1. Forging the eXtremeDigital (XD) Program Barry I. Schneider Program Director, Office of CyberInfrastructure January 20, 2011

2. 2 The XD Solicitation and the CIF21 Dear Colleague Letter The goal of this (XD) solicitation is to encourage innovation in the design and implementation of an effective, efficient, increasingly virtualized approach to the provision of high-end digital services – extreme digital services - while ensuring that the infrastructure continues to deliver high-quality access for the many researchers and educators that use it in their work. The integration of extreme-scale digital resources and services into a common framework that makes it easy for researchers to take advantage of multiple resources and services remains a challenge. Especially challenging is the desire of many researchers to be able to move between using local resources and national resources within a single, well integrated environment. New ideas and technologies have emerged that make it timely to revisit the architecture of the TeraGrid and to plan to address these challenges in the coming years. CF21 (now CIF21) will consist of geographically distributed locally-available cyberinfrastructure, advanced computing resources found at larger centers, software environments, advanced networks and data storage capabilities in the US and other nations. This framework needs to address a wide range of needs and requirements beyond physical resources including expertise and know-how, access, policy, virtual communities and collaboration. These resources will be integrated, interoperable and comprehensive, so that individual researchers, teams, and multiple communities can more easily work together, bringing collaborative data- and compute- intensive methods to bear on the complex problems under investigation. Such an integrated cyberinfrastructure will also generate important economies of scale by leveraging closely related activities

3. NSF: Office of CyberInfrastructure José L. Muñoz Aug09 Discovery Collaboration Education What is needed is a CS-CI Ecosystem Organizations Universities, schools Government lab, agencies Research and Medical Centers, Libraries Museums, Virtual Organizations Communities Expertise Research and Scholarship Education Learning and Workforce Development Interoperability and operations Cyberscience Networking Campus, national, international networks Research and experimental networks End-to-end throughput, Cybersecurity Computational Resources Supercomputers Clouds, Grids, Clusters Visualization Compute services Data Centers Data Databases, Data repositories Collections and Libraries Data Access; storage, navigation, management, mining tools, curation Scientific Instruments Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes Colliders, shake Tables Sensor Arrays - Ocean, environment, weather, buildings, climate. etc Software Applications, middleware Software development and support Cybersecurity: access, authorization, authentication People, Sustainability, Innovation, Maintainability, Integration and Extensibility

4. NSF: Office of CyberInfrastructure José L. Muñoz Aug09 4 4 NSF Vision and National CyberInfrastructure(CI) Blueprint Track 1 Track 2 CampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampus CampusCampus CampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampusCampus DataNetDataNet DataNetDataNet NetsNets DataNetDataNet DataNetDataNet DataNetDataNet Education Crisis: I need all of this to start to solve my problem! Virtual Organizations for Distributed Communities High Performance Computing Data & Visualization/I nteraction Software Learning & Work Force Needs & Opportunities

5. The XD Fabric The XD Solicitation (NSF 08-571) consists of 5 services: ServiceAcronymFunding (all 5 yrs) Expected Start Date Coordination and ManagementCMS$12M/yrJuly 2011 Advanced User SupportAUSS$8M/yrJuly 2011 Training, Education and OutreachTEOS$3M/yrJuly 2011 Technology Audit and InsertionTAIS$3M/yrJuly2010 High-Performance Remote Visualization and Data Analysis (2 awards) RVDAS2 * $3M/yr ARRA funds Late 2009

6. 6 XD Chronology J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D Current Teragrid TeraGrid Extension 3 month Bridge XD Planning Grants XD Planning grant Review XD Proposa l Review OCI Del. & Nego. OCI Del. & Nego. XD Begins NSB Prep. Pkg. Info Item NSB Planning Grnats due Full Proposals Due Award Panel Review 2009 2010 2011 CMS – AUSS-TEOS ( $12M-$8M-$3M per Yr) TAS-TIS ($1.5M-1.5M per Yr) J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D TAIS Panel TAS and TIS Awards Proposals Approved by Dr Marrett

7. NSF: Office of CyberInfrastructure José L. Muñoz Aug09 OCI Decision Process 7 Key Elements of XD  A redesigned, open standards-based architecture that will ultimately allow users a variety of high level digital tools to access national resources such as those available at the NSF resource providers as well as those on individual university campuses and commercial systems. These new tools will enable collaboration between local university digital resources in ways which have been heretofore impossible.  A governance model which recognizes the entire spectrum of stakeholders, evaluating their input and incorporating those that are critical to a robust national CI. This was a challenge for TeraGrid due to the independence of the NSF resource providers.  A technical audit service which analyzes monitor data for all XD systems and reports results of those analyses to the central organization. The audit process was deliberately chosen to be independent of the three main elements of XD.

8. NSF: Office of CyberInfrastructure José L. Muñoz Aug09 OCI Decision Process 8 Key Elements of XD  A technology insertion service to evaluate software and a variety of other technologies from a broad spectrum of sources and recommend those which should be included in the XD portfolio based on community needs.  Ease of access and ease of use from campus desktop to university center to national facilities.  Enhanced use of Scientific Gateways, User Portals and Discovery Environments to bring advanced digital services to a much broader community.  Easy interface and interoperability with other CI resources such as Open Science Grid, DataNet, scientific instruments and those grids available internationally.  An unparalleled education and training program to allow both the novice and the expert access to in-person and on-line training in the use of digital resources to enhance their scientific productivity.

9. NSF: Office of CyberInfrastructure José L. Muñoz Aug09 OCI Decision Process 9 Key Elements of XD  An innovative and aggressive program extending the TeraGrid Campus Champions Program to bring computational and data- driven science education to a much larger population.  An advanced user support program to provide a cadre of professionals possessing combined expertise in several fields of computational science and engineering with a deep knowledge of underlying computer systems and of the design and implementation principles, tips, and tricks for optimally mapping scientific problems, codes, and middleware to these resources. This includes experts in not just the traditional use of petascale computing systems but also in extreme digital data management, workflow engineering, and the creation and maintenance of scientific gateways.  A much improved process to allocate NSF supported resources combined with faster account creation, end-to-end trouble shooting and 24/7 operations support.