Kevin Thompson Office of Cyberinfrastructure

1. Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) andCyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototypes (CEO:P) Kevin Thompson Office of Cyberinfrastructure Office of CyberInfrastructure

2. Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) • Follow-on to NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) 2001-2005 • 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 encouraged open source development • Program funded development, integration, deployment and support • Notable NMI Outcomes • Condor – mature distributed computing system installed on, as of 10/26/06, >1500 CPU “pools” and >100,000 CPUs worldwide (registered hosts only, not including industry adoption) • Shibboleth – privacy-preserving attribute exchange framework providing federated Single-SignOn across or within organizational boundaries and simplifying identity management and access permissions • Globus - an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications • NMI Build and Test - community resource and framework for multi-platform build and test of grid software Office of CyberInfrastructure

3. SDCI – NSF Solicitation 07-503 • $14M across 3 Areas of software and tools: • High Performance Computing (HPC) environments • Digital data acquisition, discovery, access, analysis, and preservation • Middleware capabilities and services to support distributed resource sharing and virtual organizations • Full Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2007 • Award characteristics • $50,000 - $1,000,000 a year • 2-3 years • Estimated number: 10 to 20 • Special Award conditions • Working prototypes required mid-course • Use of NMI Build and Test in development process • Open Source • Solicitation covers both new development and enhancement of existing software systems Office of CyberInfrastructure

4. Environmental Observatories and CI • Environmental Observatories and related projects at NSF • Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) • National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON) • Collaborative, Large-Scale, Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER), now “WATERS” • Others: SEEK, SCEC-CME, GEON, ROADNet, LEAD, etc. • Challenges • How to enable the research community to use cyber research environments • How to promote interoperability between major observatory communities • How to keep cycles of development connected and on target • How to ensure the workforce for CI development and maintenance Office of CyberInfrastructure

5. Now is the Time: The nexus is the major advances in other fields that are transforming environmental sciences. • Telecommunications • Computer Sciences • Genomics • Robotics • Information Technologies • Sensor Networks Science and technology evolving together allow for advances that neither one could accomplish in isolation.

6. Coastal observatories • Regional cabled observatory • Global observatories ORION is committed to THREE OOI observatory components: with INTEGRATION of the three components through Cyberinfrastructure

7. Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototypes (CEO:P) • NSF Solicitation 06-505 • Goal: development of practical environmental cyberinfrastructure prototypes along with a demonstration of their capability to answer significant environmental research questions • CEO:P Program Characteristics • “The project team includes both environmental researchers and information scientists, with environmental researchers from at least two of the following environmental disciplines - ocean science, ecology, atmospheric science, or environmental engineering;” • End-to-end approach to an information infrastructure prototype • Leverage existing data sources, working with real environmental data • Development that fills gaps in needed capabilities across environmental observatories • Well-defined use cases • project milestones leading to a working prototype and initial deployment • Cross-Directorate Participation with $8.5M in combined funding • BIO – Elizabeth Blood and Peter McCartney, PDs of NEON • ENG – Pat Brezonik, PD of WATERS • OCE (GEO) – Alexandra Isern, PD of OOI • OCI – Steve Meacham and Kevin Thompson • Panel Review May 2006, 34 proposed projects • 5 Awards were made Office of CyberInfrastructure

8. CEO:P Awards • “A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared Cyberinfrastructure: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO)”, PI:Thomas Gross (Chesapeake Research Consortium) • Domain: Ecology, Oceanography, Engineering • Geographic Area: Chesapeake Bay • Question: Seasonal hypoxia in coastal waters • CI: Data integration, Sensors • “A Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Component for Coastal Forecasting and Change Analysis”, PI: Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State) • Domain: Oceanography, Atmospheric • Geographic Area: Great Lakes • Question: Forecasting coastal conditions and erosion • CI: Data integration, Image analysis, data mining, workflow • “C4E4: Cyberinfrastructure for end-to-end environmental explorations”, PI:Bernard Engel (Purdue) • Domain: Atmospheric, Hydrology, Engineering • Geographic Area: St. Joseph Watershed, IN • Questions: Impacts of local & real-time information on predicting environmental quality • CI: Grid computing, Information portals • “Management: and Analysis of Environmental Observatory Data using the Kepler Scientific Workflow System”, PI:Matthew Jones (UCSB) • Domain: Ecology, Oceanography • Geographic Area: Western grasslands, Oceans • Question: Pathogen vectors in exotic plant invasion, Quality assurance in sea surface temp data. • CI: Workflow processing, system health monitoring • “COMET: Coast-to-Mountain Environmental Transect”, PI: Michael Gertz (UC Davis) • Domain: Ecology, Atmospheric • Geographic Area: California Coast-Sierra • Question: Impacts of novel climate conditions on ecosystems • CI: Federated data systems, model integration Office of CyberInfrastructure