Federal R&D Funding: A SIAM Perspective Mel Ciment Senior Advisor SIAM, Washington Office Tel: May 6, 2001

Outline Of Talk Strategies for building SIAM Initiatives –History of HPCC –Scenario building

SIAM Science Policy Role Help formulate computational and applied math research agendas in R&D agencies Provide broad support for NSF, and other agency, R&D budgets to raise all boats Support strategies for building SIAM-centric Initiatives across all these agencies My perspective of 20 years of building such initiatives: –History of High Performance Computing & Communications (HPCC) Scenario for fictitious “Math” Initiative

NSF-Centric History of (HPCC) Mathematicians were critical in definition and creation of HPC Initiative Advanced Scientific Computing Centers Created with Request for $20M that is doubled to $40M. (Erich Bloch forces $1.0M for algorithms) –“Large Scale Computing in Science and Engineering”, Lax Report, 1982 –“A National Computing Environment for Academic Research”, Bardon/Curtis, NSF, 1983 DMS Computational Mathematics Initiative became basis for a broader a Computational Science Initiative –“Computational Modeling and Mathematics Applied to the Physical Sciences”, NAS, CH: W. Rheinboldt, 1984, –“Future Direction in Computational Mathematics, Algorithms, & Scientific Software”, SIAM- NSF-DMS- Rheinboldt, 1985 Interagency/FCCSET Interagency Planning focuses on “Supercomputing” under DOE leadership –“A National Computing Initiative”, SIAM, Interagency, DOE, NSF, Raveche, 1987 – “A Research and Development Strategy for HPC” First EOP/OSTP Publication- November 20, 1987 –“Toward A National Research Network”, NAS, Len Kleinrock, 1988 –“The Federal HPC Program”, OSTP, September 8, 1989 Interagency HPCC Initiative is formally adopted –“Grand Challenges: HPC & Communications”, OSTP- First “Blue Book” 1992 –Nine years of more Blue Books…..OSTP/National Coordination Office,…ITR $2.0 B

Scenario for “Multidisciplinary (Mathematics) Training Initiative (MTI)” SIAM (with NSF & OA support) sponsors 1 st Workshop on MTI Focus is on contributions from Applied and Computational Math –Reach out to all application disciplines and partners with other friendly areas, e.g. Advanced Scientific Computing, BIO, ENG, MPS, Education,… –Leaders and attendees come from industry, business world, academia (broadly), government labs and federal program managers Workshop Products: –Community building, “Research Agenda”, “Grand Challenges”  –Final Report promoted by Co-Chairs  Briefings, Talks Scopes out components of Initiative Budget Requirements with multi-year forecasts, Organizational requirements: Institutes, Centers, Groups, Trainee-Internships Infrastructure requirements: tele-collaboration, instrumentation, new educational devices for teaching mathematics using advanced simulation..etc,.. –Brief agencies that supported workshop, including National Science Board –Encourage NAS to pursue topic in BMS and elsewhere –Present testimony to Congressional Hearings, write articles in major publications, develop brochure-pamphlets Infiltrate all other relevant Initiatives to adopt components of MTI

Programs Created This Way Advanced Scientific Computing, NSF  CISE Computational Math, DMS  Computational Science –MPS, NSF Grand Challenges Groups, CISE  NSF HPCC  National Information Infrastructure (NII), –NSFNET  NGI  Information Technology & Applications  NII Computational Science Education – Advanced Technologies for Education (EHR)

Ingredients Needed for Success Intellectual and programmatic content –Some serious problems and some promising solutions Agreement on focal topics broad enough to represent Initiative – “doubling” and incremental arguments do not cut it Ties to social and economic significance that are easily explained – ideas do not sell as well as products Buy-in for the “semantics” of the initiative from your own constituents to keep message coherent People to work on the Initiative for years to come.…..3-5 years which exceeds most rotators limits –Work with permanent staff, but send rotators to agencies to promote ideas –Outside community needs to consistently push issues to pass credibility test