1. National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NCSA 2015: Washington Meeting Introduction – Process & Agenda

2. The Strategy Process for NCSA 2015 1. Mission 4. View of the World 4. View of the World 3. View of NCSA 3. View of NCSA 6. Strategic Options For NCSA 6. Strategic Options For NCSA 5. Strategic Imperatives 5. Strategic Imperatives Strategic Intent Strategic Intent Decision Strategic Architecture Strategic Architecture STRATEGYSTRATEGY Implement- ation Implement- ation 2.Issues & Opportunities 2.Issues & Opportunities

3. June Meeting April Meeting February Meeting The Strategy Process 1.0 for NCSA 2015 1. Mission 4. View of the World 4. View of the World 3. View of NCSA 3. View of NCSA 6. Strategic Options For NCSA 6. Strategic Options For NCSA 5. Strategic Imperatives 5. Strategic Imperatives Strategic Intent Strategic Intent Decision Strategic Architecture Strategic Architecture Implement- ation Implement- ation 2.Issues & Opportunities 2.Issues & Opportunities STRATEGYSTRATEGY 0. Lessons from NCSA 2010

4. September Meeting April Meeting February Meeting The Strategy Process 1.1 for NCSA 2015 0. Lessons from NCSA 2010 1. Mission 4. View of the World 4. View of the World 3. View of NCSA 3. View of NCSA 6. Strategic Options For NCSA 6. Strategic Options For NCSA 5. Strategic Imperatives 5. Strategic Imperatives Strategic Intent Strategic Intent Decision Strategic Architecture Strategic Architecture Implement- ation Implement- ation 2.Issues & Opportunities 2.Issues & Opportunities STRATEGYSTRATEGY SC1 - April View of NCSA SC1 - April View of NCSA SC5 - August Strategic Options - 3 SC4 - July Strategic Options - 2 SC3 - June Strategic Options - 1 SC 6-8 Implementation SC2 - May Strategic Imperatives

5. April 20: View of the World Presentations from Access Center and from Urbana via video-link 8:00 Introduction to View of the World (VoW) sessions, R Levien & T Dunning 8:15 Cynthia McIntyre, Council on Competitiveness 8:45 David Dean, Dept. of Energy, Office of the Under Secretary of Science 9:15 – 12:45 Applications Sessions – Bob Wilhelmson, Team Leader [15 ten min presentations, 1 twenty min presentation & 30 min of discussion] 1:00 Karin Remington, National Institutes of Health 1:30 Daniel Hitchcock, Dept. of Energy, Office of Science 2:00 - 5:45 Technology Sessions – Vlad Kindratenko, Team Leader [10 ten min presentations, 2 fifteen min presentations & 80 min of discussion] 6:00 Speaker: Dan Reed, Microsoft Corporation 7:00 Dinner @ Arlington Hotel

6. April 21: View of the World - 2 All presentations from Access Center 9:00 Sampath Kannan: National Science Foundation 9:30Eduardo Misawa & Clark Cooper, National Science Foundation 10:00 Break 10:15Introduction to View of the World: R Levien 10:30Discussion – Applications, 1 (45 min): R Levien 11:00 Elizabeth Grossman, Lewis & Burke -- the Washington scene 11:45Lunch 12:15Chris Greer, Office of Science and Technology Policy 1:00 Ed Seidel, National Science Foundation 1:30 Tim Killeen, National Science Foundation 2:00 Discussion – Applications, 2 (30 min): R Levien 2:30 Jose Munoz, National Science Foundation 3:00 Break 3:15Discussion – Technologies (75 min): R Levien 4:30Adjourn 5:30 Dinner @ Arlington Hotel

7. April 22: VoW, Strategic Imperatives & Options Discussions in the Access Center, Arlington with some participants in Urbana 8:00 View of the World Discussion – Washington Scene (60 min): R Levien Discussion – Players (30 min): R Levien [from February Meeting] 9:30 Break 9:45 View of the World, cont’d Discussion – Critical Assumptions (105 min): R Levien 11:30 Kelvin Droegemeier, National Science Board & University of Oklahoma 12:30 Lunch 1:00 Introduction to Setting Strategy: R Levien 1:15Strategic Imperatives: What NCSA must do … R Levien 2:15 Break 2:30 Introduction to Strategic Options: R Levien 2:45 Strategic Options: What NCSA can do … R Levien 4:00 Closing Comments – Thom Dunning 4:15 Adjourn

8. Your Role in the Meeting View of the World Sessions, Tuesday and Wednesday Listen, distill, and collect “key messages for NCSA” from each presentation, e.g. (some hypothetical examples) Cloud computing will be viable for many cutting edge computational science and engineering applications NSF will be unable to fund the next generation of HPC by itself due to acquisition and operation costs We will share, discuss, rank, and select the most important such assumptions in discussion sessions on Wednesday & Thursday Strategy Imperatives and Options Sessions, Thursday Prepare, in advance, your thoughts on what NCSA must do, e.g. NCSA must implement and test cloud computing NCSA must find additional sources of funding for next-gen HPC Prepare, in advance, your thoughts on what NCSA can do, e.g. New Principal Activity: Cloud Computing for Computational Science & Eng. New Core Competence: Development of Alternative Funding Sources