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The Increasing Use of the National Research Platform by the CSU Campuses
1. “The Increasing Use of the National Research Platform
by the CSU Campuses”
CIO Council
Cal Poly Humboldt
September 22, 2023
Dr. Larry Smarr
Founding Director Emeritus, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology;
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
http://lsmarr.calit2.net
2. NSF CC*DNI Grant
$7.3M 10/2015-10/2020
Extended 2 Years – Ended 10/2022
(GDC)
2015-2022: The Pacific Research Platform NSF Grants
Were Built on CENIC
Source: John Hess, CENIC
Supercomputer
Centers
4. 2023: NRP’s Nautilus is a Multi-Institution Hypercluster
Which Creates a “Cyberinfrastructure Commons”
~200 FIONAs on 30 Partner Campuses
Networked Together at 10-100Gbps
Sept. 14, 2023
Installed CPU Cores Installed GPUs Rotating Storage
5. The CENIC-Connected Cyberinfrastructure Commons:
Hosted by and Available to CENIC Members-Including the CSU Campuses
The
CENIC-
Connected
Subset of
the NRP’s
Nautilus
Graphics by Hunter Hadaway, CENIC; Data by Tom DeFanti, UCSD
9630 CPU Cores, 836 GPUs, 2700 TB Storage
and Growing!
6. Non-MSI
Institutions
Minority Serving
Institutions
EPSCoR
Institutions
The Users of the CENIC-Connected CI Commons
Can Burst into NRP’s Nautilus Hypercluster Outside of California
238 GPUs over CENIC
CSUSB + SDSU
88 GPUs over CENIC
UCI + UCR + UCM + UCSC + UCSB
511 GPUs over CENIC
UCSD + SDSC
21 GPUs over MREN
UIC
184 GPUs over GPN
U. Nebraska-L
8 GPUs over FLR
FAMU
12 GPUs over NYSERNet
NYU
21 GPUs over SCLR
Clemson U
9 GPUs over GPN
U S. Dakota + SD State
4 GPUs via
Albuquerque GigaPoP
U New Mexico
12 GPUs over NYSERNet
U Delaware
2 GPUs over OARnet
CWRU
1 GPU over CENIC/PW
U Hawaii
1 GPU over CENIC/PW
U Guam
144 GPUs over NEREN
MGHPCC
8 GPUs over GPN
U Oklahoma
16 GPUs over GPN
U Missouri
7. The Users of the CENIC-Connected CI Commons Can Burst into
The Open Science Grid (OSG), Which Has Been Integrated With the NRP
In aggregate ~ 200,000 Intel x86 cores
used by ~400 projects
Source: Frank Würthwein,
OSG Exec Director; PRP co-PI; UCSD/SDSC OSG Federates ~100 Clusters Worldwide
All OSG User
Communities
Use HTCondor for
Resource Orchestration
SDSC
U.Chicago
FNAL
Caltech
Distributed
OSG Petabyte
Storage Caches
8. The Users of the CENIC-Connected CI Commons Can Burst into
SDSC’s Supercomputing and Data Storage Resources
9. 8 of 23 CSU Campuses
Have 1 or More Users Who Have Logged Onto Nautilus
Total: 80 CSU Nautilus Users
10. 5 of 23 CSU Campuses
Have Created 1 or More Nautilus Namespaces
Total: 51 CSU Nautilus Namespaces
Last 12 Months
9/13/2022 to
9/13/2023
11. 5 of 23 CSU Campuses
Have Used Nautilus GPU and/or CPUs
90,800 GPU-Hours 160,850 CPU Core-Hours
Last 12 Months
9/13/2022 to
9/13/2023
12. CSU Campuses Have Used Up to 30 Nautilus GPUs Simultaneously
Over The Last 6 Months
Colors Represent Different Namespaces
CSUSB
CSUN
SDSU
13. CSU Campuses Have Used Up to 230 Nautilus CPU Cores Simultaneously
Over The Last 6 Months
Colors Represent Different Namespaces
CSUSB
CSUN
SDSU
14. California State University San Bernardino is an Excellent Example
of How to Help Your CSU Faculty and Students To Use NRP
www.csusb.edu/academic-technologies-innovation/xreal-lab-and-high-performance-computing/high-performance-computing
Their Campus HPC Program
Enabled CSUSB Faculty & Students
to Use More NRP GPU-Hours
In the Last 12 Months
Than 8 of the 10 UC Campuses!
