1 UITS Research Technologies update for Bloomington Faculty Council Technology Policy CommitteeCraig A. Stewart, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Research Technologies; Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute 20 February 2015 Intro Slide

2 What is Research Technology’s mission?2 The mission of the Research Technologies division of UITS is to develop, deliver and support advanced technology solutions that improve the productivity of and enable new possibilities in research, scholarly endeavors, and creative activity at Indiana University and beyond; and to complement this with education and technology translation activities to improve the quality of life of people in Indiana, the nation, and the world. We are a mission- and value-driven organization. We are not a technology-driven organization. We identify needs, identify possibilities, and discover new ways to meet those needs, realize those possibilities, and create new ones. In so doing, we create, deploy, and support technology. We are a technology-driving organization. Roughly one third of personnel are funded by external agencies

3 We’ve supported some important research and interesting creative activity along the waySNAKE EVOLUTION FRUIT FLY TRANSCRIPTOME HIGGS BOSON NOBEL PRIZE One Degree Imager Operation Ice Bridge Water flea genome Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Indiana CTSI Cell surface function History of philosophy and science Variations Ethnography Music Composition Fine arts Performing arts A boa constrictor body shown over the shadow of a lizard body: The regions of the spine and body of the snake are as complex as the regions of the lizard – which is not what people previously believed. (Image courtesy University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

4 Visualization Science on a SpherePufferSphere: touchable, portable, lower maintenance and TCO New apps: Google analytics, Streetview, StreamGraph Major presence at SC’14 IQ-series New Scholars Commons IQ-wall: 3Dstereo, multi-input, Crestron Breaking down “digital signage” & “instruction only” mentality with other units, lower costs

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7 Big Red II – significant large scale parallel usage

8 Who uses Big Red II

9 Karst 256 compute nodes 2 Intel Xeon E v2 8-core processors 512 processors, cores 32GB RAM/node 16 data intensive compute nodes 2 Intel Xeon E v2 8-core processors 32 processors, 256 cores 64GB RAM/node 450TB local spinning disk 91.5 teraflops 11TB total memory 10Gbps local interconnect Financial support from OVPIT and ORA

10 Karst Condominium Nodes and Node ColocationCondominium nodes – standard: ~$5K for 5 year lifespan. Two Intel Xeon E v2 8-core processors; 32 GB of RAM and 250 GB of local disk storage. Condominium nodes - Data intensive ~$8K for 5 year lifespan. Two Intel Xeon E v2 8-core processors, 64 GB of RAM and 24 TB of local storage. Karst Node Level Colocation Node pricing vary with configuration specs if different than standard colocation nodes, but it’s anticipated that standard condominium specs would address the majority of nodes Supporting IT-28 High-throughput computing – no cost to user Node Level Colocation supports researchers with computational environments that are not able to be addressed via the Intelligent Infrastructure Nodes located in IUB Data Center on collaborative IU Science DMZ

11 IU File Store status No one is happyWe’re doing some things to try to make as many people happy as soon as is humanly possible So far we have had two primary goals that have had no common solution. That seems to be changing. Priorities IUFS must have the capability of storing critical data IUFS price point should be as close to $0.50 per GB Ability for group access control, user-driven version restoration important

12 3- or 4- pronged approach IUFS – Beta testing – time line 2 months to…. to be launched in Spring 2015 Will last no more than 1 year with exit strategy for participants 1 TB max allocations No after hours support, support through SC Windows and Mac OS X platforms initially IU something something (IURS?) supporting research data that must be accessed at high speed and/or PHI Intelligent Infrastructure II – time line months Box where appropriate

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14 Support for grant proposal preparation and executionRT overall Letters of commitment Collaboration and Engagement Support Group Support with IT-related aspects of grant preparation Compliment, not duplicate, VPR services Architecture based methods Kurt Seiffert and George Turner now TOGAF certified architects NSF grant solicitations in particular requiring architecture-based methods more and more often We can help And a shameless plug for the keynote speaker at next springs Research Tech fair

15 Summary IU faculty are doing really great research, scholarship, and creative activities, and UITS research cyberinfrastructure is aiding those efforts. Most Research Technologies services are funded by RCM payments and are available to the IU community (faculty, staff, students) with no usage fees With implementation of IT-28 there are more options for departments and labs to purchase services via UITS. Departments have been willing to invest their own money in the past, and this adjustment in approach by UITS makes research support less like a zero sum game. Price points are important and we are working on that. RT can do custom programming and participate in grant-funded projects to provide dedicated support RT is particularly adept at aiding researchers in preparing competitive grant proposals (letters of commitment, facility statements, match in some circumstances, and we specialize in adjectives) If you have questions contact: (this opens a ticket automatically) Craig Stewart – (timeliness is less reliable)