Transformation of Research and Education in the 21 st Century Edward Seidel Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure National Science Foundation

Data-Driven Multiscale Collaborations* for Complexity Great Challenges of 21st Century  Multiscale Collaborations General Relativity, Particles, Geosciences, Bio, Social... And all combinations...  Science and Society being transformed by CI and Data Completely new methodologies “The End of Science” (as we know it)  CI plays central role No community can attack challenges Technical, CS, social issues to solve  Places requirements on computing, software, networks, tools, etc *Small groups still important!

Crises We Face  Computing Technology: SC last 4 yrs  Multicore: processor is new transistor  Programming model, fault tolerance, etc  New models: clouds, grids  Generate PBs of data!  Software  Complex applications, tools needed  Modern apps: lines, take decades  Collaboration “Computational science serves to advance all of science......inadequate and outmoded structures within the Federal government and the academy today do not effectively support this critical multidisciplinary field”

Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah Data Crisis: Information Big Bang NSB Report: Long-Lived Digital Data Collections Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century PCAST Digital Data NSF Experts Study Wired, Nature Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey Report “there is a pending crisis in archiving… we have to create long-term methods for preserving information, for making it available for analysis in the future.” 80% respondents: >50 yrs; 68% > 100 yrs Industry

Grand Challenge Community VizViz eXtreme Digital NSF National CI Blueprint Track 1 Exascale(multi-agency?)Exascale(multi-agency?) Track 2 OSGOSGOSGOSGOSGOSGLCLCLCLCLCLC CampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampus CampusCampus CampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampus DataNetDataNet DataNetDataNet SoftwareSoftware AlgorithmsAlgorithms NetsNets AppsApps AppsApps AppsApps AppsApps AppsAppsAppsAppsAppsApps Clouds?Clouds? DataNetDataNet DataNetDataNet DataNetDataNet VOVO Learning & Work Force Needs & Opportunities Virtual Organizations for Distributed Communities High Performance Computing Data & Visualization/ Interaction Education Crisis: I need all of this to start to solve my problem!

What about Campuses?  Next generation science requires huge data to be manipulated, retrieved, stored, analyzed  Collaborative environments will need unprecedented levels of sophistication  Can barely do low-end video conferencing today! HD, Optiportal-level environments needed  We need to seriously rethink our campus environments and how they can support new data-driven modalities of research, collaboration, education iHDTV: 1500 Mbits/sec Calit2 to UW Research Channel Over NLR/CENIC/PW DNA sequencers generate TeraBytes of Data

Federated Identity Management  It is a nightmare to navigate the many logins and passwords we live with  A huge barrier to campus integration  It is also insecure!  There are solutions under development  We need to see if we can adopt a standard mechanism  NSF, TeraGrid, and many universities and organizations have joined InCommon  NIH has adopted it!

FY09/Stimulus Package Update  $3B stimulus package for NSF  On top of ~$7B FY09 annual budget  General NSF priorities  “$2B+ in unfunded excellence” Focus on in-house proposals, standard research grants of 2-5 year duration; increase success rate to 30% Young investigators; CAREER, transformative, excellence  OCI: $80M stimulus funds  Jumpstart new activities in software, LWD, applications  Career awards, GRF, PetaApps, STCI  OIA: MRI-R2 and ARI-R2 special opportunities for campus investments in CI: $200M each

New Programs Provide Opportunities for Campuses  ARI-R2: $200M  Can be used to address campus research infrastructure, e.g., network infrastructure  MRI-R2: $200M  “Supporting advances in supercomputing technology”  Awards up to $6M  NTIA/RUS: $7.2B for broadband  NSF is working with these groups to help develop activities where universities can serve as community anchors, hubs of innovation  Unleashing Waves paper hingWaves.pdf