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Cyberinfrastructure A Status Report

Cyberinfrastructure A Status Report. Deborah Crawford, Ph.D. Interim Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure National Science Foundation. Schumpeter on Innovation. Gales of Creative Destruction On Innovation equilibrium destruction innovators as social leaders New for Old technical

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Cyberinfrastructure A Status Report

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  1. CyberinfrastructureA Status Report Deborah Crawford, Ph.D. Interim Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure National Science Foundation

  2. Schumpeter on Innovation Gales of Creative Destruction • On Innovation • equilibrium destruction • innovators as social leaders • New for Old • technical • sociological • Two-wave Cycle • development • exploitation

  3. “The opportunity is here to create cyberinfrastructure that enables more ubiquitous, comprehensive knowledge environments that become functionally complete .. in terms of people, data, information, tools, and instruments and that include unprecedented capacity for computation, storage, and communication.” Cyberinfrastructure “can serve individuals, teams and organizations in ways that revolutionizewhat they do, how they do it, and who can participate.” Report of the NSF Advisory Committee On Cyberinfrastructure, February 2003

  4. “Clearly, it is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real-time, with more people, on more kinds of work, from more corners of the planet, and on a more equal footing, than at any previous time in the history of the world.” Thomas L. Friedman The World is Flat, 2005

  5. NSF Governance of Cyberinfrastructure • Cyberinfrastructure Council (CIC) created • CIC responsible for shared stewardship and ownership of • NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Portfolio • SCI to OCI Realignment • Budget transferred • Ongoing projects transferred • OCI focused on “production-quality” CI for research • and education • CISE remains focused on basic research and education • mission, future generations of CI technologies/capabilities • Strategic Planning Process Underway

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

  7. All CI Things Created Equal? Distributed Computing Digital Data & Data Stewardship Learning & Workforce Development High Performance Computing Collaboratories, Observatories, & Virtual Organizations

  8. HPC – A National Imperative • High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force, 2004 “Issues of technology, resources and governance threaten to limit the potential contributions of high-end computing to vital national interests.” • NAS Report on the Future of Supercomputing, 2005 “Current U.S. investments in supercomputing and current plans are not sufficient to provide the supercomputing capabilities that our country will need.” • PITAC Report on Computational Science, 2005 “A dangerous consequence of our current complacency is that we have not marshaled and focused our efforts to elevate computational science and the computing infrastructure to their appropriate status as a long-term strategic national priority.”

  9. 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 ComputingDraft issued for public comment September 30, 2005

  10. All CI Things Created Equal Digital Data & Data Stewardship

  11. Global S&E Community Content-Management Organizations Agency Partners Private Sector Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization Community Governance And Policies International System of Data Collections Common Tools and Services

  12. Cyberinfrastructure Vision document Publicly Available Call to Action Sept. 30, 2005 Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing Sept. 30, 2005 Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization January 15, 2006 (est.) Strategic Plan for Collaboratories, Observatories March 15, 2006 (est.) & Virtual Organizations Strategic Plan for Learning & Workforce Development March 15, 2006 (est.) NSF Finalizes Cyberinfrastructure Vision Documentearly Summer, 2006

  13. Revolutionizing Science and Engineering “[Science is] a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions . . .[in which] . . . one conceptual world view is replaced by another.” --Thomas Kuhn From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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