Grids & Cyberinfrastructure

Tuesday, November 17
10am-12pm
Marlon Pierce
Assistant Director, Community Grids Lab
Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center

Building Science Gateways and Managing Workflows with the Open Grid Computing Environment Toolkit

This tutorial will cover the basics of building Web-based Science Gateways with OGCE software. The workshop will be divided into two main sections: a) building Web 2.0 science gateways, and b) running real applications and workflows on the TeraGrid.

Part 1 will examine new approaches for building science portals based on lessons learned from the Web 2.0 community. These include the use of JavaScript libraries for science application mash-up building, developing Open Social compatible Google gadgets and containers, using JSON-RPC for communicating with remote services, and using OAuth and OpenID for security. Participants will learn how to download, install, and modify the OGCE Gadget Container and JavaScript-based OGCE Grid Gadgets. Part 1 will also review how to integrate third party social networking tools to add collaborative capabilities to your gateway.

In Part 2, participants will go through the steps required to wrap command line executables and applications as secure TeraGrid services. Participants will be shown how these applications can be visually controlled and composed through workflow composing and monitoring tools. Attendees are encouraged to participate in hands-on demonstrations.

Tuesday, November 17
2pm-4pm
Bill Sherman
Senior Technology Advisor, Advanced Visualization Laboratory
Pervasive Technology Institute Data to Insight Center

Scientific Workflow with Immersive Interfaces for Visualization

This workshop will examine the ways in which immersive interfaces can influence the process of scientific inquiry. The discussion will cover scientific visualization efforts - both with and without the aid of immersive displays. Both visualization researchers and domain scientists are encouraged to participate in this discussion. The goal of the workshop is to identify areas of study that can make use of immersive display systems in order to better serve the domain scientist. The presentations and discussions will be used as a springboard for continued conversation on when and where to use immersive interfaces. A portable immersive display made from off-the-shelf hardware will be used to demonstrate some examples of immersive visualizations.

Wednesday, November 18
10am-12pm
Beth Plale
Director Pervasive Technology Institute Data to Insight Center
Associate Dean for Research, IU School of Informatics and Computing
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing

Sustainability, Climate, and Environment: The Data Tsunami

As researchers undertake to better understand issues of sustainability of our planet and human impact on the planet, computational tools can assist not only with the high performance computational needs, but also through tools that allow scientists to use common vocabularies, interact through social networks, and support the long-term preservation of research results for future generations of scientists.

The workshop will be chaired by Beth Plale. Other topics and participants include: Regional climate change, Sara Pryor, Dept of Geography, Indiana University; Human/physical systems in the environment, Elinor Ostrom, Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington; Storing and searching geospatial metadata, Scott Jensen, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington; In-a-box weather forecasting with LEAD and Trident; Eran Chinthaka, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington; and Advances in Visualization of Geospatial Data, Eric Wernert, Visualization Technologies and Futures Advanced Visualization Laboratory, Indiana University.

Wednesday, November 18
2pm-4pm
Geoffrey C. Fox
Director, Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center
Professor of Informatics and Computer Science

New Approaches to Scientific Computing: FutureGrid and Cloud Technologies

Clouds, Multicore and Grid technologies will enhance scientific discovering in both simulation and the rapidly expanding data analysis area. This workshop will cover FutureGrid, a new component of TeraGrid, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Indiana University along with nine partner sites. FutureGrid will develop a distributed test-bed where new approaches to scientific computing can be developed that exploit clouds, grids and parallel computing with large numbers of distributed multicore nodes. The workshop will also cover new MapReduce-related technologies and their application to several biomedical applications including gene sequencing, relating Patient health to the environment and mapping PubChem data to low dimensions.

Thursday, November 19
10am-12pm
Andrew Lumsdaine
Director, Open Systems Lab
Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center
Professor of Computer Science

Open MPI Tutorial

Members of the Open MPI team will present an in-depth tutorial for users and developers of Open MPI. The tutorial will include a presentation of Open MPI's fault tolerance and process migration capabilities. Specific topics will include:
- A brief history of Open MPI
- Building and installing Open MPI
- Tuning Open MPI for your network
- Open MPI and fault tolerance
- Integration with the CIFTS backplane
- Checkpoint/restart and process migration
- Overview of Open MPI software architecture
- Developing for Open MPI

Thursday, November 19
12:30pm-2:30pm
Craig Stewart
Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute
Associate Dean of Research Technologies

Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability

The National Science Foundation’s strategy for 21st Century innovation depends upon rapid creation of software to enable scientific discovery. The NSF workshop report Planning for Cyberinfrastructure Support stated, “CI [Cyberinfrastructure] changes the rules and foundations of the research endeavor across much of NSF. CI software is a new class of artifact that should be the target of explicit design, construction, study, and evolution.” In 2009, Indiana University hosted an NSF-funded workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability, and this forum will present key points of the conclusions and recommendations reached as a result of this workshop.