how cineca supports higher education it_ eunis-cz annual congress_may 2015

How Cineca supports

Higher Education IT

Prof. Emilio Ferrari

Michele Mennielli

May 4, 2015

EUNIS-CZ Conference

Topics

⁄ CINECA: an overview

⁄ Systems and Services for Higher Education

⁄ HPC for Research Activities and Industries

www.cineca.it | How Cineca supports Higher Education IT | May 4, 2015 | EUNIS-CZ Conference

http://www.cineca.it/

Not For Profit Founded in 1969

Cineca: the Consortium


75 Members:

70 Universities

4 Research Institutes

Ministry of Education

>900 employees

FERMI: TOP500 HPC

EURORA: TOPGREEN500

IS 500 applications All Italian Universities

Ministry of Higher Ed


General Manager

Members

Department

Panel General Managers

Panel Information Systems Directors

Council (11)

OdV

Auditors Group

…………..….

………….….

……………..

Consortium Council

(75) President

Board of Governors

(5)

The Structure



Higher Education

• Solutions & Services for the University Administration

• Services for the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)

Scientific Research

• High Performance Computing

• FERMI: in the TOP500 List

• EURORA: in the TOPGREEN500 List

• Scientific Visualization & Interactive Virtual Environments

Technological Innovation

• Data Center

• Information and Knowledge Management Services

• Health Care Systems

The Activities






Topics



1994 Cray T3D 64 – 1° Parallel System in Italy

2004 IBM CLX Xeon 1024

2007 IBM BCX AMD 5120 – 10 TeraFlop/s

2009 IBM SP6 – 100 TeraFlop/s

1975 CDC 7600 – 1° SC in Italy

1985 Cray X-MP / 48 – 1° Vector SC

1989 Cray Y-MP / 4 64 - IBM 3090 600 VF

1993 Cray C-90 / 2128

1995 Cray T3D 128

1996 Cray T3E 128 – 1° MPP System in Italy

1998 Cray T3E 256 SGI Origin 16

1999 Cray T3E 256 SGI Origin 64 - IBM SP Power 3 16

2000 Cray T3E 256 SGI Origin 128 - IBM SP Power 3 12

2002 IBM SP4 512 – 1 TeraFlop/s

2005 IBM SP5 512

2012 IBM BG/Q – 2 PetaFlops/s

1969

CDC 6600

The History of HPC



Architecture: 10 BGQ Frames

Model: IBM-BG/Q

Processor Type: IBM PowerA2, 1.6 GHz

Computing Cores: 163840

Computing Nodes: 10240

RAM: 1GByte / core

Internal Network: Network interface with

11 links -> 5D Torus

Disk Space: 2.6 PByte of scratch space

Peak Performance: 2PFlop/s

Architecture: 1 rack

Model: Eurora prototype

Processor Type:

Intel Xeon CPU E5-2658 @ 2.10GHz

Intel Xeon CPU E5-2687W @ 3.10GHz

Accelerator Type:

Nvidia Tesla K20s

Intel Xeon-Phi 5120D

Computing Cores: 1024

Computing Nodes: 64

RAM: 16GByte DDR3

1600MHz per node

(5 nodes with 32 GByte)

Internal Network:

1 FPGA (Altera Stratix V) per node

IB QDR interconnect

3D Torus interconnect

Disk Space: 90 GByte SSD per node

Sustained Performance: 3,150MFlop/w

FERMI - IBM BG/Q EURORA

Cineca HPC Today



Product Development Process

Preparation/Delivery

Concept

Development

Prototype/

Physical Testing

Manufacturing

Design

Final

Time to Market

Without

HPC

HPC-Supported

Simulation

With HPC

Time Savings

Reduction in Time to Market

HPC’s Key Impact for industries



Services Solution Consulting

HPC Service Provision Disaster Recovery

Storage Service Provision & MGT Parallelisation and Benchmarking

Storage Provision Application Service Provision Pre-Post Processing interfaces for

Visualization

HPC Managed Hosting

Applications (in House/Host)

