1. CyberInfrastructure and Office of CyberInfrastructure (OCI) Kevin Thompson Program Director Office of Cyberinfrastructure

2. 2 CI Genealogy & Movement Collaboratories E-science Cyberscience IT & Future of Higher Education GRIDS 2nd Edition www.mkp.com/grid2 Digital Libraries PACI ITR KDI HPCC

3. 3 Cyberinfrastructure Vision “Atkins report” - Blue-ribbon panel, chaired by Daniel E. Atkins Called for a national-level, integrated system of hardware, software, & data resources and services New infrastructure to enable new paradigms of science & engineering research and education with increased efficiency www. nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp

4. 4 ACLS-Mellon Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities HASTAC Project Dozens of Workshops on CI and Discipline X Several internal NSF studies CISE Div. of Shared CI Office of CI (OCI) and the CI Council RFP: High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering 2-10- 06 Draft 5 of NSF CI Vision for 21st Century Discovery & request for input. RFP: Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototype Systems to Address Cross-Cutting Needs 1-25-06 See NSF website for more details. CI Training, Education, Advancement & Mentoring CI-TEAM 6-5- 06

5. 5 Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Governance OCI focuses on provisioning “production-quality” CI to accelerate 21 st century research and education OCI focuses on provisioning “production-quality” CI to accelerate 21 st century research and education  Dr. Dan Atkins assumed directorships on June 5 th  CISE focuses on basic CS research and education mission CyberInfrastructure Council (CIC) CyberInfrastructure Council (CIC)  NSF ADs and ODs, chaired by Dr. Bement (NSF Director)  CIC shares stewardship and ownership of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Portfolio Advisory Committee for NSF’s CI activities and portfolio Advisory Committee for NSF’s CI activities and portfolio Cyberinfrastructure User Advisor Committee (CUAC) Cyberinfrastructure User Advisor Committee (CUAC)

6. 6 From NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery 1. Distributed, scalable up to petaFLOPS HPC 2. Data, data analysis, visualization 3. Collaboratories, observatories, virtual organizations includes networking, middleware, systems software “sophisticated” science application software includes data to and from instruments 4. Education and Workforce  provide sustainable and evolving CI that is secure, efficient, reliable, accessible, usable, and interoperable  provide access to world-class tools and services

7. 7 National Science Foundation www.nsf.gov www.nsf.gov OCI Website - Visit often and provide feedback on the Vision document. Scan ACCI Membership List See and consider opportunities to serve as a Program Officer www.nsf.gov/oci/

8. 8 A Layered View of Cyberinfrastructure

9. 9 Cyberinfrastructure is a First-Class Tool for Science

10. 10 Simulation HPC allocations, commmunity codes, hybrid simulation, and modeling Community databases & data collections Data management, sharing, queries, mining and preservation Education Earthquake engineering education and training NEESreu Site Collaborations NEES Consortium, NEESit, researchers, students, equipment sites, practitioners Outreach Collaboration and community leadership with other large-scale projects Infrastructure & middleware DAQ Systems, networks, storage, servers, security, middleware Software Web services, tools, telepresence, and applications RDV flexTPS NEES Cyberinfrastructure Global Facilities and cyber EDcentral NEES

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12. 12 Remote Multi-Mission Laboratory

13. 13 OCI Investment Highlights High Performance Computing (HPC)  Core and TeraGrid current awards  FY2006-2009: Midrange HPC Acquisitions ($30M/yr)  FY2007-2010: Leadership Class HPC System Acquisition (Total $200M) Data- and Collaboration-Intensive Software and Services  International Research Network Connection current awards  NSF Middleware Initiative current awards  CEO:P  FY2007 ($27M) o Develop, harden and maintain software tools and services Learning and Workforce Development  FY2006-2007: CI-TEAM ($10M/yr)  REU Site current awards

14. 14 HPC Acquisition – Track 1  Increased funding will support first phase of a Petascale System acquisition  Over four years NSF anticipates investing $200M  Acquisition is critical to NSF’s multi-year plan to deploy and support world-class HPC environment  Collaborating with sister agencies with a stake in HPC (DARPA, HPCMOD, DOE/OS, NNSA, NIH)

15. 15 HPC Strategy System Diversity On demand & dynamic resource allocation. HPC in a relevant-time loop.

16. 16 CEO:P  Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototype Systems  “development of practical environmental CI prototypes with a demonstration of their capability to answer significant environmental research questions. Proposals should be for projects that pursue an end- to-end approach to an information infrastructure prototype.”  Cross-directorate involvement with BIO, ENG and GEO  $8M program with new awards announced this summer

17. 17 OCI Core Programs  High Performance Computing  Petascale goals for acquisition (Steve Meacham and Jose Munoz)  Networking Support  International Research Network Connections and Experimental Infrastructure Networking  Software Development and Deployment  NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)  Workforce, Education and Outreach  CI-TEAM Program (Miriam Heller)  Resource and system delivery  TeraGrid (a group of Program Officers)

18. 18 NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)  Program began in 2001  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 encourages open source development  Program funds mainly development, integration, deployment and support activities

19. 19 Overview of IRNC Program  2004 Solicitation (NSF 04-560, see www.nsf.gov)  “NSF expects to make a small number of awards to provide network connections linking U.S. Research networks with peer networks in other parts of the world”  “The availability of limited resources means that preference will be given to solutions which provide the best economy of scale and demonstrate the ability to link the largest communities of interest with the broadest services”  Follow-on to “High-Performance International Internet Services” (HPIIS) 1997

20. 20 The Next Version of NMI?  May no longer be “just” NMI -  “Software Development for Shared CI”  3 components Software targeted to HPC Software for Digital Data NMI  Common characteristics Open Source Working prototypes with defined metrics Use of a centralized NSF build&test facility Applicable to multiple application areas and domains

21. 21 Tying Software for Digital Data to NSF’s Strategic Vision  Goal - Data are routinely deposited in well- documented form  Tools for: Integration/Mgmt, Acquisition, Documentation/Metadata  Goal - Data are easily discovered and accessed, and are readily understood by specialist and non- specialist alike  Tools for: Sharing, Interoperability, Management and Visualization, Curation/Annotation  Goal - Data are properly protected and reliably preserved in a system that is evolvable, adaptable, and extensible  Tools for: Security/Protection, Adaptability, History/Provenance/Attribution, Policy mgmt and Workflow

22. 22 April Workshop on Effective Approaches to Campus Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure  Pg. 12 - “Coordination of Input to NSF on topics of shared interest”  Desire for campus IT CI professionals to directly communicate concerns and issues to NSF  Consequences of the NSF funding model and where central IT fits  Needs of the “typical campus researcher”  Support for “pure storage acquisitions” in addition to computational resources  Facilitate culture change in how researchers view campus infrastructure

23. 23 CRCC Workshop Findings  Campus IT infrastructure roles are vital to overall national cyberinfrastructure  “Lack of coordination…creates major obstacles to inter-institutional data collaborations”  Increasing conflict between research computing systems and campus security  Different profiles between researchers using campus vs. national compute resources  Questions of future funding sources  Benefits in coordinating CI development at national and institutional levels  **common approaches appear among leadership institutions in how they provision services and resources - planning guides and white papers should be created