CyberInfrastructureCyberInfrastructure

What is it?

Why do we care?

What do we do about it now?

What is it?

Why do we care?

What do we do about it now?Peter M. Siegel

Educause Cyberinfrastructure Summit

July 10-11, 2007

Denver, Colorado

CI - DefinitionsCI - Definitions

Coined by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to characterize infrastructure based upon distributed computer, information, and communication technology, the newer term cyberinfrastructure was later popularized by the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure.

Report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences

Coined by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to characterize infrastructure based upon distributed computer, information, and communication technology, the newer term cyberinfrastructure was later popularized by the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure.

Report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences

Definitions - Knowledge Economy

Definitions - Knowledge Economy

“The term infrastructure has been used since the 1920’s to refer collectively to the roads, power grids, telephone systems, bridges, rail lines, and similar public works that are required for an industrial economy to function.

Although good infrastructure is often taken for granted and noticed only when it stops functioning, it is among the most complex and expensive things that society creates.

The newer term cyberinfrastructure refers to infrastructure based upon distributed computer, information and communication technology.

“If infrastructure is required for an industrial economy, then we could say that cyberinfrastructure is required for a knowledge economy.”

Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, (Atkins Report), 2003.

“The term infrastructure has been used since the 1920’s to refer collectively to the roads, power grids, telephone systems, bridges, rail lines, and similar public works that are required for an industrial economy to function.

Although good infrastructure is often taken for granted and noticed only when it stops functioning, it is among the most complex and expensive things that society creates.

The newer term cyberinfrastructure refers to infrastructure based upon distributed computer, information and communication technology.

“If infrastructure is required for an industrial economy, then we could say that cyberinfrastructure is required for a knowledge economy.”

Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, (Atkins Report), 2003.

Definitions - Education, Commerce, Social Good

Definitions - Education, Commerce, Social Good

“The emerging vision is to use Cyberinfrastructure to build more ubiquitous, comprehensive digital environments that become interactive and functionally complete for research communities in terms of people, data, information, tools, and instruments and that operate at unprecedented levels of computational, storage, and data transfer capacity.

Increasingly, new types of scientific organizations and support environments for science are essential, not optional, to the aspirations of research communities and to broadening participation in those communities. They can serve individuals, teams, and organizations in ways that revolutionize

what they can do, how they can do it, and who participates.

“This vision also has profound broader implications for education, commerce, and social good.”

Executive Summary, page 2, Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, (Atkins Report), 2003.

“The emerging vision is to use Cyberinfrastructure to build more ubiquitous, comprehensive digital environments that become interactive and functionally complete for research communities in terms of people, data, information, tools, and instruments and that operate at unprecedented levels of computational, storage, and data transfer capacity.

Increasingly, new types of scientific organizations and support environments for science are essential, not optional, to the aspirations of research communities and to broadening participation in those communities. They can serve individuals, teams, and organizations in ways that revolutionize

what they can do, how they can do it, and who participates.

“This vision also has profound broader implications for education, commerce, and social good.”

Executive Summary, page 2, Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, (Atkins Report), 2003.

Definitions - All areas of Inquiry

Definitions - All areas of Inquiry

• “Cyberinfrastructure (CI) enables and supports scientific research through online digital instruments, emerging sensor and observing technologies, high- powered computers, extensive data storage capabilities, visualization facilities, and networks for communication and collaboration. The report of the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (the “Atkins Report”) signals that the sum of these changes constitutes “a new age” which “has crossed thresholds that now make possible a comprehensive ‘Cyberinfrastructure’ on which to build new types of scientific and engineering knowledge environments and organizations and to pursue research in new ways and with increased efficacy.”

• Science and engineering are being transformed by Cyberinfrastructure. • This is just as true of the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences as of

the physical, natural, engineering, and biological sciences.

Francine Berman and Henry Brady, SBE/CISE Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for

the Social Sciences, May 2005

• “Cyberinfrastructure (CI) enables and supports scientific research through online digital instruments, emerging sensor and observing technologies, high- powered computers, extensive data storage capabilities, visualization facilities, and networks for communication and collaboration. The report of the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (the “Atkins Report”) signals that the sum of these changes constitutes “a new age” which “has crossed thresholds that now make possible a comprehensive ‘Cyberinfrastructure’ on which to build new types of scientific and engineering knowledge environments and organizations and to pursue research in new ways and with increased efficacy.”

• Science and engineering are being transformed by Cyberinfrastructure. • This is just as true of the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences as of

the physical, natural, engineering, and biological sciences.

Francine Berman and Henry Brady, SBE/CISE Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for

the Social Sciences, May 2005

Definitions - Culture of Collaboration

Definitions - Culture of Collaboration

Campus cyberinfrastructure is not just about the technology. We need to understand and engage the research community, bridge the cultures, enhance the collaborative relationships on campuses and between campuses, and learn from each other.

Ken Klingenstein, Kevin Morooney, Steve Olshansky. Final Report: A Workshop on Effective Approaches to Campus Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure. April 25-27, 2006 Arlington, VA

Campus cyberinfrastructure is not just about the technology. We need to understand and engage the research community, bridge the cultures, enhance the collaborative relationships on campuses and between campuses, and learn from each other.