Remote Visualisation

Cloud Computing 3D Modelling

Collaborative Work Product Integration by mean of

Complex Operational Chains ICT, Design & Security Consultancy

Offers, Services & Tech. Transfer



Services Solution Consulting

HPC Service Provision Disaster Recovery

Storage Service Provision & MGT Parallelisation and Benchmarking

Storage Provision Application Service Provision Pre-Post Processing interfaces for

Visualization

HPC Managed Hosting

Applications (in House/Host)

Remote Visualisation

Cloud Computing 3D Modelling

Collaborative Work Product Integration by mean of

Complex Operational Chains ICT, Design & Security Consultancy

HCP on demand: logical partitions; core hours, cloud computing. For peak workload, for industries which do not consider core business the management of HCP complex infrastructures’ Performance: HCP infrastructure life cycle less than three years, continuous upgrade. Flexibility: pay per use, increasing of the costs driven by effective needs Lower costs: economy of scale Business continuity: UPS, Moto generators, graceful degradation, redundancies Security: access physical security, logical networking security Privacy: reserved file systems, file system encryption, NDAs’

Offers, Services & Tech. Transfer



HPC International Activities (1/2)



The PRACE Pillars



/ European project, co-funded within the 7th Framework Programme / a Collaborative Data Infrastructure that allows researchers to share data within and between communities

/ European Project coordinated by the University of Edinburgh and involves 45 partners / use of simulation services running on a High Performance Computing cloud infrastructure.

HPC International Activities (2/2)






Topics



Local Processes

National Processes

Annual Public Funds

Delivery

Planning & Promoting Education

National Research

Assessment Exercise

National Research

Grants Delivery

Financial Control On Univ

Student Management

Course Management

Research Management

Governance Control

Monitoring of

Academic

courses (OFF.F)

Monitoring of

Students trends

(ANS)

Monitoring of

Research

Production

Assessment of

Research

Production

(ANVUR-VQR)

National

Reserach Grants

Delivery

(PRIN-FIRB)

HR & Financial

Data Analysis

(Personnel)

Financial

Management

HR

Management

Dashboards & KPIs - University Data Warehouse

Student & Learning Management

Research

Management

Key Performance Indicators and Dashboards

The Italian Academic System

Supporting the Academic System



Local Processes

National Processes

Annual Public Funds

Delivery

Planning & Promoting Education

National Research

Assessment Exercise

National Research

Grants Delivery

Financial Control On Univ

Student Management

Course Management

Research Management

Governance Control

Monitoring of

Academic

courses (OFF.F)

Monitoring of

Students trends

(ANS)

Monitoring of

Research

Production

Assessment of

Research

Production

(ANVUR-VQR)

National

Reserach Grants

Delivery

(PRIN-FIRB)

HR & Financial

Data Analysis

(Personnel)

Financial

Management

HR

Management


Student & Learning Management

Research

Management

Key Performance Indicators and Dashboards

Supporting the Academic System



The offering



17

Installations

H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n

LEARNING

Lisbon Declaration (2008)

Researchers

Knowledge Sharing

International collaboration

Joint Programming

Research Infrastructures

Bologna Process (1999)

3 cycle system

Mobility

Quality Assurance

Credit System (ECTS)

Comparable degrees

RESEARCH

EHEA (European Higher Education Area) ERA (European Research Area)

The European Area



Cineca around the World

Students & Learning:

>50 Installations (Turkey, Romania, Albania, Haiti, Central Asian Republics)

Research (DSpace + DSpace-CRIS + IRIS):

>20 Installations (the 5 Continents and the World Health Organisation)

Students

&

Learning

78% of Italian Universities

> 1.4 Million Students

11 Albanian Universities

9 Turkish Universities

5 Romanian Universities

ESSE3 and the Bologna Process

- contains all data required by DS

- traslation of static & dynamic fields

- statistic engine for ECTS scale mapping

- generates automatically DS like certification

Diploma Supplement Two main cycles System of credits Mobility



- implements DM509 and DM270 Italian laws (in place since 1999)

