Student Success Story

Research Project Grid Enablement of Weather Research and Forecasting Software

Advisors Dr. Masoud Sadjadi, FIU Dr. Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing

Center

Students Marlon Bright, FIU Undergraduate, African

American, US Citizen Javier Delgado, FIU Doctoral candidate,

Hispanic, US Citizen

In this collaboration, which focused on profiling applications on different computer architectures in order to allow them to be optimized for execution on a grid of computers, Javier acted as a research mentor to Marlon. Their PIRE experiences inspired Marlon to pursue his doctoral degree in CS and Javier to pursue an academic career once he has his PhD. Javier and Marlon have expanded their research network to include a multi-core computer architecture expert, Dr. Hector Duran of the Universidad de Guadalajara.

Information and Contact

http://pire.fiu.edu Yi Deng, PIRE PI Dean and Professor, FIU SCIS deng@cis.fiu.edu Shu-Ching Chen, PIRE Co-PI Assoc. Professor, FIU SCIS chens@cis.fiu.edu Borko Furht, PIRE Co-PI Chair and Professor, FAU CSE borko@cse.fau.edu Pete Martinez, PIRE Co-PI Chairman, Florida Research Consortium Senior VP and Chief Technology Innovation Officer, The Quantum Group S. Masoud Sadjadi, PIRE Co-PI Asst. Professor, FIU SCIS sadjadi@cis.fiu.edu

PIRE at the Sixth LA Grid Summit, 10/08

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OISE-0730065. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations

expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science

Foundation.

PIRE: A Global Living

Laboratory for Cyberinfrastructure

Application Enablement

The FIU/FAU PIRE prepares its students to compete in the Global Information Technology

Marketplace

International Collaboration

The Florida International University / Florida Atlantic University (FIU/FAU) PIRE is driven by a Research Framework that focuses on Cyberinfrastructure Application Enablement. In its first year, this multi-national university, industry, and National Supercomputing Center collaboration included five countries (Mexico, China, Spain, India, and Argentina) and seven institutions (Universidad de Guadalajara, Tsinghua University and IBM’s China Research Laboratory, Universitat Politènica de Catalunya and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, IBM’s India Research Laboratory, and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata) through the participation of 18 students, 14 US research advisors, and 14 international collaborative advisors.

Student participants become part of an international network of researchers, building collaborations that will enhance career opportunities while gaining an understanding of the globalized information technology market; our PIRE’s participants included the first “foreign” PhD students sponsored to perform collaborative research at IBM’s China Research Lab and India Research Lab.

Student Diversity in PIRE

The FIU/FAU PIRE cohort of 2008-2009 was well balanced in terms of student diversity. Each university sent nine students and there was even distribution among student enrolled in BS, MS, and PhD programs. 33% of our students were female, 33% were Hispanic, and 22% were Black; this population is well above the typical representation enrolled in our nation’s computer science and computer engineering programs.

Cyberinfrastructure Research Framework

Bioinformatics

Applications

Healthcare

Comm. Apps.

Hurricane

Mitigation Apps.

Visualization Software Tools

Transparent

Grid

Enablement

Data Mining Software Tools

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Bioinformatics Algorithms for HPC

A Grid-Enabled Portal for WRF

Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences Using MPI Clusters

Data Mining for Video Encoding Patterns for Fault-Tolerant Web Services

Enabling Access to Grid Computing

from Mobile Devices

Grid Enablement of Weather

Research and Forecasting Software

Data Mining Cross Validation

over Distributed Networks

Gene Selection for Cancer Classification

Proposing a Graph

Similarity Toolkit for Improving

Social Network Layout

Emerging Solutions and Standards

for Multimedia on the Web

Compass: Cost of Migration-

Aware Placement in Storage

Systems

Pattern Based Fault-

Tolerance at Workflow

Management Systems

Web Accessibility for the Hearing Impaired

Business Constraint Based

Testing Generation

China Research Lab

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China

India Research Lab

UNLP,

Argentina

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China Research Lab.

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WRF Ensemble on Grid

Traceability AnalysisSocial Networks

Student-Centric Model

The FIU/FAU PIRE’s student-centric model leverages each institution’s commitment to Cyberinfrastructure research and to education in a way that benefits each participating institution. Participants begin their research collaboration and complete a cultural and language training program before they travel and continue their research collaboration upon their return.

One track of the Sixth LA Grid Summit, held in October 2008, was dedicated to learning about the research collaboration the PIRE students experienced in the summer of 2008. The Summit sponsored a poster contest showcasing the students’ work as well as a panel of international faculty collaborators and PIRE students whose discussion focused on “How to Establish Sustainable International Research and Collaboration.”

PIRE TrianglesA Student-Centric

Model

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