15. The CSUSB HPC Team Is the Major Reason
For CSUSB Having the Largest NRP Utilization of 23 CSUs
• Dr. Sam Sudhakar
– Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance, Technology, & Operations
• Gerard Au
– Chief Information Officer
• Dr. Bradford Owen
– AVP for Faculty Development, Chief Academic Technologies Officer
• Dr. Dung Vu
– HPC Consultant, Analyst/Programmer
• James MacDonell
– HPC Consultant, Information Security Analyst
• Prof. Youngsu Kim
– HPC Faculty Fellow, Asst. Prof. of Mathematics
16. A Key Reason CSUSB Has The Largest CSU Nautilus Usage:
They Installed and Publicized the JupyterHub “Easy Button”
https://csusb-jupyter.nrp-nautilus.io/hub/login
Slide Adapted from
Prof. Youngsu Kim
Over 150 Total Users!
17. CSUSB Provides Human and On-Line Support
For Faculty, Students, and Staff to Easily Use JupyterHub to Access NRP
www.csusb.edu/faculty-center-for-excellence/idat/high-performance-computing/jupyterhub-nrp
18. The Rapid Rise of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Research Applications & Student Training on the NRP
“Graphics processing units (GPUs),
originally developed for accelerating graphics
processing, can dramatically speed up
computational processes for deep learning.
They are an essential part of
a modern artificial intelligence infrastructure,
and new GPUs have been developed and optimized
specifically for deep learning.”
www.run.ai/guides/gpu-deep-learning
19. Top 15 GPU-Consuming ML/AI Academic Research Nautilus Namespaces:
Last Six Months-Peaking at Over 700 GPUs
Topics: Robotics, Vision, Self-Driving Cars, 3D Deep Learning,
Particle Physics & Medical Data Analysis, VR/AR/Metaverse,
Brain Architecture…
For More Details on Nautilus Applications, Including ML/AI Namespaces Like the Ones Above See my 4NRP Talk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUz0BwObGs&list=PLbbCsk7MUIGdHZzgZqNbZkV7KGVZ7gn1g&index=19
20. CSUN Prof. Bingbing Li
Machine Learning Research Projects Utilizing Nautilus
• Energy Disaggregation for Manufacturing Plant
• Faculty Lead: Dr. Bingbing Li (CSUN), Dr. Richard Donovan (UCI)
• DNNs: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) RNN, PyTorch
• Graph Representation Learning for Material Prediction and Recommendation in CAD Automation
• Faculty Lead: Dr. Bingbing Li (CSUN)
• Collaborator: Dr. Daniele Grandi @ Autodesk and Dr. Thomas Lu @JPL
• DNNs: UV-Net Graph Neural Networks (GNN), PyTorch
• Knowledge Graph Construction Through the Potential of Large Language Models within Manufacturing
• Faculty Lead: Dr. Bingbing Li (CSUN)
• Collaborator: Dr. Jerry Fuh & Senthil Kumar @ National University of Singapore
• DNNs: LLMs (ChatGPT & LLaMa), Tensorflow
• Multi-Domain AI for Future Manufacturing
• Faculty Lead: Dr. Bingbing Li (CSUN)
• Collaborator: Dr. Edward Chow & Dr. Thomas Lu @JPL
• DNNs: LLMs (ChatGPT & LLaMa), Tensorflow
• Medical Image Restoration through Optical & CT Scanning
• Faculty Lead: Dr. Xiyi Hang & Dr. Bingbing Li (CSUN)
• Collaborator: Dr. Ye Pu and Prof. Demetri Psaltis @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
• DNNs: Large-Kernel CNN, Tensorflow
CSUN Prof.
