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The National Coordination Officefor Computing, Information, and Communications
Who we are, recent activities,and planned efforts
SC97November 19, 1997
San Jose, CA
Sally E. Howe, Ph.D.Acting Director
Kay HowellIncoming Director
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Executive Committee
Organization ChartWHITEHOUSE
Executive Office of the PresidentOffice of Science and Technology Policy
National Science and Technology Council
Committee on Computing,Information, and Communications
(CCIC)
NCO for Computing, Information, andCommunications
ApplicationsCouncil
Computing, Information, and CommunicationsR&D Subcommittee
● Work with OSTP and OMB to help the Presidentset the Federal computing, information, andcommunications R&D agenda and budgets
● Justify the agenda and budgets to Congress.Testimony.Staff briefings
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NCO Responsibilities (2)
● Document the coordinated Federal CIC R&Dprograms.Accomplishments.Plans.Budgets.Who does this work
● Outreach to other Federal agencies, state and localorganizations, foreign organizations, academia,industry, and the public
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NCO Publications (1)
Annual Implementation PlanFY 1998 Blue BookFY 1998 Brochure
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NCO Publications (2)
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NCO Web Site: www.ccic.gov
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Presidential Advisory Committee (1)
● Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing andCommunications, Information Technology, and the NextGeneration Internet
● Established by Executive Order signed by President Clinton onFebruary 11, 1997
● Advises the NSTC, through the Director of OSTP
● 25 non-federal members appointed by the President, includingrepresentatives of the research, education, and librarycommunities, network providers, and representatives fromcritical industries
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Presidential Advisory Committee (2)
● Assess. The HPCC (High Performance Computing and Communications) Programand its successor(s):. Progress. Need to revise. Balance. The Next Generation Internet initiative. Whether this R&D helps maintain U.S. leadership in advanced computingand communications technologies and their applications
● Meeting dates. February 27-28, 1997. June 24-25, 1997. December 9-10, 1997 (planned). March 1998 (planned)
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Presidential Advisory Committee (3)
Co-Chairs: Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems Ken Kennedy, Rice
University
Eric A. Benhamou, 3Com CorporationVinton Cerf, MCI CommunicationsChing-chih Chen, Simmons CollegeDavid Cooper, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratorySteven D. Dorfman, Hughes Telecommunications
and Space CompanyRobert Ewald, Silicon Graphics, Inc.David Farber, University of PennsylvaniaSherrilynne S. Fuller, University of WashingtonHector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University
Susan L. Graham, University of California, BerkeleyJames N. Gray, Microsoft ResearchW. Daniel Hillis, Walt Disney ImagineeringDavid C. Nagel, AT&T LabsRaj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon UniversityEdward H. Shortliffe, Stanford University School of MedicineLarry Smarr, National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsLeslie Vadasz, Intel CorporationAndrew Viterbi, QUALCOMM IncorporatedSteven J. Wallach, CenterPoint Ventures
Members
Members announced on October 31, 1997
David W. Dorman, PointCast, Inc.John P. Miller, Montana State University
Joe F. Thompson, Mississippi State UniversityIrving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM Corporation
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CIC R&D Program Component Areas
● Five PCAs:. High End Computing and Computation (HECC). Large Scale Networking (LSN). High Confidence Systems (HCS). Human Centered Systems (HuCS). Education, Training, and Human Resources (ETHR)
● Each PCA:. Spans areas of multiple agencies involvement. Includes hardware, software, algorithms, and applications. Focuses on specific R&D goals, ensures adequate investments, and maintainsnecessary budget visibility
● Technology R&D may span PCAs
● Individual PCAs have own timelines
● Participation in PCA Working Groups is open to other agencies
● Applications span PCAs
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High End Computing and Computation
● R&D to provide the foundation for U.S. leadership incomputing through investments in:
Hardware and software innovations
Algorithms for modeling and simulation needed forcomputation- and information-intensive science andengineering applications
● Promote effective use of HECC for government,industry, academic, and broad societal applications
● Explore advanced concepts in quantum, biological,and optical computing
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HECC Thrusts
1. System software technologyEffective use of TeraFLOPS-scale systems
2. Future generations computingPetaFLOPS computing, distributed computing, and exabyte storage
3. ApplicationsUse HECC technologies in agency applications
4. State-of-the-art infrastructure for HECC R&DLarge-scale test systems, high performance computational grid andnetworks
● Parallelization of commercial engineering software
● Computational Aerosciences Project (CAS)
