Purdue University CI Investment Strategies

Jim Bottum Vice President for

Information Technology and CIO

University of Nebraska LincolnCyberinfrastructure 2005

August 15-16, 2005

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Outline

Purdue in Transition

Strategic Plan and Vision

IT Strategy

Resources

Partnerships

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Purdue in 2000

High degree of local autonomy

Numerous IT organizations including multiple “central” organizations

Trustees recruited new President with a mandate to develop a strategic plan for preeminence

President brought in a new team including Purdue’s first CIO – non-traditional candidate

CIO position based on a plan developed by the University community

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Purdue Strategic Plan

Strategy• Enhance library and other information

resources, and provide state-of-the-art computational and information technology resources supporting campus wide research, learning environments, and the business enterprise

Metrics• Library acquisitions • Electronic library and other information access services and usage • Computational and information technology improvements and

expenditures, and annual assessment of needs met

Source: Purdue University Strategic Plan

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Funding the Plan

Strategy• Purdue's vision … will require a carefully constructed funding scheme to support and implement

the strategic plan. • The University strategic plan, along with the strategic plans of the schools and other major units, will

establish the framework for setting annual priorities and guiding the major budgetary decisions.

Interdependence of various funding sources and the importance of a partnership of these funds in supporting key initiatives

• State Appropriations• Federal Appropriations• Fees and Tuition• Sponsored Funding• Internal Reallocation• Private Giving• Revenues from Licenses and Patents

Key Investment Areas• Strengthening the infrastructure including facilities and information technology

Source: Purdue University Strategic Plan

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Translating the IT Vision Into Action

Develop IT strategic plan in collaboration with both central and distributed IT staff

Consolidate and integrate central IT activities creating ITaP

Update, upgrade and in some cases re-engineer the infrastructure (lifecycle replacement strategies)

Build alliances with faculty and distributed IT support staff

Began to think as an enterprise!

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IT Strategic Plan

The Information Technology Strategic Planning Task Force was charged with developing a vision and implementation plan for creating a world-class digital information infrastructure and building services that support all of Purdue’s strategic efforts.

Strategic principles drove the development of the plan:

• Collaboration is essential for this plan to succeed. • Applications drive the need for technology and

technology should never be thought of as an end in itself.• An enterprise approach assures leverage.• Users must have ubiquitous access to resources.

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IT Planning Process – Strategy to Implementation

Current IT Environment

IBM S P

C lusters

2002 20052003 2004 2006 2007

PC R ecycled C lusters

N ew C lusters

Sun R ecycled C lusters

D istributed

PC D istribu ted

Sun/S olaris D istribu ted

4 H igh N odes (16 C P U , 64 G B )

64 Th in N odes

550 P III/933 M H 600 P IV 2 .2 G H z

1 R ega tta (32 C P U , 64 G B )

250 P III/550 M H Z 500 P IV /1 .6 G H Z

500 P IV /1 .8 G H Z

50 B lade 100 500 M H Z

IA - 64

500 P III/933 M H Z250 P II/450M

Future S P U pgrade / R ep lacem ent

S econd IA - 64

50 S parc U ltra 5 450 M H Z

600 P IV / 1 .6 G H Z

600 P IV / 1 .8 G H Z

90 S parc U ltra 5 450 M H Z 90 S parc B lade 100 500 M H Z

C om m itted L im ited C om m itm ent U ncom m ited (but in LR P)

Legend: C om m itm ent Leve l

Road Maps

Purdue Strategic Plan

IT Strategic Plan

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Resources

Enterprise Applications,19%

Discovery, 9%(5% in 2002)

Learning, 25%

Customer Support,9%

Cross-Cutting Infrastructure, 31%

Administration, 7%FY04-05 ITaP Budget

General Fund Budget 68%Auxiliaries 24%NR Technology Reserve 3%Grants (0% - 2001) 5%

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Resource Initiatives

“cheap cycles”

Capturing unused cycles, 2,800 desktops

High Throughput Computing

Massively parallel & large memory

Sun F6800 ServersIBM SP3

Community Cluster

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HPC Community Cluster

Schools/Departments/Faculty buy into a the cluster by purchasing individual identical compute nodes

