1. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 Purdue RP Update October 11, 2008 Carol Song Purdue RP PI Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

2. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 Condor pool growing to 20,000 IU Condor pool connected with Purdue, added ~3000 processors. –Jobs been flowing there to Windows machines Condor Pool

3. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 Growth charts

4. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 FPGA –Condor updates installed and tested. 4 FPGAs can be scheduled through Condor now. –Working with DAC users –Will run new benchmark using BLAST using all 4 FPGAs A small cloud –Created a Nimbus cloud on a small test cluster, Wispy –Working with Kate (ANL) using it as a test case –Nimbus allows a user with known grid certificates to transfer a VM image into Wispy and request a number of instances to be run. –Also testing the Eucalyptus software stack from UC Santa Barbara, which aims to provide a public implementation of Amazon's Elastic Cloud product.

5. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 Supporting Gateways Climate Model portal –Migration of the CCSM portal to run jobs on Steele cluster –Integrated with CCSM community user account. –In testing phase (by CE users, evaluating needs from EAS class) PTO Satellite data portal –Beta version of PRESTIGE was released in September http://www.purdue.teragrid.org/prestige –Support data discovery, subscription, dissemination, and visualization –User centric – user can customize the data processing algorithm, dynamically control the production of custom data products, and timely access the data of interest. –Scalable to meet user’s dynamic needs –Presented at CEOS/WGISS in September

6. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 Science Gateways Climate model (ccsm) portal –Migration of the CCSM software setup to Steele (DataStar retiring) –Integrated with CCSM community user account. –In testing phase (by CE users, evaluating needs from EAS class) PTO Satellite data portal –Beta version of PRESTIGE was released in September http://www.purdue.teragrid.org/prestige –Support data discovery, subscription, dissemination, and visualization –User centric – user can customize the data processing algorithm, dynamically control the production of custom data products, and timely access the data of interest. –Scalable to meet user’s dynamic needs –Presented at CEOS/WGISS in September

7. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 Data & Visualization NEXRAD Radar 3D Visualization – LiveRadar3D –Paper will be presented at GCE08 workshop –Updated our Local Data Manager (LDM) software to to receive the new SuperRes data –Updating software to process the new data and provide additional features in the visualization application –Supporting various interfaces Desktop application with maximum interactivity with near real- time data Interactive radar vis anywhere via VNC embedded in a browser Google gadget for broad dissemination Web services/library API for data access –Will be deployed to scale to support #users

8. TG RoundTable, 10-11-2008 New TG Staff Added TG staff support - Advanced user support: Phil Cheeseman another staff will be new hire - CUE/QA: Kevin Colby - Project Mgmt: Donna Cumberland - A new staff member joined research support group