Cyberinfrastructure Planningat NSF

Deborah L. Crawford

Acting Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure

HPC Acquisition Models

September 9, 2005

Recent Happenings

• Office of Cyberinfrastructure established

• Search for Office Director – position posted

• Advisory Committee for CI

• Agency-wide Strategic Planning Process Underway

• Cyberinfrastructure Council established

Education &Training

Data,Data Analysis &

Visualization

Collaboration,Communication

&Remote Access

Cyberinfrastructure Components

High PerformanceComputing

CI Strategic Planning

• Ch. 1: Call to Action

• Ch. 2: Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing

• Ch. 3: Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization

• Ch. 5: Strategic Plan for Education & Workforce Development

• Ch. 4: Strategic Plan for Collaboration, Communication & Remote Access

CI “Vision” document

Creating a World-Class HPC EnvironmentTo Enable Petascale Science and Engineering

Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing

(FY 2006 – 2010)

Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing

(2006-2010)

Private Sector

Agency Partners

HPC Resource Providers

S&ECommunity

Portable, Scalable Applications Software &Services

SoftwareService

Provider (SSP)

SSP

SSP

Science-Driven HPC Systems

ComputeEngines

Local Storage Visualization

Facilities

ETF (Teragrid) and HPCTwo sides of the Same Coin

Provides a Unified User Environment to Support

High-capability, Production-quality CI Services.

• Production HPC is one of several CI service components• Integration of services provided by grid technologies• Distributed, open architecture, sites may join

SSP

SSP

SSP

World-class HPC EnvironmentFor Petascale Science and

Engineering

• Production HPC is the focus• Portability and scalability addressed in software engineering services• NSF and partner agencies support range of activities

Cyberinfrastructure Vision

NSF will lead the development and support of a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure essential to 21st century advances

in science and engineering.

Internet2 Universities206 University Members, May 2005

Internet2 Universities206 University Members, May 2005Science Communities and Outreach

¥ Communities¥ CERNÕs Large Hadron Collider

experiments

¥ Physicists working in HEP andsimilarly data intensive scientificdisciplines

¥ National collaborators and thoseacross the digital divide indisadvantaged countries

¥ Scope¥ Interoperation between LHC

Data Grid Hierarchy and ETF

¥ Create and Deploy ScientificData and Services Grid Portals

¥ Bring the Power of ETF to bearon LHC Physics Analysis: Helpdiscover the Higgs Boson!

¥ Partners¥ Caltech

¥ University of Florida

¥ Open Science Grid and Grid3

¥ Fermilab

¥ DOE PPDG

¥ CERN

¥ NSF GriPhyn and iVDGL

¥ EU LCG and EGEE

¥ Brazil (UERJ,É )

¥ Pakistan (NUST, É )

¥ Korea (KAIST,É )

LHC Data Distribution Model

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