Supporting Team Science and Team Shakespeare:
Virtual Organizations and Physical Campuses:
A short CSG workshop on a large landscape
Workshop Agenda
• A roadmap of issues
• Sorting through the terms - Virtual Organizations, National
Cyberinfrastructure, Campus Cyberinfrastructure
• VO and scientific needs and requirements
• Needs drill down - Chad and Tom
• Current approaches to meeting those needs
• Research.yale.edu - Chuck
• Discussion
--------------Break-------------------• Some interesting new approaches
• Leveraging enterprises and federations for VO’s
• MyVOCs – John Paul Robinson
• GridShib – Tom Barton
• Qatar Campus – yet another use case…
The Players and their needs
• Team Science/Team Shakespeare/virtual
organizations
• Small labs and solitary researchers
• Domain specific resources
• Integrated general collaboration tools
A Resource-oriented Needs
Assessment
• Cycles and specialized applications
• Data storage and management
• Specialized networking – performance,
security, private lines
• Visualization and other specialized systems
• Training, support and services
• Traditional systems and new data security
• Collaboration services
Team Science
• Major multi-campus, increasingly
interdisciplinary projects
• Centerpieces of NSF, NIH, Energy,
Education, etc.
• Atlas, CMS, NEON, caBIG, Sloan, etc.
• Particularly “demanding” instances in
Physics and Health.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
National
CMCS
Virtual
Observatory
Ecology
Geology
LTER
SEEK
GEON
SCEC
Civil Engineering
NEES
Infrastructure
ASCI (HPSS)
EGEE
Grid3
GRIDS Center
iVDGL
NorduGrid
Open Science
Grid
TeraGrid
UK e-Science
Climate Studies
Collaboration
LEAD
Access Grid
Earth System Grid
Medicine
BIRN
Oceanography
LOOKING
Computer Science
Condor
DOE e-Services
GridLab
GriPhyN
NMI GridShib
NMI Performance
Monitoring
OGCE
OGSA-DAI
SciDAC CoG
SciDAC Data
Grid
SciDAC Security
vGRADS
Physics
FusionGrid
LIGO
Particle Physics
Data Grid
Virtual organizations
• The core of our academic collaborative nature
• More than a “group”; less than an “institution”
• A source of authority about the use of a set of resources
• Could move from standalone ad-hoc approaches to leverage
the new federated infrastructure
• Use cases often require integration of campus infrastructure
(e.g. a class list) with external VO pieces (e.g. to permit limited
Grid capabilities to students of the PI)
Small labs and solitary researchers
• Often the “bulk” of institutional research.
• Tend to be much less visible nationally, and
so need more campus cyberinfrastructure
than the team players…
• Wield quirky influence on campus directions
• (Not the particular focus of our workshop)
Domain specific systems
• Big base of Grid-type systems – Globus,
Sun, Condor, etc. Often with add-ons (eg
SRB).
• Clusters, condos, and blades
• Caves and other specialized tools
• Institutional repositories
General collaboration tools
• The standard suite…
• List serve, protected wiki, IM buddy list,
audioconferencing, access-controlled web
site, videoconferencing, shared calendaring,
etc…
• Integrated with enterprise-based systems
• No separate calendars to maintain
• Consistent user interface in managing local
and virtual lives
Parts of the solution
• NSF Activities
• Teragrid, Open Science Gateways, etc.
• NMI
• OCI office with Dan Atkins
• Campus CyberInfrastructure Workshop
• Educause CCI WG
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The National Gridspace
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The Teragrid as a national resource
(The Petascale Facility as another)
Virtual organizations gain allocations
Expanding from centralized services to
campus leveraged and mediated approaches
• Campus partnerships – contribute resources; receive
general purpose allocations
• Federated identity and integrated privilege
management
• www.teragrid.org, http://www.globus.org
Grids, part 2
• Campus Grids, either distributed or central
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Purdue
TACC
Wisconsin condor pools
Virginia, Penn State, Harvard, etc in a modest
state
• Major community science packages customized
to Grid architectures.
Open Science Gateways
• “Integrated” presentation of domain tools
to one or more virtual organizations in the
domain
• The new buzz – promises ease of use and
expanded outreach opportunities.
