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

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

Follow the Money, Technology Review, March 2005,

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

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National Science Foundation National Science Board Director Office of the Inspector General Office of Cyber- Infrastructure Polar and Antarctic Programs Directorate for Biological Sciences Directorate for Geosciences Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate for Education and Human Resources Directorate For Engineering Staff Offices

National Science Foundation National Science Board Director Office of the Inspector General Office of Cyber- Infrastructure Polar and Antarctic Programs Directorate for Biological Sciences Directorate for Geosciences Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate for Education and Human Resources Directorate For Engineering Staff Offices

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

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

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

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

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

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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 ( second) 50 nanosecond simulation (100-day computation – 35 years on a desktop) –Led by Klaus Schulten (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) –Press Release , March 23, 2006

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)

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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

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

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?

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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

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

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

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

Another side of CI:

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Emerging Frontiers in Research & 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

CI Experiences for Graduate Students Under consideration for 2007

Information and Intelligent Systems (NSF ) 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

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

Questions? Stephen Nash Program Director, Operations Research U.S. National Science Foundation