- supports the 3+2 model and the 1+2+2 model

- offers total configuration for course types

- gives complete support to Doctorate and Masters



- implements the ECTS system and the specific requirements of

Italian law for credit system

- provides tools for analytic credit transfer beetween different

careers of the same person

- supports the credit recognition process for international mobility

students





- provides specific functions for student mobility outgoing and incoming

- describes all the exchange programs beetween partner Universities

- provides online application form for incoming

- provides online selection process for outgoing

- implements credit mapping from trascript of record





Master Files and Configurations

Academic Processes and Student Life-cycle

Online Services (Web ESSE3)

DATA

STRUCTURES

MINISTRY

DATA

STUDENTS

MASTER

ORGANISATION

STRUCTURES

ACADEMICS

MASTER

PROGRAMMES

MASTER

REGULATIONS

MASTER

ONLINE

SURVEYS

ADMISSIONS

ENROLLMENT

STUDENT’S

ADMIN

TUITIONS EXAMS

MANAGEMENT

STUDENT

CAREER GRADUATION

INTERNSHIPS

& STAGE

POSTLAUREAM

PLACEMENT

CALLS

& RANKING CERTIFICATES

INTERNATIONAL

MOBILITY

REPORTS &

STATISTICS

GATEWAY MULTICHANNEL

DEVICES

PROCESS

CONFIG.

STUDENT’S

GUIDE

REGISTRED

WEB AREA

STUDENT

WEB AREA

TEACHER

WEB AREA

OTHER USERS

WEB AREA

WEB

COMMUNITY

SERVICES

Online Services (Web ESSE3)

Academic Processes

Master Files and Configurations

Student Life-cycle

ESSE3: Solution Map



83 CRIS

46 Universities (U-GOV RI)

> 1.5 Million Research Publications

9 Universities (SURplus)

10 New Installations (IRIS)

18 Universities Abroad (IRIS & DSpace-CRIS)

International Activities & Research

Sharing our experience

euroCRIS

DuraSpace

OpenAIRE

&

Pentaho

/ Board Member

/ CERIF TG

/ Architecture TG

/ DRIS-Best Practice TG

Open Source BI solution

Advisory Board / Steering Committee

/ 2 DSpace Committers

/ DSpace-CRIS

/ DSpace Registered Service Provider

Open Access in Europe

NOAD



Collect institutional research output for evaluation and assessment purposes

Measure research results for benchmarking

Disseminate data to enhance impact and visibility

Preserve ICT investments and maximize ROI

The institution’s perspective



The IT’s perspective

Research Governance: business processes, management, reporting, integration

Institutional Repository: Publications and Research Data

CRIS: people, units, projects, interactions, reputation, cooperation, dissemination



Workflows mapping business processes

System Integration (legacy, national, …)

Reports & Analytics

WHAT IRIS ADDS

The Cineca’s perspective

Dspace extended to the CERIF entities

To better support:

(People | Units | Projects | etc.)

Interactions Reputation Dissemination

Institutional Repository



Workflows mapping business processes

System Integration (legacy, national, …)

Reports & Analytics

WHAT IRIS ADDS

The Cineca’s perspective

Open Source

Dspace extended to the CERIF entities

To better support:

(People | Units | Projects | etc.)

Interactions Reputation Dissemination

Institutional Repository




How IRIS works

RM (Resource Managemet)

AP (Activities & Projects)

IR (Institutional Repository)

Accounting System

HR System

ES (Expertise & Skills)

ER (Evaluation & Review)


IRIS: Publications & Departments

Different Departments N. Of Publications

Trends

Years Drag&Drop



IRIS: Publications & Departments

Aggregated trends



With & Without Impact Factor

IRIS: Impact Factor



IRIS: different kind of publications

Dep.



