Campus Networking:The Importance of Researcher

Collaboration

Anita NikolichNational Science FoundationProgram Director, Advanced

CyberinfrastructureApril 2015

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NSF Core Mission: Fundamental Research

Fundamental Research

$7.7 billion FY 2016 research budget

94%funds research, education and related activities

50,000proposals

11,000awards funded

2,000NSF-funded institutions

300,000NSF-supported

researchers

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ACI Mission: Support advanced cyberinfrastructure to accelerate discovery and

innovation across all disciplines

• CI Coordination role across NSF• Interagency & International partnerships• Supports use-inspired Cyberinfrastructure for

research & education• Inherently multidisciplinary with strong ties to

all disciplines

Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate

Biological Sciences Directorate Mathematical & Physical Sciences Directorate

Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Directorate

Education & Human Resources Directorate

Engineering Directorate

Geosciences Directorate

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ACI programs reflect increasing CI diversity

Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)

Data Infrastructure Building Blocks  (DIBBs)

Campus C

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UtB, Brain Observatory BIGDATA

Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E

Blue WatersStampede

XSEDE …

WranglerCometJetstreamBridges

IRNC, CC*IIE, SATC, CICI

Data Science Pilots

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Example Science Drivers from ACI Networking Programs

(CC-NIE) UMaryland – developing network embedded storage and compute resources via Software Defined Networking (SDN) and exposing services to scientific applications and workflows

(CC-NIE) UWashington – campus networking upgrades doubled particle physics data transfers to/from PNNL to 1.4Gbps single flow (Ed Lazowska, PI)

(IRNC) 4X capacity improvement (80Gbps aggregate) in connecting Astronomy facilities in Hawaii to US mainland

(IRNC) 4X capacity improvement (40 Gbps aggregate) between US and South America – LSST may require 100Gbps by 2020

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University of Dayton Impact– “a high performance connection…driven by our NSF

strategy of providing DMZ connections for researchers with a specific need. NSF is truly helping the University of Dayton ‘raise the entire harbor’ for science and engineering work on campus and we have used the prestige of this grant to get the attention of our campus leadership to ensure the continued funding for HPC investments.

Impact on Dayton Partners - “Our work bringing up the connections at Central State Univ (Historically Black College) has gone well. Part of our funding supports upgrades at their campus. CSU does not have deep-expertise on networking at their campus, so we sent our engineering staff to supervise the work of contractors in upgrading their fiber and connecting the new DMZ infrastructure…the NSF support has truly transformed a chunk of the CSU network into a science-ready environment that has our researchers working collaboratively with their faculty and students. The funding from NSF is making a huge difference for several faculty and students at Central State - They are working on cutting edge projects with Vijay Asari on our campus in the area of "Computer Vision”

Thomas Skill, PI (CIO) University of Dayton

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CC*NIE Integration: University of Houston Upgrade of Regional Capacity to 100Gbps

“This expands the effected student base and researchers by multiple orders of magnitude. In fact, Baylor College of Medicine alone sometimes may require sustained ~5 Gbps upload processes that may go on for a few days at this time. Their genome researchers and other biomedical researchers are leaders in the nation. The other institutions include: MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Museum of Natural Science, University of Texas – Health Sciences Campus, and so on.

The network refresh has revamped the SETG organization to refresh their technical advisory group, decision processes, and future investment perspectives in supporting research in network science and engineering as well as better support of science data flows with more transparency and control.”

– Deniz Gurkan, PI, Univ. of Houston

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CC*IIE Campus Design: Northwest Indian College –Teaching/Learning & Science

High speed connectivity for distance learning, including federated identity.

Science DMZ to share GIS data, specimen catalogs, and experimental measurements

Broader Impact: Give American Indian students broader access to catalogs and computing resources at other institutions.

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CC*IIE Integration: Colorado State USupporting Climate Applications over NDN

Need: climate and other big data applications have overwhelmed existing networking and data management solutions Data size and diversity Naming, discovery, retrieval, sharing, etc.

Approach: migrate workflows to NDN Name based rather than host based

paradigm Easy migration: automatically translate

existing ad-hoc names to structured NDN names

Evaluate over state-of-the-art NDN testbed deployed in partnership with ESnet

Benefit: vastly simplified application and networking environment Robustness and speed: in-network caching,

efficient content distribution, automatic failover, security, etc.

Simplified management: highly structured, standardized naming across application domains

Trivial publishing, grouping and discovery

CSU(ATMOS)

CSU(CS)

DENVERSACRAMENTO

LBNL

UCSD (planned)

10G10G

10G

10G data discoveryand fast retrieval

#13410999: NSF CC-NIE Integration award

Publish

Retrieve

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Discovering the Campus Science & Engineering Drivers

Understand current and future research areas at funding agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE) – your scientists may be involved.

FY16 NSF-wide Projects (sample): INFEWS (Innovations at the Nexus of Food,

Energy, and Water Systems ) - $75MRisk and Resilience - $58MUnderstanding the Brain - $144M

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Lessons Learned

Know the hot areas for science & engineering investment. Anticipate researcher needs.

Partner with researchers on other solicitations, not just CC*DNI. They may need CI advice.

See what prior awards campus researchers have gotten – approach them about CI needs

Understand that CI is not their main concern Understand the science workflow and uses of

s/w, hardware and network

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More Lessons Learned

Be creative in possibilities that good CI can open up to your campus. Access to national and international resources

Think about how research more broadly will be affected, not just the 2-3 projects you choose as examples. What will long term impact be on campus?

Think about other partnerships – K-20 and community

Think big! Think about partners both on and off campus

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Details Count

Get your letters of support Don’t forget broader impacts Read the solicitation carefully. Your

proposal can be RWR for not containing required docs.

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Future: CC*??? Changes each year to adapt to NSF science-

driven community needs and opportunities, but the thematic remains constant – CISE/ACI recognizes the need to address CI challenges at the campus level

CC*DNI expanded this year to encompass more than just networking infrastructure and innovation

With program investments spread across 120+ campuses, the NSF community has many opportunities to share experiences, coordinate CI activities across campuses, and generally work together to CI-enable advances in science

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Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)

Help secure the Campus Cyberinfrastructure – apply for it!

NSF 15-549

Due June 2

$500K - $5M awards