Fueling Discovery and Education through Advanced Internet Technologies

Fueling Discovery and Education through Advanced Internet Technologies John P. Mc. Gowan Vice President & CIO Florida International University

Outline • An Institutional Perspective • FIU & Collaborative Partnerships Building the Infrastructure – Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) – AMericas Path (AMPATH) – An inter-regional grid-enabled Center for High-Energy Physics Research Education and Outreach (CHEPREO) – Connected Cities • Distributed Computing

An Institutional Introduction • • • An International University Carnegie Research Extensive 35, 000 Students 3, 300 Residents 2, 400 Faculty / Staff Multi-campus. Vo. IP & Wireless – 6000 handsets – Wireless initiative – People. Soft & Oracle • Committed to Outreach & Collaboration University Park Fountain

Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA)

About CIARA • The center is uniquely designed to leverage research to benefit FIU and partner institutions: – Augmenting the rate of discovery for all investigators - collaboration – Enabling interdisciplinary research activities mediated through advanced information and communications technologies – Invigorating scholarship for graduate students, undergrads, and students in the community – Providing leadership in international networking – Developing culturally diverse distributed learning communities – Foster enabling synergies between faculty driven research, graduate students, and research scientists/technologists • Leverage the institution’s research programs with its advanced ICT investments • Assess effectiveness and disseminate results • Implement techniques that effectively augment the pace of research and discovery

AMPATH Background & Summary · Industry support from Global Crossing (GX), Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks and Terremark Worldwide · Enables network communications between the US research and education networks and National Research and Education Networks in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico · Funded by National Science Foundation (STI-023184) http: //www. ampath. fiu. edu

AMPATH - a community effort

Metrics of Success • Connections themselves being instantiated – A significant effort: • Scientists in previous workshops expressed significant interest in complete access to collaborators, students, and instruments in Central and South America • Grand Challenge Science being enabled – ARECIBO, CHEPREO, Gemini • Education and Outreach – PASI

An Inter-Regional Grid-Enabled Center for High-Energy Physics Research and Educational Outreach

CHEPREO IS… • Good CMS Science • Educational Outreach • Cyberinfrastructure

Goals & Accomplishments • FIU has joined the CMS experiment – Added two faculty positions in CMS physics – Added one Physics Educator Position (now open!) – Contributing to Detector Control Systems • Headquarters for education and outreach efforts in the Physics Learning Center – Modeling Introductory University Physics – Partnering with local High Schools – Quark. Net Partner • Leverage Networking – AMPATH provides an enabling technology infrastructure – FIU is a member of i. VDGL & becoming a member of OSG – Brazilian HEP led by Professor Alberto Santoro (UERJ) and Professor Sergio Novaes (USP)

FIU Contributions to CMS • Detector controls High Voltage (HV) Graphical User Interface (GUI) and interface to database • Contributions to Data Acquisition (DAQ) prototyping • Networking/infrastructure building on AMPATH • Partnerships allow FIU to take additional responsibility as expertise and manpower grows • Students at CERN as part of the initiative.

Physics Learning Center FIU committed 3000 sq. ft. of new space for lab, classrooms • Headquarters for Education & Outreach efforts adjacent to research facilities • Integrating Education and Research • Ties to Miami-Dade Public School System • Teacher support – Content, Career Development, Research • Class Space – Modeling Workshops • Intro to Physics Course – Peer Tutoring Center – Grid workshops

Developing a Globally Distributed Collaborative Learning Community • CMS research experience for students • Pre-service experiences for K-12 teachers • Quark. Net research opportunities for teachers • Participation and support from area high schools • International exchanges, workshops, summer schools • Networking internships and experience at NAP of the America's • Science Education Fellowships • Test-bed schools • Web-based resources

Networking Activities • FIU, UFL, FSU form State of Florida Research Grid • Int'l starting point is FIU's AMPATH initiative • Extend i. VDGL to South America • Serve as pathway for research and education networking

Implications of Building Petascale Global Grids • The transition to Global Grids will transform research in science, engineering, and society • If these developments are successful, and deployed widely as standards they will create – Profound advances in industry, commerce and society at large and – Change relationships between people and “persistent” information in their daily lives within the next five to ten years • Realizing the benefits of these developments for society, and creating a sustainable cycle of innovation helps us to close the digital divide

International Activities • Build upon global e-science networks and CIARA partnerships in South America • LAGRID provides future data grid with Brazil • CHEPREO collaborations with Brazil proposed 3 initial activities: – Incorporate LISHEP workshop series into CHEPREO – International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (i. VDGL) Membership – Participation in US-Latin America student exchange

Integration of FIU in i. VDGL • International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory • UF lead institution (2001 -2006) – Build international Grid laboratory – Many U. S. sites (plus Brazil, Korea) participating • FIU is a member of i. VDGL – Joint leadership of i. VDGL/Gri. Phy. N Outreach – Participation in CMS Grid – New relationships with South American institutions (via AMPATH) – Help drive LAGRID

National Lambda Rail

Florida Lambda. Rail: Optical Network NLR CERN, FNAL, Caltech, JLab UWF FSU FLR Hub UF UCF FIT FLR Connection FAU NSU FIU UM

A Statewide Grid Using FLR NLR CERN, FNAL, Caltech, JLab UWF FSU CSIT FLR Hub UF HPC Center Fiber. GLASS Site UCF USF NCS NASA FIT FLR Connection Scripps Florida FAU NSU FIU UM CHEPREO Hurricane Center AMPATH South America

The Digital City Initiative • Collaboration within the City of Miami – building the next layer of infrastructure • For cities to change the way enterprises have will require the kind of information exchange environment that enterprises now take for granted – It becomes the next pervasive social infrastructure to follow roads, water, power and telecoms – A new model for the polis becomes possible when new ways of working are combined with a new pervasive social infrastructure to serve the community • The City of Stockholm • Barcelona • The Province of Alberta, Canada

Thank You! For more information, please contact us at: 305 -348 -4105 www. ciara. fiu. edu