CyberInfrastructure and GIS at the National Science Foundation

1. CyberInfrastructure and GIS at the National Science Foundation Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf Office of CyberInfrastructure National Science Foundation April 16, 2010

2. National Science Foundation • Vision: Advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering workforce • Independent agency within Executive Branch • Established 1950 • Annual budget of over $7 billion • Funds basic research and education • Peer-review grant mechanism

3. Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) • NSF Cyberinfrastructure includes • Supercomputers • Data management systems • High capacity networks • Digitally-enabled observatories and scientific instruments • An interoperable suite of software and middleware services and tools • Education programs to support future computational science • Foundation for CS&E across disciplines • Pragmatic, sustainable infrastructure

4. Common co-funding with: • BIO,CISE, ENG, EPSCoR, GEO, OISE and SBE

5. Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CF21) • High-end computation, data, visualization for transformative science • Facilities/centers as hubs of innovation • MREFCs and collaborations including large-scale NSF collaborative facilities, international partners • Software, tools, science applications, and VOs critical to science, integrally connected to instruments • Campuses fundamentally linked end-to-end; grids, clouds, loosely coupled campus services, policy to support • People Comprehensive approach workforce development for 21st century science and engineering

6. NSF CyberInfrastructure Ecosystem Organizations Universities, schools Government labs, agencies Research and Med Centers Libraries, Museums Virtual Organizations Communities Expertise Research and Scholarship Education Learning and Workforce Development Interoperability and ops Cyberscience Scientific Instruments Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes Colliders, shake Tables Sensor Arrays - Ocean, env’t, weather, buildings, climate. etc Discovery Collaboration Education Data Databases, Data reps, Collections and Libs Data Access; stor., nav mgmt, mining tools, curation Computational Resources Supercomputers Clouds, Grids, Clusters Visualization Compute services Data Centers Networking Campus, national, international networks Research and exp networks End-to-end throughput Cybersecurity Software Applications, middleware Software dev’t & support Cybersecurity: access, authorization, authen. Sustain, Advance, Experiment

7. CF21 Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) • Significant multiscale, long-term software program • Perhaps $200-300M over a decade • $10M identified in FY10 ($4M OCI/$6M Dirs) • $14M annual in OCI in future years • Catalyze significant funds from Dirs • Sustain: Connected institutes, teams, investigators • Integrated into CF21 framework w/Dirs • 3-6 centers, 5+5 years, for critical mass, sustainability • Advance: Numerous teams of scientists and computational and computer scientists with longer term grants • Experiment: Many individuals w/short term grants, funded by OCI and directorates

8. Software, continued • Ongoing discussions to build this program across NSF • Some of the institutes will be discipline specific • Some may be algorithm/tool themed (e.g., data, provenance, viz) • All should be fundamental to other programs (e.g., SEES) • Education, science applications, industrial partners linked deeply • MREFC’s, other large facilities need to participate • iPlant, NEON, LSST, etc…

9. Data Programs • DataNet: OCI Flagship Data Program • Focus on data-level interoperability and data preservation • Sustain: 5 Centers, $20M, 5years (+5) • Advance: eg. SDCI awards • ~3-4 year, $1-2M, support of data tools for broad set of applications and disciplines • Experiment: eg. InterOp awards • Smaller scale, innovative use of data for new communities

10. Planned CF21 HPC Program • Sustain: Petascale-to-Exascale • 1-2 Sustainable facilities (~$200M+) • Likely NSF-DOE cooperation • 10 years (5+5) • Advance • 4-5 hubs of Excellence/Innovation, people, expertise • Mixture of data and compute-intensive centers, supporting broader array of services • Experiment • Explore new architectures, couple with application/software dev UIUC Petascale Facility: $60M building!

11. Education, Learning,Workforce Development • Postdoc program: CITracs • Emphasis on helping computational scientists learn about CI or vice versa • http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10553/nsf10553.htm • CI-TEAM: Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century WF • Prepare current and future generations of scientists, engineers, and educators • Design, develop, adopt and deploy cyber-based tools and environments for research and learning, both formal and informal • http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10532/nsf10532.pdf

12. GIS at NSF:A simple search reveals awards in • Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences • Geography and Spatial Sciences • Science, Technology, & Society • Mapping endangered languages • Archaeology • Biology • Office of Polar Programs • Geology (Oceanography) • CISE/OCI • Education and Human Resources • EPSCoR

13. NEON: National Ecological Observatory Network New horizons for large-scale biology PI David Schimel

14. NEON • Integrated sensing system to detect, understand, and forecast • Examining consequences of climate and landuse change and the effects of invasive species • Both regional and continental scales • Neon CI: • Design, implement and support CI to adapts to and enhances NEON’s evolving scientific objectives and operational needs

15. Suites of Integrated-Colocated-Standardizedobservations and experiments to understandresponses of ecosystems to climate change • 20 core wildland sites • 40 relocatable sites (mostly on mngd land) • 36 aquatic sites (all but 2 co-located) • Including 10 aquatic experiment sites • 3 Airborne remote sensing systems • 542 Level 1 (primary) observations: raw data calibrated into physical, biological or chemical units • 118 Level 4 (algorithmic) continental-scale data products • 178 Terabytes of data/year, total

16. NEON CI Components • Management system to acquire, store, and manage samples • Heavily instrumented sensor platforms and arrays • External data feeds from airborne systems • External data integration of non-NEON observational data • Integration of chemical, isotopic and genetic analysis data

17. CyberInfrastructure Ecosystem Organizations Universities, schools Government labs, agencies Research and Med Centers Libraries, Museums Virtual Organizations Communities Expertise Research and Scholarship Education Learning and Workforce Development Interoperability and ops Cyberscience Scientific Instruments Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes Colliders, shake Tables Sensor Arrays - Ocean, env’t, weather, buildings, climate. etc Discovery Collaboration Education Data Databases, Data reps, Collections and Libs Data Access; stor., nav mgmt, mining tools, curation Computational Resources Supercomputers Clouds, Grids, Clusters Visualization Compute services Data Centers Networking Campus, national, international networks Research and exp networks End-to-end throughput Cybersecurity Software Applications, middleware Software dev’t & support Cybersecurity: access, authorization, authen. Sustain, Advance, Experiment

18. More Information • Jennifer M. Schopf • jschopf@nsf.gov • jms@nsf.gov • Dear Colleague letter for CF21 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp