Collaborative CI Research and Education between CNIC of

Collaborative CI Research and Education between CNIC of CAS and FIU CIARA Chinese American Networking Symposium (CANS) August 25 -26, 2007 Applications Session August 26 th 10: 45 – 12: 00 Presented by Heidi L. Alvarez, Ph. D. Director, Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment

NSF CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Global Cyber. Bridges (GCB); A Model Global Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science between US and International Partners Trans-national and cross-discipline communication is the future for science and engineering research and education. Global Cyber. Bridges extends the Cyber. Bridges concept to an international level. International Partners • Florida International University & Calit 2 at UCSD • Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences • City University of Hong Kong • University of Sao Paulo’s School of the Future in Brazil. Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Cyber. Bridges tested the hypothesis that students can act as “bridges, ” showing researchers how they can use cyberinfrastructure (CI) to further their knowledge. Cyber. Bridges NSF Award OCI-0537464 to Florida International University; Center for Internet Augmented Research & Assessment Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

CIARA; Background for the Project The Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) was created in 2003 as a State of Florida Type II Research Center at FIU. CIARA services institutional collaborators in the U. S. and internationally as a bridge linking researchers and educators with the infrastructure and knowledge they need to perform their work Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

CNIC; Background for the Project The Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC, CAS) is a subsidiary research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), engaged mainly in the construction, operation and supporting service of informatization of CAS, R&D of computer network technology, database technology as well as scientific engineering computation. EUChina. GRID Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th http: //www. cnic. ac. cn/english/index. html NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

AMPATH Improves research and education high performance network connectivity in the Western Hemisphere Promotes efficient peering through a distributed exchange point model Leverages participants’ network resources to foster collaborative research and advance education throughout the Western Hemisphere, to Europe and Asia AMPATH provides Cyber. Bridges fellows with connectivity to R&E computational grid resources at institutions and laboratories around the world Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Western Hemisphere Research & Education Network (WHREN) Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) (1) 2. 5 Gbps + dark fiber segment U. S. landings in Miami and San Diego Latin America landings in Sao Paulo and Tijuana $5 M over 5 years from the National Science Foundation & $5 M from the Science Foundation of Sao Paulo OCI Award# 0441095 Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

An Inter-regional Grid Enabled Center for High Energy Physics Research and Educational Outreach (CHEPREO) Tier 3 Open Science Grid Cluster Current Cluster configuration: • Gigabit Copper backbone with Gig. E connectivity to AMPATH Network • OSG Computing Element 23 node computational cluster Supports local user logins Serves as the CE’s gatekeeper Plus all other cluster services • Augments Cyber. Bridges cluster • Funded by NSF MPS-0312038. • www. chepreo. org Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Approaches to e-Learning Sciences Cyber. Bridges fellows construct models with their faculty advisors and reproduce them through computer simulations. Technology permits teams, possibly in different locations and with different skills to work toward real world solutions. Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

GCB Year 1 Project structure 4 Fellowships at FIU lead 2 and 3 person teams -Normative analysis performed by GCB Assessment Committee -Two semesters long -Interdisciplinary Collaboration -Annual Assessment - Case Study Packages Certification Program Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Hypothesis and assessment Cyber. Bridges proposed that graduate students engaged in inquiry-based learning activities can affect transfer of CI research and that this transfer will increase scientists’ rates of discovery and create a CI-empowered workforce. Faculty + Student + CI-Scientist Domain specific metrics Cyber. Bridges Assessment Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Project implementation 1. Continuous cross-disciplinary dialogue 2. Collaborative proposal writing 3. Faculty review of proposals 4. Normative assessment 5. Nesting of graduate students in lab 6. CI scholastic certification program 7. Case study package 8. Student outreach Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Year 1 GCB Project Case Studies 1. Computational Modeling & Simulation of Biodegradable Starch based polymer composites (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Sachin Joshi (FIU student), Zhang Yuming, Zhuang Yuxin (CNIC students) and Alexander Mebel (faculty) 2. Collaborative Platforms (Computer Science) David Villegas (FIU Student) and Hang Xing (CNIC student) with Masoud Sadjadi and Kuldeep Kumar (faculty) Congratulations! Paper accepted for publication in i-Society 2007 3. Grid Enablement of Hurricane Simulation Application (Computer Science in collaboration with Earth Sciences) Diego J. Lopez (FIU student) , Hao Yunxiao (CNIC student) and S. Masoud Sadjadi (faculty) and Hugh Willoughby (faculty) 4. On-Demand Weather Forecast Visualization via Efficient Resource Utilization in Grid Computing (Computer Science) Khalid Saleem (student) and Shu-Ching Chen (faculty) Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Pilot Project Case Studies 1—Alejandro de la Puente (student) and Rajamani S. Narayanan (faculty) Interplay between Random Matrix Theory and Quantum Field Theory Physics 2—Cassian D’Cunha (student) and David Chatfield (faculty) Parallel Computations for Macromolecular Simulation Chemistry and Biochemistry 3—Tom Milledge (student) and Giri Narasimhan (faculty) Unsupervised Pattern Discovery in Protein Structures Computing and Information Sciences 4—Ronald A. Gutierrez (student) and Eric T. Crumpler (faculty) Computational Enhanced Mesh Design in Tissue Engineering: Measuring Wall Shear Stress in Cell/Scaffolds Biomedical Engineering Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Outcomes of Cyber. Bridges Pilot • Re-focusing expenditures from technology support functions to synchronous fellowships can have a profound impact on the effectiveness of scientific investigations. • Cyber. Bridges fellows and their advisors have benefited from such re-focusing. They have successfully implemented CI into their research and teaching. • Globally distributed institutions can replicate the Cyber. Bridges model. Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Cyber. Bridges’ Pilot Success • Cyber. Bridges exposed over 200 students and researchers to CI during Super Computing Conference in Tampa, Florida USA 2006, when the four Cyber. Bridges fellows gave talks on their work. • Cyber. Bridges made it possible for each of the fellows to acquire competitive summer internships. • Publications accepted at CCGRID, Tera. Grid, and domain specific journals Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Cyber. Bridges Fellows Present & Graduate Super. Computing 2006, Tampa, Florida November 11 -17 www. sc 06. supercomp. org Top from left: Professor Yan Bao. Ping, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor Paul Avery, UF; Dr. Miriam Heller, NSF; Tom Milledge; Ronald Gutierrez; Alejandro de la Puenta; Cassian D’Cunha Bottom row from left: Ernesto Rubi, FIU/CIARA; Michael Smith, FIU/CIARA; Dr. Eric Crumpler, FIU Engineering; Julio Ibarra, Co-PI & Executive Director CIARA; Heidi Alvarez, PI & Director CIARA, Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi, FIU SCIS. Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

Presentation & Publication Ronald Gutierrez presenting “Cyber. Bridges: A Model Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science", Proceedings of the 7 th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007 at CCGRID “After the presentation, I met some Ph. D students that wanted to know if I could present this collaboration program (Cyber. Bridges) in another conference (CLCAR-07, Santa Marta, Colombia). ” Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031

谢 谢! Thank You! Heidi Alvarez Peter Arzberger Kuldeep Kumar Julio Ibarra S. Masoud Sadjadi Baoping Yan Lambda. Vision 100 -Megapixel display and SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) software developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Major funding provided by NSF. Kai Nan Fang Qian Email info@cyberbridges. net Website www. cyberbridges. net Tera. Grid ’ 07 Madison, WI June 6 th NSF AWARD N° OCI-0537464 & 0 CI-0636031