State of SURAgridfor All-Hands meeting

September 2007

Mary Fran YafchakSURA IT Program Coordinator

maryfran@sura.org

SURAgrid Vision

SURA regional development:• Develop & manage partnership relations• Facilitate collaborative project development• Orchestrate centralized services & support• Foster and catalyze application development• Develop training & education (user, admin)• Other…(Community-driven, over time…)

Project-Specific View

SURAgrid Resources

SURAgrid Resourcesand Applications

“MySURAgrid” View

Sample User Portals

Industry PartnerCoop Resources

(e.g. IBM partnership)

InstitutionalResources

(e.g. Current participants)

Gateways to National Cyberinfrastructure

(e.g. Teragrid)

Other externallyfunded resources

(e.g. group proposals)

VO or ProjectResources

(e.g, SCOOP)

Heterogeneous Environment to Meet Diverse User Needs

SURAgrid

Project-specific tools

Expanded SURA Commitment

• May 06 - SURA Board resolution recognizing SURAgrid as a major SURA program

• Brought additional SURA IT staff – Linda Akli, IT Application & Outreach Specialist (as of

January 2007)– Dali Wang, Grid Infrastructure Specialist (as of

August 2007)– Mary Trauner, independent contractor, April through

October 2007

• Highlighted the need for more formal structure to mature the program

SURAgrid Participant Growth

(Key: Black type indicates SURA member and blue is non-member)

• Start-up (Late 2003, coming out of the NMI project)

– 8 participants, 25% non-SURA

• Start-up to Board Resolution (Spring 06)

– 19 participants, 21% non-SURA

• Board Resolution to the present– 33 participants, 27% non-SURA

NOTE: Numbers do not include institutions that are presently only running applications on SURAgrid

SURAgrid Application Growth

Application Name Date

1 GSU Multiple Genome Alignment on the Grid Dec-03

2 UABgrid Dynamics BLAST May-05

3 UNC Storm Surge Modeling with ADCIRC Jun-05

4NCSU Simulation-Optimization for Threat Management in Urban Water

Systems Mar-06

5 LSU Wave Watch 3 for SCOOP Mar-06

6 SURA SURAgrid Teaching Environment Aug-06

7 ODU Bio-Sim: Bio-electric Simulator for Whole Body Tissue Aug-06

8 UFL CH3D Storm Surge Monitoring System with Grid Appliance Sep-06

9 Hampton University Tokamak Divertor Map Nov-06

10 University of Delaware Climate Modeling with CAM3 Jun-07

11 GSU Virtual Screening for Computational Chemistry Sep-07

From one demo application in 2003 to eleven “in the works”

SURAgrid Resource growth

• Number of resources fluctuates often but good trends overall…– Several test resources being replaced by larger resources, or those

from production environments – Several institutions now contributing multiple resources– New participants approaching SURAgrid with initial interest in adding

resources

Institutions Resources CPUs Peak GFlops

GBtyes Memory

GBytes disk

September 2005 9 11 490 1327 548 4755

October 2006 14 18 910 3073 950 8020

April 2007 13 16 1971 10522 3324 45609

September 2007 11 15 1255 7153 2176 32429

And Other Milestones…• New features in SURAgrid portal (Thanks, TACC!)

• Expanded SURAgrid user documentation• Formation of SURAGrid Governance Committee• Expanded Corporate Partnerships (Thanks, Gary!)

• SURAgrid Stack Install Package (Thanks Jerry, Alan & TIGRE!)

• First steps towards SURAgrid accounting system• Initiate next-level PKI (Thanks, Jim/UVA!)

• (Just this year - so far!) Three new funding proposals– STCI - core infrastructure & support improvements w/TACC & UVA – C-TEAM w/TTU & partners - collaborative CI training development– CI-TEAM “MSI On-Ramp” - targeted involvement of early adopter

MSIs in SURAgrid as on-ramp to CI participation

How Work is Getting Done

Active• SURAgrid Implementation Team• SURAgrid Teaching Environment

Working Group • SURAgrid Accounting WG• SURAgrid Software Stack Team

• SURAgrid SCOOP Applications Deployment Team

• Major component contributors (TACC, UVA, ODU)• SURA commitment• SURAgrid Governance Committee• Working groups

On Hiatus• SURAgrid Funding Group • SURAgrid Environment

Variables Working Group

Suggested Meeting Mindset

Remember: This is a working meeting. Seize the opportunity

to work together face-to-face!

1. Confirm that current work is good and useful2. Insure we have ways to get the work done