Bingbing Li
Source: Bingbing Li
21. CSUN Prof. Bingbing Li’s Publications Powered by NRP:
Demonstrates the Research Leverage of Nautilus
Namespace: cesmii-scw
Li C., Bian S.J., Wu T.Z., Donovan R.P., and Li B.B.*, “Affordable Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Machine Supervision System for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers”, Sensors, 2022, Vol. 22
(16): 6246.
Kim Y., Donovan R.P., Ren Y.T., Bian S.J., Wu T.Z., Purawat S., Manzo A.J., Altintas I., Li B.B. , and Li G.P.*, "Smart Connected Worker Edge Platform for Smart Manufacturing: Part 1:
Architecture and Platform Design”, Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, 2022, Vol. 4 (4): e10129.
Donovan R.P., Kim Y., Manzo A.J., Ren Y.T., Bian S.J., Wu T.Z., Purawat S., Helvajian H., Wheaton M., Li B.B., and Li G.P.*, "Smart Connected Worker Edge Platform for Smart Manufacturing:
Part 2: Implementation and On-site Deployment Case Study”, Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, 2022, Vol. 4 (4): e10130.
Bian S.J., Li C., Fu Y.W., Ren Y.T., Wu T.Z., Li G.P., Li B.B.*, “Machine Learning-based Real-time Monitoring System for Smart Connected Worker to Improve Energy Efficiency”, Journal of
Manufacturing Systems, 2021, Vol. 61, pp. 66-76.
Bian S.J., Lin T.C., Li C., Fu Y.W., Jiang M.R., Wu T.Z., Hang X.Y., Li B.B.*, “Real-time Object Detection for Smart Connected Worker in 3D printing”, 2021 International Conference on
Computational Science (ICCS 2021), Krakow, Poland, June 16-18, 2021.
Namespace: nsf-maica
Fan H.L., Fuh J.Y., Lu W.F., Kumar A.S., and Li B.B.*, “Unleashing the Potential of Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Construction: A Practical Experiment on Incremental Sheet
Forming”, Proceedings of International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2023), Lisbon, Portugal, November 22-24, 2023.
Zhang H.J., Jiao Y.C., Yuan Y.Z., Li Y.C., Wang Y.Q., Lu W.F., Fuh J.Y., and Li B.B.*, “Object Detection and Text Recognition for Immersive Augmented Reality Training in Laser Powder Bed
Fusion”, International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2023), Lisbon, Portugal, November 22-24, 2023.
Rose A., Nisce I., Gonzalez A., Davis M., Uribe B., Carranza J., Flores J., Jia X.D., Li B.B., Jiang X.F.*, “A Cloud-based Real-Time Traffic Monitoring System with Lidar-based Vehicle
Detection”, 2023 IEEE Green Energy and Smart Systems Conference (IGESSC 2023), Long Beach, CA, November 13-14, 2023.
Bian S.J., Grandi D., Liu T.Y., Jayaraman P.K., Willis K., Sadler E.T., Borijin B., Lu T., Otis R., Ho N., and Li B.B.*, “HG-CAD: Hierarchical Graph Learning for Material Prediction and
Recommendation in CAD”, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2023, pp. 1-28.
Li B.B., Wu T.Z., Bian S.J., Sutherland J.W.*, “Predictive Model for Real-time Energy Disaggregation Using Long Short-term Memory”, CIRP Annals, 2023, Vol. 72 (1): 25-28.
Morales-Badajoz A., Elieh N., Diederich A., Sadler E., Glover J., Nizampatnam M., Israel T., Wang A., Zhang L., Besnilian A., George A., Miller J., Jiang X.F., Li B.B.*, “Astro Cultivators:
Autonomous Growth System for Space Farming based on Machine Vision and Multi-Sensor Fusion”, ACM Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week, San Antonio, TX, May 9-12, 2023.
Bian S.J., Grandi D., Hassani K., Sadler E., Borijin B., Fernandes A., Wang A., Lu T., Otis R., Ho N.T., Li B.B.*, “Material Prediction for Design Automation Using Graph Representation Learning”,
ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2022), St. Louis, MO, August 14-17, 2022.
