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•  Voting Lead / Primary Contact (through May 31, 2012*) –  Art Vandenberg, [email protected], 404-413-4743

http://www.gsu.edu and http://www.gsu.edu/ist/research-computing/index.html

1.   Community Building: Participate in Monthly calls, SURAgrid Governance Committee, and All-hands meetings; SURAgrid Cloud Options Working Group.

2.   Contributed Resources: Contributed Resources: IBM 1350 “octans.gsu.edu” 3.0TFlops; (IBM p575 “janus” 3.9TFlops being decommissioned May 31, 2012)

3.   Operational Support: Participate in Office hours; serve as OSG Cert Registration Authority (RA) sponsor for DOE cert requests (both GSU or other requests).

4.   Research Applications: Apr 12, 2012: Comp Sci PhD student Junbo Zhang requested access to U. DC cloud for Hadoop application.

5.   Outreach: A. Vandenberg, “A VCL Case Study: An OSG Job Submit Image to Access Grid Resources,” 1st International IBM Cloud Academy Conference, April 19-20, 2012 Raleigh, NC.

Plans May 2012 – October 2012. 1.   Community Building: SURAgrid Governance Committee*, SG Cloud Options Working Group

2.   Contributed Resources: Commitment for SGVO OSG stack install for IBM p7 (14.1 TF, 640 cores, 1.8TB RAM, 20TB disk, Infiniband, AIX)

3.   Operational Support: Hope to have: a) SGVO software stack installed; b) IBM p7 available

4.   Research Applications: Engage GSU researchers interested in SGVO access

5.   SURA Research Data initiative: Georgia State participated in SURA IT Committee /Library meeting 3/29; while not directly related to SURAgrid at this time, event is evolving…

*Personnel note: A. Vandenberg retiring May 31, 2012; Bill Gruszka, GSU Director Production Services will be nominee for SURAgrid Governance Committee.

Georgia State University

Activities (October 2011 – April 2012) •  Contributed Resources: TAMU_Calclab, TAMU_BRAZOS •  Operational Support: sgstatus.php and sgapps.php

http://www.math.tamu.edu/osg/sgstatus.php http://www.math.tamu.edu/osg/sgapps.php

•  Research Applications: Schubert Calculus http://www.math.tamu.edu/~secant/

•  Other items: On most of the SG office hours calls

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) •  Community Building: Assist with new CE's; approach local R users. •  Contributed Resources: TAMU_Calclab, TAMU_BRAZOS •  Operational Support: Enhance & operationalize the above web apps; bring ticketing system

online. •  External Funding: Let's find some! •  Other plans: Bring Schubert Calculus to SURAgrid. Explore OSG RPM installation on non-RHEL

systems.

Voting Lead: Steve Johnson, [email protected] 979.845.4267

Staff Support: Staff, [email protected] Websites: calclab.math.tamu.edu,

brazos.tamu.edu

Activities (October 2011 – April 2012)

1.   Community Building: SGC membership

2.   Contributed Resources: 20% IBM P5+ (P5-575) 3.   Operational Support: Remote support for SURAgrid portal 4.   Research Applications: None currently 5.   Outreach: New HPC Enablement group, XSEDE Campus Champion 6.   Other items: Nothing to report.

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: continued SGC membership 2.   Contributed Resources: IBM P5 will be deactivated, new system?

3.   Operational Support: SURAgrid portal will no longer be supported

4.   External Funding: None 5.   Corporate Partnerships: Electronic Arts, LA Digital Media Center 6.   Other plans: Anticipate contributing time on new cluster.

Voting Lead: James A. Lupo, [email protected] 225.578.8899 Staff Support: HPC Help Desk, [email protected] 225.578.0900 Websites: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu, https://docs.loni.org

Louisiana State University


1.   Community Building: PI Institute presentation, Newsletter

2.   Contributed Resources: none 3.   Operational Support: 4.   Research Applications: remote sensing, math, optimization, 5.   Outreach: exploring XSEDE support for deaf/hoh students, faculty 6.   Other items: built 2 new AMD “Bulldozer” cluster nodes

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: Open House, New Faculty Orientation, 2.   Contributed Resources: none

3.   Operational Support: 4.   External Funding: none, internal PI funds only 5.   Corporate Partnerships: AMD, Dell, Intel, Fujitsu, BlueArc 6.   Other plans

Staff Support: Gurcharan S. Khanna, [email protected] 585.475.7504 Websites: www.rit.edu, rc.rit.edu

