Cyberinfrastructure A Status Report Deborah Crawford, Ph.D. Interim Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure National Science Foundation

Schumpeter on Innovation Gales of Creative Destruction On Innovation equilibrium destruction innovators as social leaders New for Old technical sociological Two-wave Cycle development exploitation

“The opportunity is here to create cyberinfrastructure that enables more ubiquitous, comprehensive knowledge environments that become functionally complete.. in terms of people, data, information, tools, and instruments and that include unprecedented capacity for computation, storage, and communication.” Cyberinfrastructure “can serve individuals, teams and organizations in ways that revolutionize what they do, how they do it, and who can participate.” Report of the NSF Advisory Committee On Cyberinfrastructure, February 2003

“Clearly, it is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real-time, with more people, on more kinds of work, from more corners of the planet, and on a more equal footing, than at any previous time in the history of the world.” Thomas L. Friedman The World is Flat, 2005

NSF Governance of Cyberinfrastructure Cyberinfrastructure Council (CIC) created CIC responsible for shared stewardship and ownership of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Portfolio SCI to OCI Realignment Budget transferred Ongoing projects transferred OCI focused on “production-quality” CI for research and education CISE remains focused on basic research and education mission, future generations of CI technologies/capabilities Strategic Planning Process Underway

Learning & Workforce Development Data, Data Analysis & Visualization Collaboratories, Observatories, & Virtual Organizations Cyberinfrastructure Components High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing Digital Data & Data Stewardship Collaboratories, Observatories, & Virtual Organizations All CI Things Created Equal? Distributed Computing Learning & Workforce Development

High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force, 2004 “Issues of technology, resources and governance threaten to limit the potential contributions of high-end computing to vital national interests.” NAS Report on the Future of Supercomputing, 2005 “Current U.S. investments in supercomputing and current plans are not sufficient to provide the supercomputing capabilities that our country will need.” PITAC Report on Computational Science, 2005 “A dangerous consequence of our current complacency is that we have not marshaled and focused our efforts to elevate computational science and the computing infrastructure to their appropriate status as a long-term strategic national priority.” HPC – A National Imperative

Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing Draft issued for public comment September 30, 2005 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

Digital Data & Data Stewardship All CI Things Created Equal

Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization Private Sector Agency Partners Content-Management Organizations Global S&E Community International System of Data Collections Community Governance And Policies Common Tools and Services

Cyberinfrastructure Vision document Publicly Available Call to Action Sept. 30, 2005 Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing Sept. 30, 2005 Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization January 15, 2006 (est.) Strategic Plan for Collaboratories, Observatories March 15, 2006 (est.) & Virtual Organizations Strategic Plan for Learning & Workforce Development March 15, 2006 (est.) NSF Finalizes Cyberinfrastructure Vision Documentearly Summer, 2006

--Thomas Kuhn From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions “[Science is] a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions...[in which]... one conceptual world view is replaced by another.” Revolutionizing Science and Engineering