Russ Miller
UB Distinguished Professor

Dept of Computer Science & Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo

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Funding. To date, funding for these projects has been provided by an NSF ITR Award (SnB on the Grid; Grid Application Templates; Transparent Data Collection on the Grid; Grid Monitoring; Grid Portals) and an NSF CRI Award (Western New York Grid). Appropriations for some critical resources have been provided by Gov. Pataki, Congressman Reynolds, and Senator Clinton. Further, a wide variety of support has been provided by the Center for Computational Research.

Fundamental Research

  • Core Grid Technology, including the development of secure and high-performance grid technologies that allow for the integration of high-end computers, data, networking, and visualization, as well as sensors, imaging devices, and databases.
  • Grid Computing Technology, including the identification and solution of research and development projects, the implementation of grid technologies, dynamic resource classification for fast processing on homogeneous parallel platforms, and the distributed computation for individual computation tasks on heterogeneous platforms.
  • Data Grid Technology, including the development of technology for building a common core database platform on the grid, the development of distributed search technology utilizing heterogeneous databases, large-scale distributed text searching, and intelligent storage controller development.
  • Remote Data Collection Technology, including remote data collection, analysis, and sharing utilizing high-performance networks and experimental devices, the remote interaction with high-performance sensors, and the remote collection system for protein crystallographic structure analysis.

The Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory has enabled the successful porting and implementation of numerous applications to the grid environment.

  • Shake-and-Bake(SnB) - Molecular Structure Determination Application
  • Buffalo-and-Pittsburgh (BnP) - SnB and PHASES Complete Protein Phasing
  • Ostrich - Optimization and Parameter Estimation Tool for Groundwater Modeling
  • Aseismic Design & Retrofit (EADR) - Passive Energy Dissipation System for Designing Earthquake Resilient Structures
  • Princeton Ocean Model Great Lakes (POMGL) - Great Lakes Hydrodynamic Circulation Model
  • Titan - Computational Modeling of Hazardous Geophysical Mass Flows
  • Chem - Commercial Quantum Chemistry Software Package
  • NWChem - Computational Chemistry Software Package developed and maintained by DOE
  • Split - Modeling Groundwater Flow with the Analytic Element Method

The Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory fosters grid-based collaborations worldwide

These efforts were supported by approximately $4M in funds from NSF (ITR, MRI, CRI), as well as support from the Center for Computational Research and Open Science Grid.
  • ACDC-Grid: A Buffalo-based grid was established to gain experience with grid computing, including porting critical codes to the grid, developing a web portal in order to provide easy access to a grid, developing a lightweight grid monitoring system, and developing a generalized technique for porting applications to the grid.
  • WNY-Grid: This Western New York Grid was designed and implemented in Western New York, including the The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (research institution), Niagara University (private 4-year college), and SUNY-Geneseo (public 4-yuear college) to focus on outreach and training.
  • NYS Grid: This New York State Grid was deployed as an expansion of the WNY-Grid, bringing grid computing to the desktop of many users throughout the state.
  • Open Science Grid. The Cyberinfrastructure Lab and CCR have worked closely with the Open Science Grid for a number of years on a wide range of projects. We appreciate the guidance and assistance they have provided over the years.
  • Grid2003 Grid Monitoring. The CI Lab's ACDC-Grid Monitor was deployed at SC03 on Grid2003.
  • Grid2003 Dynamic Resource Allocations. The CI Lab's dynamic scheduling system for moving portions of a cluster into and out of a grid in an automated fashion was deployed at SC03 on Grid2003.
  • Grid2003: An Application Grid Laboratory for Science Participants (10/2003)
    • National Laboratories and Supercomputing Centers: Argonne, Brookhaven, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), UB Center for Computational Research
    • Universities: Boston, Caltech, Chicago, Florida/Gainesville, Florida International, Hampton, Indiana, Iowa, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Penn State, Purdue, Rice, Southern Methodist, Texas/Arlington, Wisconsin/Madison, Wisconsin/Milwaukee, UC San Diego, Vanderbilt
    • International Universities: Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Kyungpook National University (Korea), National Technological University (Taiwan)
Note: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 0204918, 0454114, and 0101244, as well as post-doctoral funding from HP.

Disclaimer: 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 National Science Foundation.