YOUR Institution Name Your logo or Institution picture


1.   Community Building: Cloud Computing Options Working Group

2.   Contributed Resources: Cloud Computing Resources (26 computing nodes) 3.   Operational Support: Full 4.   Research Applications: Data Intensive Parallel Processing over Big Data 5.   Outreach: TTU, GMU, GSU 6.   Other items:

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: Designated COWG 2.   Contributed Resources: Cloud Computing Resources (26 computing nodes+ )

3.   Operational Support: 70% Share

4.   External Funding: Collaborative Research & Education Proposals 5.   Corporate Partnerships: Clearton, LLC. (SBIR) 6.   Other plans: Addressing Big Data Initiative from the Federal Government

Voting Lead: Byunggu Yu, [email protected] 202.274.6289 Staff Support: None Websites: www.udc.edu, csitcloud.udc.edu

University of the District of Columbia

•  Voting Lead / Primary Contact –  Phil Smith, [email protected], 806-742-4350

http://www.hpcc.ttu.edu

•  Community Building: –  Participate in Office hours, SURAgrid governance committee and SURAgrid

Cloud Options Working Group. –  Contributed Resources via OSG “Antaeus.hpcc.ttu.edu” and

“Weland.hpcc.ttu.edu”. –  Replacing Weland’s head node. –  Replacing campus-grid head node with a VM.

•  Operational Support: –  Participate in Office hours –  Serve as TAGPMA representative (Jerry needs new letter from SURA to continue

representing SURAgrid) . –  Testing SURAgrid VO Software Stack on HPCC resources. –  Testing Cloud Computing with SURAgrid Cloud Options Working Group (COWG). –  Testing Commercial Cloud Computing for Research Data Management (RDM)

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Texas Tech University

TTU (part two) •  Research Applications:

–  Dynamic Scheduling and Load balancing strategies for Radiotherapy Simulations: The goal is to assess the benefits of cluster-level scheduling and load balancing strategies in improving the grid-level efficiency in dose transport computations in Radiotherapy. Preliminary results are submitted to P2S2'12 (Authors: Ravi Vadapalli, Philip Smith (HPCC) and Victor Eijkhout (TACC)).

–  Well Optimization strategies in Conventional Reservoirs: This study is a prototype for the PEGrid project and Ravi Vadapalli is working with Ghazi AlQahtani (PhD Student in Petroleum Engineering). A paper on the review of existing techniques and requirements were accepted for publication in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), SPE-SAS 2012, Saudi Arabia.

–  HPC Research Course in PE: Up on request from PE, HPC based research course in PE is being developed. Initial objective is to offer the training to a few students on case by case basis and use the results to develop a course that will engage PE students into efficient utilization of HPCC capabilities.

•  Outreach: Bioinformatics class BTEC 5001 – collaboration between TTU HPCC and the TTU

Center for Biology and Genomics. Slides can be found at http://mythi.hpcc.ttu.edu/bioinformatics


1.   Community Building: Participating in Conference calls for transfer of technology

2.   Contributed Resources: None as of Now 3.   Operational Support: Testing OSG VO participation 4.   Research Applications: Consulting users on participating for OSG 5.   Outreach: Trying to integrate campus activates to SuraGrid 6.  Other items: None

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: Participating in All-hands meetings 2.   Contributed Resources: Will try to have resources for OSG test bed 3.   Operational Support: Having users work on getting OSG certificates

4.   External Funding: None

5.   Corporate Partnerships: Dell (Working for GPU support) 6.   Other plans : Working on RFP for new HPC cluster and getting involved

with SURAgrid Cloud Initiatives

Voting Lead: Eric Grulke, [email protected] 859-257-6097 Staff Support: Vikram Gazula, [email protected] 859.257.8748 Websites: www.uky.edu, www.ccs.uky.edu

University of Kentucky


1.   Community Building: >1200 users, two SURA users

2.   Contributed Resources: ~1,500 IBM Power cores, and 6,000 x86 cores. 2.5 PB of cloud storage for scientific data-charge model.

3.   Operational Support: 6-8 dedicated HPC staff (over 35 FTE in the Center)

4.   Research Applications: > 20 research applications 5.   Other items: Founding members of SSERCA (Florida), XSEDE campus bridging beta program

(GFFS test case)

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Contributed Resources: We expect to get a new 300 Tflop machine, we will be happy to

contribute a portion of this resource in addition to the current ones to SURA. This resource works as a cloud offering.

2.   Operational Support: We do not have a strong OSG community so our implementation efforts are not very intense. Cert process is very cumbersome, we do not plan to open it up to the UM community unless there is a specific need.

