O C I October 31, 2006Office of CyberInfrastructure1 Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) and Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototypes (CEO:P) Kevin Thompson Office of Cyberinfrastructure

O C I October 31, 2006Office of CyberInfrastructure2 Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI)  Follow-on to NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) –Purpose - To design, develop, deploy and support a set of reusable and expandable middleware functions that benefit many science and engineering applications in a networked environment –Program encouraged open source development –Program funded development, integration, deployment and support  Notable NMI Outcomes –Condor – mature distributed computing system installed on, as of 10/26/06, >1500 CPU “pools” and >100,000 CPUs worldwide (registered hosts only, not including industry adoption) –Shibboleth – privacy-preserving attribute exchange framework providing federated Single-SignOn across or within organizational boundaries and simplifying identity management and access permissions –Globus - an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications –NMI Build and Test - community resource and framework for multi- platform build and test of grid software

O C I October 31, 2006Office of CyberInfrastructure3 SDCI – NSF Solicitation  $14M across 3 Areas of software and tools: –High Performance Computing (HPC) environments –Digital data acquisition, discovery, access, analysis, and preservation –Middleware capabilities and services to support distributed resource sharing and virtual organizations  Full Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2007  Award characteristics –$50,000 - $1,000,000 a year –2-3 years –Estimated number: 10 to 20  Special Award conditions –Working prototypes required mid-course –Use of NMI Build and Test in development process –Open Source  Solicitation covers both new development and enhancement of existing software systems

O C I October 31, 2006Office of CyberInfrastructure4 Environmental Observatories and CI  Environmental Observatories and related projects at NSF –Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) –National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON) –Collaborative, Large-Scale, Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER), now “WATERS” –Others: SEEK, SCEC-CME, GEON, ROADNet, LEAD, etc.  Challenges –How to enable the research community to use cyber research environments –How to promote interoperability between major observatory communities –How to keep cycles of development connected and on target –How to ensure the workforce for CI development and maintenance

O C I Now is the Time: The nexus is the major advances in other fields that are transforming environmental sciences. Telecommunications Telecommunications Computer Sciences Computer Sciences Genomics Genomics Robotics Robotics Information Technologies Information Technologies Sensor Networks Sensor Networks Science and technology evolving together allow for advances that neither one could accomplish in isolation.

O C I ORION is committed to THREE OOI observatory components: Coastal observatories Coastal observatories Regional cabled observatory Regional cabled observatory Global observatories Global observatories with INTEGRATION of the three components through Cyberinfrastructure Cyberinfrastructure

O C I October 31, 2006Office of CyberInfrastructure7 Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototypes (CEO:P)  NSF Solicitation –Goal: development of practical environmental cyberinfrastructure prototypes along with a demonstration of their capability to answer significant environmental research questions  CEO:P Program Characteristics –“The project team includes both environmental researchers and information scientists, with environmental researchers from at least two of the following environmental disciplines - ocean science, ecology, atmospheric science, or environmental engineering;” –End-to-end approach to an information infrastructure prototype –Leverage existing data sources, working with real environmental data –Development that fills gaps in needed capabilities across environmental observatories –Well-defined use cases –project milestones leading to a working prototype and initial deployment  Cross-Directorate Participation with $8.5M in combined funding –BIO – Elizabeth Blood and Peter McCartney, PDs of NEON –ENG – Pat Brezonik, PD of WATERS –OCE (GEO) – Alexandra Isern, PD of OOI –OCI – Steve Meacham and Kevin Thompson Panel Review May 2006, 34 proposed projects 5 Awards were made

O C I October 31, 2006Office of CyberInfrastructure8 CEO:P Awards  “A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared Cyberinfrastructure: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO)”, PI:Thomas Gross (Chesapeake Research Consortium) –Domain: Ecology, Oceanography, Engineering –Geographic Area: Chesapeake Bay –Question: Seasonal hypoxia in coastal waters –CI: Data integration, Sensors  “A Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Component for Coastal Forecasting and Change Analysis”, PI: Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State) Domain: Oceanography, Atmospheric Geographic Area: Great Lakes Question: Forecasting coastal conditions and erosion CI: Data integration, Image analysis, data mining, workflow  “C4E4: Cyberinfrastructure for end-to-end environmental explorations”, PI:Bernard Engel (Purdue) –Domain: Atmospheric, Hydrology, Engineering –Geographic Area: St. Joseph Watershed, IN –Questions: Impacts of local & real-time information on predicting environmental quality –CI: Grid computing, Information portals  “Management: and Analysis of Environmental Observatory Data using the Kepler Scientific Workflow System”, PI:Matthew Jones (UCSB) Domain: Ecology, Oceanography Geographic Area: Western grasslands, Oceans Question: Pathogen vectors in exotic plant invasion, Quality assurance in sea surface temp data. CI: Workflow processing, system health monitoring  “COMET: Coast-to-Mountain Environmental Transect”, PI: Michael Gertz (UC Davis) Domain: Ecology, Atmospheric Geographic Area: California Coast-Sierra Question: Impacts of novel climate conditions on ecosystems CI: Federated data systems, model integration