NICIS: Stepping stone to a SA Cyberinfrastructure Commons? Bruce Becker, SANREN Competency Area, Meraka Institute, CSIR [email protected]CHAIN REDS Conference Open Science at the Global Scale: Sharing e-Infrastructures, Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Progress 20150331 15/03/31 CHAIN-REDS Final Conference 1
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NICIS: Stepping stone to a SA Cyberinfrastructure Commons?
Bruce Becker | [email protected] | CSIR | CHAIN-REDS Final Conference | 31/03/2015
(Complex Adaptive)
Systems Thinking
● The number of elements is sufficiently large that conventional descriptions (e.g. a system of differential equations) are not only impractical, but cease to assist in understanding the system. Moreover, the elements interact dynamically, and the interactions can be physical or involve the exchange of information
● Such interactions are rich, i.e. any element or sub-system in the system is affected by and affects several other elements or sub-systems
● The interactions are non-linear: small changes in inputs, physical interactions or stimuli can cause large effects or very significant changes in outputs
● Interactions are primarily but not exclusively with immediate neighbours and the nature of the influence is modulated
● Any interaction can feed back onto itself directly or after a number of intervening stages. Such feedback can vary in quality. This is known as recurrency
● Such systems may be open and it may be difficult or impossible to define system boundaries● Complex systems operate under far from equilibrium conditions. There has to be a constant flow of
energy to maintain the organization of the system● Complex systems have a history. They evolve and their past is co-responsible for their present behaviour● Elements in the system may be ignorant of the behaviour of the system as a whole, responding only
to the information or physical stimuli available to them locally
Bruce Becker | [email protected] | CSIR | CHAIN-REDS Final Conference | 31/03/2015
VISION: national leadership in the provision of a comprehensive Cyber-Infrastructure, essential to 21st century advances for South African research, education and innovation.MISSION: increase knowledge creation through provision of a national platform of essential Cyber-Infrastructure.
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PRINCIPLES• Joint planning and budgeting• Good governance • Visibility of CI services • Sustainability • Constructive stakeholder
Bruce Becker | [email protected] | CSIR | CHAIN-REDS Final Conference | 31/03/2015
La verité pour l’un, fût de bâtir, […] elle est, pour l’autre, de l’habiter.
Pour le colonial qui fonde un empire, le sens de la vie est de conquérir. Le soldat meprise le colon, mais le but de cette conquete n’etait-il pas l’etablissement de ce colon ? […]
Bruce Becker | [email protected] | CSIR | CHAIN-REDS Final Conference | 31/03/2015
Nous étions autrefois en contact avec une usine compliquée […]Au delà de l’outil, et à travers lui, c’est la vielle nature que nous retrouvons, celle du jardinier, du navigateur, ou du poète.
Bruce Becker | [email protected] | CSIR | CHAIN-REDS Final Conference | 31/03/2015
Open Commons as Exchanges
● Interoperability: ● Develop standard interfaces to common services● Coordination of OLAs and SLAs to provide coordinated operations
● Core services to support 3rd party and community contribution● Accounting● Monitoring● Identity and Service Federation
● Specialisation and Skills● Re-Use : Develop “Building Blocks” and donate them to the commons● Reward Structures : Make it worth the while to do things for the long-