3.   Other plans: We start offering summer internships starting this summer

Voting Lead: Nick Tsinoremas, [email protected] Staff Support: Joel Zysman, [email protected] Websites: ccs.miami.edu

University of Miami- Center for Computational Science

Activities (Sept. 2011 – April 2011)

1.   Community Building: Participated on SURAgrid Governance Committee, participated in updating SURAgrid strategic plan.

2.   Contributed Resources: SURAgrid Website; Conference Bridge; Mailing Lists

3.   Operational Support: Managed mailing lists; posted materials to SURAgrid Website; coordinated changes/fixes to SURAgrid portal, hosted Spring SG All Hands meeting.

4.   Research Applications: No application deployment activity.

5.   Outreach: Solicited UMiami participation in XSEDE Campus Bridging Early Adopters Program.

Plans (May 2012 – Fall 2012) 1.   Community Building: Provide liaison with SURA IT Committee and other SURA programs.

2.   Contributed Resources: SURAgrid Website; Conference Bridge; Mailing Lists

3.   Operational Support: Continue SURAgrid Governance Committee participation; and contribute to an updated SG Strategic Plan.

4.   External Funding: No proposals currently identified. 5.   Corporate Partnerships: No active corp. partnerships.

Voting Lead: Gary Crane, [email protected], 315-597-1459 Staff Support: Linda Akli, [email protected], 202-408-2417 Websites: www.suragrid.org; http://www.sura.org/programs/it.html


1.   Community Building: SGC Participation, Wiki Documentation 2.   Contributed Resources: 80-Core Linux Cluster 3.   Operational Support: Office Hours 4.   Research Applications: Marine Bioinformatics 5.   Outreach: Pilot UGA Researchers; UGA SURAgrid Web Documentation 6.   Other items: None

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: Wiki Documentation 2.   Contributed Resources: 80-Core Linux Cluster, GPUs?

3.   Operational Support: Office Hours

4.   External Funding: ? 5.   Corporate Partnerships: ? 6.   Other plans: ?

Voting Lead: David Matthews-Morgan, [email protected] 706.542.0355 Staff Support: Jason Stone, [email protected] 706.542. Websites: www.uga.edu, gacrc.uga.edu

University of Georgia


1.   Community Building: Long-time member of OSG

2.   Contributed Resources: Access to 4500 core cluster, 100 job slots typically available but more with some interaction with us about user requirements.

3.   Operational Support: Via our standard Tier-2 support

4.   Research Applications: Main applications are LHC/High-energy Physics 5.   Outreach: 6.   Other items:

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: Continue participating in OSG

2.   Contributed Resources: Continue providing access for SURAgrid to Tier-2 3.   Operational Support: Via standard Tier-2 support

4.   External Funding: Funding from NSF and some form University

5.   Corporate Partnerships: Dell via LHC program 6.   Other plans: Willing to test new options with other SURAgrid members

Voting Lead: Shawn McKee, [email protected] 734 764-4395 Staff Support: Bob Ball, [email protected] 734-936-1029 Websites: https://www.aglt2.org/wiki/bin/view/AGLT2/WebHome

University of Michigan/ATLAS


1. Community Building: SURAgrid Governance Committee, SURAgrid Cloud Options Working Group.

2. Research Applications: Dust Strom, Geospatial Platform, GEOSS Clearinghouse, Climate@Home, SilvaCarbon

3. External Funding: –  Industry & University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Spatiotemporal

Thinking and Computing, NSF, 2012- –  Joint Laboratory for Advanced Spatiotemporal thInking and Computing (LASTIC),

NASA, $240K, 2012-

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012)

1. Community Building: SURAgrid Governance Committee, will participate in the SURAgrid Cloud Options Working Group.

Voting Lead: Dr. Chaowei Yang, Co-director of CISC, Director of STC, [email protected] (703) 993-4742 Staff Support: Dr. Abdelmounaam Rezgui, [email protected] (703) 993-9612

Dr. Qunying Huang, [email protected] (703) 3801443 Websites: www.gmu.edu, cisc.gmu.edu

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) – cont’d 2. Contributed Resources: We plan to make our private cloud available to the SURA

community. The platform is in its final testing stage. Currently, it has 25 computing nodes and all nodes are connected through fast local area networks (LANs with 1Gbps). Each node has 24 Gbytes memory and two quad-core processors (8 physical cores) with a clock frequency of 2.33 GHz, a peak performance of 7.6 Gflops/core and a sustained performance of 1 Gflop/core. SURA users will be able to request and manage scalable and virtualized computing resources on demand through a client interface or command line tools.

