Cyberinfrastructure Development (CyD)

CyD is the division of CCT that designs, develops, and prototypes cyberinfrastructure systems and software for current and future users of LSU’s supercomputing systems. Daniel S. Katz, CCT’s director for Cyberinfrastructure and User Services, is leading the division’s efforts to develop new computing technologies, which are critical to many areas of research in academia (i.e., computer architecure, visualization, coastal modeling, astrophysics) and industry (i.e., restoring the Gulf coast, petroleum engineering).

A main goal of CyD is to reach out to the scientific communities at LSU and across Louisiana, expanding existing partnerships and creating new ones in an effort to develop new computational tools to support research statewide.

“This group’s efforts will allow CCT to align with other supercomputing centers and acquire additional supercomputing resources for researchers across Louisiana and users of LONI. It will enable CCT to further develop one of the most comprehensive, advanced computing environments anywhere for applications from many disciplines,” said CCT Director Ed Seidel.

CyD’s responsibilities are:

1. Lead the CCT performance group - a second generation performance group that focuses on use of the best existing tools, not development of new tools, in order to benchmark and optimize applications, and to model applications and architectures.
2. Work with application scientists and engineers to help them make better use of current resources and to understand their future resource requirements.
3. Prototype/test software - including acting as initial users of software to be supported operationally by the HPC Group, helping the research community develop and deliver software that is ready for outside users, and developing and promoting tools for specific end-user communities.
4. Work with the HPC Group to ensure that the operations policies and acquisitions are well aligned to user requirements.
5. Develop partnerships with LONI, peer research centers and industry to enhance the capabilities CCT and LSU make available to users.
6. Work with other CCT divisions, the HPC Group, and LONI to develop an integrated scientific computing environment including computing, storage, networking, visualization, sound for the LSU community.

• Agincourt: a parallel programming language for representing applications to be performed on ParalleX directed systems
• Cybertools: advanced cyberinfrastructure for LONI
  
• CySolidus: supercomputer allocation management software
• EnLIGHTened Computing
• GENIUS: Grid Enabled Neurosurgical Imaging Using Simulation
• HARC: The Highly-Available Resource Co-allocator
• HPC Boot Camp
• LONI: Louisiana Optical Network Initiative
• The LONI Institute
• Montage: tools and services for generating astronomical image mosaics
• ParalleX: a new parallel execution model
• Performance modeling and benchmarking (internal-only)
• SCOOP: SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program
• SURAgrid: a consortium of organizations collaborating and combining resources to help bring grid technology to the level of seamless, shared infrastructure
  
• TeraGrid: an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eleven partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource