SURA IT Strategy Meeting Atlanta, GA July 28, 2005 Jerry P. Draayer SURA President and CEO

SURA Organization  Board of Trustees. Institutional representative appointed by the president/chancellor of each of the 62 SURA member universities  Executive Committee. 13 member body acting for the full Board when Board is not in session  Standing Committees. Program committees open to membership of other interested parties – in addition to trustees  Steering Groups. Subset of standing committee acting on behalf of the larger full committee, i.e., IT Steering Group representing the full IT Committee of over 100 members  Staff. Professional staff support the work of the Board and its committees in achieving SURA’s mission

Mission  Foster excellence in scientific research  Strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of the nation and the Southeast  Provide outstanding training opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers

Programs  SCOOP – DOD Office of Naval Research / NOAA – to provide IT “glue” to integrate coastal research components  Jefferson Lab – DOE Office of Science – to probe nucleus of atom and study quark structure of matter  Info Tech – to build IT foundation (connectivity, high performance computing, grids) to support SURA’s scientific and research programs  Relations – to formulate and sustain internal and external relations strategy and support for SURA’s scientific and research programs

Jefferson Lab  Designed and constructed, and now managed and operated, by SURA since early 1980’s when SURA won the Department of Energy’s competition  $600M world-class research facility employs ~600 scientists, engineers, technicians, and administrators, with $100M annual budget, including $1M annual contribution from Virginia  International user community of over 2,000 researchers have access to JLab to conduct research of the atom’s nucleus at the quark level  JLab research produces about a quarter of all the U.S. Ph.D’s in nuclear physics – over 170 PhD’s to date with ~170 more in progress (including many females and minorities)

Jefferson Lab  Planned upgrade to double the energy of the accelerator from 6 to 12 GeV (CD-0 approved April 2004 – CD-1 anticipated by end of Summer) will enable new discoveries in fundamental physics  Lab’s tech transfer program – free electron laser facility with the world’s highest power FEL using the Lab’s core competency in superconducting RF technology  Performance rated “Outstanding” by DOE in ten years under current performance-based contract – DOE changing assessment process, but no negative effect on Lab performance anticipated

SURA Programs for Jefferson Lab  Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professorships / Scientists at Virginia universities  SURA/JLab Graduate Fellowship Program (17 years: ~300 applicants / 115 awards)  SURA/JLab Faculty Sabbatical Support Program (8 years: 12 awards - 1 MSI)  Nathan Isgur Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2003 Inaugural Year)  SURA/JLab Thesis Award (5 years: 6 awards - 1 MSI & 1 International)  SURA /JLab Poster Award (2005 first year awards made to 4 graduate students - 2 females) In addition to SURA’s primary responsibility to manage and operate JLab, SURA programs for the benefit of JLab include:

Jefferson Lab Physics = 938 (m q + m q + m q = m n ) / / Structure of Mesons (2-quark “particles”) mediate n-n interaction Structure of Nucleons (3-quark “particles”) building blocks of extended nuclei E =  i m i c 2 is for energy … right? Where did “E” go? Strong Interaction!

SCOOP SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program  Vision. To provide community-wide information services and technologies that advance the sciences of environmental prediction and hazard planning for our nation’s coastal populations  Purpose. To promote the rapid fusion of observed data with numerical models, and facilitate the rapid dissemination of information to operational, scientific, and public and private users  Sponsors. DOD Office of Naval Research / NOAA More information about SCOOP at:

Accomplishment:  Partners with SURA: NOAA Coastal Services Center, SEACOOS, GoMOOS, and others  Contributors: NOAA, Navy, NASA, USGS, plus over a dozen regional programs and various universities What’s remarkable about ? Fully distributed with real-time data flows Standards enabling innovation (interfaces & modularity) Interoperability independent of technology (encourages private-sector) Open Geospatial Consortium (GIS nurtures practical use) WWW = HTTP + HTML  Web Services (modern and forward thinking) Feds and Researchers interoperating with IT A virtual community sharing data with Open Standards Advancing the science of environmental prediction & hazard planning Enabling transition from research to operations

Information Technology Beginnings –SURAnet - first successful SURA transfer of technology to private sector (sold in 1995) –Building a SURA IT Community - restructuring of the IT Committee to be more inclusive –Investing in Regional GigaPoPs (SoX, MAX) –Regional Infrastructure Initiative Building Momentum –Cooperation with SGA, NLR and RONs –AT&T GridFiber Agreement –National NMI Middleware Integration Testbed –Digital Video/Voice over IP (ViDe)

Future –SURAgrid - Regional Grid Infrastructure Supporting applications: SCOOP, BioMed, … Supporting grid research & development –Biomedical Initiative - identifying grid-based biomed apps –Cyberinfrastructure awareness & education Workshops, cookbooks, training –Increased external and collaborative funding –International Connections AtlanticWave Africa Initiative (with IEEAF) Information Technology

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SURA – Looking Ahead  Jefferson Lab New entity (SURA part of LLC) - new mode of operation Curtailed budgets - effect on science program NSAC reprioritization - JLab’s future  SCOOP Sustained funding for program development and implementation Continued focus on open-access, distributed model Data standards - Data grid - Model grid  Info Tech and Relations Continued support to science and research programs to achieve SURA’s mission and increase the research capacity of the Southeast and the Nation