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Geosciences and Cyberinfrastructure Partial Overview Current Activities Timothy L. Killeen Assistant Director for the Geosciences Directorate National Science Foundation Clifford A. Jacobs Division of Atmospheric Sciences National Science Foundation GEO NCSA 2015 Strategic Planning Process April 21, 2010

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Geosciences and CyberinfrastructurePartial Overview Current Activities

Timothy L. Killeen Assistant Director for the Geosciences DirectorateNational Science FoundationClifford A. JacobsDivision of Atmospheric SciencesNational Science Foundation

GEO NCSA 2015 Strategic Planning Process April 21, 2010

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Talk OutlineNew Outlook• Administration• Key players• Climate Research Program

NSF’s Climate Research•Special emphasis within NSF•Description of program

SEES – Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability

GEO Support for Cyberinfrastructure• Infrastructure• Planned

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The President’s Initiatives

National investment in R&D to ≥ 3% of GDP

S&T in the stimulus/recovery package

FY2009 / FY2010/2011 budgets• NSF, NIH, DOE-science, NIST, NOAA, NASA, DoD basic research

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education • science labs, teacher training, clean energy ($1.5B over 5 yr)

Clean energy / climate• $150B over 10 yr for clean energy & efficiency; ARPA-E;

energy centers of excellence; climate science

Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation

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White House Elevates Science & Environment

John Holdren, White House Science Advisor

Carol Browner, White House Climate and Energy Czar

Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator

Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality

Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator

Steven Chu

Secretary of Energy

Courtesy of April Burke, Lewis-Burke Associates

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New Money for Science Agencies

EPA+38%

(ARRA $7.2 Billion)

NOAA+2.5%

(ARRA 830 Million)

DOE EERE+6.4%

(ARRA $16.8 Billion)

DOE OS+3.9%

(ARRA $1.6 Billion)

NSF+8.5%(ARRA $3

Billion)

NASA+5%

(ARRA $1 Billion)

FY 2010 President’s Request compared to FY 2009 enactedARRA = American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Courtesy of April Burke, Lewis-Burke Associates

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FY 2010 Budget Request to Congress

Source: NSF FY2010 Budget Request to Congress

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Energy-Climate-Sustainability Era

Presidential Priorities

• Protecting our nation from the serious economicand strategic risks associated with our relianceon foreign oil and the destabilizing effects of a changing climate

• Advancing energy and climate security via promoting economic recovery efforts, accelerating job creation, and driving clean energy manufacturing

Expanded Commitment Global Change Research FY 2011 Budget • Improve understanding of climate change and

its impacts• Mitigate US greenhouse gas emissions and

move toward clean energy economy• Adapt to climate change impacts

From presented by Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Environment, 1 February 2010

Climate Change Adaptation

(assessment & response)

Climate Change Mitigation

(mitigation & response)

Climate Change Science

(understanding & forecasting)

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Climate Change Science Program

Expect that CCSP scope, composition and responsibilities will be revisited and reauthorized by Congress

All 21 of Synthesis and Assessment publications completed

Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

• Summarizes climate change science, current and future impacts, integrates those results from those around the world.

Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation

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NRC Recommendations for Restructuring Federal Climate Research

Integrated scientific-societal issues

Interactions among the climate, human, and environmental systems

U.S. climate observing system including physical, biological, and social observations

Coupled Earth system models

Adaptation

Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation

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NSF’s Climate ResearchSpecial Emphasis Area in the 2010 Budget

Strong Support by the Administration and Congress

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FY 2010 Budget Request for NSF

NSF's FY 2010 Budget Request is $7.045 billion, an increase of $555

million (8.5 percent).

Focus on Climate Change:• New Climate Change Education Program

($10.0 million in FY 2009 and FY 2010);• Increase for NSF contribution to the Climate

Change Science Program (36.6 percent increase to $299.91 million); and

• New NSF-wide focus on Climate Research.

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Climate Research: Special Emphasis Area in FY10 Budget

$197M in funding in FY10 across NSF

8 NSF Directorates involved in Climate Research

$10M for New Climate Change Education in FY09/FY10 (BIO, GEO, OPP and E&HR partnership)

Increase NSF contribution

to USGCRP (to $299.91M)

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Modeling ofBasic Natural and Human Processes & their

interactions

Fundamental Research,Including

Experiments

EnvironmentalObservation

including changes from human

activities, adaptation, and

mitigation

Integrated Research Approach

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Climate Research Principles

Must be interdisciplinary

Approaches are creative and high risk

Research involves problems that cannot be undertaken in the core programs

Research support is shared across multiple directorates

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FY 2010 Climate Research Solicitations

Water: Sustainability and Climate (WSC)

• LOI received: 311; Full proposal deadline: 4/15

Ocean Acidification (OA)

• LOI received: 127; Full proposal deadline: 4/26

Climate Change Education Partnership, Phase 1 (CCEP-1)