● Earth and Space Sciences (ESS)
● Biomedical research and biomolecular computing
● Supercomputing Research Program
● Quorum
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FY 1998 Blue Book: HECC Highlights (3)
Understanding the forces that hold nuclei together—a basic science Grand Challenge problem
Comparing remotely-sensed cloud datawith 3-D cloud data predictions
Numerical Tokamak Turbulence Project—improving the design of fusion reactors
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Large Scale Networking
● Goal is U.S. technological leadership
● Research in networking technologies, services, andperformance:.Wireless, optical, mobile, wireline.Disseminating information to individuals, groups (multicast), or entire
networks (broadcast).Developing and executing scalable distributed applications.Engineering and managing large scale networks
● Testbeds and research infrastructure
● Includes Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative
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Goals Metrics1. Research in advanced network
technologies
2. Next Generation Internet networktestbed — connect universitiesand Federal research institutionsat rates sufficient to supportresearch and demonstrate newtechnologies
3. Demonstrate new applicationsthat meet important nationalgoals
● Differentiation of service
● Privacy and security
● Adoption by private sector
● Ability to accommodate goal 1research results and goal 3applications
● 100-to-1,000 times end-to-endperformance improvement
● Connects about 100 researchinstitutions
● 100+ high-importance applications
● Value of applications in testingnetworking technologies
● Goal: effective, robust, and secure management,provisioning, and end-to-end delivery ofdifferentiated service classes:.Network growth engineering.End-to-end quality of service (QoS).Security
● Coordinated, multiagency development,deployment, and demonstration
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NGI Goal 2 — Increased Capacity
● Guaranteed predictable end-to-end performance100 to 1,000 times faster than today’s Internet
● Manage large gigabit to terabit internetworkssupporting a range of traffic classes on a sharedinfrastructure
● Testbed for lead users (government and research)
● Accelerate the development and deployment ofnew network applications
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NGI Goal 3 — Revolutionary Applications
● Requirements:.Important to Federal agency missions.Needs high performance internetworking.Needs broadly applicable and scalable networking technologies.Has support from the application(s) community
● Prioritization based on:.Resource use.Timeliness.Ability to stress the NGI.Demonstrations / evaluations / validation / deployment /commercialization
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Sources of Applications (1)
● Single agency missions
● Applications affinity groups.Basic science.Crisis management.Education.Environment.Federal information services.Health care.Manufacturing
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Sources of Applications (2)
● Technology affinity groups.Collaborative technologies.Digital libraries.Distributed computing.Remote operations.Security and privacy
● Input from the CCIC Applications Council aboutother Federal applications
● Broad solicitations
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NGI and Internet2:Complementary and interdependent
NGI Internet2
• Federal program • Voluntary effort by more than100 U.S. research universities
• Will create an experimental,wide area, scalable testbed fordeveloping mission-criticalapplications
• Will meet end-to-endperformance requirements bydeveloping and deployingadvanced network infrastructure– much provided by NGI
Both will develop and test advanced network technologies notsupported by today’s Internet, largely through NGI-funded research at
Internet2 universities
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FY 1998 Blue Book: LSN Highlights
● Global Grid
● Active Networks
● Unified Medical Language Systems (UMLS)
● National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI)
● Crisis management and disaster planning
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High Confidence Systems
● Technologies for achieving high levels of security,protection, availability, reliability, and restorability ofinformation services.Systems will be resistant to component failure and malicious manipulation
and will respond to damage or perceived threat by adaptation orreconfiguration
● Applications include:.National security.Law enforcement.Life- and safety-critical systems.Personal privacy.Protection of critical elements of the National Information Infrastructure
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FY 1998 Blue Book: HCS Highlights (1)
● Information Systems Security (INFOSEC)
● Secure operating system
● Graph-based Intrusion Detection System (GRiDS)
● Secure Access Wrapper (SAW)
● Task-Based Authorization (TBA)
● Secure All-Optical Networking
● Network infrastructure and security
● Protecting privacy for medical records
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FY 1998 Blue Book: HCS Highlights (2)
Macrophage attacking a bacterium. Biologicaldefense mechanisms detect external attack andrespond to penetration. Using this metaphor,researchers have developed GrIDS (Graph-basedIntrusion Detection System) to detect attacksusing “specification-based intrusion detection.”