3. Outreach: 1.  Engage SURA members to experiment with cloud computing using CISC’s private cloud

2.  Conduct cloud computing-related research with other SURA members

4. Operational Support: Technical assistance for SURA members in experimenting with our cloud

5. Corporate Partnerships: With support from NSF, we are establishing the I/UCR Center for STC (Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing, and Applications) with UCSB and Harvard.

Voting Lead: Dr. Chaowei Yang, Co-director of CISC, Director of STC, [email protected] (703) 993-4742 Staff Support: Dr. Abdelmounaam Rezgui, [email protected] (703) 993-9612

Dr. Qunying Huang, [email protected] (703) 3801443 Websites: www.gmu.edu, cisc.gmu.edu


1.   Community Building: Training – over 40 classes per year (free to academia) *now webcasting*; Scientific computing Curriculum materials available for distribution

2.   Contributed Resources: Ranger, Lonestar, Longhorn allocations done via XSEDE 3.   Operational Support: User Support staff – 24/7 coverage 4.   Research Applications: many new bio-informatics codes;

1.  Internal: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects 2.  External: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-research

5.   Outreach: Tours, community events, monthly speaker series

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: More training, outreach at conferences with XSEDE 2.   Contributed Resources: via XSEDE 3.   Operational Support: ongoing 24/7 4.   External Funding: NSF, UT, UT System (UTRC), O’Donnell Foundation 5.   Corporate Partnerships: 7 energy co’s, 8 tech co’s 6.   Other plans

Voting Lead: Melyssa Fratkin, [email protected] 512-471-9961 Staff Support: Chris Hempel, [email protected], (512) 475-9479 Websites: www.tacc.utexas.edu


1.   Community Building: identified a handful of users willing to experiment using SG-OSG resources.

2.   Contributed Resources: Mileva Cluster 3.   Operational Support: ODU HPC Staff and student worker support. 4.   Research Applications: Hadoop 5.   Outreach: Conducted workshops in an effort to bring awareness of available SG-VO

resources. Used Hadoop cluster for instructional needs as well. 6.   Other items: With the help of Linda successfully conducted an XSEDE Visualization training.

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: Engage researchers to use SG-OSG resources to open up opportunities

to collaborate with other institution. 2.   Contributed Resources: Mileva Cluster 3.   Operational Support: ODU HPC Staff and student worker support. 4.   External Funding: -NA- 5.   Corporate Partnerships: -NA- 6.   Other plans: work around issues with SG-OSG, to open up access to Hadoop Cluster. Now that

we are XSEDE Campus champions we are getting ready to test applications on XSEDE resources.

Voting Lead: <Amit H. Kumar>, [email protected] 757.683.3092 Staff Support: <Amit H. Kumar>, [email protected] 757.683.3092 Websites: www.odu.edu, https://wiki.hpc.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY


1.   Community Building: member of SURA IT Committee

2.   Contributed Resources: largest core contributor to OSG 3.   Operational Support: 4.   Research Applications: LHC CMS experiment support 5.   Outreach: enabled Condor Flocking 6.   Other items: Founding member of SSERCA (Florida)

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) 1.   Community Building: Build cloud services within SSERCA 2.   Contributed Resources: OSG resource provider

3.   Operational Support: 4.   External Funding: NSF MRI pending, NSF CC-NIE under development 5.   Corporate Partnerships: 6.   Other plans: InCommon Silver certification

Voting Lead: Erik Deumens, [email protected] 352.392.6980 Staff Support: Yu Fu, [email protected] 352.392. Websites: www.ufl.edu, www.hpc.ufl.edu, www.sserca.org

University of Florida


Community Building: SC Broader Engagement •  Contributed Resources: none •  Operational Support: XSEDE Campus Champion •  Research Applications: Computer Aided Drug Design: Sybyl software suite

by Tripos, Inc. •  Outreach: XSEDE Minority Research Computation group (linda Akli) •  Other items: Participated in SC11, OpenACC workshop at PSC,

collaboration with Steve Gordon (OSC, XSEDE) and UVACSE to establish computational science studies at NSU

Plans (May 2012 – October 2012) •  Community Building: SC Broader Engagement •  Operational Support: XSEDE Campus Champion •  External Funding: submitting Center renewal to NIH •  Other plans: HPC bioinformatics emphasized; collaboration with The

National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC) at PSC

Voting Lead: Eduardo Socolovsky, [email protected] Staff Support: Ken Detweiller, [email protected] Websites: http://www.nsu.edu/;http://www.nsu.edu/biotechnology/

Norfolk State University

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