• current participation: Science; Engineering; Agriculture; Bio; ME; ECE; EAS; Mgmnt; Physics

ITaP aggregates all nodes together and operates as a single cluster• in practice this has become multiple clusters and we have gone from 1 to 15 teraflops

on the floor in a little over a year

Through scheduling (Maui) ITaP guarantees that a contributor can receive on demand the number of nodes that were contributed

Priority access to additional nodes is given to contributors to the community cluster

• three layer strategy using Condor

Benefits:• Leveraging a larger resource with their investment• No burden of administration, i.e. purchasing and managing• Professionally managed off site• Housed in centralized facilities freeing departments from converting academic space to

machine rooms

MOU’s and SLA’s are established to cover a three year commitment

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Resource Initiatives

Envision Center Faculty driven initiative Managed & supported by ITaP Funded by Purdue (operations); NSF grant,

(equipment); vendors (IBM, Intel) Over 50 projects & center written into 34

proposals

Purdue Terrestrial Observatory Real-time earth observing multiple

satellite receiving station

Support - seed money, integration with VPR led environmental initiative and project oversight by CIO office

Add’l funding: 3 WL colleges, IUPUI

Initial effort - 35 faculty/20 academic departments

Capability - Multiple data-stream sources

3 grants funded; 5 pending; 6 in development

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Discovery – Visualization

T4 bacteriophage infecting an Escherichia coli cell – Led by:Michael G. RossmannVadim V. MesyanzhinovFumio ArisakaVenigalla B. Rao

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Learning Resources

Replacing WebCT Campus Edition

Fall 2004 • Encompass libraries system integration • Business Process Redesign for SIS • Integration with media and content development

tools (Macromedia Breeze, etc)• Scantron grade integration (> 1 M grades loaded) • Implementation of foreign language components • Security assessment• Archival and monitoring

Spring, 2005• Continue statewide phased Vista deployment• integration with e-instruction • e-portfolios analysis • integration with Turn-It-In (plagiarism checker) • online “end of semester” course evaluations

August, 2005 – Retire Campus Edition

Research Delivery Vehicle – see NCN

• Campus Edition - 1,400 courses and 26,000 students

• Vista – 1,290 courses and 27,000 students

(system-wide)  

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Learning Resources

mLearning - Learning – any time, any where

eInstruction - Building interactions and feedback within large courses

Active Notes - connecting student notes with the instructor’s presentation

Student Response

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Receiver PersonalComputer

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Learning Resources

To find an open seat visit:http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/ • On August 16 at 1:45 PM the STEW 102 lab

showed the followingStatus

The lab is OPEN. There are 59 computers in use.There are 67 total computers.

Virtual Lab - remote server-based educational applications• 86,461 connections/semester

High Performance Classroom

• 278 student labs

• 5,424 machines

• Many open 19 hrs/day; some 24/7

• 158,530 pages/day printed

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Networking Initiatives

State I-Light - $5M (2

Gbps) Purdue – IU

I-Light2 $10M in progress

CIC Chicago Fiber Ring

Pending Northwest Indiana Grid proposal

• Partners Notre Dame and Purdue Calumet

National TeraGrid

(pictured)

Also participate in:

• Internet2 • NLR via CIC

I-Light 2

To CIC Fiber Ring

Campus Gbit + to all buildings All new fiber (SMF) Full campus wireless deployment

($1.3 M) + 54 Mbps “Shadow network” (dark fiber)

provides experimental environment

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External Recognition

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ITaP Organizational

Customer Relations

Enterprise Applications

InfrastructureDiscovery Resources

Teaching & Learning

Learning Spaces

Enterprise learning Technologies

Instructional Development Center

Project Process Quality Management

John Campbell

Envision Center for Perceptualization

Collaborative Research & Engagement

Resource Planning & Scheduling

Purdue Terrestrial Observatory

Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

Gary Bertoline

Operations

Networks

Telecommunications

Web Administration

Systems

Tilt Thompkins Jeff Whitten Julie Kercher-Updike

Security & Privacy Deputy CIO

Greg Hedrick, interim Brett Coryell

Business Areas Aligned With IT Strategic Plan

Office of the VP for IT

Jim Bottum

Customer Education

Customer Service Center

Departmental Support

Desktop Computing Support

Project & Process Management

Organizational Effectiveness

Application Services

Information Technology at Purdue

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Criteria for IT-Faculty Partnerships Project has to be part of University’s strategic direction

