004 : Aim The aim of this week long intensive program is : To give students a basic foundation in distributed computing. Valuable hands-on training in computing techniques. To introduce essential skills that students in natural and applied sciences, engineering and computer science need to conduct and support scientific analysis in the emerging grid computing environment. To provide motivation to young undergraduate students. To help build up interdisciplinary collaborations. To build up a task force for future e-science.

Grid Summer Workshop June : Venue

Grid Summer Workshop 2004 : People Lecturers and Developers Mike Wilde (Curriculum Director, ANL) Jamie Frey (UW Madison) Gabrielle Allen (LSU) Charles Bacon (ANL) Jorge Rodriguez (UF Gainesville) Pradeep Padala (U Michigan) Jens Voeckler (U Chicago) Alain Roy (UW Madison) Funds: NSF (Grant # , $25K, PI : SM), CGWA (17K) Overall organization : SM Collaboration : UTB, GriPhyN, iVDGL, GRIDS, LSU Systems support : Charlie Torres (UTB) Ariel Martinez (UTB) Jose Zamora (UTB) Scott Gose (ANL) Alan Farrell (UTB) Tony Loken (UTB) Fitra Khan (UTB) Local support : Martha Casquette and Danuta Mogilska Teaching Assistants Rob Quick (IU) Andrew Zahn (U Chicago) Sean Morris (UTB) Jose Zamora (UTB)

Grid Summer Workshop 2004: Students and class format 36 students from 19 universities including 4 international students from Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Russia. Diverse backgrounds. 4 Minority Serving Institutions. 12 students belonging to minority groups. 10 women. Students worked in teams consisting of one CS and one non-CS member such that there was some equilibrium between the teams. Instructors Teaching Assistants Student Teams

Grid Summer Workshop 2004 Publicity and media coverage Publicity Poster sent to more than 50 universities in U.S. Announcements sent to LSC, GriPhyN, iVDGL, APS and several other mailing lists. Media coverage Local television channel covered the event. (News clip included)

Grid Summer Workshop 2004 Achievements Compilation of workshop course material at Exposure and broad overview of distributed computing to young scientists embarking on data analysis in various fields. Training students from MSI s. Providing exposure to local students >90 % of whom are of Hispanic origin. Dissemination of distributed computing knowledge to students from diverse backgrounds to develop interdisciplinary collaborations in the future.

GSW 2004 Photos

Grid Summer Workshop 2005 July 11-15

Grid Summer Workshop 2005 Sponsors and Collaborators Funds : NSF ~42 K ( PI : SM) Paul Avery ~10 K Collaborators : GriPhyN, iVDGL, GRIDS, LSU, NCSA LSU provided 26 laptops for hands-on use at the workshop. Instructors and developers Mike Wilde (Curriculum Director, ANL, U Chicago) Jamie Frey (UW Madison) Gabrielle Allen (LSU) Ravi Madduri (ANL) Jorge Rodriguez (UF Gainesville) David Gehrig (NCSA) Systems support : Ariel Martinez ( Lead, UTB) Jose Zamora (UTB) Charlie Torres (UTB) Patrick Duda (NCSA) Local support Martha Casquette Danka Mogilska Michael Hinojosa Teaching Assistants Jed Dobson (Dartmouth) Rob Quick (IU) Laukik Chitnis (UF) Ravi Madduri (FNAL) Dylan Stark (LSU) Archit Kulshrestha (LSU) Observers Mary Trauner (GA Tech) Katie Yukrewicz (FNAL)

Grid Summer Workshop 2005: Students and class format 42 students from 23 universities including 6 international students from Argentina, Brazil and India. 4 Minority Serving Institutions. 16 students belonging to minority groups. 10 women. Increased participation from UTB. Students worked in teams consisting of one CS and one non-CS member such that there was some equilibrium between the teams. Team members learn from each other. Instructors Teaching Assistants Student Teams

Grid Summer Workshop 2005 Publication Katie Yukrewicz (FNAL communications) will be publishing an article in a future issue of “Science Grid This Week”. UTB Online journal article. Local newspaper article in the pipeline. Organizers and participants to submit paper for journal publication. Mary Trauner (GATech) intends to use the course material for the Grid Cookbook project. Lecture contents used as regular classroom material at Fermi Lab.

Grid Summer Workshop 2005 Photos

2004 to 2005 : What’s new ? Students Institution Observation Collaboration TA s observers NCSA laptops from Ed Seidel and Gabrielle Allen, CCT, LSU More hands-on material. Added open end discussion session

What have we learnt ? Things that worked … Implementation of student team model. Working with TA’s (approximately 1 TA every 6 students) led to serious interaction and successful completion of exercises. Discussion break helped evaluate student progress and to do some leveling. Things that can be improved … Simplify networking needs to for greater stability. Use more applications in exercises, and link them Improve some logistics ( meals, transportation )

Future direction - I * More groups and more application specific programs ? * Material packaging and portability. * Evolve contents as we bring in new groups. * Working scientist and researchers involved ? * Improve syllabus with new content. * Permanent set of people thinking about contents ? * Prepare 2 levels of exercise – main exercise (if network fails) and fall back exercise option ? -

Future direction - II * Development of Grid Education facility (including private wireless) that travels around the country. * Dedicated people to handle content packaging and local organization. * Take some selected students to give active feedback on course material i.e. involve them in active exercise development process. * Modularize the content – feeding into length and focus of program. * Exercises pre-packaged and turned into web pages ? -

Future direction - III * Introduction of online analysis ? * Use student certificates to do exercise/analysis the next day. * Development of OSG Education VO ? VO needs to provide frontline support to its users. We could use some of this program material to accomplish this job. * Help small schools with no e-resource. * Create future generation of scientists running e-science. * OSG science fair ?

Where do we want to go from here ? The workshop drew a large number of interested undergraduate and graduate students. Minority student participation increased. Trends indicate that the workshop has proven to be useful as a major outreach undertaking. The group intends to continue this effort. Would like to implement suggestions described in the previous slides. Would look for funding to support this activity.