Title: Building Cyberinfrastructure and Science Gateways for 21st Century Scientific Research

Speaker: Dr. Xiaohui (Carol) Song, Senior Research Scientist, Purdue University

Time: July, 4, 15:30

Place: 3-125, FIT Building

Dr. Xiaohui (Carol) Song is a Senior Research Scientist at Purdue University. Dr. Song received a B.S. degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1982. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her dissertation on concurrency control algorithms in hard real-time systems. While working on her Ph.D. degree, she worked at NCSA (UIUC) for five years on visualization software for scientific applications. Dr. Song was a software architect and product development manager at 3M and WAM!Net corporations where she participated and led the development and commercialization of a number of software products for medical imaging applications and wide-area, data center systems. She also represented these corporations at the international standards working groups. Dr. Song founded a startup company in year 2000 to develop innovative remote access software for handheld devices (e.g., PDA, smart phones). As Principal Investigator and President of the company, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovative Research award and a research grant from the State of Indiana’s 21st Century Technology fund. Dr. Song joined the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue University in August 2005. Her research interests include service-oriented architecture, grid computing middleware and tools, and mobile and pervasive computing software architecture.

Abstract

Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue University is a research computing center that provides advanced computing and storage services to research scientists in various scientific disciplines. We have embarked on a number of major cyber infrastructure projects in recent years. The TeraGrid project is an ambitious undertaking to build and operate the world’s largest and most comprehensive grid computing cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research. Purdue is one of the nine partner universities that provide computing and storage resources, as well as application and data services to the TeraGrid. The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), centered at Purdue, is a multi-million dollars per year research project that aims at connecting theory, experimentation and computation by supplying research-grade online simulations and educational content services at production level quality. The nanoHUB is being integrated into major grids, including the TeraGrid and OSG, providing users transparent access to the resources on such grids. This presentation will provide the audience with an overview of these projects, their goals and major challenges and the technical accomplishments. Through this presentation and discussions, the speaker hopes to identify common interests from researchers and explore potential opportunities for future collaboration among the high performance computing communities at Purdue and Tsinghua.