• LOI deadline: 4/23; Full proposal deadline: 5/24

Dimensions of Biodiversity (DB)

• LOI deadline: 5/7; Full proposal deadline: 6/8

Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction Using Earth System Models (EaSM)• LOI deadline: 5/24; Full proposal deadline: 6/25

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FY 2011 Budget Request

NSF FY 2011 Budget

TOTAL: $7.4 billion

Increase: 8 percent

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GEO: The Big Picture

• American Recovery Act GEO investments: $601M

• FY2010: 10.2% increase over FY2009• Includes Agency-wide

climate initiative• FY2011: President’s

budget request includes a 7.4% increase for GEO

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NSB Report: Building a Sustainable Energy Future

Priority Guidance: NSF should continue to increase emphasis on innovation in sustainable energy technologies and education as a top priority.

NSB offers the following specific guidance to NSF:

• “Strengthen systems approaches in research programs.”

• “Develop and strengthen interdisciplinary systems approaches for research programs in the natural and social sciences that focus on environmental, social, and economic issues fundamental to the future energy economy.”

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Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability

SEES will generate the discoveries in climate and energy science needed to inform societal actions for environmental and economic sustainability. • Emergence of new areas of research that help close key gaps in the

knowledge base.• Development of new models for research, specifically employing

integrative, systemic approaches.• Generation of new integrated understanding of the interplay of

environment, energy, and the economy.

SEES portfolio totals $765.5 million in 2011.

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Climate, Energy, and Sustainability

Dear Colleague Letter signed by all NSF Assistant Directors and Office Heads issued in March 2010

SEES Web Site:www.nsf.gov/sees

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Dynamic Earth$28M over two years for new research program emphasizing change and complexity in earth system processes

Goals:

• foster an inter-disciplinary and multi-scale understanding of Earth’s dynamic systems

• catalyze research in areas poised for a major advance in understanding

• improve observing networks and modeling capabilities to more realistically simulate complex earth systems and forecast disruptive events

• improve understanding of the resilience and sustainability of earth systems following disruptive events.

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2011 Infrastructure Investments

OOI Operations and Management – 2011 brings a ramp-up in O&M support for the OOI

Regional Class Research Vessels – 2011 will see continued planning for the construction of up to three Regional Class Research Vessels starting in 2012.

NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer Center – 2011 sees the continuation of support for the construction of a new community supercomputer center.

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NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center Project (NWSC)

This project encompasses the design and construction of a world class center for high performance scientific computing in the atmospheric and related geosciences.

NSF FY 2011 request includes an $11m augmentation for NCAR to cover increased support for climate change activities as well as preparation for the transition of computing operations to NWSC.

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Questions and/or CommentsTimothy L. Killeen

Email: [email protected] A. Jacobs

Email: [email protected]

http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=GEO

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NSF: The Budget Picture

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President's Plan for Science and Innovation

Total NSF Funding(dollars in billions)

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2011 Research ThemesScience, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES +$35M to $230M)

Follow-on to 2010 Climate Research activity

In 2011, GEO will support research to study regions that are highly susceptible to the impacts of environmental changes, such as:

Coastal areas subject to sea-level rise

The Arctic, where warming temperatures and waning ice cover challenges communities and ecosystems

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GEO Investment in Infrastructure

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NSF Requests $7B for FY 2010Improve American Competitiveness through investments in science and technology to foster economic growth; improve the quality of life; and strengthen our national security.

Support researchers at the beginning of their careers through NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship and Faculty Early Career Development programs.

Educate science and engineering technicians through the Advanced Technological Education program, which focuses on two-year colleges

Encourage promising high-risk research that could fundamentally alter our understanding of nature, revolutionize fields of science, and lead to radically new technologies.

Make climate change research and education a priority. To predict future environmental conditions and to develop strategies for responding to global environmental change. Establish a climate change education program to help develop the next generation of environmentally engaged scientists and engineers.

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Supporting Cyber-infrastructureNSF’s Office Of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) and

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Partial List of Activities

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Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)MISSION

Development of collaborative computational science

• Research and development of comprehensive CI• Application of CI to solve complex problems in

science and engineering

Provide stewardship for computational science at NSF, in strong collaborations with other offices, directorates, and agencies

Supports the preparation and training of current and future generations of researchers and educators to use Cyberinfrastructure to further research and education goals

BUDGET

CI Annual Expenditures within all of NSF: $865M

• CI Expenditures in Other Parts of NSF: $680M• OCI FY09 Budget: $199M+80M (ARRA)

OCI OTHER NSF

NSF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE EXPENDITURES

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NSF Vision for Cyberinfrastructure“National-level, integrated system of hardware, software, data resources & services... to enable new paradigms of science”

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp

Learning & Work Force Needs & Opportunities

Virtual Organizations for Distributed CommunitiesHigh

Performance

Computing

Data & Visualizatio

n/ Interaction

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Shared Resource Environments

