Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation Stephen Nash Program Director, Operations Research U.S. National Science Foundation.

Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation

Stephen Nash

Program Director, Operations Research

U.S. National Science Foundation

Outline

• National Science Foundation (NSF)– Design & Manufacturing Innovation

• Cyber-Infrastructure– Accomplishments– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure

• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure– Within Engineering– Funding Initiatives

NSF Funding in the U.S. Federal Context

NSF's Role in Federal R&D Funding

Other Federal R&D Funding

NSF Funding

NSF is 4% of Overall Federal R&D Budget

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NSF Role in U.S. Academic Research

• 13% of all federal support for basic research

• 80% of budget goes to colleges and universities

• 40% of non-life-science basic research at U.S. academic institutions.

Taken from NSF’s Strategic Planning Document

http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf04201

Outline

• National Science Foundation– Design & Manufacturing Innovation



National Science Foundation

National Science Board

Director

Office of theInspector General

Office of Cyber-

Infrastructure

Polar andAntarcticPrograms

Directorate forBiologicalSciences

Directorate forGeosciences

Directorate forComputer and

InformationScience andEngineering

Directorate forMathematicaland Physical

Sciences

Directorate forSocial,

Behavioral,and Economic

Sciences

Directorate forEducation and

HumanResources

DirectorateFor

Engineering

Staff Offices

National Science Foundation

National Science Board

Director

Office of theInspector General

Office of Cyber-

Infrastructure

Polar andAntarcticPrograms

Directorate forBiologicalSciences

Directorate forGeosciences

Directorate forComputer and

InformationScience andEngineering

Directorate forMathematicaland Physical

Sciences

Directorate forSocial,

Behavioral,and Economic

Sciences

Directorate forEducation and

HumanResources

DirectorateFor

Engineering

Staff Offices

Directorate for Engineering

Office ofIndustrial Innovation


Chemical &TransportSystems


Office of theAssistant Director

Design &Manufacturing

Innovation

Civil & MechanicalSystems

Electrical &Communications

Systems

EngineeringEducation &

Centers

Bioengineering &Environmental

Systems

Senior Advisor:Nano-Technology

Directorate for Engineering





Office of theAssistant Director

Design &Manufacturing

Innovation

Civil & MechanicalSystems

Electrical &Communications

Systems

EngineeringEducation &

Centers

Bioengineering &Environmental

Systems

Senior Advisor:Nano-Technology

About Design &Manufacturing Innovation

• Support fundamental research to define the frontiers of design, manufacturing, and service– create the enterprises of tomorrow

– assure future competitiveness and productivity of today’s enterprises

• Integrate education and research to develop a diverse, globally-competitive engineering workforce

• In FY 04:

– received 1077 proposals and made 210 awards,

– Mean annual award: $111,500

– Mean duration of awards: 2.8 years

Division of Design & Manufacturing Innovation

Academic Research Programs:

• Manufacturing Processes and Equipment Systems Cluster

– Materials Processing & Manufacturing– Manufacturing Machines and Equipment– Nanomanufacturing

• Engineering Decision Systems Cluster– Engineering Design– Manufacturing Enterprise Systems– Service Enterprise Systems– Operations Research

Division of Design & Manufacturing Innovation

Academic Research Programs:

• Manufacturing Processes and Equipment Systems Cluster

– Materials Processing & Manufacturing– Manufacturing Machines and Equipment– Nanomanufacturing

• Engineering Decision Systems Cluster– Engineering Design– Manufacturing Enterprise Systems– Service Enterprise Systems– Operations Research

• Quantitative tools for decision making

Outline




Mapping One Million Atoms of a Complete Virus

• Visualize the atomic structure of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus

• 1,000,000 atoms interacting every femtosecond (10-15 second)

• 50 nanosecond simulation (100-day computation – 35 years on a desktop)– Led by Klaus Schulten

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

– Press Release 06-049, March 23, 2006

Modeling Turbulent Fluid Flow

• Vortex models of turbulent air flow

• 1,000,000 vortices• Solution of nonlinear

PDEs• Team headed by Peter

Bernard (University of Maryland)

Outline




Office of Cyber-Infrastructure

• Acquisition, development, and provision of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, tools, and services. – Supercomputers– High-capacity mass-storage systems– Data repositories and data management systems– Visualization tools– Programming environments– Software libraries– Networks

• Training of researchers and educators to use cyberinfrastructure for research and education

Office of Cyber-Infrastructure: Mission

• Provide the science and engineering communities with:– high performance computing– data, data analysis, and visualization– collaboratories, observatories, and virtual

organizations– education and workforce development

Drivers & Opportunities

• How does a protein fold? • What happens to space-time when two

black holes collide? • What are the key factors that drive climate

change? • Can we create an individualized model of

each human being for targeted healthcare delivery?

http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf

Outline




CI & Engineering

• Some distinctive topics:– Sensor networks– Design and control of complex systems– Multi-scale phenomena– Real-time computations

• Some Engineering investments:– NCN: Nanoscale Computational Network– NNIN: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network– NEES: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation– CLEANER/WatERS Network: Collaborative Large-scale

Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research / Water and Environmental Research Systems

NCN: Nanoscale Computational Network

PUNCHgrid computing

middleware

• software• simulation services• educational resources

softwareapplications

computing resources

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on-line 24 hours/day since 1995~ 400,000 simulations since 2000

results

Linux cluster

NEES: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

• A network of 15 experimental sites featuring advanced tools:– Shake tables– Centrifuges that simulate earthquake effects– A tsunami wave basin

• Linked to a centralized data pool and earthquake simulation software

• NEESgrid, a communications web that uses collaborative tools and tele-presence technologies, allows off-site real-time interactions

• http://www.nees.org.

http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/good-bye?http://www.nees.org/

http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/good-bye?http://www.nees.org/

Cyber-Infrastructure &Research Projects in DMI

• Real-time

• Dynamic

• Multi-scale

• Robust

• Data driven

Another side of CI:www.nanoHUB.org

Outline




Emerging Frontiers inResearch & Innovation

• One of this year’s topics: Auto-reconfigurable Engineered Systems Enabled by Cyber-Infrastructure

• Some relevant research topics:– Design methodologies

– Systems modeling

– Optimization

– Planning

– Simulation

CI Experiences for Graduate Students

• Under consideration for 2007

Information and Intelligent Systems (NSF 06-572)

• Advancing Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence– Creativity, discovery, and reasoning by human beings and

machines

– How can computational systems perform tasks autonomously, robustly, and flexibly?

– Globalization of communications and commerce

– Problem-solving in distributed environments

– Multi-agent systems that solve complex problems, in domains such as disaster response and e-commerce

Summary




Questions?

Stephen NashProgram Director, Operations ResearchU.S. National Science [email protected]

Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation Stephen Nash Program Director, Operations Research U.S. National Science Foundation.

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