Ken Klingenstein, Kevin Morooney, Steve Olshansky. Final Report: A Workshop on Effective Approaches to Campus Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure. April 25-27, 2006 Arlington, VA

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery

“Final Version” March 2007

“Final Version” March 2007

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NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision The Mission

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision The Mission

Develop human-centered CI driven by research and education opportunities

Provide world-class CI tools and services in five key areas

Promote a CI that broadens participation and strengthens the nation’s workforce in all areas of science and engineering

Provide a sustainable CI- secure, efficient, reliable… that [is] an essential national infrastructure

Create a stable but extensible CI environment

Develop human-centered CI driven by research and education opportunities

Provide world-class CI tools and services in five key areas

Promote a CI that broadens participation and strengthens the nation’s workforce in all areas of science and engineering

Provide a sustainable CI- secure, efficient, reliable… that [is] an essential national infrastructure

Create a stable but extensible CI environment

Cyberinfrastructure Functions and Resources

Cyberinfrastructure Functions and Resources

Instrumentation

Security

Control

DataGeneration

Computation

Analysis

Simulation

Program

Security

ManagementSecurity and

Access

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Authorization

Researcher

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ViewingSecurity

3DImaging

Display andVisualization

.

DisplayTools Security

DataInput

CollabTools Publishing

HumanSupportHelp

Desk

Policy andFunding

ResourceProviders

FundingAgencies

Campuses

SearchData SetsStorage

Security

RetrievalInput

SchemaMetadata

DataDirectories

Ontologies

Archive

EducationAnd

Outreach

Training

Russ Hobby, Internet2Russ Hobby, Internet2

Russ Hobby, Internet2Russ Hobby, Internet2

The Network is the Backplane for the Distributed CI Computer

Instrumentation

Security

Control

DataGeneration

Computation

Analysis

Simulation

Program

Security

ManagementSecurity and

Access

AuthenticationAccessControl

Authorization

Researcher

ControlProgram

ViewingSecurity

3DImaging

Display andVisualization

.

DisplayTools Security

DataInput

CollabTools Publishing

HumanSupportHelp

Desk

Policy andFunding

ResourceProviders

FundingAgencies

Campuses

SearchData SetsStorage

Security

RetrievalInput

SchemaMetadata

DataDirectories

Ontologies

Archive

EducationAnd

Outreach

Network

Training

Medicine

DisciplineGroups*

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PhysicalScience

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National

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SupercomputerSites*

ComputationStorage

SoftwareDevelopment

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ID Mgmt

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Center

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Students

Faculty

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Coordinators*

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Russ Hobby, Internet2Russ Hobby, Internet2* University Consortia & Systems

University of California IT Guidance CommitteeUniversity of California IT Guidance Committee

Multi-campus models for cyber-infrastructure planning

Multi-campus models for cyber-infrastructure planning

This Workshop’s FocusThis Workshop’s Focus

• SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH –

• LEADERSHIP

• PRIORITY and FUNDING

• STRATEGIES LONG TERM

• STRATEGIES SHORT TERM

• EDUCAUSE INVOLVEMENT - How can we help each other?

• SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH –

• LEADERSHIP

• PRIORITY and FUNDING

• STRATEGIES LONG TERM

• STRATEGIES SHORT TERM

• EDUCAUSE INVOLVEMENT - How can we help each other?

Some issues to ponderSome issues to ponder

At what level should cyberinfrastructure services be provided? What is the appropriate campus role and investment in

cyberinfrastructure?     What is the appropriate role at the college level? At the research

group level?  In the multi-institutional research communities?   How do you create the right incentives for collaborative behavior? What about cyberinfrastructure services?   In what ways should a university support its researchers and students

in the context of very large data management? What is the role of cyberinfrastructure planning beyond the research

arena?   How do we increase federal (and state) attention to the investment

needs for cyberinfrastructure at the campus level?  

At what level should cyberinfrastructure services be provided? What is the appropriate campus role and investment in

cyberinfrastructure?     What is the appropriate role at the college level? At the research

group level?  In the multi-institutional research communities?   How do you create the right incentives for collaborative behavior? What about cyberinfrastructure services?   In what ways should a university support its researchers and students

in the context of very large data management? What is the role of cyberinfrastructure planning beyond the research

arena?   How do we increase federal (and state) attention to the investment

needs for cyberinfrastructure at the campus level?  

Before I tell you the issues…Before I tell you the issues…

First, how did I come up with these? Did I make them up?

No!

We had to talk…to the faculty! But how?

We had a cyberinfrastructure workshop

First, how did I come up with these? Did I make them up?

No!

We had to talk…to the faculty! But how?

We had a cyberinfrastructure workshop

Before I tell you the issues…Before I tell you the issues…

First, how did I come up with these? Did I make them up?

No!

We had to listen to the faculty! But how?

We had a cyberinfrastructure workshop CI Days

First, how did I come up with these? Did I make them up?

No!