Text

Computers

Data services

Visualization services

People

Modeling and simulation

User support

Data analysis & visualization

Common user environments

Training

Tools for educators

Science Gateways

Courtesy of University of Indiana

2007-8 Track 2 – TACC2008-9 Track 2 – UTK2009-10 Track 2 – PSC2010-11 Track 2 – TBD2011 Track 1 – NCSA

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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High Performance Computing- Track 1

NSF seeks to deploy/support a world-class HPC machine of unprecedented capability to empower the U.S. academic research community

Machine is called “Blue Waters” and will be located at the NSCA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Award of $207M effective October 1, 2007 for 5 years

Blue Waters will be completed/operational 2011

Available for use on “Grand Challenge” projects with users selected via a competitive process

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Blue Waters Petascale System (2011)

• Based on IBM PERCS• 1 petaflops sustained performance on real applications

Blue Waters General Characteristics

• > 200,000 cores using multicore POWER7 processors• > 32 gigabytes of main memory per SMP• > 10 petabytes of user disk storage• > 100 Gbps external connectivity (initial)• Fortran, Co-Array Fortran, C/C++, UPC, MPI/MPI2, OpenMP, Cactus, Charm++

Blue Waters System Characteristics

• POWER 5+ and POWER6 software and application development testbeds

Blue Waters Interim Systems at NCSA

Blue Waters System Training and Support

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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High Performance Computing- Track 2

NSF Solicitation to deploy/support HPC machines to a wide range of researchers nationwide

Two machines completed with two more planned

Systems are used in various research simulation & modeling projects

Machine operating costs/maintenance/user support $7.5M/yr-$9M/yr

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Track 2 - TACC

Fall 2006

$59 million award• $30 million system• 4 years of operating costs

Ranger• Peak performance of 579

teraflops• Over 60,000 processing cores• 125 TB memory• 1.7 PB

Available since Feb, 2008

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Track 2 - UTK

2007 • University of Tennessee at Knoxville

$65 million, 5-year project• Partners at ORNL, TACC, NCAR

Kraken• Cray XT5• 8256 compute nodes, 66,048 computational

cores• More than 100 terabytes of memory• 2,300 trillion bytes of disk space• Peak performance of more than 607 teraflopsFull production Feb 2009

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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TeraGrid Growth

684 850

>1500

>2010 2100

BlueWaters

TFL

OPS

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Exterior Rendering

44Image courtesy of g3D, Inc.

Proposed NCAR-University of WY Computer Center

Courtesy of National Center for Atmospheric Sciences

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DataNet:Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and

Access Network Partners Program

Four primary goals:

• Provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science/engineering data over decades-long timeline

• Achieve long-term preservation and access capability in an environment of rapid technology advances

• Create systems and services that are economically and technologically sustainable

• Empower science-driven information integration capability on the foundation of a reliable data preservation network

Each project needed to develop a model for shared governance and the standards and protocols to enable interoperability

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Award: Data Conservancy

Redefine the role of University Libraries to include scientific data as special collections

Building on JHU Library success with Sloan Digital Sky Survey and National Virtual Observatory

Initial focus on observational data about astronomy, turbulence, biodiversity and environmental science

Especially suited to terabyte-scale data sets but with strong focus on “the long tail of small science.”

Project led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Award: DataNetONE (Observation Network for Earth)

Designed to enable long-term access to and use of preserved earth observation data• Projects will include: The spread of diseases, the impact of human

behavior on the oceans, relationships among human population density and greenhouse gas production

Will build using an evolutionary development process

Data are diverse and complex – multi-scale, multi-discipline, multi-national

Project led by the University of New Mexico

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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PetaApps

http://nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08592/nsf08592.pdf

Develop the future simulation, optimization and analysis tools that use emerging petascale computing

Will advance frontiers of research in science and engineering with a high likelihood of enabling transformative research

Areas examined include:

• -Climate Change• -Earthquake Dynamics• -Storm Surge Models• -Supernovae simulations

Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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International Research Network Connections (IRNC)

Goals:• Provide network connections linking U.S.

research with peer networks in other parts of the world

• Stimulate the deployment and operational understanding of emerging network technology and standards in an international context

• Support science and engineering research and education applications

Proposals due Aug. 21, 2009• ~$40M over 5 years

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503382Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

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Select FY 2011 Interagency Activities

• Networking and Information Technology R&D Program: $1.17 billion

• U.S. Global Change Research Program: $370 million

• National Nanotechnology Initiative: $401 million

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2011 BudgetThe 2011 Request represents an exciting opportunity for GEO to make advances on several important fronts:

Research: new thrusts

Infrastructure: advancement and renewal

Education: expansion of programs

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

ARRA allowed NSF to make 4,599 competitive awards and will support the construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel (renamed: Sikuliaq “New Ice suitable for walking on”)