National Computational Science Alliance Expanding Participation in Computing and Communications -- the NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure Panel Discussion on “From Cost to Benefit: Issues Facing EPSCoR States, Potential Policies and Structuring to Influence National Objectives October 8, 1998 at “Making the Net Work for Research and Higher Education”, a Policy Summit for Senior Executives of EPSCoR Universities at SDSC, San Diego, California

National Computational Science Alliance The Emerging Concept of a National Scale Information Power Grid

National Computational Science Alliance The NSF Alliance -Prototyping a National Scale Grid for the 21st Century

National Computational Science Alliance User Web Browser Output to User User Input Format Translator, Query Engine and Program Driver Workbench Server Results to User User Instructions and queries Application Programs (May have varying interfaces and be written in different languages) Results Instructions Information Sources (May be of varying formats) Information Queries NCSA Computational Biology Group The NCSA Information Workbench - An Architecture for Web-Based Computing

National Computational Science Alliance Structure & Function Pathways & Physiology Populations & Evolution Ecosystems Genomes Gene Products Leveling the Playing Field -- Anyone, Anyplace, Anytime Has the Same Access NCSA Biology Workbench Has Over 6,000 Users From Over 20 Countries

National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Chemical Engineering Team Developing the Chemical Engineer’s Workbench O(km)O(cm) O(nm) O(m) Couple Supercomputer Models For All These Scales Together Access From a Web Browser! Greg McRae (MIT) is Chemical Engineer’s Workbench Lead

National Computational Science Alliance Goal-Create Collaborative Interface to Link Multiple Investigators With the Grid ReactorSimulationReactorSimulation InteractiveDiscussionInteractiveDiscussion DetailedVisualizationDetailedVisualization Current parameters in solution Current Status of Simulation Simulation Ken Bishop, U Kansas Using NCSA Habanero

National Computational Science Alliance EPSCoR Scientist is Lead Story on New Alliance Web Site Catalysis Lead Story: Harrell Sellers South Dakota State Alliance Chemical Engineering Applications Team

National Computational Science Alliance Storm and Mesoscale Ensemble Experiment Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Director, CAPS Run in Morning - Compare with Reality in the Afternoon! CAPS Collaborators: NCAR NSSL AFWA NCEP

National Computational Science Alliance Predicting Spring Storms in 1999 and Beyond -- A Grid Based Computational Science Experiment Kelvin Droegemeier, Director CAPS, Univ. Oklahoma NCSA and Regional Models Running Concurrently Local NEXRAD Doppler Radars to Initialize Models Models Accessed Over Web NCSA Requirement: 5 Hr./day on Origin 128 Lasting Two Months Spring ‘99 Southeast Northeast Northern Great Plains

National Computational Science Alliance From High End Science to the Broad Society

National Computational Science Alliance Bringing Medical Data into Virtual Reality - Using NCSA CRUMBS on Human Spine CAT Scan LBL: Tom Budinger, Thomas Schoenemann, Jonathan Maltz NCSA: Rachael Brady, Clint Potter Alliance Scientific Instrument Team

National Computational Science Alliance Bringing the Grid to K-12 NCSA, UIUC Beckman Institute

National Computational Science Alliance Bringing the Grid to Rural America The Champaign County Chamber of Commerce and NCSA - CCNet