IRIS: National Assessment

(Researcher View) To the Ministry



IRIS: National Assessment

(Governance View)

To the Ministry



The History of DSpace-CRIS

CINECA is a registered service provider at DuraSpace

Long-term collaboration with DSpace community (Committer Group)

Hong Kong University: from DSpace IR to CRIS (2009) – the HUB

Nov. 2012 Jan. 2014 June 2013 Aug. 2013 Sept. 2013

First release:

DSpace 1.8.2 Second release:

- DSpace 1.8.2

- Fix Release 1.8.2

Upgrade

release:

- DSpace 1.8.3

- Security fix

First release (beta):

- DSpace 3.2

Technical

documentation

Release

DSpace 4.1

June 2014

Final release

DSpace 4.2

Nov 2014



DSpace-CRIS Data model

Standard Dspace --> publications & dataset

APPROACH DYNAMIC FLEXIBLE NOT HARDCODED

UIs

FEW PREDEFINED

ATTRIBUTES

ENTITIES FEW PREDEFINED

DSpace-CRIS --> other CERIF entites:

/ ResearcherPage

/ Project

/ OrgUnit

/ 2nd Level Dynamic Object

DEFINE ANY ASPECTS



Case Study #1: the HKU HUB



HKU-HUB: the Researcher



HKU-HUB: the Network



HKU-HUB: the Publications



DSpace-CRIS latest releases

It is possible to (public API):

• Login through ORCID*;

• Claim profile through ORCID;

• Register/Associate an ORCID to your own DSpace-CRIS profile

First release (part of the 4.3 version)

DSpace-CRIS 5.1.0 Release

* Authentication code is based on the work found on DSpace 5 and Dryad project



Highlight CRIS database macro areas

DSpace-CRIS for euroCRIS



OrgUnits & People




Projects & Events




Publications




Allow end-user interaction




Why should you be interested?




Claim Profile through ORCID

DSpace-CRIS & ORCID



DSpace-CRIS & ORCID



DSpace-CRIS: importing BIO info



DSpace-CRIS e ORCID: next steps (1)

With the collaboration of The Hong Kong University (HKU) and The Hong Kong Polythecnic University

DSpace-CRIS 4.3.1 DSpace-CRIS 5.1.1 (June ‘15) PUSH – services (members API)

DSpace-CRIS 5.1.2 (end ‘15) Advanced PULL – services (members&premium API)



DSpace-CRIS e ORCID: next steps (2)

– Research’s bibliographic data

(including the possibility to activate synchronisation for single field)

– Publications

(with the possibility to chose the publications to sync)

– Projects

(with the possibility to chose which projects to sync)

PUSH local information to

ORCID

PULL extended information from ORCID

Propose to import records in DSpace-CRIS when login-in looking to the Researcher’s ORCID

profile

Or

Automatically (notification and preferences

allowed) when ORCID premium membership is

available



Governance

> 10 BI Applications developed

> 400 Business Metadata objects

> 30 Universities

> 100 BI Apps & What-If running

> 700.000 Reports per year

U-GOV P&C

> 2 Millions Payslips per year

> 2 Millions Account Operations

U-GOV ACC

U-GOV HR


Financial

Management

HR

Management

Student &

Learning Management

Research

Management

Supporting the Governance

ODS

Data Mart Research & Projects Analysis

HR Analysis

Academic & Students Analysis

Accounting Analysis

Solutions Dashboard & KPI

What-IF Budgeting Cost Allocation



Plan Control

KPIs

Data Warehouse

Operational Data Store

Transactional DB

Reports for decision making Implement Official KPIs checking

Normalization and aggregation of data

Day to Day reporting with Data Quality guaranteed in the bottom layer

M

A

T

U

R

I

T

Y

Generate accurate reports for Official Institutions Create Datamarts for specific areas reporting

Added value reporting & services from an ODS avoiding access to Transactional DB Historical and trending information

To provide a Data Quality solution creating value added

services

Vision and approach



Student dropout

Academic year

Students enrollment

Dropout Vs Enrollment

Example Stud&Learn: Students dropout in the first 2 years



Research Unit

Number of results by field of study/topic

Authors details

Yearly trend

Example Research: Dashboard Research Performance



Number of Employee Vs Previous Year

Role

Employee number

Future Years

Cos t s

Example HR & ACC: FTE per Unit & What-If

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Our Vision



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