In what externally-funded grant projects is the Research Technologies division currently involved?

IBM Institutes of Innovation, Shared University Research grants, and Joint Development Projects (1999-)

Indiana University and IBM have a longstanding and vibrant research relationship. IBM has made several Sponsored University Research (SUR) grants to Indiana University, and in 2003 IU was selected as one of the first IBM Life Sciences Institutes of Innovation. Reports of progress on specific phases of the collaborative relationship between IU and IBM are available online:

• 2000 Report on Accomplishments - IU Shared University Research grants
• 2003 Report on Accomplishments - IU Shared University Research grants
• 2003 Report on DiscoveryLink
• IU-IBM Protein Family Annotator Project - Final Report
• IBM Institute of Innovation (Report in progress)

Indiana Genomics Initiative (1/1/2001-12/31/2008)

The Advanced IT Core (a subunit of the Research Technologies division of UITS, and a Core within the IU School of Medicine) is advancing the use of information technology in biomedical research with funding from the Indiana Genomics Initiative. PI: M. A. McRobbie. Lilly Endowment: $105,000,000, of which $6,700,000 is budgeted for the Research Technologies Division of UITS.

Informatics Core for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (9/29/2003-8/31/2007)

The Informatics Core is part of the consortium for the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD), an international collaboration that aims to better understand the effects that result from maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy. PI: C. A. Stewart. Co-PIs: A. Shankar, A. Arenson. NIH: $370,682. This project was also supported via INGEN funding to the Research Technologies division of UITS. In addition, $116,971 in funding went to the Advanced Visualization Laboratory of the Research Technologies division of UITS. In total, IU researchers from the IU School of Medicine and the IU School of Science (T. Foroud, S. Fang, J. Huang, C. Goodlett, F. Zhou) received $1,560,185. The combined funding received by the Research Technologies Division of UITS and IU School of Medicine and School of Science researchers was $1,930,867.

TeraGrid (10/1/2003- 2/28/2010)

The TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership-class resources at 11 partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. TeraGrid resources include more than a petaflop of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage, with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks. Researchers can also access more than 100 discipline-specific databases. This combination of resources makes the TeraGrid the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.

Grants supporting IU's participation as a TeraGrid Resource Partner include:

• Indiana-Purdue Grid (IP-Grid). 10/1/2003-9/30/2005. PI: M. A. McRobbie; Co-PIs G. C. Fox, D. B. Gannon, M. J. Palakal, and B. D. Voss. NSF Grant ACI-0338618l. $2,900,000. Grant final report
• ETF Early Operations - Indiana University. 8/1/2005-1/31/2006. PI: C. A. Stewart. Co-PIs: A. Shankar, M. A. McRobbie, B. D. Voss, S. Simms. NSF Grant OCI-0451237 $1441,188. Grant final report
• TeraGrid Resource Partners: Indiana University. 8/1/2005-2/28/2010. PI: C. A. Stewart. Co-PIs: M. Bruhn, D. S. McCaulay. NSF Grant OCI-0504075. $4,414,078.

Indiana METACyt Initiative (1/1/2005-12/31-2009)

The Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative (METACyt), funded by a $53 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, seeks to advance life sciences research at IU Bloomington and in the state of Indiana. Research Technologies is responsible for the implemenation of IU's Big Red supercomputer, partially funded by the Indiana METACyt Initiative, as well as the Center for Computational Cytomics. PI: M. A. McRobbie, K. Subbaswamy, T. Widlanski, P. Cherbas, C. A. Stewart. Lilly Endowment: $53,000,000 total to Indiana University; $6,250,000 in funding to Research Technologies.

Data Capacitor (10/1/2005-9/30/2008)

The Data Capacitor is a massive (535 TB) temporary storage system designed to help researchers deal with the massive amounts of data being generated by advanced digital instruments. The Data Capacitor will make a considerable impact on researchers in the life sciences, where data management challenges are particularly severe; but researchers of many disciplines will be better able to draw from their data the information and meaning it contains. PI: C. A. Stewart. Co-PIs: C. Pilachowski, R. Bramley, S. Simms. National Science Foundation Grant No. CNS-0521433. $1,720,000.

Network Workbench (9/1/2005-8/31/2008)

The Network Workbench will provide members of the scientific research community at large (biologists, physicists, computer scientists, social and behavioral scientists, engineers, etc.) with the means to carry out network analysis, modeling, and visualization projects in their own fields. $27,860 in funding goes to the Research Technologies Division of UITS. PI: Katy Börner. NSF/CISE SEI Program Grant No. 0513650. $1,120,926.

Open Science Grid (2/1/2007-9/30/2012)

The Open Science Grid is a distributed computing infrastructure for large-scale scientific research. It is built and operated by a consortium of universities, national laboratories, scientific collaborations and software developers. The OSG is supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy's Office of Science. Indiana University is funded via a subcontract from the University of Wisconsin to manage the Grid Operations Center of the Open Science Grid. Subcontract PI: D. S. McCaulay. Subcontract Co-PIs: F. Luehring, C. A. Stewart. $2,130,000.

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