About
Meeting at SC09
To meet with Gregor von Laszewski, at SC09, please visit the Indiana University booth or call him on the cell phone at 585 298 5285. Do not leave a messgae, but send an e-mail instead to laszewski@gmail.com.
We have prepared presentations about FutureGrid and GreenIT.
Overview
The cyberaide.org is an interdisciplinary research effort on the forefront of a shift in computing technologies from traditional approaches to service oriented approaches while applying solutions in scientific applications. Our current activities include the development of advanced scientific workflow paradigms, service virtualization, their exposure through portals, and the development of Cyberinfrastructure toolkits that make the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure easier.
Education
Besides providing research opportunities on a project base for PhD students, it also focuses on participation in the further development of the educational and scholarship opportunities. Our intent is to offer a limited number of activities from K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students to maintain an educational pipeline from which the PhD program will benefit.
Opportunities
Many of the state-of-the art technological activities that are part of the lab are necessary to develop a ubiquitous scientific service environment that allows scientists to focus on research activities rather than setting up and maintaining complex cyberinfrastucture environments. Realizing the potential impact to society while developing such a scientific service cyberinfrastructure a number of funding opportunities exist that are issued by agencies such as NSF, NIH, and NYS. In addition IBM, Microsoft, HP, Amazon, and Google have sizable research activities in this area.
Research
The research opportunities for cyberaide.org are motivated by scientific applications with the need to develop and utilize advanced cyberinfrastructure. It is obvious that in today’s world large collaborative scientific teams have a greater chance of achieving the next wave of scientific breakthroughs. In order to facilitate such team a cyberinfrastructure needs to be developed that seamlessly integrates them in to what we term a “ubiquitous scientific lab” in which scientist are able to conduct research anywhere anytime. Adhoc collaborative cyber environments will be automatically supporting research modalities such as to establish scientific peers, groups, and communities.
At this time our group focuses on lowering the barriers for accessing advanced Grid infrastructures through
- Novel Web 2.0 technologies that will make it possible for scientific application developers to more easily develop scientific portals that hide most of the complexities of Grid computing
- Novel scientific workflows that are targeted towards the easy use of Grid infrastructures in order to support the workflow requirements posed by advanced scientific applications.
- Novel technologies to support the difficult learning environments of the deaf and hard of hearing.
Collaboration
The goal is to correlate its activities with other community members and build an initiative “Scientific Cyberinfrastructure Services” including areas such as
- Healthcare, Medical, and Bio Informatics
- Environmental Informatics
- Parallel Computing, Service Sciences, Grid Computing
- Scientific Visualization
- Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in support of scientific computing
Facilities
As part of our research activities we have a number of resources we use:
At Indiana University we have
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At Grids we have account through
- the TearGrid
- the Openscience Grid
AT RIT we have:
- a cluster donated by Microsoft containing 40 TB of disks, 80GB of main memory and 40 dual processors.
- a number of PCs in which we typically simulate Grid environments. This includes 16 optiplexes, 18 Mac's
- about 5 Web servers on dedicated machines
- a 2 processor, 8 core 16GB compute server that includes 2 cuda cards (c260 and t870)
- an xgrid with 8 machines that will be upgraded shortly to include about 25 machines
- an unlimited research license for VMWARE products
- an unlimited license to Matlab via Research Computing (see bellow)
- a playstaytion 3 cluster with 2 playstations and a queuing system.
