1. State of SURAgrid for All-Hands meeting September 2007 Mary Fran Yafchak SURA IT Program Coordinator maryfran@sura.org

2. SURAgrid Vision SURA regional development: Develop & manage partnership relations Facilitate collaborative project development Orchestrate centralized services & support Foster and catalyze application development Develop training & education (user, admin) Other…(Community-driven, over time…) Project-Specific View SURAgrid Resources and Applications “MySURAgrid” View Sample User Portals Industry Partner Coop Resources (e.g. IBM partnership) Institutional Resources (e.g. Current participants) Gateways to National Cyberinfrastructure (e.g. Teragrid) Other externally funded resources (e.g. group proposals) VO or Project Resources (e.g, SCOOP) Heterogeneous Environment to Meet Diverse User Needs SURAgrid Project-specific tools

3. Expanded SURA Commitment May 06 - SURA Board resolution recognizing SURAgrid as a major SURA program Brought additional SURA IT staff –Linda Akli, IT Application & Outreach Specialist (as of January 2007) –Dali Wang, Grid Infrastructure Specialist (as of August 2007) –Mary Trauner, independent contractor, April through October 2007 Highlighted the need for more formal structure to mature the program

4. SURAgrid Participant Growth (Key: Black type indicates SURA member and blue is non-member) Start-up (Late 2003, coming out of the NMI project) –8 participants, 25% non-SURA Start-up to Board Resolution (Spring 06) –19 participants, 21% non-SURA Board Resolution to the present –33 participants, 27% non-SURA NOTE: Numbers do not include institutions that are presently only running applications on SURAgrid

6. SURAgrid Application Growth Application NameDate 1GSU Multiple Genome Alignment on the GridDec-03 2UABgrid Dynamics BLASTMay-05 3UNC Storm Surge Modeling with ADCIRCJun-05 4 NCSU Simulation-Optimization for Threat Management in Urban Water SystemsMar-06 5LSU Wave Watch 3 for SCOOPMar-06 6SURA SURAgrid Teaching EnvironmentAug-06 7ODU Bio-Sim: Bio-electric Simulator for Whole Body TissueAug-06 8UFL CH3D Storm Surge Monitoring System with Grid ApplianceSep-06 9Hampton University Tokamak Divertor MapNov-06 10University of Delaware Climate Modeling with CAM3Jun-07 11GSU Virtual Screening for Computational ChemistrySep-07 From one demo application in 2003 to eleven “in the works”

7. SURAgrid Resource growth Number of resources fluctuates often but good trends overall… –Several test resources being replaced by larger resources, or those from production environments –Several institutions now contributing multiple resources –New participants approaching SURAgrid with initial interest in adding resources InstitutionsResourcesCPUsPeak GFlops GBtyes Memory GBytes disk September 200591149013275484755 October 2006141891030739508020 April 20071316197110522332445609 September 2007111512557153217632429

8. And Other Milestones… New features in SURAgrid portal (Thanks, TACC!) Expanded SURAgrid user documentation Formation of SURAGrid Governance Committee Expanded Corporate Partnerships (Thanks, Gary!) SURAgrid Stack Install Package (Thanks Jerry, Alan & TIGRE!) First steps towards SURAgrid accounting system Initiate next-level PKI (Thanks, Jim/UVA!) (Just this year - so far!) Three new funding proposals –STCI - core infrastructure & support improvements w/TACC & UVA –C-TEAM w/TTU & partners - collaborative CI training development –CI-TEAM “MSI On-Ramp” - targeted involvement of early adopter MSIs in SURAgrid as on-ramp to CI participation

9. How Work is Getting Done Active SURAgrid Implementation Team SURAgrid Teaching Environment Working Group SURAgrid Accounting WG SURAgrid Software Stack Team SURAgrid SCOOP Applications Deployment Team Major component contributors (TACC, UVA, ODU) SURA commitment SURAgrid Governance Committee Working groups On Hiatus SURAgrid Funding Group SURAgrid Environment Variables Working Group

10. Suggested Meeting Mindset Remember: This is a working meeting. Seize the opportunity to work together face-to-face! 1.Confirm that current work is good and useful 2.Insure we have ways to get the work done