1. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 1 Manuela Campanelli The University of Texas at Brownsville http://www.phys.utb.edu/griphyn/ outreach@ivdgl.utb.edu Education and Outreach Trillium Collaborative Effort

2. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 2 GriPhyN/iVDGL E/O Team Members: who and where we are ! UF Wisconsin Fermilab BNL Indiana Boston U SKC Brownsville Hampton PSU J. Hopkins Caltech Tier1 Tier2 Tier3 FIU FSU Arlington Michigan LBL Oklahoma Argonne Vanderbilt UCSD/SDSC NCSA

3. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 3 GriPhyN/iVDGL E/O Tier 3 Centers »Manuela Campanelli (E/O coordinator) »Joe Romano (GriPhyN investigator) »Sean Morris (undergrad student) »Jose’ Zamora (undergrad student) »Santiago Pena (grad student) »Keith Baker (iVDGL deputy) »Ken Cecire (QuarkNet) »Howard Brown (undergrad student) »Tim Olson (iVDGL investigator) »Misty Cordier, Scott Dupuis »2 undergrad students UT Brownsville: »Hispanic College and University »9000 students (90% Hispanic American) »LSC institution (LIGO research) Hampton University: »Historically Black College and University »6000 students (mostly African American) »QuarkNet Center »ATLAS/COSM Center Salish Kootenai College: »Tribal College »2000 students (80% native American) »LSC institution (LIGO research)

4. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 4 Web Site Development : www.phys.utb.edu/griphyn Fall 2001: E/O coordinator developed the : GriPhyN Education and Outreach Center Basic educational material about data grids, information about the physics experiments, general E/O activities etc. Technical support information: UTB beowulf system, documentation and “how-to” guides for VDT installation and use. Spring 2003: New undergrad student (Ariel Martinez) to improve the site, REU Student Projects, UTB Fall 2001

5. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 5 GriPhyN/iVDGL E/O Meetings UTB Spring 2002: first E/O meeting! HU Spring 2002: next E/O meeting …

6. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 6 UTB Linux cluster `Lobizon’ Internet Router Warp.utb.edu (Firewall router) Lobizon.utb.edu (Server / Master) Matrix Switch DHCP/Image server 96 node cluster (1-24), (1-24) and (1-24), (1-24) Intel Pentium III, 812mhz, 512 RAM, 40Gb www.phys.utb.edu/beowulf UTB Fall 2001

7. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 7 UTB students Research in LIGO data analysis (LDAS/LAL), grid computing (GriPhyN/iVDGL VDT), and numerical relativity (CACTUS). Currently administered by 2 undergrad students, Jose’ Zamora and Sean Morriss and a grad student, Santiago Peña. Fully grid enabled with the VDT, DOE certificates. Next challenge: Internet2, new 64 nodes cluster UTB goal: iVDGL/LIGO and Worldgrid testbed at SC2003. UTB Summer 2002

8. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 8 NewsLetter 2002 Trillium Collaboration GriPhyN/PPDG/iVDGL E/O effort SC 2002

9. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 9 Leveraging existing E/O programs Examples: Skyserver talk at SC2002 EOT-PACI meeting Trillium Newsletter 2002 Now joint E/O telecons Successful collaborations of E/O coordinator with EOT-PACI (Roscoe Giles & Scott Lathrop), SDSS Skyserver (Jordan Raddick) and PPDG (Ruth Pordes) leaders to link our E/O activities. Year 2002 …

10. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 10 Leveraging on other E/O programs Year 2003: UTB PPDG, EOT-PACI, Skyserver SKC Skyserver HU QuarkNet

11. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 11 New Activities: more students! Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Proposal for a REU supplement from NSF to support 10 to 20 undergraduate students doing grid-related research during semesters or summer at several GriPhyN/iVDGL Institutions. In order to achieve this goal we need to know: »Mentors »Research Projects »Selection Procedures »Budgets Interested mentoring Institutions: 1.Florida U (Paul Avery), 2.Indiana U (James Williams, John Hicks), 3.Fermilab (Ruth Pordes), 4.Chicago (Ian Foster, Tom Garritano), 5.UW Milwaukee (Bruce Allen), 6.UT Brownsville (Manuela Campanelli). At least 2 students per Institution! Spring 2003 goal! E/O Collaboration Effort!

12. LIGO- G020001-00-Z Planning Meeting (Dec 2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 12 New Activities: more linux clusters! UTB: »A new NASA URC at UTB will give funds for a new 64-node Linux cluster. More students involved with grid-related research and possible connection with NASA grid effort. SKC: »New 32-node Linux iVDGL cluster involving several CS and Physics professors and undergraduate students. Tim Olson plans to visit UTB in spring 2003. HU: »A 4-node iVDGL Linux cluster has been constructed by several CS and physics undergraduate students. Keith Baker will organize a new E/O meeting in spring 2003.