Transcript NSF ACCI (Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure) Taskforce Update Presented at CASC Meeting 23 March 2010 Craig Stewart – [email protected] Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute Associate Dean, Research Technologies Indiana.

NSF ACCI (Advisory Committee for
Cyberinfrastructure) Taskforce
Update
Presented at CASC Meeting 23
March 2010
Craig Stewart – [email protected]
Executive Director, Pervasive
Technology Institute
Associate Dean, Research Technologies
Indiana University
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The Taskforces
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Campus Bridging
Data
Grand Challenge Task Force
High Performance Computing
Software and Tools
Workforce Development
Topic areas for Campus Bridging
• Campuses are the fundamental organizing principle and they
are not going to go away …… campuses are where the vast
majority of the implementation of campus research CI and
campus bridging technologies will occur.
• The large majority of the nation’s CI resources are paid for by
entities other than federal funding agencies (and particularly
NSF).
• What recommendations can we make to campuses to
optimize the nation’s CI resources and their use in science and
engineering? What can the NSF do to incent campuses?
• Visualization and library-based IT is primarily within the scope
of the Data taskforce
• Focus on practical recommendations for the next 1-3 years
but also looking far enough ahead in time.
Identity Management
• Shibboleth
• Working on plan to create a ‘cookbook’ for
campuses and for service providers
• Technical risk assessment (brief)
• Web access
• Unix prompt access (even if ugly)
Data-centric Campus Bridging Issues
(Guy Almes, lead)
• Networking design within campus and how it interacts with
national trends, international trends (including technology
trends of different scaling rates for different areas of
technology).
• How can the end-to-end network architecture meet the
needs (including data access and remote visualization)
stemming from Campus Bridging?
• From a researcher’s standpoint, how do I access and manage
my data (not necessarily knowing where my data are)
• Data storage infrastructure - what are the expectations on
campuses? Issues of reliability and data management
• Not in scope: Ontologies, Provenance, Specifics of workflows
Networking (Dave Jent, lead)
• Find best practices where campus networking is done well
• From the campus perspective: how to identify best practices in
campus networking and end-to-end computing architecture
(where that may mean lab to campus to RON to national
backbone to resource hanging off of national backbones)
• Can we also identify best practices in avoiding (or safely sitting
outside) campus CI when campus cybersecurity policiesconflict
with research needs
• How do you design a network for researchers when you are
designing overall for the masses or for campus business
operations? How can you solve networking bottlenecks in a
targeted way?
• What is the role of IPv6, wireless?
• Objective: create a document describing the minimal networking
facilities to support research within campus and from campus to
RON to national backbone networking
Workshop on networking and data
bridging issues!
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http://ndcampusbridging.iu-pti.org/
April 8-9 in scenic Indianapolis
Registration, call for white papers
Everyone has workshop fatigue but …
Middleware (Andrew Grimshaw and
John McGee, co-leads)
• Goal: Eliminate distinction between resources - providing
simple end-to-end intuitive interfaces
• Goal: Can we make a recommendation about best practices in
middleware that (while recognizing our software is not good
enough) do not require that the first step in making things
better is not rebuilding everything from scratch?
• Goal: make a small set of useful reference implementations of
software stacks
• Recommendation: NSF should create Advisory board on state
cyberinfrastructure - to make recommendations on State CI,
particularly targeted at EPSCOR states and smaller campuses
more generally where appropriate
Grand Challenge and VO workshop
22-23 April
• The GCC's and VO's Taskforce is planning on holding a
two-day workshop in Arlington VA. on April 22-23.
Initially we though that inviting all of the the TF leads
and liaisons plus the wider community would result in
a group of participants that would easily exceed the
capacity of the meeting room (~100). However, to date
responses have been very slow in coming in and we
would like to expand the invitee list to include all of the
members of the other Cyberscience Taskforces.
• [email protected]
• Draft of report to be available soon
CyberInfrastructure Framework 21
• High end computational, data, visualization and sensorbased systems and the associated user support needed for
transformative science;
• Activities that link cyberinfrastructure framework into
campuses (including government and business) and
programs that provide the widely dispersed, most broadly
based activities and resources…
• Major national and international research facilities and
collaborations
• A comprehensive plan for education and outreach in
computational science to support learning and workforce
development for 21st century science and engineering.
Contact points
• Campus Bridging - Craig Stewart, Chair, [email protected], Jim Bottum,
Co-Chair, [email protected]. Campus bridging reps will be attending Campus
CI days in listening mode.
• Data - Shenda Baker, Chair, [email protected]
• Grand Challenge Communities and Virtual Organizations - J. Tinsley Oden,
Chair, [email protected], John King, Co-Chair, [email protected]
• High Performance Computing - Thomas Zacharia, Chair,
[email protected], Jim Kinter, Co-Chair, [email protected]
• Software and Tools - David Keyes, Chair, [email protected], Valerie
Taylor, Co-Chair, [email protected]
• Learning and Work Force Development - Alex Ramirez, Chair,
[email protected]
• Useful web sites
– https://nsf.sharepointspace.com/acci_public/default.aspx
– www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.pdf