Cyberinfrastructure Planning at NSF

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

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

3. Learning & Workforce Development Cyberinfrastructure Components Collaboratories Observatories & Virtual Organizations Data, Data Analysis & Visualization 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 Strategic Plans for: • Ch. 2: High Performance Computing • Ch. 3: Data, Data Analysis & Visualization • Ch. 4: Collaboratories, Observatories and Virtual Organizations • Ch. 5: Learning & Workforce Development Completion in Spring, 2006 - Public comment sought http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OCI

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

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

9. Acquisition Strategy Science and engineering capability (logrithmic scale) Track 1 system(s) Track 2 systems Typical university HPC systems FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10

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

11. Main HPC Center Resources

12. HPC Usage By Research Topic

13. TeraGrid: What is It? • 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 • TeraGrid: • Provides a unified, user environment to support high-capability, production-quality cyberinfrastructure services for science and engineering research. • 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

14. Strategic Plans for Data, COVO and LWD (FY 2006 – 2010) 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)

15. The growth of observatories and virtual organizations 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, …

16. NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) • 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 • 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

17. IRNC: 2005 Awards International Research Network Connections • 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)

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 21st 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. DATA How it all fits together… HPC Teragrid (ETF) NMI Teragrid (ETF) HPC acquisitions COVO LWD Teragrid (ETF) IRNC NMI CI-TEAM

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