Notes for CCSTF on NYSGrid meeting at RPI

BobKrzaczek
Laboratory for Imaging Algorithms and Systems
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
2006 Sep 27

NYSGrid

New York State Computational Grid: NYSGrid, "nice grid"

National Science Foundation (NSF) funds multiple major grid interests. New York has never responded to any RFPs. NSF is puzzled by this because NYS has:

• High energy physics (Brookhaven, Columbia)
• Biotech (Cold Spring Harbor, Tri-Institutional Center)
• Optics (UR)
• Medicine, Telesurgery (NYU)
• Computing (Buffalo, Cornell, RPI)

As well as major industrial R&D:

• GE
• Corning
• IBM
• Kodak/ITT
• Xerox
• Pfizer
• Wadsworth

NYSGrid

Federal funding opportunities in near future (≅ 1 year):

• NSF, Simulation Based Engineering Sciences, $25M
• DOE, Global Nuclear Energy Program, $25M
• DOE, Renewable Energy Sources, $??M
• NSF, TeraGrid Support, $25M

NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure FY07 budget is $182M. We know that "major" RFPs are coming in FY07. We know that they will be disappointed if there isn't something from NYS.

No institution "on their own" is large enough to compete.

NYSGrid, representing research, computing, large data sets from around the state would be large enough to compete. NYS has:

• Research
• Instrumentation and Collaboration
• Computing
• Datasets

NYSGrid

NYSGrid should have "something for everybody". Enhance their capability to perform their missions (research, teaching). Realtime collaboration.

No one university can have the very best people teaching all the best courses. "Therefore" we need to collaborate. Synchronously. High bandwidth. NYSGrid, from the outset, values academics "just as important" as research.

Aside from CPU cycles, why would NYS want to do this? Why would political interests get behind it? Jobs. Technical workforce. Bring companies into NYS because we would have the best infrastructure to support them.

Various active models to work from:

• TeraGrid
• Open Science Grid

Working Groups

This was the first meeting to feature "Working Groups".

Infrastructure

Andy Elble, Dan Tobin

Research Tools

Alan Kaminsky, Bob Krzaczek

Applications

Pete Lutz (?)

Management

Guy Johnson

Public and State Relations

Gurcharan Khanna, Ron Vullo, Larry Hill

Research Tools

• Data Privacy
• Colocation of storage and computing
• Distribution of storage and computing
• Cycle scavenging
• Heterogenous computing
• Software licensing (e.g., Gaussian)
• Guarantees of processing power or storage
• Planning Ratios
  • Petabytes / Teraflops
  • Petabytes / Bandwidth