Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute – Research Technologies: XSEDE Service Provider and XSEDE subcontract report (PY1: 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012)

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or XSEDE leadership.This document is a summary of the activities of the Research Technologies division of UITS, a Service & Cyberinfrastructure Center affiliated with the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, as part of the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) during XSEDE Program Year 1 (1 July 2011 – 30 June 2012). This document consists of three parts: - Section 2 of this document describes IU’s activities as an XSEDE Service Provider, using the format prescribed by XSEDE for reporting such activities. - Section 3 of this document describes IU’s activities as part of XSEDE management, operations, and support activities funded under a subcontract from the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA), the lead organization for XSEDE. This section is organized by the XSEDE Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) plan. - Appendix 1 is a summary table of IU’s education, outreach, and training events funded and supported in whole or in part by IU’s subcontract from NCSA as part of XSEDE.This document was developed with support from National Science Foundation (NSF) grant OCI-1053575

Usage of Indiana University computation and data cyberinfrastructure in FY 2011/2012 and assessment of future needs

This report details the past and current cyberinfrastructure resources that have been deployed by the Research Technologies (RT) division of University Information Technologies Services to support research and scholarly activities at IU. This report also presents data and detailed analysis of system usage and services supported by RT for the FY 2011/2012 period, projects future usage trends based on these data, and provides several recommendations for the most effective ways to meet the growing need for high performance computing resources in research and scholarly endeavors.This research was supported in part by: The Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative, and the Indiana Genomics Initiative. All of these initiatives have been supported in part by Lilly Endowment, Inc. Grant number 1U24AA014818-01 from NIAAA/NIH. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIAAA/NIH. National Science Foundation under Grants CDA-9601632, EIA-0116050, ACI-0338618l, OCI-0451237, OCI-0535258, and OCI-0504075, CNS-0723054, and CNS-0521433. Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc. to Indiana University. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies represented above

Cyberinfrastructure, Science Gateways, Campus Bridging, and Cloud Computing

Computers accelerate our ability to achieve scientific breakthroughs. As technology evolves and new research needs come to light, the role for cyberinfrastructure as “knowledge” infrastructure continues to expand. This article defines and discusses cyberinfrastructure and the related topics of science gateways and campus bridging; identifies future challenges in cyberinfrastructure; and discusses challenges and opportunities related to the evolution of cyberinfrastructure, “big data” (datacentric, data-enabled, and data-intensive research and data analytics), and cloud computing.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants 0504075, 0451237, 0723054, 1062432, 0116050, 0521433, 0503697, and 1053575, and several IBM Shared University Research grants and support provided by Lilly Endowment, Inc. for the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporting agencies