South Carolina State UniversitySPACI@MSI

Damian ClarkeAdvancing Research Computing and Data at SCSU

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About SCSU• Located in Orangeburg, South Carolina• 1890 Land-grant institution• Only State-funded Historically Black College/University (HBCU) in South Carolina. • Some interesting facts:

• BS program in nuclear engineering in South Carolina and at any HBCU. • MS Transportation and the only MS Business Administration degree with a concentration in agribusiness in

South Carolina. • Doctor of Education degree in the state with a concentration in educational administration. • SC State is ranked third in the nation in graduating minorities

with the doctor of education degree.

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Bulldog Connectivity Research Network (BCR Net)

• Dedicated and scalable data center and network fabric in support of the institution’s learning, research, and outreach missions.

• Provide a secure digital workspace where researchers can compute, store, share research data on high bandwidth, and secure Internet access on a variety of Internet-ready devices.

VXLAN TUNNEL END POINT (VTEP)VXLAN NETWORK IDENTIFIER (VNI)

SCIENCE DMZ LEAF SWITCH

X870-32CX690-48XX450-G2

SCIENCE DMZ SPINE SWITCHES X870-32C

PHYSICS RESEACH POD

COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH POD

NUCLEAR ENG.RESEARCH POD

ENTERPRISEFIREWALL

FORTGATE 1500D HA

WAN

PART I: SCIENCE DMZ (Research Pods)

ENTERPRSE DATA CENTER

SCIENCE DMZ LEAF SWITCH

X870-32CX690-48XX450-G2

SCIENCE DMZ LEAF SWITCH

X870-32CX690-48XX450-G2

SCSU DATA CENTER

PERFSONARDELL POWEREDGE R330

RACK SERVER

CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY,CALHOUN TECHNICAL

COLLEGE, AND TRI-COUNTY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

SCIENCE DMZ VXLAN 10G

PHYSICSRESEARCH LAB

NUCLEAR ENG.RESEARCH LAB

COMPUTER SCIENCE

RESEARCH LAB

PART II: SCIENCE DMZ (Network Tunnel)

HPC/STORAGE

PERFSONARRESEARCHINSTITUTIONS

COLLABORATING WITH SCSU

HPC/STORAGE HPC/STORAGE

CAMPUS CORE NEXUS 7K ROUTER

CLEMSON C-LIGHT INTERTENT2 AND COMMODITY INTERNET

(10G)

SCIENCE DMZ NETWORKSWITCHX870-32C/X450-G2

SCIENCE DMZ NETWORKSWITCHX870-32C/X450-G2

CAMPUS ACCESS TO SCIENCE DMZ RESOURCES 10G

CAMPUS LAN

10G

10G PoP ROUTER ACESSFOR OTHER INSTITUITIONS

HIGH-BANDWIDTH WAN PATH

1G

CLEMSON C-LIGHT ORANGEBURG PoP ROUTER

JINIPER QFX5100

SUPERMICRODTN

PERFSONARDELL POWEREDGE R330

RACK SERVER

SUPERMICRODTN

CAMPUS LAN ACCESS 1G

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Research Partners• Nuclear Engineering Program (NEP): • The Applied Radiation Sciences Laboratory (ARSL), Radiation Data Mining

Laboratory (RDML), and the NEP reactor simulation laboratory for radiation spectra acquisition, numerical analysis, data storage, data mining, and reactor visualizations.

• Projects are funded by NSF, DOE and South Carolina Department of Transportation. Collaborators include the Savannah River National Laboratory and North Carolina State University.

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Physics: Robotically Controlled Telescope• SC State is part a consortium which manages the 1.3 meter telescope located at

Kitt Peak National Observatory 50 miles west of Tucson. The telescope can be run remotely in real time over the Internet, or robotically through a scheduler algorithm.

• National partners include Villanova University and Western Kentucky University and individual astronomers at other sites

• 10’s of GB or more data is acquired each night, 300 clear nights of the year • TBs of archival data is stored at one site – SC State may serve as a future backup

site

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Physics Computational Lab• Located on the 3rd floor of the science building on the SC State campus• Linux platforms support a variety of undergraduate and faculty research projects, including TBs of space-

based and ground-based observational data of tropical cyclones (NASA CYGNSS project) and the study of peculiar and variable stars (NSF POCA project)

• A robust network is necessary for the sharing of data with collaborators at government labs and other universities

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Solar Studies and National Archive• SC State was one of the leading institutions which observed the solar eclipse of August 2017 via the

national network of telescopes located at 68 sites from Oregon to South Carolina. The project was known as Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE)

• SC State is collaborating with a small business and other institutions to establish a national archive of solar data on the SC State campus

• Access to the solar data base will be open to researchers from around the world downloading large data set –requiring a robust SC State network with large bandwidth

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Computer Science: Educational Activity• Courses - 6 cybersecurity courses• Netlab NDG+ Virtual Lab

available for use by students of SCSU an sister institutions

• Powered by Netlab pods and a 10 Gb private/dedicated Internet

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Computer Science

Research Activities -• Distributed machine learning models for Cybersecurity

• Optimizing Performance of Cloud Based Content Delivery Networks (CCDN)

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Challenges and Opportunities• Buy-In

• Board • President • Cabinet • Faculty/Staff• IT department

• Funding

• Existing Research

• This workshop and others

• Collaborative Approach

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