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Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) and

Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototypes (CEO:P)

Kevin Thompson

Office of Cyberinfrastructure

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Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI)

Follow-on to NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) 2001-2005– Purpose - To design, develop, deploy and support a set of reusable and

expandable middleware functions that benefit many science and engineering applications in a networked environment

– Program encouraged open source development– Program funded development, integration, deployment and support

Notable NMI Outcomes– Condor – mature distributed computing system installed on, as of

10/26/06, >1500 CPU “pools” and >100,000 CPUs worldwide (registered hosts only, not including industry adoption)

– Shibboleth – privacy-preserving attribute exchange framework providing federated Single-SignOn across or within organizational boundaries and simplifying identity management and access permissions

– Globus - an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications

– NMI Build and Test - community resource and framework for multi-platform build and test of grid software

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SDCI – NSF Solicitation 07-503

$14M across 3 Areas of software and tools:– High Performance Computing (HPC) environments

– Digital data acquisition, discovery, access, analysis, and preservation

– Middleware capabilities and services to support distributed resource sharing and virtual organizations

Full Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2007

Award characteristics

– $50,000 - $1,000,000 a year

– 2-3 years

– Estimated number: 10 to 20

Special Award conditions– Working prototypes required mid-course– Use of NMI Build and Test in development process– Open Source

Solicitation covers both new development and enhancement of existing software systems

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Environmental Observatories and CI

Environmental Observatories and related projects at NSF– Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)– National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON)– Collaborative, Large-Scale, Engineering Analysis Network for

Environmental Research (CLEANER), now “WATERS”– Others: SEEK, SCEC-CME, GEON, ROADNet, LEAD, etc.

Challenges– How to enable the research community to use cyber research

environments– How to promote interoperability between major observatory

communities– How to keep cycles of development connected and on target– How to ensure the workforce for CI development and maintenance

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Now is the TimeNow is the Time: The nexus is the major : The nexus is the major advances in other fields that are advances in other fields that are transforming environmental sciences.transforming environmental sciences.

• TelecommunicationsTelecommunications• Computer SciencesComputer Sciences• GenomicsGenomics• RoboticsRobotics• Information TechnologiesInformation Technologies• Sensor NetworksSensor Networks

Science and technology Science and technology evolving together allow for evolving together allow for advances that neither one advances that neither one could accomplish in isolation.could accomplish in isolation.

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ORION is committed to ORION is committed to THREETHREE OOI observatory OOI observatory components:components:

• Coastal observatoriesCoastal observatories• Regional cabled observatoryRegional cabled observatory• Global observatoriesGlobal observatories

with with INTEGRATIONINTEGRATION of the three components through of the three components through CyberinfrastructureCyberinfrastructure

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Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototypes (CEO:P)

NSF Solicitation 06-505– Goal: development of practical environmental cyberinfrastructure prototypes along

with a demonstration of their capability to answer significant environmental research questions

CEO:P Program Characteristics– “The project team includes both environmental researchers and information scientists, with

environmental researchers from at least two of the following environmental disciplines - ocean science, ecology, atmospheric science, or environmental engineering;”

– End-to-end approach to an information infrastructure prototype– Leverage existing data sources, working with real environmental data– Development that fills gaps in needed capabilities across environmental observatories– Well-defined use cases– project milestones leading to a working prototype and initial deployment

Cross-Directorate Participation with $8.5M in combined funding– BIO – Elizabeth Blood and Peter McCartney, PDs of NEON– ENG – Pat Brezonik, PD of WATERS– OCE (GEO) – Alexandra Isern, PD of OOI– OCI – Steve Meacham and Kevin Thompson

• Panel Review May 2006, 34 proposed projects• 5 Awards were made

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CEO:P Awards

“A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared Cyberinfrastructure: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO)”, PI:Thomas Gross (Chesapeake Research Consortium)

– Domain: Ecology, Oceanography, Engineering– Geographic Area: Chesapeake Bay– Question: Seasonal hypoxia in coastal waters– CI: Data integration, Sensors

“A Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Component for Coastal Forecasting and Change Analysis”, PI: Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State)

• Domain: Oceanography, Atmospheric• Geographic Area: Great Lakes• Question: Forecasting coastal conditions and erosion• CI: Data integration, Image analysis, data mining, workflow

“C4E4: Cyberinfrastructure for end-to-end environmental explorations”, PI:Bernard Engel (Purdue)

– Domain: Atmospheric, Hydrology, Engineering– Geographic Area: St. Joseph Watershed, IN– Questions: Impacts of local & real-time information on predicting environmental quality– CI: Grid computing, Information portals

“Management: and Analysis of Environmental Observatory Data using the Kepler Scientific Workflow System”, PI:Matthew Jones (UCSB)

• Domain: Ecology, Oceanography• Geographic Area: Western grasslands, Oceans• Question: Pathogen vectors in exotic plant invasion, Quality assurance in sea surface temp data.• CI: Workflow processing, system health monitoring

“COMET: Coast-to-Mountain Environmental Transect”, PI: Michael Gertz (UC Davis)• Domain: Ecology, Atmospheric• Geographic Area: California Coast-Sierra• Question: Impacts of novel climate conditions on ecosystems• CI: Federated data systems, model integration