• Work out priotities with the VPR

Extra points for interdisciplinary projects• Consistent with Purdue strategic directions

Funding potential• Two approaches to proposals

Both sides have something to gain (in each other’s critical path) • In addition to monetary

Project should be innovative

Write it down (project management)

Resources (have done loss leaders but…)• Loss leaders early to establish credibility

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Contracts and Grants Awarded*

$0

$2,000,000

$4,000,000

$6,000,000

$8,000,000

$10,000,000

$12,000,000

2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 YTD

ITaP Portion School/Dept Portion

*Includes total amount of grants that have an ITaP PI/Co-PI.

$862,011

$1,320,000

$10,748,181

$7,176,556

Building Partnerships – One Metric of Success

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Partnership Example: Nanotechnology

NSF funded Purdue to lead the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN); $10.5M/5 year; added $1.5M/year since inception.

NCN is about computing: new algorithms, approaches, and software tools with capabilities not yet available commercially.

NanoHUB (science gateway): on-line resources via web-based clearing-house that makes software and simulations available to researchers.

Partners: Purdue, UTEP; UF; UIUC; Stanford; Northwestern

Origins: PUNCH developed by research group, but ITaP has taken over the operation and support of this resource

Serves nanotechnology researchers at Purdue and several thousand others worldwide.

Jointly appointed staff & faculty members

Leveraged into a grid service for heterogeneous computing under a National Middleware Initiative deployment grant.

- web-based computing

- new software

- collaborative services

Research

Education

chemistry/materials

devices

integratednanosystems

atoms

“We could not do this without ITaP”

Mark Lundstrom, Scifres distingushed professor in ECE, at the NSF site review

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Cluster

nanoHUB Architecture

Physical Machine

Virtual Machine

Web Presence

Application Middleware

Resource Mgmt

Propphet – device simulator

RAPTURE - GUI

High throughput Grid Computing

High-end Computing Grid

PUNCH

in-VIGO

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Online simulations and MORE

learning modulescollaboration

online simulations

nanoHUB.orgnanoHUB.org

seminarscourses, tutorials

animations

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Leveraging Educational Standards

nanoHUB.orgonline simulations and more

Network for Computational Nanotechnology

Molecular Conduction Learning Module

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this p icture.

Introductory Lecture in Breeze

nanoHUB.orgonline simulations and more

Network for Computational Nanotechnology

Molecular Conduction Learning Module

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see th is p icture.

Concrete Example Problems

nanoHUB.orgonline simulations and more

Network for Computational Nanotechnology

Molecular Conduction Learning Module

An Interactive Simulation Tool

XML-basedStandard CompliantContent Description

in a ZIP file

National Learning Module Database - MERLOT

Many U

sers

Thousands O

f Users

At M

any Universities

Course ManagementSystems

in progress

nanoHUB

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Leverage and Focus

Bridge the gaps from top to bottom !

NSF-funded effort to build computational tools for a scientific community…

Purdue developed - provides a “Gateway” to distribute scientific knowledge and applications

Using middleware that makes the user experience seamless and rich

(Recent $3M award to Purdue with

UWisconsin and UFlorida as subs)

And ties to a new infrastructure that goes beyond traditional HPC

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Other Partnerships

Physics - new faculty recruitment > Tier 2 Center

CERIAS – security

Purdue Terrestrial Observatory

Climate Change Center

Bioinformatics

Community (condominium) Clusters from 1 – 15 teraflops in 18 months

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Purdue Cyber Center - Planning

Faculty Task Force commissioned Summer 2003

Report delivered Spring 2004

Proposal to administration to become Discovery Park Center funded July 2005 (Lilly Endowment)

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Having Fun: e-Stadium

Part of “living laboratory” concept

Partnership• Intercollegiate Athletics• Center for Wireless Systems &

Applications• ITaP

Corporate Sponsorship• $600,000 from Cisco Systems

(total gift = $1.2 M)• $200,000 from Verizon

Programmatic• Infotainment• Safety & Security

Technology• Mobile Devices

» PDA (802.11x)» Smart Phone (Cellular)

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