# Presentation: 723152

## Charting our Cyberinfrastructure Future

- Dr. Deborah Crawford
- Chair, NSF CyberInfrastructure Working Group (CIWG)
- June 6, 2003
- Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure

## Evolution of the Computational Infrastructure

**Supercomputer Centers**

**PACI**

**Terascale**

- 1985          1990          1995          2000         2005          2010

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- NPACI and Alliance

- SDSC, NCSA, PSC, CTC

- TCS, DTF, ETF

**Cyberinfrastructure**

**Prior ****Computing ****Investments**

**NSF Networking**

**Notes:**
Supercomputer Centers Program began in 1985.  Originally there was a fifth center (John von Neumann Center, JVNC) at Princeton; however, it was shut down in 1990.  CTC stands for Cornell Theory Center.
5 year awards extending to 1995.  Then a 2-year extension until the PACI program started.
At the start of the PACI Program both CTC and PSC were given a year to phase out operations.
PACI Cooperative Agreements were extended in 2002 for one additional year.

## Setting the Stage

**Daniel E. Atkins, Chair, **University of Michigan
**Kelvin K. Droegemeier, **University of Oklahoma
**Stuart I. Feldman, **IBM
**Hector Garcia-Molina, **Stanford University
**Michael L. Klein, **University of Pennsylvania
**David G. Messerschmitt, **University of California at Berkeley
**Paul Messina, **California Institute of Technology
**Jeremiah P. Ostriker,  **Princeton University
**Margaret H. Wright,**New York University

- http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/

**Setting the Stage**

##      Cyberinfrastructure Promise

- Ubiquitous, digital knowledge environments that are both interactive and functionally complete............ (Atkins report)
- revolutionize the processes of discovery, learning and innovation across the science and engineering frontier.

**Notes:**
Quotes directly from the Atkins Report.

##  Cyberinfrastructure Characteristics

- Community-Focused
- virtual organizations
- distributed,
- collaborative
- Scale and Scope
- Multidisciplinary
- International
- Supporting data- and compute-intensive applications
- High-end to desktop
- Heterogenuous
- Common Technology & Policy Platform(s)
- Interoperability
- Supports characteristics above

**Notes:**
Integrate and Extend the products of the Digital Revolution.  Operational cyberinfrastructure refers to the hardware layer.  Shared Cybertools under PACI were referred to as Enabling Technologies, and Domain-Specific Cybertools under PACI were referred to as Application Technologies.
Redistribute application development to peer reviewed activities within domain specific directorates.

## Cyberinfrastructure Early Adopters

- Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
- Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF)

**Notes:**
Quotes directly from the Atkins Report.

## Extensible Terascale Facility A Heterogenuous Grid Environment

**Argonne**

**Extensible Terascale Facility***** ******A Heterogenuous Grid Environment***

**SDSC**

**Los****Angeles**

**Chicago**

**NCSA**

**PSC**

-     Existing ETF Partners
-     Hubs
-     New Partners

**Notes:**
INST means Instrumentation Site
Viz means Visualization Site
Sens means Sensor Network
Comp means Computational Facility

## FY2003 ETF Enhancements

- Solicitation to attract new resource partners (due June 9th)
- Funding connection and integration
- Resources may include:
- Archival repositories
- Digital libraries
- Computational resources
- Sensor networks

**Notes:**
The solicitation is open to FFRDCs, and we anticipate that some will apply.  Although $20M was requested for this activity in 2003, only $10M was appropriated.  It is possible that another $10M will be appropriated in 2004.

## On The Path to Knowledge

- Computation

- Communication

- Information

- Collaboration

- Community

- Culture

- Cyberinfrastructure

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**On The Path to Knowledge**

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##              Integrated CI System meeting the needs of a community of communities

*             ***Integrated CI System***** ******meeting the needs of a community of communities***

**Grid Services ****& Middleware**

**Development****Tools & Libraries**

**Applications**
** ****Environmental Science**
** ****High Energy Physics**
** ****Proteomics/Genomics**
** ...**

- Education and Training

- Discovery & Innovation

**Notes:**
Continue to build and connect distributed resources: computers, data centers, sensor networks, etc.
Continue to develop the cybertools that are needed to develop applications and to create a robust Grid capability.

##         Shared Cybertools   (Middleware Tools and Services) 

- Basic Services
- 	Security, Scheduling, Data Services, Database Services, User Services, Application Management Services, Autonomy and Monitoring Services, Information Services, Composition Service, Messaging Service
- Application Level Services
- People Collaboration, Resource Collaboration,
- Decision-Making Services, Knowledge Discovery
- Services, Workflow Services, Universal Access

**Notes:**
Integrate and Extend the products of the Digital Revolution.  Operational cyberinfrastructure refers to the hardware layer.  Shared Cybertools under PACI were referred to as Enabling Technologies, and Domain-Specific Cybertools under PACI were referred to as Application Technologies.
Redistribute application development to peer reviewed activities within domain specific directorates.

## Challenging Context

- Institutional & Infrastructural Ecology
- Technological change more rapid than institutional change
- Broadening Participation
- Community-Building
- Seamless Integration of New and Old
- Balancing upgrades of existing and creation of new resources
- Legacy data/models
- Providing sustainable support

**Notes:**
ETF resource partners include the original 5 sites: SDSC, CACR, NCSA, ANL and PSC plus any additional sites that are connected as a result of the Terascale Extensions Program.

## Plan of Action

- Focused, cross-cutting attention on cyberinfrastructure – not business as usual
- Internal NSF planning now underway - active discussion on specific cyberinfrastructure issues
- Community building - broad consultations with scientific/engineering communities is intensifying
- Summer 2003 workshops and town hall meetings – management models
- NSF FY05 budget planning for cyberinfrastructure underway

**Notes:**
ETF resource partners include the original 5 sites: SDSC, CACR, NCSA, ANL and PSC plus any additional sites that are connected as a result of the Terascale Extensions Program.

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