Engineering Advisory Committee Cyberinfrastructure Subcommittee -- Prologue

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Engineering Advisory Committee Cyberinfrastructure
Subcommittee -- Prologue

• Dr. Francine Berman
• Director, SDSC and NPACI
• Professor and High Performance Computing Endowed
  Chair, Department of Computer Science and
  Engineering, UC San Diego
• Engineering Advisory Committee

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EAC-CI Charge

• The EAC-CI will work with the Engineering
  Directorate's Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
  (CIWG) to help assess the opportunities and
  challenges for the Engineering Directorate in
  Cyberinfrastructure.
• The EAC-CI will provide advice on how the
  Engineering Directorate can contribute to the
  design, development, deployment, and use of
  Cyberinfrastructure to promote discoveries and
  innovations in engineering.
• Particular areas of discussion will include
• What milestones should be used to measure
  progress of CI, and what metrics should be used
  to assess the impact of CI on Engineering
  research, education, and innovation?
• What kinds of activities should ENG encourage to
  build a Cyberinfrastructure community among
  Engineers?

Cyberinfrastructure is the coordinated
aggregate of software, hardware and other
technologies, as well as human expertise,
required to support current and future
discoveries in science and engineering.
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EAC-CI Members

• Francine Berman (SDSC and UCSD) (chair)
• James Bernard (Iowa State University)
• Cherri Pancake (Oregon State University)
• Lilian Wu (IBM Corporation)
• Suvrajeet Sen Program Director (OR/DMII), Chair
  of the Engineering CIWG, liaison with EAC-CI

• Whats Expected
• The subcommittee will present a
  preliminary report at the November 8-9, 2005 ENG
  Advisory Committee meeting.
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  It will
  complete its report by December 31, 2005.

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Key Questions for ENG CIWG and EAC-CI

• What types of tools and technologies are needed
  to enable Engineering research and education?
• What is already being adequately provided by the
  Engineering Directorate? By other Directorates?
  By other agencies and community venues?
• Where are the "gaps"? What is currently needed
  in Cyberinfrastructure to enable Engineering
  research and education?
• What kind of research, development, deployment is
  needed to address the "gaps"? What might be done
  within the Engineering Directorate and what might
  be done Foundation-wide?
• How could Cyberinfrastructure be used to move the
  discipline forward to the next generation of
  technology-enabled research and education? What
  new uses/tools/technologies should be encouraged
  to move ahead?

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Work Plan

• EAC-CI will meet regularly over the next 6 months
  addressing the charge
• Work with ENG CIWG
• Advice on CI
• Formulate CI milestones and metrics of success
• Formulate ideas for building ENG CI community
• Preliminary report will be described at next EAC
  meeting