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GriPhyN Education and Outreach

Joe Romano

University of Texas at Brownsville

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Overview of E/O activitiesFall/Winter 2000:  • Begin search for E/O coordinator• Begin benchmarking tests for UTB linux clusterSpring/Summer 2001:   • Search for E/O coordinator and benchmarking continue

… • Search completed: Manuela Campanelli hired as a

faculty! • E/O coordinator attend GGF1, makes contacts with

dissemination program of European data grid projects, other E/O projects (EOT-PACI, QuarkNet, ThinkQuest),

• E/O coordinator partecipate in iVDGL proposal and contact tier3 centers (Hampton U., Salish Kootenai College).

• Begin construction of UTB linux cluster

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Present E/O activities and plans

Fall/Winter 2001: • Construction of UTB cluster completed• Begin installing Condor, Globus on UTB cluster• E/O coordinator starts at UTB• iVDGL funded! • Grid-enabling UTB cluster: Condor, Globus• Prepare and submit a proposal for REU supplement

for iVDGL : however it is important that we know who would like to mentor students during next summer and propose projects!

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Present E/O activities and plans

continue …• Design of new web-pages for GriPhyN E/O activities (

http://www.aei- potsdam.mpg.de/~manuela/GridWeb/main.html):» Basic educational material about data grids, information about the

physics experiments, etc.

» Technical support information (e.g., documentation, user manuals, how-to guides) for the GriPhyN virtual data toolkits

» Simple web-based access to real data which illustrates of the concept of virtual data (SDSS, LIGO??)

• Hire 1 graduate and 1undergraduate students with iVDGL funds

• Upgrade UTB cluster from 96 nodes to 128 nodes

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E/O resources at UT Brownsville• E/O coordinator tenure track faculty at UTB supported by

GriPhyN funds for the next 5 years• Additional support from iVDGL:

» 1 graduate & 1 undergraduate students, upgrate of Linux cluster

• Additional support to do LIGO-related research » 5 undergraduate and 1 graduate student are currently writing code for

gravitational-wave searches » 4 students are currently involved in the benchmarking and construction of a

96 Linux beowulf cluster

• 1 student has recently installed and is learning to use Condor » Students spend part of the summer at LIGO-Livingston Observatory

participating in commissioning activities

• Linux cluster primarily for LIGO data analysis but it can also serve as a test-bed for GriPhyN software

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E/O at other institutions

• ATLAS, CMS have education and outreach programs that we have not yet utilized for GriPhyN

• SDSS (Alex Szalay, JHU and Jim Gray, Microsoft) are developing a web-based interface to access SDSS data Skyserver» Designed for general public (K-12 audience)

» Layered-content to be usefulf for professional astronomers

» Easily extended to illustrate concept of virtual data

• IMPORTANT: we all need to give talks at other colleges and universities to spread the new about GriPhyN (Please, inform and send your talks to E/O coordinators!

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Future plans

Year 2002:• Improved GriPhyN E/O web pages:

» Adding more technical support information (e.g., documentation, user manuals, how-to guides) for the GriPhyN virtual data toolkits

» Active web-based access to real data which illustrates of the concept of virtual data (SDSS, LIGO)

• UTB apply to a REU site for GriPhyN research: » educational physicist at UTB Philip Dukes interested in paretcipating.

• Increased minority-serving institution participation as part of the iVDGL» UT Brownsville: (HIS) connections with LIGO; continued participation

» Hampton College: (HBCU) connections with ATLAS

» Salish Kootenai College: (AIHEC) connections with LIGO

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Future plans

continue …• E/O coordinator continue to serve as point of contact for

other institutions, grid projects activities, and E/O programs (Quarknet, Thinquest, etc) interested in learning about GriPhyN and want to use GriPhyN tools

Year 2003 and beyond:• Proposal to All: Griphyn All-Hands meeting at minority

serving institutions. We plan to have the 1st meeting in Brownsville in spring 2003!

• Include Griphyn E/O in course development.