OKLAHOMA Supercomputing Symposium 2011 University of Oklahoma October

OKLAHOMA Supercomputing Symposium 2011 University of Oklahoma October 11, 2011 James Wicksted, RII Project Director Associate Director, Oklahoma EPSCo. R Oklahoma State University.

WHAT IS EPSCo. R? Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research EPSCo. R is a merit based science and technology (S&T) initiative to improve the research capacity capability and competitiveness in states that historically have not received significant federal research and development (R&D) funding.

NSF EPSCo. R Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) RII Track-1: Up to 5 years and $20 M to jurisdictions to improve physical and human infrastructure critical to R&D competitiveness in priority research areas: Building Oklahoma’s Leadership Role in Cellulosic Bioenergy RII Track-2: Up to 3 years and $6 M to consortia of jurisdictions to support innovation-enabling cyberinfrastructure of regional, thematic, or technological importance: A cyber. Commons for Ecological Forecasting (OK, KS collaboration) RII Cyber Connectivity (C 2): Up to 2 years and $1 M to support the enhancement of inter-campus and intra-campus cyber connectivity and broadband access within an EPSCo. R jurisdiction: Oklahoma Optical Initiative PI Neeman OU, EPS-1006919, $1, 176, 470, 9/1/2010 - 8/31/2012. • Transformation of statewide ring to 3 site routed network to 5 site optical network • Connectivity Improvements at individual institutions • Oklahoma Telepresence Initiative • Oklahoma Information Technology Mentorship Program (OITMP)

OKLAHOMA EPSCo. R RII Track-1 CI PLAN §Development of statewide strategic CI initiative §Promote utilization and training of CI resources §Build faculty and student computing capabilities Henry Neeman, Director of the University of Oklahoma Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER), serves on SC 07 -11 Education Committee; SC 10 and SC 11 Educational Chair; PI on NSF EPSCo. R RII C 2 and OU MRI. Dana Brunson, Sr. Systems Engineer, OSU High Performance Computing Center, OSU representative at SCXX conferences; works with OSU to host the 2011 Tutorial Workshop: Computational Chemistry for Chemistry Educators; Co-PI on NSF EPSCo. R RII C 2 and PI on OSU MRI.

OKLAHOMA EPSCo. R CI PLAN OK CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE (OCII) • All academic institutions in Oklahoma are eligible for free use of OU and OSU centrally-owned CI resources (special HPCs) - Currently more than 540 users at 15 academic institutions statewide • Other institutions (government, NGO, commercial) are eligible to participate, though not necessarily for free. - Nonacademic users - NOAA agencies (NSSL, SPC) - Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation - U. S. Military • Open participation in CI education initiatives - Supercomputing in Plain English - Supercomputing overviews and tours - SC 09 -11 (and beyond) workshops at OU and OSU - Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium

OKLAHOMA EPSCo. R CI PLAN OK CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE CAPACITY/TRAINING • Computational Chemistry Conference (Year 3) prompted by Track 1 • Supercomputing in Plain English – From 2001, over 1000 from 147 organizations in 42 US states and other jurisdictions as well as 5 other countries – 14 institutions in Oklahoma and 38 institutions in 19 other EPSCo. R jurisdictions – Fall 2008 through Spring 2011 • 12 OK Regional Institutions including one HBU and one tribal college • Several Institutions with large Native American populations • Ph. D-granting, masters-granting, bachelors-granting, community colleges, high schools, middle schools, OK LSAMP Annual Symposium • SCXX Workshops hosted by OCII – Served 147 faculty & graduate students from 16 OK Institutions • Supercomputing Symposium – Held October, 2008, 2009, 2010 on OU campus – 795 participants from 24 academic, industry, and military institutions, as well as six EPSCo. R states – Over 85% of participants report improved skills

OKLAHOMA EPSCo. R CI PLAN CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROPOSALS • NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI): “Acquisition of Extensible Petascale Storage for Data Intensive Research”; OU has acquired and is deploying the Oklahoma Peta. Store, that combines disk and tape, to enable faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates across Oklahoma to build large and growing data collections. PI: Neeman, OU, OCI 1039829. • NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI): “COWBOY” Cyberinstrumentation proposal for an OSU HPC cluster supercomputer that will support computing-intensive research and research training across a broad variety of STEM disciplines and be available to researchers across Oklahoma, PI: Brunson, OSU, OCI-1136330.