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Creation of the AVIDD Data Facility: A Distributed Facility for Managing, Analyizing and Visualizing Instrument-Driven Data (AVIDD)
(The Trustees of Indiana University, 2003-09) Huffaman, John C.; Bramley, Randall; McRobbie, Michael; Stewart, Craig
Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF): Indiana-Purdue Grid (IP-Grid)
(The Trustees of Indiana University, 2006-01-09) McRobbie, Michael; Fox, Geoffrey; Gannon, Dennis; Palakal, Matthew J.; Stewart, Craig
Final Report of the Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure Research Taskforce
(The Trustees of Indiana University, 2005-05) Wheeler, Bradley; McRobbie, Michael
The Cyberinfrastructure Research Taskforce met during the 2004-05 academic year to consider Indiana University’s (IU) needs for shared cyberinfrastructure investments. In particular, the charge to the taskforce asked scholars to focus on needs that could help support a doubling of IU’s externally funded research by 2010-2011. This report to the IU Vice President for Research & Information Technology conveys 10 specific recommendations. It recognizes both current progress in cyberinfrastructure development while also proposing new directions for cyberinfrastructure needs and opportunities. In summary, the recommendations affirm a continuity of investment in the core IT infrastructure that is the foundation for advanced cyberinfrastructure. Developing deep capabilities for serving the complete research data lifecycle emerged as a clear and pervasive theme across many disciplines. The recommendations provide guidance for storage capacity; data movement across networks; collection, annotation and provenance; and data publishing, curation, and custodianship. The taskforce advocated “continuing without pause” renewed investment in IU’s High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and visualization facilities and strongly advocated HPC as a competitive necessity for data-intensive scholarship. Beyond the technology investments, the taskforce gave considerable analysis to scholars’ needs in making productive use of cyberinfrastructure. The taskforce recommends investments in an array of subsidized and chargeback consulting services, complexity-hiding interfaces, and training programs that each are discipline-facing in their orientation rather than a homogenized one-size-fits-all. Finally, developing and sustaining advanced cyberinfrastructure will be impossible with only university sources of funding. The taskforce strongly advocates aggressive partnerships and leadership at the state, national, and international levels to compete for all forms of external funding to continue incremental evolution of IU’s cyberinfrastructure. The report itself provides many more details beyond these recommendations. Diverse scholarly endeavors are evolving their use of cyberinfrastructure in different ways. Nevertheless, the themes and specific recommendations presented here represent a resounding consensus view across these disciplines for the shared cyberinfrastructure needs of IU’s scholars.
Foundations for Innovation: Information Technology at Indiana University
(Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University, 2000) Adams, Karen; Aune, Kirk; Bernbon, Gerry; Boschmann, Erwin; Cromwell, Dennis; Donaldson, David; Dunn, Michael; Egolf, Michael; Elmore, Garland; Fitzpatrick, Christine; Halbrook, Michael; Holland, Norma; Jung, Diane; Mand, Larry; McRobbie, Michael; Moore, Greg; Pearson, Doug; Peebles, Christopher; Reynolds, Steve; Stephan, Bill; Steward, Don; Stewart, Craig; Voss, Brian; Waren, Marsha; Welty, Gordon; Wernet, Eric; Wernet, Julie; Williams, Jim
This booklet describes information technology (IT) on the campuses of Indiana University, principally the infrastructure and services, but also some of the main academic programs in this area. IT is fundamental to the future of teaching, learning, and research in modern American research universities and it is the foundation for innovation, on which America's continuing global leadership in higher education depends. IT is a transformational force of enormous power and potential for the whole of higher education, nationally and globally. In the pages that follow the wide-ranging scope and scale of IU' s uses and applications of IT are described. From this it will be clear that IT extends into nearly every part of the University and is a vital tool for academic leadership.
The Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative Final Report
(2013-01-29) McRobbie, Michael
Indiana University Information Technology Strategic Plan: Architecture for the 21st Century
(The Trustees of Indiana University, 1998-05) Dunn, J. Michael; McRobbie, Michael
Indiana University Life Science Strategic Plan
(2006) Brater, D.C.; McRobbie, Michael; Pescovitz, O.H.; Stewart, Craig A.; Subbaswamy, K.R.
The Indiana University Life Sciences Strategic Plan will channel the University’s core strengths in the life sciences toward a common purpose, and challenges the University to forge new areas of excellence. The combined strengths of the life sciences enterprises at IU’s two major campuses, in Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Bloomington (IUB), together with important contributions from IU’s regional campuses, create possibilities and opportunities at Indiana University that allow us to compete effectively with the best research universities in the country. Indiana University’s excellence in information technology serves as a foundation for life sciences research and as an enabler of collaboration among Indiana University’s scientists. Together, these many assets will enable IU scientists to understand genetic information and how that genetic information is processed and expressed to make us what we are. Such understanding will create new opportunities for genomic researchers and cancer clinicians, behavioral scientists and neurobiologists, analytical chemists, and model systems biologists. IU scientists, working together in new ways, will create new opportunities to apprehend solutions to medical problems that were formerly beyond our grasp.
Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University
(2002) McRobbie, Michael; Stewart, Craig A.
