NCSA Colloquium: The Pacific Research Platform: a Science-Driven Big-Data Freeway System

Описание: 2015.09.18

Larry Smarr
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NCSA Colloquia

The NCSA Colloquia series brings leaders in big data, big computing, and big research to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to enlighten and spark innovation among researchers and students of all disciplines. These events are free and the entire campus community is welcome to attend. Video is available after each talk.

Larry Smarr, the founding director of NCSA and now holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, will present "The Pacific Research Platform: a Science-Driven Big-Data Freeway System."

Abstract: Research in data-intensive fields is increasingly multi-investigator and multi-institutional, depending on ever more rapid access to ultra-large heterogeneous and widely distributed datasets. The Pacific Research Platform (PRP) is a multi-institutional extensible deployment that establishes a science-driven high-capacity data-centric “freeway system.” The PRP spans all 10 campuses of the University of California, as well as the major California private research universities, four supercomputer centers, and several universities outside California. Fifteen multi-campus data-intensive application teams act as drivers of the PRP, providing feedback over the five years to the technical design staff. These application areas include particle physics, astronomy/astrophysics, earth sciences, biomedicine, and scalable multimedia, providing models for many other applications. The PRP partnership extends the NSF-funded campus Science DMZs to a regional model that allows high-speed data-intensive networking, facilitating researchers moving data between their labs and their collaborators’ sites, supercomputer centers or data repositories, and enabling that data to traverse multiple heterogeneous networks without performance degradation over campus, regional, national, and international distances