“CyberInfrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for Undergraduate Education” Roscoe Giles June 13, 2005

Challenge #1 … Workshop projects show how “less is more” Can Cyberinfrastructure projects avoid showing that “more is less”? You can help!

Outline Computing and Computational Science Cyberinfrastructure (CI) People: (EOT-PACI, EPIC) Resources/References (Challenges throughout!)

Computational Science: Interdisciplinary Research and Education Science Discipline Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc. Computer Science Hardware/Software Applied Mathematics Numerical Analysis, Modeling, Simulation

Abstraction & Information Information Abstraction “Pencil & Paper Math” Large Scale Simulations Understanding?

Cyberinfrastructure Background History Examples

What is Supercomputing? Leading Edge to Consumer Electronics 1985 Cray X-MP: 1.2 Gflop Cost:$8,000,000 60,000 watts of power No Built in Graphics 56 kbps NSFnet Backbone 2005 X-Box: ~5 Gflop peak Cost: $140 ~100 watts of power 3D Graphics (125M P/S) (100 Mbps etherNet)

CI Vision

Atkins Report Atkins Report (NSF)NSF

Some CI Project Links NSF Shared Cyberinfrastructure (SCI) v=SCI TeraGridhttp:// Open Science Gridhttp:// Access Gridhttp:// High Productivity Computing Systems Advanced Simulation and Computing

Some Science Examples GADU/GNARE Uses TeraGrid For Protein Sequence Analysis (2.3 Million sequences in 8.5 days) Neutron Star Spin-Up Discovered with 3D Simulations on Cray X-1 (600 Million Zones) (video)video

Math optimizes kidney matches for pair donation (Sommer Gentry, CSGF Fellow)Sommer GentryCSGF Fellow Complex Networks Error Analysis and Simulations of Complex Phenomena

Teragrid Newshttp:// ndex.html Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computation Supercomputinghttp://

People and CI

History “EOT-PACI has created and sustained a collaborative community of computational science researchers and educators with common goals and leveraged resources. Few of these partners had interacted, much less collaborated, prior to the grant.” Project Categories (Brochure) –Professional Development –Mentoring –Learning Material Development –Software and Online Information –Youth Programs –Diversity/Accessibility –Conferences/Collaborative Experiences –Metrics & Evaluation –Online Guides and Reports

EPIC Goal to build human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through Cyberinfrastructure and by educating and training a diverse group of people in all stages of life from K-12 to professional practice to fully participate in the Cyberinfrastructure community as developers, users, and leaders.

EPIC Chart

EPIC Partners BioQuest Curriculum Consortium Boston University Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) Computing Research Associates Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) Florida International University University of Kentucky The Math Forum at Drexel Maryland Virtual High School National Center for Supercomputing Applications Oregon State University Ohio Supercomputer Center Rice University San Diego Supercomputer Center San Diego State University Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. SUNY Brockport Texas Advanced Computing Center University of Wisconsin- Madison

Virtual Institutes On-line venues for partners and participants to meet to share ideas and work toward common goals. Current EPIC VI’s (in formation): –Computational science curriculum –Visualization in Education –MSI Consortium Research –Women and Girls and CI –Access Grid in Education

Resources

Some Education Resources EPIC & partnershttp:// BioQuest Shodor NCSI: CSERD: Krell Institute Graduate Fellows Graduate Fellows Undergraduate

Challenges Large scale future funding? National impact Philosophical Question: what should we teach/what will they learn?