We had to listen to the faculty! But how?

We had a cyberinfrastructure workshop CI Days

Listening to the faculty…Listening to the faculty…

Let me recap our CI Days at UC Davis Our view of ourselves

We have great scientists, scholars, engineers,… Our investments are behind where we want them We aren’t smarter, richer (!), more innovative. Nor did we stay in a Holiday Inn Express But we do actively involve our faculty on a growing

basis in CI planning

Let me recap our CI Days at UC Davis Our view of ourselves

We have great scientists, scholars, engineers,… Our investments are behind where we want them We aren’t smarter, richer (!), more innovative. Nor did we stay in a Holiday Inn Express But we do actively involve our faculty on a growing

basis in CI planning

Cyberinfrastructure Days Program

Cyberinfrastructure Days Program

CENICBrian Court

EDUCAUSEMark Luker

Internet2Ken Klingenstein

Open Science GridJohn McGee

CENICBrian Court

EDUCAUSEMark Luker

Internet2Ken Klingenstein

Open Science GridJohn McGee Russ Hobby <rdhobby@Internet2.edu>

TeraGridTeraGridScott LathropScott Lathrop

UC Davis Information and Educational TechnologyUC Davis Information and Educational TechnologyRodger HessRodger Hess

Dave ZavatsonDave Zavatson

UC Office of the PresidentUC Office of the PresidentDavid WalkerDavid Walker

CI Days- Areas of Major Findings

CI Days- Areas of Major Findings

Data Access and Use Awareness and Community

Building Personnel and Technical Support Infrastructure: Space and Power Infrastructure: Networking Financial Support and Funding

Data Access and Use Awareness and Community

Building Personnel and Technical Support Infrastructure: Space and Power Infrastructure: Networking Financial Support and Funding

Some issues to ponderSome issues to ponder

At what level should cyberinfrastructure services be provided? What is the appropriate campus role and investment in

cyberinfrastructure?     What is the appropriate role at the college level? At the research

group level?  In the multi-institutional research communities?   How do you create the right incentives for collaborative behavior? What about cyberinfrastructure services?   In what ways should a university support its researchers and students

in the context of very large data management? What is the role of cyberinfrastructure planning beyond the research

arena?   How do we increase federal (and state) attention to the investment

needs for cyberinfrastructure at the campus level?  

At what level should cyberinfrastructure services be provided? What is the appropriate campus role and investment in

cyberinfrastructure?     What is the appropriate role at the college level? At the research

group level?  In the multi-institutional research communities?   How do you create the right incentives for collaborative behavior? What about cyberinfrastructure services?   In what ways should a university support its researchers and students

in the context of very large data management? What is the role of cyberinfrastructure planning beyond the research

arena?   How do we increase federal (and state) attention to the investment

needs for cyberinfrastructure at the campus level?  

Modified by PMS for a “researcher view”. Source: P. Weill & M. Broadbent Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on IT, HarvardBusiness School Press, June 1998. Cited in Brad Wheeler, IT Governance.

Information Technology Components

Cyberinfrastructure and Community Dynamics: Changing Roles

LocalApplications

Agile, high innovation,Often high risk

Shared and StandardIT Applications

Phase Transition

Moderately stable, moderate to low risk

Policies, Cost-sharing, Incentives

Common CI Components

Institutional Hurdles

Shared IT Services

Less agile,solid, low risk

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Research Group

DMZ

Campus/College

How do we increase federal (and state) attention to the investment needs for cyberinfrastructure at the campus

level?

How do we increase federal (and state) attention to the investment needs for cyberinfrastructure at the campus

level?

While funding agencies have worked wonders with their strong investments in information technologies at the research group and research community levels (within and among universities), their dollars go farther if they provide incentives for campus investment through seed money, cost-sharing requirements, and so on.  

How do we build consensus between funding agencies, campus administration, campus IT leadership, and the research community nationwide on the role of each group in supporting

campus cyberinfrastructure investments.  

While funding agencies have worked wonders with their strong investments in information technologies at the research group and research community levels (within and among universities), their dollars go farther if they provide incentives for campus investment through seed money, cost-sharing requirements, and so on.  

How do we build consensus between funding agencies, campus administration, campus IT leadership, and the research community nationwide on the role of each group in supporting

campus cyberinfrastructure investments.  

ConclusionsConclusions

CI is about “high end” services that are now basic, but it’s much more than that

It’s a range of technologies and services It’s not just the researchers’ problem, it’s

everyone’s CI solutions will be built through collaboration,

but must acknowledge unique requirements CIOs will be measured by what we do in this

space. Let’s roll!

CI is about “high end” services that are now basic, but it’s much more than that

It’s a range of technologies and services It’s not just the researchers’ problem, it’s

everyone’s CI solutions will be built through collaboration,

but must acknowledge unique requirements CIOs will be measured by what we do in this

space. Let’s roll!

PostscriptPostscript

PostscriptPostscript

So why do you think

they call us… CIOs?So why do you think

they call us… CIOs?

PostscriptPostscript

So why do you think

they call us… CIOs?So why do you think

they call us… CIOs?