Supporting Team Science and Team Shakespeare:Virtual Organizations and Physical Campuses:A short CSG workshop on a large landscape

Supporting Team Science and Team Shakespeare:Virtual Organizations and Physical Campuses:A short CSG workshop on a large landscape

Workshop AgendaWorkshop Agenda

• A roadmap of issues• Sorting through the terms - Virtual Organizations, National

Cyberinfrastructure, Campus Cyberinfrastructure• VO and scientific needs and requirements

• Needs drill down - Chad and Tom• Current approaches to meeting those needs

• Research.yale.edu - Chuck• Discussion

--------------Break--------------------• Some interesting new approaches

• Leveraging enterprises and federations for VO’s• MyVOCs – John Paul Robinson• GridShib – Tom Barton

• Qatar Campus – yet another use case…

The Players and their needsThe Players and their needs

• Team Science/Team Shakespeare/virtual organizations

• Small labs and solitary researchers

• Domain specific resources

• Integrated general collaboration tools

A Resource-oriented Needs AssessmentA Resource-oriented Needs Assessment

• Cycles and specialized applications• Data storage and management• Specialized networking – performance,

security, private lines• Visualization and other specialized systems• Training, support and services

• Traditional systems and new data security• Collaboration services

Team ScienceTeam Science

• Major multi-campus, increasingly interdisciplinary projects

• Centerpieces of NSF, NIH, Energy, Education, etc.

• Atlas, CMS, NEON, caBIG, Sloan, etc.

• Particularly “demanding” instances in Physics and Health.

AstronomyChemistry Civil Engineering Climate Studies Collaboration Computer Science

Sloan Digital Sky SurveyNational Virtual Observatory

CMCS NEESLEAD

Earth System GridAccess Grid

CondorDOE e-ServicesGridLabGriPhyNNMI GridShibNMI Performance Monitoring

OGCEOGSA-DAISciDAC CoGSciDAC Data GridSciDAC SecurityvGRADSEcology Geology Infrastructure Medicine Oceanography Physics

LTERSEEK

GEONSCEC

ASCI (HPSS)EGEEGrid3GRIDS CenteriVDGLNorduGridOpen Science Grid

TeraGridUK e-Science

BIRN LOOKINGFusionGrid

LIGOParticle Physics Data Grid

Virtual organizationsVirtual organizations

• The core of our academic collaborative nature

• More than a “group”; less than an “institution” • A source of authority about the use of a set of resources• Could move from standalone ad-hoc approaches to leverage

the new federated infrastructure• Use cases often require integration of campus infrastructure

(e.g. a class list) with external VO pieces (e.g. to permit limited Grid capabilities to students of the PI)

Small labs and solitary researchersSmall labs and solitary researchers

• Often the “bulk” of institutional research.

• Tend to be much less visible nationally, and so need more campus cyberinfrastructure than the team players…

• Wield quirky influence on campus directions

• (Not the particular focus of our workshop)

Domain specific systemsDomain specific systems

• Big base of Grid-type systems – Globus, Sun, Condor, etc. Often with add-ons (eg SRB).

• Clusters, condos, and blades

• Caves and other specialized tools

• Institutional repositories

General collaboration toolsGeneral collaboration tools

• The standard suite…• List serve, protected wiki, IM buddy list,

audioconferencing, access-controlled web site, videoconferencing, shared calendaring, etc…

• Integrated with enterprise-based systems• No separate calendars to maintain• Consistent user interface in managing local

and virtual lives

Parts of the solutionParts of the solution

• NSF Activities• Teragrid, Open Science Gateways, etc.• NMI • OCI office with Dan Atkins

• Campus CyberInfrastructure Workshop

• Educause CCI WG

• …

The National GridspaceThe National Gridspace

• The Teragrid as a national resource• (The Petascale Facility as another)• Virtual organizations gain allocations • Expanding from centralized services to

campus leveraged and mediated approaches• Campus partnerships – contribute resources; receive

general purpose allocations• Federated identity and integrated privilege

management• www.teragrid.org, http://www.globus.org

Grids, part 2Grids, part 2

• Campus Grids, either distributed or central• Purdue• TACC• Wisconsin condor pools• Virginia, Penn State, Harvard, etc in a modest

state• Major community science packages customized

to Grid architectures.

Open Science GatewaysOpen Science Gateways

• “Integrated” presentation of domain tools to one or more virtual organizations in the domain

• The new buzz – promises ease of use and expanded outreach opportunities.

