Status Report:
Cyberinfrastructure
Strategic Planning Activities
BIO Advisory Committee
November 17, 2005
Manfred Zorn, Chris Greer, Liz Blood, Sally O’Connor
Recent Events
• Cyberinfrastructure Council established
• Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure
• Agency-wide Strategic Planning Process Underway
• Office of Cyberinfrastructure established
• Search for Office Director – position posted
CI Strategic Planning
CI “Vision” document
• Ch. 1: Call to Action
• Ch. 2: Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing
• Ch. 3: Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization
• Ch. 4: Strategic Plan for Collaboration, Communication &
Remote Access
• Ch. 5: Strategic Plan for Education & Workforce Development
Charge to HPC Team
Draft plan for 5-year strategy
• to enable petascale science and engineering
through the deployment and support of a
world-class HPC environment comprising the
most capable combination of HPC assets
available to the academic community.
Draft HPC Plan
• Specification, Acquisition, Deployment and
Operation of Science-Driven HPC Systems
Architectures
• Development and Maintenance of Supporting
Software: New Design Tools, Performance
Modeling Tools, Systems Software, and
Fundamental Algorithms.
• Development and Maintenance of Portable,
Scalable Applications Software
Released September 26, 2005
HPC Team Progress
Initial Hardware Acquisition
• High Performance Computing System
Acquisition: Towards a Petascale
Computing Environment for Science and
Engineering
NSF 05-625
Posted September 27, 2005
Current HPC Team Members
Abhi Deshmukh (ENG)
Manfred Zorn (BIO)
Frank Scioli (SBE)
Debasish Dutta (EHR)
Vladimir Papitashvili (OPP) Clifford Jacobs (GEO)
Almadena Chtchelkanova (CISE) Celeste Rohlfing (MPS)
Stephen Meacham (OCI)
Jose Muñoz (OCI)
Ex officio
Deb Crawford (OCI)
Continuing efforts of HPC Team
• Continue developing details of the HPC
requirements in the various domains
• Develop process to pick a representative set
of six or seven application benchmarks for
the FY07 HPC acquisition
• Other HPC issues:
– catalyze the development of new HPC codes
– transform existing approaches using algorithms
better suited to the new types of HPC systems
BIO HPC efforts
• Define BIO continuum of HPC needs
– Match BIO applications to HPC architecture
• Develop strategies to overcome barriers
– Sociological barriers, e.g, data ownership
– Technical barriers, e.g., data formats, metadata
• Other HPC issues:
– catalyze the development of new HPC codes
– transform existing approaches using algorithms
better suited to the new types of HPC systems
Charge to Data Team
Develop a 5-year strategy that:
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Provides data resources, tools, and services
Considers NSF portfolio
Promotes interoperability and collaboration
Promotes interagency partnerships
Defines a comprehensive programmatic and
policy framework
Data Team Members
Jim French (CISE)
Fillia Makedon (OCI)
Nigel Sharp (MPS)
Chris Greer (BIO)
Dan Newlon (SBE)
Sylvia Spengler (CISE)
Ex officio
Deb Crawford (OCI)
David Lightfoot (SBE)
Data Team Timeline
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Aug. 2, 2005
Sep. 6
Sep./Oct.
Nov.
Jan., 2006
Organizational meeting
Outline to CI Council
Directorate input
Full draft of strategic plan
Comments on strategic plan,
Draft implementation plan
Data Team – Emerging Themes
Vision:
The National Science Foundation envisions a
cyberinfrastructure universe in which data are
routinely deposited in convenient locations,
are regularly and easily consulted in welldocumented form by specialists and nonspecialists alike, are openly accessible while
suitably protected, and are reliably preserved.
Data Team – Emerging Themes
Strategy:
Working in partnership with the community
and with other US and international
agencies and organizations, NSF will
promote the development of a system of
digital data collections that is as robust as
that that exists now for preservation of
information in the print realm.
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Charge to COVO Team
Develop 5-year strategy that:
 identifies the unique scientific opportunities afforded by
collaboratories, observatories and virtual organizations (COVO),
 describes the resources, tools and services to enable functionallycomplete knowledge environments that are highly-interactive,
widely accessible, and easily usable;
 identifies opportunities to realize economies of scale and scope;
 promotes interoperability and federalization;
 promotes an effective, inclusive community governance strategy;
 encourages strong partnerships among NSF directorates;
 leverages investments made by other federal agencies and
organizations, including the private sector; and
 defines a flexible programmatic and policy framework
COVO Team Members
Art Goldstein (GEO)
Bonnine Thompson (INT)
Randy Ruchti (MPS)
Kevin Thompson* (OCI)
Liz Blood (BIO)
Tom Baerwald (SBE)
Chuck Baudin (MPS)
Joy Pauschke* (ENG)
Ex officio
Deb Crawford (OCI)
Michael Turner (MPS)
COVO Team Timeline
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Oct. 19, 2005
Nov. 14
Nov./Dec.
Dec 30
Feb 3, 2006
Organizational meeting
Outline to CI Council
Directorate input
Full draft of strategic plan
Comments on strategic plan,
Draft implementation plan
COVO Team – Emerging Themes
• Draft outline complete – pending CI Council
approval
– Vision
– Guiding Principles
– Strategies
Learning & Workforce Development
(LWD Team)
• Team is now being formed, short timeline
anticipated
• Ex Officio: Jim Collins (BIO), Deb Crawford
(OCI)
• Sally O’Connor (BIO) will participate
• Other team members are being confirmed
Draft Charge to LWD Team
Prepare a five-year strategic plan that:
• Identifies CI-enabled opportunities in learning
and workforce development
• Ensures that current and future generations of
scientists and engineers have the necessary
competencies
• Describes the resources, tools and services for
community-developed learning environments
Draft Charge to LWD Team (cont’d)
• Encourages strong partnerships among NSF
directorates
• Leverages investments made by other
agencies and the private sector
• Defines a flexible programmatic and policy
framework for prioritizing and managing
investments.
Challenges on Different Architectures
1
10
Whole
genome
Genome
Assembly
Annotation
“Loosely Coupled”
1000
Populationbased whole
cell model
protein
threading
Genome
Small ODE
Metabolic
network
100
Stochastic
metabolic /
regulatory
network
Molecular
dynamics of
protein
machine
Physicsbased
protein
folding
“Massively Parallel”