Getting Started Using the National Research Platform

Remote Briefing to the Ad Hoc Big Data Task Force of the NASA Advisory Council Science Committee NASA Goddard Space Flight Center June 28, 2016

Panel Presentation Larry Smarr and Grant Scott MOREnet 2022 Annual Conference October 19, 2022

Big Data for Information and Communications Technologies Panel Presentation, IEEE GlobeCom 2015, San Diego, CA, December 9, 2015

This document provides an overview of the development of national research platforms (NRPs) from 1985 to the present, with a focus on the Pacific Research Platform (PRP). It describes the evolution of the PRP from early NSF-funded supercomputing centers to today's distributed cyberinfrastructure utilizing optical networking, containers, Kubernetes, and distributed storage. The PRP now connects over 15 universities across the US and internationally to enable data-intensive science and machine learning applications across multiple domains. Going forward, the document discusses plans to further integrate regional networks and partner with new NSF-funded initiatives to develop the next generation of NRPs through 2025.

- The Pacific Research Platform (PRP) interconnects campus DMZs across multiple institutions to provide high-speed connectivity for data-intensive research. - The PRP utilizes specialized data transfer nodes called FIONAs that provide disk-to-disk transfer speeds of 10-100Gbps. - Early applications of the PRP include distributing telescope data between UC campuses, connecting particle physics experiments to computing resources, and enabling real-time wildfire sensor data analysis.

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The document summarizes the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) which connects researchers across multiple universities with high-speed networks and computing resources for big data and machine learning applications. Key points: - PRP connects 15 universities with optical networks, distributed storage devices (FIONAs), and over 350 GPUs for data analysis and AI training. - It allows researchers to rapidly share and analyze large datasets, with one example reducing a workflow from 19 days to 52 minutes. - Other projects using PRP resources include climate modeling, astrophysics simulations, and machine learning courses involving thousands of students.

Briefing to The Quilt Visit to Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute University of California, San Diego February 10, 2016

Keynote Presentation: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 51 (HICSS-51) Hilton Waikoloa Village Big Island, HI January 5, 2018

The Pacific Research Platform will create a regional "Big Data Freeway System" along the West Coast to support science. It will connect major research institutions with high-speed optical networks, allowing them to share vast amounts of data and computational resources. This will enable new forms of collaborative, data-intensive research for fields like particle physics, astronomy, biomedicine, and earth sciences. The first phase aims to establish a basic networked infrastructure, with later phases advancing capabilities to 100Gbps and beyond with security and distributed technologies.

The Pacific Research Platform (PRP) is a high-bandwidth global private "cloud" connected to commercial clouds that provides researchers with distributed computing resources. It links Science DMZs at universities across California and beyond using a high-performance network. The PRP utilizes Data Transfer Nodes called FIONAs to transfer data at near full network speeds. It has adopted Kubernetes to orchestrate software containers across its resources. The PRP provides petabytes of distributed storage and hundreds of GPUs for machine learning. It allows researchers to perform data-intensive science across multiple universities much faster than possible individually.

Invited Remote Keynote High Performance Computing Initiative California State University San Bernardino March 18, 2022

The Pacific Research Platform (PRP) connects research institutions across the western United States with high-speed networks to enable data-intensive science collaborations. Key points: - The PRP connects 15 campuses across California and links to the Great Plains Network, allowing researchers to access remote supercomputers, share large datasets, and collaborate on projects like analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider. - The PRP utilizes Science DMZ architectures with dedicated data transfer nodes called FIONAs to achieve high-speed transfer of large files. Kubernetes is used to manage distributed storage and computing resources. - Early applications include distributed climate modeling, wildfire science, plankton imaging, and cancer genomics. The PR

Opening Keynote The National Research Platform Workshop Montana State University Bozeman, MT August 7, 2017

Invited Seminar National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign May 9, 2024