Cyberinfrastructure Planning at NSF Deborah L. Crawford Acting Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure HPC Acquisition Models September 9, 2005
Recent Happenings Office of Cyberinfrastructure established Search for Office Director – position posted Advisory Committee for CI Agency-wide Strategic Planning Process Underway Cyberinfrastructure Council established
Education & Training Data, Data Analysis & Visualization Collaboration, Communication & Remote Access Cyberinfrastructure Components High Performance Computing
CI Strategic Planning Ch. 1: Call to Action Ch. 2: Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing Ch. 3: Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization Ch. 5: Strategic Plan for Education & Workforce Development Ch. 4: Strategic Plan for Collaboration, Communication & Remote Access CI “Vision” document
Creating a World-Class HPC Environment To Enable Petascale Science and Engineering Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing (FY 2006 – 2010)
Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing ( ) Private Sector Agency Partners HPC Resource Providers S&E Community Portable, Scalable Applications Software & Services Software Service Provider (SSP) SSP Science-Driven HPC Systems Compute Engines Local Storage Visualization Facilities
ETF (Teragrid) and HPC Two sides of the Same Coin Provides a Unified User Environment to Support High-capability, Production-quality CI Services. Production HPC is one of several CI service components Integration of services provided by grid technologies Distributed, open architecture, sites may join SSP World-class HPC Environment For Petascale Science and Engineering Production HPC is the focus Portability and scalability addressed in software engineering services NSF and partner agencies support range of activities
Cyberinfrastructure Vision NSF will lead the development and support of a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure essential to 21 st century advances in science and engineering. Internet2 Universities