K-State professor heads NSF-funded open science grid expansion - WIBW

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - A K-State computer science professor will be heading an NSF-funded open science grid expansion across the Great Plains.

Kansas State University says Daniel Andresen, director of the Institute for Computational Research in Engineering and Science and computer science professor in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, has been awarded over $350,000 from the National Science Foundation to lead a project in support of computational and data-intensive research across the region.

K-State says the 3-year effort, “The Great Plains Augmented Regional Gateway to the Open Science Grid,” is sponsored by the NSF’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and will create a regional, distributed Open Science Grid Gateway led by the Great Plains Network. It says collaborators include Pratul Agarwal, of Oklahoma State University, Timothy Middelkiip, of the University of Missouri, Columbia, Stephen Wheat, of Oral Roberts Univesity and Ryan Johnson, of the University of South Dakota.

The school says the proposal has been designed to accelerate the adoption and experience of advanced high-throughput computing and data resources by developing a model for enhanced distributed computational systems.

“This project will multiply the number of open science grid sites in the Great Plains Network region by a factor of eight, adding at least 2,048 cores dedicated to open science grid use and providing potential access to more than 42,000 additional existing cores at participating institutions,” Andresen said.

Andresen says adding these core sites at university research centers across the Great Plains is designed to accomplish the following key objectives:

• Improve campus awareness and adoption of advanced, high throughput computer-oriented operations for STEM research and education activities.
• Increase the number and capabilities of campus research computing and data professionals.
• Enable deployment and operation of research and education cyberinfrastructure to make science more efficient, trusted and reproducible.

“This funded work will help drive K-State’s research and education goals forward by deepening ties with more than a dozen regional institutions,” Andresen said, “in turn adding to our ability to support research and education on a regional scale and extend the K-State family to include hundreds of students and faculty.”

K-State says the Great Plains Network connects universities and state networks throughout the Midwest and Great Plains. It says the network has 22 full members, including K-State, the University of Kansas and Wichita State University, as well as affiliate members from across the region.

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