Pervasive Technology Labs Program Report, August 2005
(The Trustees of Indiana University, 2005-08) McRobbie, Michael; Adams, Karen; Baker, M. Pauline; Fox, Geoffrey; Gannon, Dennis; Heiland, Randy; Lumsdaine, Andrew; McMullen, Donald F.; Stewart, Craig; Wallace, Steven
Pervasive Technology Labs Program Report, July 2006
(The Trustees of Indiana University, 2006-07) McRobbie, Michael; Baker, M. Pauline; Fox, Geoffrey; Gannon, Dennis; Heiland, Randy; Lumsdaine, Andrew; McMullen, Donald F.; Miller, Therese; Siefert-Herron, Daphne; Stewart, Craig; Wallace, Steven
Pervasive Technology Labs Program Report, July 2007
(Indiana University, 2007-07) McRobbie, Michael; Adams, Karen; Baker, M. Pauline; Fox, Geoffrey; Gannon, Dennis; Heiland, Randy; Lumsdaine, Andrew; McMullen, Donald F.; Miller, Therese; Siefert-Herron, Daphne; Stewart, Craig; Wallace, Steven; Pierce, Marlon; Travis, Gregory
TeraGrid: Analysis of Organization, System Architecture, and Middleware Enabling New Types of Applications
(IOS Press, 2008) Catlett, Charlie; Allcock, William E.; Andrews, Phil; Aydt, Ruth; Bair, Ray; Balac, Natasha; Banister, Bryan; Barker, Trish; Bartelt, Mark; Beckman, Pete; Berman, Francine; Bertoline, Gary; Blatecky, Alan; Boisseau, Jay; Bottum, Jim; Brunett, Sharon; Bunn, Julian; Butler, Michelle; Carver, David; Cobb, John; Cockerill, Tim; Couvares, Peter F.; Dahan, Maytal; Diehl, Diana; Dunning, Thom; Foster, Ian; Gaither, Kelly; Gannon, Dennis; Goasguen, Sebastien; Grobe, Michael; Hart, Dave; Heinzel, Matt; Hempel, Chris; Huntoon, Wendy; Insley, Joseph; Jordan, Christopher; Judson, Ivan; Kamrath, Anke; Karonis, Nicholas; Kesselman, Carl; Kovatch, Patricia; Lane, Lex; Lathrop, Scott; Levine, Michael; Lifka, David; Liming, Lee; Livny, Miron; Loft, Rich; Marcusiu, Doru; Marsteller, Jim; Martin, Stuart; McCaulay, D. Scott; McGee, John; McGinnis, Laura; McRobbie, Michael; Messina, Paul; Moore, Reagan; Moore, Richard; Navarro, J.P.; Nichols, Jeff; Papka, Michael E.; Pennington, Rob; Pike, Greg; Pool, Jim; Reddy, Raghu; Reed, Dan; Rimovsky, Tony; Roberts, Eric; Roskies, Ralph; Sanielevici, Sergiu; Scott, J. Ray; Shankar, Anurag; Sheddon, Mark; Showerman, Mike; Simmel, Derek; Singer, Abe; Skow, Dane; Smallen, Shava; Smith, Warren; Song, Carol; Stevens, Rick; Stewart, Craig A.; Stock, Robert B.; Stone, Nathan; Towns, John; Urban, Tomislav; Vildibill, Mike; Walker, Edward; Welch, Von; Wilkins-Diehr, Nancy; Williams, Roy; Winkler, Linda; Zhao, Lan; Zimmerman, Ann
TeraGrid is a national-scale computational science facility supported through a partnership among thirteen institutions, with funding from the US Na- tional Science Foundation [1]. Initially created through a Major Research Equip- ment Facilities Construction (MREFC [2]) award in 2001, the TeraGrid facility began providing production computing, storage, visualization, and data collections services to the national science, engineering, and education community in January 2004. In August 2005 NSF funded a five-year program to operate, enhance, and expand the capacity and capabilities of the TeraGrid facility to meet the growing needs of the science and engineering community through 2010. This paper de- scribes TeraGrid in terms of the structures, architecture, technologies, and services that are used to provide national-scale, open cyberinfrastructure. The focus of the paper is specifically on the technology approach and use of middleware for the purposes of discussing the impact of such approaches on scientific use of compu- tational infrastructure. While there are many individual science success stories, we do not focus on these in this paper. Similarly, there are many software tools and systems deployed in TeraGrid but our coverage is of the basic system middleware and is not meant to be exhaustive of all technology efforts within TeraGrid. We look in particular at growth and events during 2006 as the user population ex- panded dramatically and reached an initial “tipping point” with respect to adoption of new “grid” capabilities and usage modalities.
TransPAC Final Report
(2005-07-31) Adams, Karen; Flannery, David; Hicks, John; Kotil, Chad; McMullen, Donald; McRobbie, Michael; Moore, Gregory; Pearson, Doug; Peck, Steve; Pingleton, Roger; Robb, Chris; Williams, James
TransPAC was a high performance network connecting scientists in the United States with their counterparts in the Asia-Pacific region. TransPAC provided fundamental network infrastructure to support e-science collaborations between these researchers in a broad range of scientific disciplines including astronomy, molecular biology, high-energy physics, medicine, meteorology, visualization, and computational science.