1. Cyberinfrastructure Planning at NSF Steve Meacham National Science Foundation Net@EDU February 8, 2006

2. Recent Happenings Office of Cyberinfrastructure established Search for Office Director Advisory Committee for CI Agency-wide Strategic Planning Process Underway Cyberinfrastructure Council established

3. Learning & Workforce Development Data, Data Analysis & Visualization Collaboratories Observatories & Virtual Organizations Cyberinfrastructure Components High Performance Computing

4. NSF CI FY07 Budget Request

5. Examples of FY07 Areas of Emphasis Leadership-class HPC system acquisition Data- and collaboration-intensive software services Confidentiality protection and user-friendly access for major social and behavioral science data collections National STEM Digital Library (NSDL) supporting learners at all levels CI-TEAM, preparing undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and faculty to use cyberinfrastructure in research and education Support for the Protein Data Bank (PDB), the international repository for information about the structure of biological macromolecules, and the Arctic Systems Sciences (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center

6. Strategic Plan (FY 2006 – 2010)  Ch. 1: Call to Action  Ch. 2: High Performance Computing  Ch. 3: Data, Data Analysis & Visualization  Ch. 5: Learning & Workforce Development  Ch. 4: Collaboratories, Observatories and Virtual Organizations Strategic Plans for: Completion in Spring, 2006 - Public comment sought http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OCI

7. Creating a World-Class HPC Environment To Enable Petascale Science and Engineering Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing (FY 2006 – 2010)

8. Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing (2006-2010) Private Sector Agency Partners HPC Resource Providers S&E Community Portable, Scalable Applications Software & Services Software Service Provider (SSP) SSP Science-Driven HPC Systems Compute Engines Local Storage Visualization Facilities

9. Acquisition Strategy FY06 FY10 FY09FY08FY07 Science and engineering capability (logrithmic scale) Typical university HPC systems Track 1 system(s) Track 2 systems

10. HPC Capability By Center Centers Peak Teraflops Xeon cluster Alpha cluster Cray XT3 BG/L x2 Altix Power5 Power4 x2 Itanium2 clusters x2 Opteron clusters Aggregate Teraflops

11. Main HPC Center Resources

12. HPC Usage By Research Topic

13. TeraGrid: What is It? TeraGrid: (1)Provides a unified, user environment to support high-capability, production-quality cyberinfrastructure services for science and engineering research. (2)Provides new S&E opportunities – by making possible new ways of using distributed resources and services Examples of services include: HPC Data collections Visualization servers Portals Integration of services provided by grid technologies Distributed, open architecture. GIG responsible for integration: Software integration (including the common software stack, CTSS) Base infrastructure (security, networking, and operations) User support Community engagement (including the Science Gateways activities) 8 Resource Providers (with separate awards): PSC, TACC, NCSA, SDSC, ORNL, Indiana, Purdue, Chicago/ANL Several other institutions participate in TeraGrid as a sub- awardees of the GIG New sites may join as Resource Partners

14. Data CI: - Investments will continue to be prioritized by science and engineering research and education needs - S&E data generated with NSF funds will be accessible & usable - Data CI includes tools to manage, locate, access, manipulate, and analyze data, mechanisms to maintain confidentiality, and tools to facilitate creation and management of metadata - Data CI will involve strong, international, inter-agency and public-private partnerships Challenges include: - Managing and analyzing very large datasets - Managing, analyzing, and using streaming data - Developing tools to permit research using confidential data COVO and LWD: To appear (March) Strategic Plans for Data, COVO and LWD (FY 2006 – 2010)

15. Observatories - Based on ability to federate data-sets and data streams, some include instrument control, event detection and response, and some degree of virtualization - Examples: NVO, OOI, EarthScope, NEON, GEOSS Virtual organizations - A geographically dispersed community with common interests that uses cyberinfrastructure to integrate a variety of digital resources into a common working environment Technologies - Portals, workflows, data analysis, models, streaming data, event detection, instrument/observatory control, networking, authentication/authorization, digital libraries, … The growth of observatories and virtual organizations

16. NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) 20 awards totaling $9M –10 “System Integrator” awards Focus – to further develop the integration and support infrastructure of middleware for the longer term –10 smaller awards focused on near-term capabilities and tool development Focus – to encourage the development of additional new middleware components and capabilities for the NMI program Develop, deploy and sustain a set of reusable and expandable middleware functions that benefit many science and engineering applications in a networked environment.  Use "open standards“; foster national and international collaboration; sustainable; scaleable and securable

17. IRNC: 2005 Awards Awards –TransPAC2 (U.S. – Japan and beyond) –GLORIAD, (U.S. – China – Russia – Korea) –Translight/PacificWave (U.S. – Australia) –TransLight/StarLight, (U.S. – Europe) –WHREN (U.S. – Latin America) International Research Network Connections

18. CI-TEAM A Foundation-wide effort to foster CI training and workforce devel’t Started FY05 ($2.5M) - focused on demonstration projects Anticipated funding in FY06: $10M - small and large activities FY05: - 70 projects (101 proposals) received -11 projects funded Broadening participation in CI Alvarez (FIU) – CyberBridges Crasta (VA Tech) – Project-Centric Bioinformatics Fortson (Adler) – CI-Enabled 21 st C. Astronomy Training for HS Science Teachers Fox (IU) – Bringing MSI Faculty into CI & e-Science Communities Gordon (OhSU) – Leveraging CI to Scale-up a Computational Science u/g Curriculum Panoff (Shodor) – Pathways to Cyberinfrastructure: CI through Computational Science Takai (SUNY Stonybrook) – High School Distributed Search for Cosmic Ray Developing & implementing resources for CI workforce development DiGiano (SRI) – Cybercollaboration between Scientists and Software Developers Figueiredo (U FL) – In-VIGO/Condor-G Middleware for Coastal and Estuarine CI Training Regli (Drexel) – CI for Creation and Use of Multi-disciplinary Engineering Models Simpson (PSU) – CI-based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates (CIBER-U)

19. How it all fits together… HPC LWD COVO Teragrid (ETF) HPC acquisitions CI-TEAM Teragrid (ETF) IRNC NMI Teragrid (ETF) NMI DATA

20. What would foster this integration? What are the trends in campus cyberinfrastructure? The integration of campus cyberinfrastructure and national cyberinfrastructure

21. Goal: to create and maintain a powerful, stable, persistent, and widely accessible cyberinfrastructure to enable the work of science and engineering researchers and educators across the nation. NSF-Cyberinfrastructure