• Maintenance, security, real ease of use, privacy and other concerns…

NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)

• Has funded much of the MACE work with Internet2

• Supported other middleware components, including Globus, video directory standards, myVOCS, etc.

• Was initially cutting edge, but investments in other countries, such as the UK and Australia, are overtaking…

OCIOCI

• Office of CyberInfrastructure, reporting directly to NSF Director

• Major investments in Grids, PetaScale machine; smaller investments in NMI, international networking, etc.

• Recent creation of a general NSF cyberinfrastructure advisory committee

• Campus Cyberinfrastructure on their radar

CRCCCRCC

• Campus CyberInfrastructure workshop, sponsored by NSF, a joint effort of Penn State and Internet2

• Highly productive 1.5 day workshop at end of I2MM

• Lots of issues identified, from algorithm/architecture fitting to NSF funding policies that favor closet clusters over cyberinfrastructure

• Output at http://middleware.internet2.edu/crcc/

• Grist for future activities; perhaps some follow-ons

EDUCAUSE CCIEDUCAUSE CCI

• EDUCAUSE working group, chaired by Jim Bottum and Pat Dreher

• Just in their gelling stage

• Lots of possible areas for engagement• Awareness and Education• Technology• Policy – Inducements and mandates

An Archetype: Jean Blue and VOGUEAn Archetype: Jean Blue and VOGUE

• Professor Jean Blue• Professor of Micro-astro Physics at

Sandstone U, teaching MAP 1010• PI of international VOGUE project• Fiscal authority of local VOGUE funds• Parking permit for Lot 421• ID Card

Things that Jean Blue wants to doThings that Jean Blue wants to do

• As PI of VOGUE, she gets lots of VOGUE privileges. She wants to• Assign to students of MAPS 101 permission to read

the VOGUE mass-hypometer• Assign to the four TA/discussion leaders permission

to reset the mass-hypometer• Facilitate on-line discussions among the students

taking classes at other universities from her co-PI’s• Have read/write privileges on the VOGUE wiki, and

give her students read access to parts of the Wiki

Current approaches discussionCurrent approaches discussion

• Networking• Performance, latency, etc• Friction-free paths (gridftp’s, external visibility,

etc.)• Security• VO’s create their own identities• Identities are also often authorization• Collab tools• Research.yale.edu

BreakBreak

Post breakPost break

• New approaches to supporting team science• The basic vision• A collaborative tools implementation – JPR• A domain-specific tools implementation –

Tom Barton

• And there’s a related problem – the Qatar campus – Carrie et al

Vision in one slideVision in one slide

• Build a campus/enterprise core middleware infrastructure that• Serves the overall enterprise IT environment, providing business

drivers and institutional investment for sustainability and scalability• Is designed to support the research and instructional missions

• Implies consistent approaches and common practices across campuses and internationally

• Build, plumb, and replumb the tools of research on top of that emergent infrastructure• Domain-specific middleware (grids, sensor nets, etc)• Common collaboration tools (video, protected wikis, shared

calendaring, audioconferencing, etc.)

WhyWhy

• Ease of use• Common tools used in a consistent fashion• Allow students to access research capabilities in instructional

environments • Better security

• Integrate with local security • Facilitate flexible options for effective use• Preserve privacy but maintain accountability

• Facilitate advanced networking and science• Trust-mediated transparency• Transparent-to-use tools for collaboration• Better diagnostics

• Realizes efficiencies, economic and strategic, that serves both the institution and its individuals

VO Functions and Roles for Jean BlueVO Functions and Roles for Jean Blue

• Lead scientist• Run experiments• Manage instruments and data• Administer rights for others to manage I&D• Collaborator – audioconferences, IM, wikis

• Co-PI• Manage local financial accounts• Approve local hires• Edit and electronically submit proposals

• Disseminator• Provide editorial content for outreach wiki• Mentor K-12 teachers in community programs

• Educator• Teach undergraduate classes using research tools• Supervise graduate students, TA’s, etc.

The Current Kool-aidThe Current Kool-aid

• Campuses build consistent and sustainable middleware infrastructures

• Federating software and federations create effective inter-institutional collaboration infrastructure

• Federations peer internationally and across sectors to extend the value

• Virtual organizations leverage campus infrastructure and peered federations for user-centric enterprise-manageable teams