Records containing multidisciplinary images will beavailable over networks to authorized health careproviders through the merging of computerizedpatient record systems and telemedicine systems ina way that assures integrity and confidentiality.
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Human Centered Systems
● R&D to increase accessibility and usability of computingsystems and communications networks
● Potential beneficiaries include scientists, engineers,educators, students, the workforce, and the general public
● Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications(SIMA)
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FY 1998 Blue Book: HuCS Highlights (2)
Scientists can estimate the forces of the body’smuscles by simulating human movement onsupercomputers. Researchers have combined controltheory and mathematical modeling to determinemusculoskeletal forces during different activities.These graphical models of jumping and walkingincorporate joint angles from videotaped humansubjects. Each muscle, with its connecting tendons, isrepresented by a three-element skeletal entity,appearing in series.
One view of a virtual city created using the Virtual RealityModeling Language (VRML) by a team that isinvestigating the effects of visual cues in psychotherapyusing the Internet and VRML. Potential applicationsinclude treating acrophobia (fear of heights) and otherphobias. Patients might view this same street by lookingdown from the top floors of its skyscrapers.
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Education, Training, and Human Resources
● Research to advance education and trainingtechnologies
● Improve quality of science and education:.Educate and train students and professionals in applying the results ofHECC and LSN R&D through —.Curriculum development, fellowships, and scholarships
● Lead to more knowledgeable and productive citizens:.Apply interdisciplinary research to learning technologies. R&D in information-based learning tools, lifelong learning, anddistance learning
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FY 1998 Blue Book: ETHR Highlights
Dramatic image of an erupting volcano on Russia’sKamchatka Peninsula — one of many imagesavailable through NSF’s VizEarth Project.
AskERIC services provide users with customizedinformation on educational topics delivered via theInternet and commercial services.
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CIC R&D Research Facilities
NSFSupercomputing Centers (through FY 1998)
Cornell Theory Center (CTC)National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
PACI CentersNational Computational Science Alliance (NCSA)National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Center for Cognitive ScienceCenter for Computer Graphics and Scientific VisualizationCenter for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC)
NASATestbeds
Ames Research CenterGoddard Space Flight CenterJet Propulsion LaboratoryLangley Research CenterLewis Research Center
EPASystems
National Environmental Supercomputing Center
DOELaboratories
Argonne National LaboratoryLos Alamos National LaboratoryNational Energy Research Supercomputer CenterOak Ridge National Laboratory
NIHSystems
Frederick Biomedical Supercomputing CenterSupercomputing Resources
National Center for Research Resources’ High PerformanceComputing Resource Centers
Biomedical Computation ResourceParallel Computing Resource for Structural BiologyParallel Processing Resource for Biomedical ScientistsResource for Concurrent Biological ComputingSupercomputing for Biomedical ResearchTheoretical Simulation of Biological Systems
National Center for Research Resources’ Scientific VisualizationResource Centers
Interactive Graphics for Molecular StudiesSpecial Research Resource for Biomolecular Graphics
NOAALaboratories
Forecast Systems LaboratoryGeophysical Fluid Dynamics LaboratoryNational Centers for Environmental Prediction
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FY 1998 CIC R&D Budget Request(Dollars in Millions)