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Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation

Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation . Stephen Nash Program Director, Operations Research U.S. National Science Foundation. Outline. National Science Foundation (NSF) Design & Manufacturing Innovation Cyber-Infrastructure Accomplishments

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Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation

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  1. Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation Stephen Nash Program Director, Operations Research U.S. National Science Foundation

  2. Outline • National Science Foundation (NSF) • Design & Manufacturing Innovation • Cyber-Infrastructure • Accomplishments • Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure • Within Engineering • Funding Initiatives

  3. NSF Funding in the U.S. Federal Context NSF is 4% of Overall Federal R&D Budget

  4. Follow the Money, Technology Review, March 2005, 36-45.

  5. NSF Role in U.S. Academic Research • 13% of all federal support for basic research • 80% of budget goes to colleges and universities • 40% of non-life-science basic research at U.S. academic institutions. Taken from NSF’s Strategic Planning Document http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf04201

  6. Outline • National Science Foundation • Design & Manufacturing Innovation • Cyber-Infrastructure • Accomplishments • Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure • Within Engineering • Funding Initiatives

  7. Directorate forComputer andInformation Science and Engineering Directorate for Biological Sciences Directorate for Education and Human Resources Directorate For Engineering Office of Cyber- Infrastructure Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Polar and Antarctic Programs Directorate for Geosciences National Science Foundation National Science Board Office of theInspector General Director Staff Offices

  8. Directorate forComputer andInformation Science and Engineering Directorate for Biological Sciences Directorate for Education and Human Resources Directorate For Engineering Office of Cyber- Infrastructure Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Polar and Antarctic Programs Directorate for Geosciences National Science Foundation National Science Board Office of theInspector General Director Staff Offices

  9. Office of the Assistant Director Senior Advisor: Nano-Technology Chemical &Transport Systems Bioengineering & Environmental Systems Civil & Mechanical Systems Office of Industrial Innovation Electrical & Communications Systems Design & Manufacturing Innovation Engineering Education & Centers Directorate for Engineering

  10. Office of the Assistant Director Senior Advisor: Nano-Technology Chemical &Transport Systems Bioengineering & Environmental Systems Civil & Mechanical Systems Office of Industrial Innovation Electrical & Communications Systems Design & Manufacturing Innovation Engineering Education & Centers Directorate for Engineering

  11. About Design &Manufacturing Innovation • Support fundamental research to define the frontiers of design, manufacturing, and service • create the enterprises of tomorrow • assure future competitiveness and productivity of today’s enterprises • Integrate education and research to develop a diverse, globally-competitive engineering workforce • In FY 04: • received 1077 proposals and made 210 awards, • Mean annual award: $111,500 • Mean duration of awards: 2.8 years

  12. Division of Design & Manufacturing Innovation Academic Research Programs: • Manufacturing Processes and Equipment Systems Cluster • Materials Processing & Manufacturing • Manufacturing Machines and Equipment • Nanomanufacturing • Engineering Decision Systems Cluster • Engineering Design • Manufacturing Enterprise Systems • Service Enterprise Systems • Operations Research

  13. Division of Design & Manufacturing Innovation Academic Research Programs: • Manufacturing Processes and Equipment Systems Cluster • Materials Processing & Manufacturing • Manufacturing Machines and Equipment • Nanomanufacturing • Engineering Decision Systems Cluster • Engineering Design • Manufacturing Enterprise Systems • Service Enterprise Systems • Operations Research • Quantitative tools for decision making

  14. Outline • National Science Foundation • Design & Manufacturing Innovation • Cyber-Infrastructure • Accomplishments • Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure • Within Engineering • Funding Initiatives

  15. Mapping One Million Atoms of a Complete Virus • Visualize the atomic structure of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus • 1,000,000 atoms interacting every femtosecond (10-15 second) • 50 nanosecond simulation (100-day computation – 35 years on a desktop) • Led by Klaus Schulten (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Press Release 06-049, March 23, 2006

  16. Modeling Turbulent Fluid Flow • Vortex models of turbulent air flow • 1,000,000 vortices • Solution of nonlinear PDEs • Team headed by Peter Bernard (University of Maryland)

  17. Outline • National Science Foundation • Design & Manufacturing Innovation • Cyber-Infrastructure • Accomplishments • Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure • Within Engineering • Funding Initiatives

  18. Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Acquisition, development, and provision of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, tools, and services.  • Supercomputers • High-capacity mass-storage systems • Data repositories and data management systems • Visualization tools • Programming environments • Software libraries • Networks  • Training of researchers and educators to use cyberinfrastructure for research and education

  19. Office of Cyber-Infrastructure: Mission • Provide the science and engineering communities with: • high performance computing • data, data analysis, and visualization • collaboratories, observatories, and virtual organizations • education and workforce development

  20. Drivers & Opportunities • How does a protein fold? • What happens to space-time when two black holes collide? • What are the key factors that drive climate change? • Can we create an individualized model of each human being for targeted healthcare delivery? http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf

  21. Outline • National Science Foundation • Design & Manufacturing Innovation • Cyber-Infrastructure • Accomplishments • Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure • Within Engineering • Funding Initiatives

  22. CI & Engineering • Some distinctive topics: • Sensor networks • Design and control of complex systems • Multi-scale phenomena • Real-time computations • Some Engineering investments: • NCN: Nanoscale Computational Network • NNIN: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network • NEES: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation • CLEANER/WatERS Network: Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research / Water and Environmental Research Systems

  23. Linux cluster NCN: Nanoscale Computational Network • software • simulation services • educational resources on-line 24 hours/day since 1995 ~ 400,000 simulations since 2000 PUNCH grid computing middleware results 3) 1) software applications 2) computing resources

  24. NEES: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation • A network of 15 experimental sites featuring advanced tools: • Shake tables • Centrifuges that simulate earthquake effects • A tsunami wave basin • Linked to a centralized data pool and earthquake simulation software • NEESgrid, a communications web that uses collaborative tools and tele-presence technologies, allows off-site real-time interactions • http://www.nees.org.

  25. Cyber-Infrastructure &Research Projects in DMI • Real-time • Dynamic • Multi-scale • Robust • Data driven

  26. Another side of CI:www.nanoHUB.org

  27. Outline • National Science Foundation • Design & Manufacturing Innovation • Cyber-Infrastructure • Accomplishments • Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure • Within Engineering • Funding Initiatives

  28. Emerging Frontiers inResearch & Innovation • One of this year’s topics: Auto-reconfigurable Engineered Systems Enabled by Cyber-Infrastructure • Some relevant research topics: • Design methodologies • Systems modeling • Optimization • Planning • Simulation

  29. CI Experiences for Graduate Students • Under consideration for 2007

  30. Information and Intelligent Systems (NSF 06-572) • Advancing Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence • Creativity, discovery, and reasoning by human beings and machines • How can computational systems perform tasks autonomously, robustly, and flexibly? • Globalization of communications and commerce • Problem-solving in distributed environments • Multi-agent systems that solve complex problems, in domains such as disaster response and e-commerce

  31. Summary • National Science Foundation • Design & Manufacturing Innovation • Cyber-Infrastructure • Accomplishments • Office of Cyber-Infrastructure • Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure • Within Engineering • Funding Initiatives

  32. Questions? Stephen Nash Program Director, Operations Research U.S. National Science Foundation snash@nsf.gov

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