• Maintenance, security, real ease of use,
privacy and other concerns…
NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)
• Has funded much of the MACE work with
Internet2
• Supported other middleware components,
including Globus, video directory
standards, myVOCS, etc.
• Was initially cutting edge, but investments
in other countries, such as the UK and
Australia, are overtaking…
OCI
• Office of CyberInfrastructure, reporting
directly to NSF Director
• Major investments in Grids, PetaScale
machine; smaller investments in NMI,
international networking, etc.
• Recent creation of a general NSF
cyberinfrastructure advisory committee
• Campus Cyberinfrastructure on their radar
CRCC
• Campus CyberInfrastructure workshop, sponsored
by NSF, a joint effort of Penn State and Internet2
• Highly productive 1.5 day workshop at end of I2MM
• Lots of issues identified, from algorithm/architecture
fitting to NSF funding policies that favor closet
clusters over cyberinfrastructure
• Output at http://middleware.internet2.edu/crcc/
• Grist for future activities; perhaps some follow-ons
EDUCAUSE CCI
• EDUCAUSE working group, chaired by
Jim Bottum and Pat Dreher
• Just in their gelling stage
• Lots of possible areas for engagement
• Awareness and Education
• Technology
• Policy – Inducements and mandates
An Archetype: Jean Blue and VOGUE
• Professor Jean Blue
• Professor of Micro-astro Physics at
Sandstone U, teaching MAP 1010
• PI of international VOGUE project
• Fiscal authority of local VOGUE funds
• Parking permit for Lot 421
• ID Card
Things that Jean Blue wants to do
• As PI of VOGUE, she gets lots of VOGUE
privileges. She wants to
• Assign to students of MAPS 101 permission to read
the VOGUE mass-hypometer
• Assign to the four TA/discussion leaders permission to
reset the mass-hypometer
• Facilitate on-line discussions among the students
taking classes at other universities from her co-PI’s
• Have read/write privileges on the VOGUE wiki, and
give her students read access to parts of the Wiki
Current approaches discussion
• Networking
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Performance, latency, etc
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Friction-free paths (gridftp’s, external visibility,
etc.)
• Security
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VO’s create their own identities
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Identities are also often authorization
• Collab tools
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Research.yale.edu
Break
Post break
• New approaches to supporting team
science
• The basic vision
• A collaborative tools implementation – JPR
• A domain-specific tools implementation –
Tom Barton
• And there’s a related problem – the Qatar
campus – Carrie et al
Vision in one slide
• Build a campus/enterprise core middleware
infrastructure that
• Serves the overall enterprise IT environment, providing business
drivers and institutional investment for sustainability and scalability
• Is designed to support the research and instructional missions
• Implies consistent approaches and common practices across campuses
and internationally
• Build, plumb, and replumb the tools of research on top of
that emergent infrastructure
• Domain-specific middleware (grids, sensor nets, etc)
• Common collaboration tools (video, protected wikis, shared
calendaring, audioconferencing, etc.)
Why
• Ease of use
• Common tools used in a consistent fashion
• Allow students to access research capabilities in instructional
environments
• Better security
• Integrate with local security
• Facilitate flexible options for effective use
• Preserve privacy but maintain accountability
• Facilitate advanced networking and science
• Trust-mediated transparency
• Transparent-to-use tools for collaboration
• Better diagnostics
• Realizes efficiencies, economic and strategic, that serves both
the institution and its individuals
VO Functions and Roles for Jean Blue
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Lead scientist
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Co-PI
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Manage local financial accounts
Approve local hires
Edit and electronically submit proposals
Disseminator
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Run experiments
Manage instruments and data
Administer rights for others to manage I&D
Collaborator – audioconferences, IM, wikis
Provide editorial content for outreach wiki
Mentor K-12 teachers in community programs
Educator
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Teach undergraduate classes using research tools
Supervise graduate students, TA’s, etc.
The Current Kool-aid
• Campuses build consistent and sustainable
middleware infrastructures
• Federating software and federations create
effective inter-institutional collaboration
infrastructure
• Federations peer internationally and across
sectors to extend the value
• Virtual organizations leverage campus
infrastructure and peered federations for usercentric enterprise-manageable teams