1. Science Gateways Community Institute
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
San Diego Supercomputer Center

2. What is a science gateway?
science gateway /sī′ əns gāt′ wā′/ n.
1. an online community space for science and engineering research and education.
2. a Web-based resource for accessing data, software, computing services, and equipment specific to the needs of a science or engineering discipline.

3. Why are gateways important?
Increased complexity of
today’s research questions
hardware and software
skills required
Greater need for openness and reproducibility
Science increasingly driving policy questions
Opportunity to integrate research with teaching
Better workforce preparation
We need interfaces that provide broad access to advanced resources and allow all to tackle today’s challenging science questions.

4. Gateways subject of recent NSF award 5 years + 5 more possible

5. Gateway use in XSEDE
Starting in 2013, more people ran jobs on XSEDE via gateways than from the command line
You may know people who want to use existing gateways or develop their own
We can help

6. Have an existing gateway that could benefit from using XSEDE?
XSEDE’s ECSS program can help adapt existing gateways to use XSEDE
Typically not doing front end development, but helping to connect XSEDE resources into existing gateways
Extended Support for Science Gateways
Request support and allocations via

7. What if you have a great idea and would like to build a new gateway?
Science Gateways Community Institute can help
Applying to be a level 2 XSEDE service provider so services can also be requested via XSEDE
SGCI-supported gateways do not have to use XSEDE resources
Can use campus resources, clouds
Could be interfaces to data collections or sensor streams
Could incorporate aspects of citizen science

8. Science Gateways Community Institute Est. Aug, 2016

9. Incubator: Consulting expertise and in depth training
Building a gateway can take may types of expertise
But projects cannot afford to hire this in
Consulting services provide cost effective solution
Get expertise you need when you need it, release it when you’re finished
In depth cohorts for training, group interactions, mentoring
Customized structure, content and goals
ACTION: Request services at

10. Need for variety of expertise expressed in 5000-person survey of those developing gateways
Security: Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure
Sustainability: Nancy Maron, creator of ITHAKA S+R course on Sustaining Digital Resources
Evaluation and Impact: Ann Zimmerman Consulting
Internal Resource Development: Notre Dame Center for Research Computing

11. Extended Developer Support
Help building new gateways
Or portions of new gateways
Dedicated support for months to a year
Similar in structure to XSEDE ECSS program
Different in that gateways can be built from the ground up
And can use any type of resource
ACTION: Request services at

12. Scientific Software Collaborative
Find software used to build gateways
List your software
Work with us to support gateways as an affiliate
Find existing gateways
Just use them
Learn what they’re built with
Converse with developers
Find gateways used in curricula
ACTION: Still in development, sign up for mailing list to keep apprised of status

13. Community Engagement and Exchange
Goal is to be THE place for gateway-related information
Building the community of gateway developers
Blogs, jobs, case studies, gateways in the news, webinars
ACTION: to present on the webinar, contribute a blog entry, etc
Annual Gateways conference
Interact with other developers
Tutorials, presentations, posters, reception, open space discussions
Student opportunities, travel support
ACTION: Help organize, attend, participate
Gateways 2016
Nov 2-3, SDSC, 120 attendees
Gateways 2017
Oct 24-25, Ann Arbor
Building gateway expertise on campuses
This area is developing, stay tuned
ACTION: Follow us via mailing list or Twitter

14. International collaborations to promote research and exchange information
US workshops
Gateways 2016 at SDSC, Nov, 2016
Gateway Computing Environments workshops since 2005
European workshops
International Workshop on Science Gateways since 2009
Australian workshops
IWSG-A since 2015
Joint special issue journals combine submissions from all of the above

15. Workforce Development
Students
Fellowships and internships
Travel support
Training
Summer coding opportunities
Young Professionals Network
Year 1 work with
NOBBCHe (National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers)
ADMI (Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions)
Faculty
Gateways in the curricula
Career tracks for gateway developers
ACTION: Watch for opportunities for faculty and students via the mailing list

16. Early interest in building gateways
Name
Institution
Project
Michael Norman
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Renaissance Simulations Laboratory
Mark Perri
Sonoma State University
Chem Compute
Michael Cianfrocco
UCSD
COSMIC^2: Cryo-EM Open Source Multiplatform Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
Greg Newman
CitSci.org
Ann E. Stapleton
UNC Wilmington
CyVerse VALIDATE
Hamish Holewa
Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory, Griffith University, Australia
Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory
Doug Jennewein
University of South Dakota
USD Science Gateway
Jack Smith
Marshall University
Aquavit
Bev Corwin
OWASP Foundation
OWASP Learning Gateway
M. Drew LaMar
College of William and Mary
QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis)
Alain Domissy
UCSD Yeo Lab
Single Cell Transcriptomics
Sobhy Atalla
Fayoum University,Egypt
Establish a national center for computational science to contribute considerably to the solution of scientific, engineering and planning problems.
Lisa T. Eyler, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Brain Age Project

17. Thank you
Questions, comments, discussion
@sciencegateways