CyberInfrastructure and GIS at the National Science Foundation

Dr. Jennifer M. SchopfOffice of CyberInfrastructureNational Science Foundation

April 16, 2010

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National Science Foundation

Vision: Advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering workforce

Independent agency within Executive Branch Established 1950

Annual budget of over $7 billion Funds basic research and education Peer-review grant mechanism

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Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)

NSF Cyberinfrastructure includesSupercomputersData management systemsHigh capacity networksDigitally-enabled observatories and scientific

instrumentsAn interoperable suite of software and middleware

services and toolsEducation programs to support future computational science

Foundation for CS&E across disciplines Pragmatic, sustainable infrastructure

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Common co-funding with:BIO,CISE, ENG, EPSCoR, GEO, OISE and SBE

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Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CF21)

High-end computation, data, visualization for transformative science Facilities/centers as hubs of innovation

MREFCs and collaborations including large-scale NSF collaborative facilities, international partners

Software, tools, science applications, and VOs critical to science, integrally connected to instruments

Campuses fundamentally linked end-to-end; grids, clouds, loosely coupled campus services, policy to support

People Comprehensive approach workforce development for 21st century science and engineering 9

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Expertise Research and Scholarship Education Learning and Workforce Development Interoperability and ops Cyberscience

Organizations Universities, schools Government labs, agencies Research and Med Centers Libraries, Museums Virtual Organizations Communities

Networking Campus, national, international networks Research and exp networks End-to-end throughput Cybersecurity

Computational Resources Supercomputers Clouds, Grids, Clusters Visualization Compute services Data Centers

Data Databases, Data reps, Collections and Libs Data Access; stor., nav mgmt, mining tools, curation

Scientific Instruments Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes Colliders, shake Tables Sensor Arrays - Ocean, env’t, weather, buildings, climate. etc

Software Applications, middleware Software dev’t & supportCybersecurity: access, authorization, authen.

Sustain, Advance, Experiment

NSF CyberInfrastructure Ecosystem

DiscoveryCollaborationEducation

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CF21 Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)

Significant multiscale, long-term software programPerhaps $200-300M over a decade

• $10M identified in FY10 ($4M OCI/$6M Dirs)• $14M annual in OCI in future years

– Catalyze significant funds from Dirs

Sustain: Connected institutes, teams, investigators Integrated into CF21 framework w/Dirs3-6 centers, 5+5 years, for critical mass, sustainabilityAdvance: Numerous teams of scientists and

computational and computer scientists with longer term grants

Experiment: Many individuals w/short term grants, funded by OCI and directorates 11

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Software, continued Ongoing discussions to build this program

across NSFSome of the institutes will be discipline specificSome may be algorithm/tool themed (e.g., data,

provenance, viz)All should be fundamental to other programs

(e.g., SEES)Education, science applications, industrial

partners linked deeply MREFC’s, other large facilities need to

participate iPlant, NEON, LSST, etc…

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Data Programs

DataNet: OCI Flagship Data ProgramFocus on data-level interoperability and data

preservation Sustain: 5 Centers, $20M, 5years (+5) Advance: eg. SDCI awards

~3-4 year, $1-2M, support of data tools for broad set of applications and disciplines

Experiment: eg. InterOp awardsSmaller scale, innovative use of data for new

communities

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Planned CF21 HPC Program Sustain: Petascale-to-Exascale

1-2 Sustainable facilities (~$200M+)Likely NSF-DOE cooperation10 years (5+5)

Advance4-5 hubs of Excellence/Innovation, people,

expertiseMixture of data and compute-intensive centers,

supporting broader array of services Experiment

Explore new architectures, couple with application/software dev

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UIUC Petascale Facility: $60M building!

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Education, Learning,Workforce Development

Postdoc program: CITracsEmphasis on helping computational scientists learn

about CI or vice versa http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10553/nsf10553.htm

CI-TEAM: Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century WFPrepare current and future generations of scientists,

engineers, and educatorsDesign, develop, adopt and deploy cyber-based tools

and environments for research and learning, both formal and informal

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10532/nsf10532.pdf

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GIS at NSF:A simple search reveals awards

in Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

Geography and Spatial SciencesScience, Technology, & SocietyMapping endangered languagesArchaeology

Biology Office of Polar Programs Geology (Oceanography) CISE/OCI Education and Human Resources EPSCoR

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PI David Schimel

NEON: National Ecological Observatory Network NEON: National Ecological Observatory Network New horizons for large-scale biologyNew horizons for large-scale biology

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NEON

Integrated sensing system to detect, understand, and forecast

Examining consequences of climate and landuse change and the effects of invasive species

Both regional and continental scales Neon CI:

Design, implement and support CI to adapts to and enhances NEON’s evolving scientific objectives and operational needs

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Suites of Integrated-Colocated-Standardized

observations and experiments to understand

responses of ecosystems to climate change 20 core wildland sites 40 relocatable sites (mostly on mngd land) 36 aquatic sites (all but 2 co-located)

Including 10 aquatic experiment sites 3 Airborne remote sensing systems 542 Level 1 (primary) observations: raw data

calibrated into physical, biological or chemical units 118 Level 4 (algorithmic) continental-scale data

products 178 Terabytes of data/year, total

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NEON CI Components

Management system to acquire, store, and manage samples

Heavily instrumented sensor platforms and arrays

External data feeds from airborne systems External data integration of non-NEON

observational data Integration of chemical, isotopic and

genetic analysis data

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Expertise Research and Scholarship Education Learning and Workforce Development Interoperability and ops Cyberscience

Organizations Universities, schools Government labs, agencies Research and Med Centers Libraries, Museums Virtual Organizations Communities

Networking Campus, national, international networks Research and exp networks End-to-end throughput Cybersecurity

Computational Resources Supercomputers Clouds, Grids, Clusters Visualization Compute services Data Centers

Data Databases, Data reps, Collections and Libs Data Access; stor., nav mgmt, mining tools, curation

Scientific Instruments Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes Colliders, shake Tables Sensor Arrays - Ocean, env’t, weather, buildings, climate. etc

Software Applications, middleware Software dev’t & supportCybersecurity: access, authorization, authen.

Sustain, Advance, Experiment

CyberInfrastructure Ecosystem

DiscoveryCollaborationEducation

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More Information

Jennifer M. Schopf jschopf@nsf.gov jms@nsf.gov

Dear Colleague letter for CF21http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/

nsf10015.jsp