Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the US National Science Foundation

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Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives at the US
National Science Foundation

• Stephen Nash
• Program Director, Operations Research
• U.S. National Science Foundation

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Outline

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Design Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
• Accomplishments
• Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Within Engineering
• Funding Initiatives

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NSF Funding in the U.S. Federal Context
NSF is 4 of Overall Federal RD Budget
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Follow the Money, Technology Review, March 2005,
36-45.
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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 NSFs Strategic Planning Document
http//nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_keyn
sf04201
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Outline

• National Science Foundation
• Design Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
• Accomplishments
• Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Within Engineering
• Funding Initiatives

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National Science Foundation
National Science Board
Office of theInspector General
Director
Staff Offices
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National Science Foundation
National Science Board
Office of theInspector General
Director
Staff Offices
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Directorate for Engineering
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Directorate for Engineering
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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
  todays 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

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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

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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

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Outline

• National Science Foundation
• Design Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
• Accomplishments
• Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Within Engineering
• Funding Initiatives

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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

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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)

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Outline

• National Science Foundation
• Design Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
• Accomplishments
• Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Within Engineering
• Funding Initiatives

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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

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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

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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
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Outline

• National Science Foundation
• Design Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
• Accomplishments
• Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Within Engineering
• Funding Initiatives

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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

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NCN Nanoscale Computational Network
software  simulation services  educational
resources
on-line 24 hours/day since 1995 400,000
simulations since 2000
PUNCH grid computing middleware
results
3)
1)
software applications
2)
computing resources
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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.

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Cyber-Infrastructure Research Projects in DMI

• Real-time
• Dynamic
• Multi-scale
• Robust
• Data driven

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Another side of CIwww.nanoHUB.org
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Outline

• National Science Foundation
• Design Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
• Accomplishments
• Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Within Engineering
• Funding Initiatives

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Emerging Frontiers inResearch Innovation

• One of this years topics
  Auto-reconfigurable Engineered Systems
  Enabled by Cyber-Infrastructure
• Some relevant research topics
• Design methodologies
• Systems modeling
• Optimization
• Planning
• Simulation

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CI Experiences for Graduate Students

• Under consideration for 2007

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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

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Summary

• National Science Foundation
• Design Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
• Accomplishments
• Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Within Engineering
• Funding Initiatives

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Questions?
Stephen Nash Program Director, Operations
Research U.S. National Science Foundation snash_at_ns
f.gov