CSUN Prof. Bingbing Li’s Nautilus Namespace nsf-maica
used over 9,000 GPU-Hours in the Last Year
UCI Prof. GP Li’s Nautilus Namespace cesmii-scw (mainly used by Bingbing’s
research team) used nearly 12,000 GPU-Hours in the Last Year
Source: Bingbing Li
22. The Congress Has Asked NSF to Develop
a National AI Research Resource
A widely accessible
AI research cyberinfrastructure
that brings together
computational resources, data,
testbeds, algorithms, software,
services, networks,
and expertise,
as described in this report,
would help to democratize
the AI R&D landscape
in the United States
for the benefit of all.
In order to achieve
its vision and goals,
the Task Force estimates
the budget for the NAIRR
as $2.6 billion
over an initial
six-year period.
The NAIRR must provide
a platform that can be used
for educational activities
in order to lower the barriers
to participation in the AI
research ecosystem.
23. UCSD’s Information Technology Services Has Adapted PRP FIONA8s
To Support Students in Data Science (DS) & Machine Learning (ML) Courses
• Student-Focused Platform For:
– Undergraduate & Graduate Coursework
– For-Credit Independent Study
– Thesis/Dissertation Research
– Capstones & Projects
• Research-Driven Architecture
• Managed by UCSD IT Services
Software Used
By Students
Source: Adam Tilghman, UCSD ITS
SDSC Racked FIONAs:
139 32-bit GPUs (10% NRP)
2048 CPU-cores
10/25/40G Networking
Not Federated With NRP
24. UCSD’s DS/ML Platform Supported Nearly 60 Courses
Spring Quarter 2023
Source: Adam Tilghman, UCSD ITS
25. UCSD’s DS/ML Platform Supported Over 6,000 Students
Spring Quarter 2023
Source: Adam Tilghman, UCSD ITS
26. Selected Courses, Spring 2023
• Advanced Computer Vision
• Bioinformatics for Immunologists
• Computational Physics: Probabilistic Models/Sim.
• Data Analysis/Design for Biologists
• Data Science/Spatial Analysis
• Deep Learning and Applications
• Intro to Causal Inference
• Neural Networks/Pattern Recognition
• Numerical Analysis for Multiscale Biology
• Robot Manipulation and Control
27. ● Dell PowerEdge Cluster for Instructional Use, with 15 Nodes
with 32 A100 GPUs (managed as 232 independent GPUs),
768 CPU cores, and 960 TB Storage.
● A Learning Resource that Surges for Research and Instruction
● System Administration as a Service from the NRP
● Friendly User mode this Spring with
● ~90 Users in Computational Engineering 361 &
Astronomical Techniques ASTR 350
● Research in Developing Synthetic Medical Data
for Machine Learning Training
SDSU’s VERNE Expands the UCSD Instructional Model by Federating with NRP:
Visionary, Education, Research, Network, Ecosystem
Slide courtesy of Jerry Sheehan, SDSU CIO
28. But Who Will Train the Trainers?
NSF is Providing CyberTraining Funding
NSF award
#2230127
SDSC at UCSD, SDSU & CSUSB
have been awarded $6.7 million
for training and mentoring
a cohort of CI professionals.
Our training program cohort will be drawn from populations
including domain scientists, interdisciplinary research
professionals, faculty, students and other NSF workforce
individuals and underrepresented STEM communities.”
--PI Mary Thomas, SDSC
29. Two Recently Submitted NSF Proposals
With CSUs as NRP Drivers
PI Tom DeFanti, UCSD
PI Jerry Sheehan, SDSU
30. NRP Support and Community:
• US National Science Foundation (NSF) awards and subawards to UCSD
--CNS-1456638, CNS-1730158, CNS-2100237, CNS-2120019
--ACI-1540112, ACI-1541349, OAC-1826967, OAC-2029306, OAC-2112167
• DOD DURIP awards to UCSD
• UC Office of the President, Calit2 and Calit2’s UCSD Qualcomm Institute
• San Diego Supercomputer Center and UCSD’s Research IT and Instructional IT
• CENIC, Pacific Wave/PNWGP, StarLight/MREN, The Quilt, Great Plains Network,
NYSERNet, Open Science Grid, Internet2, DOE ESnet, NCAR/UCAR & Wyoming
Supercomputing Center, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, Arista