Transcript Cosmos Club Presentation 12/19/02

NSF Update
Kevin Thompson
NSF CISE/ANIR
October 14, 2003
Outline
• A few (more) words on
Cyberinfrastructure
• A few words on CISE/ANIR
• Overview of ANIR Programs
• New awards across 4 ANIR programs
and ACIR’s ETF
• CISE reorganization
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Evolution of the Computational
Infrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure
Terascale
PACI
TCS, DTF,
ETF
NPACI and
Alliance
NSF Networking
Prior
Computing
Investments
Supercomputer Centers
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1985
SDSC, NCSA,
PSC, CTC
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1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
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Setting the Stage
Daniel E. Atkins, Chair, University of
Michigan
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, University of
Oklahoma
Stuart I. Feldman, IBM
Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford
University
Michael L. Klein, University of
Pennsylvania
David G. Messerschmitt, University of
California at Berkeley
Paul Messina, California Institute of
Technology
Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Princeton
University
Margaret H. Wright,New York
University
http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/
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Cyberinfrastructure Promise
• Ubiquitous, digital knowledge
environments that are both interactive and
functionally complete………… (Atkins report)
• revolutionize the processes of discovery,
learning and innovation across the science
and engineering frontier.
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Cyberinfrastructure Characteristics
• Community-Focused
– virtual organizations
– distributed,
– collaborative
• Scale and Scope
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Multidisciplinary
International
Supporting data- and compute-intensive applications
High-end to desktop
Heterogenuous
• Common Technology & Policy Platform(s)
– Interoperability
– Supports characteristics above
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Cyberinfrastructure Early Adopters
• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(NEES)
• National Ecological Observatory Network
(NEON)
• Biomedical Informatics Research Network
(BIRN)
• Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF)
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Extensible Terascale Facility
A Heterogenuous Grid Environment
Existing ETF Partners
Hubs
New Partners
Los
Angeles
Chicago
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Integrated CI System
Applications
Education and Training
Discovery & Innovation
meeting the needs of a community of communities
• Environmental Science
• High Energy Physics
• Proteomics/Genomics
•…
Development
Tools & Libraries
Domainspecific
Cybertools
(software)
Shared
Cybertools
(software)
Grid Services
& Middleware
Hardware
Distributed
Resources
(computation,
communication
storage, etc.)
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Shared Cybertools
(Middleware Tools and Services)
Basic Services
Security, Scheduling, Data Services, Database Services,
User Services, Application Management Services,
Autonomy and Monitoring Services, Information
Services, Composition Service, Messaging Service
Application Level Services
People Collaboration, Resource Collaboration,
Decision-Making Services, Knowledge Discovery
Services, Workflow Services, Universal Access
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Challenging Context
• Institutional & Infrastructural Ecology
– Technological change more rapid than institutional change
• Broadening Participation
• Community-Building
• Seamless Integration of New and Old
– Balancing upgrades of existing and creation of new
resources
– Legacy data/models
• Providing sustainable support
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Plan of Action
• Focused, cross-cutting attention on cyberinfrastructure – not
business as usual
• Internal NSF planning now underway - active discussion on
specific cyberinfrastructure issues
• Community building - broad consultations with
scientific/engineering communities is intensifying
• 2003 workshops and town hall meetings – management models
• NSF FY05 budget planning for cyberinfrastructure underway
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CISE/ANIR
• CISE - Computer and Information
Science and Engineering Directorate
• 3 Goals
– to enable the U.S. to uphold a position of world
leadership in computing, communications, and
information science and engineering
– To promote understanding of the principles and uses of
advanced computing, communications and information
systems in service to society
– To contribute to universal, transparent and affordable
participation in an information-based society.
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CISE/ANIR
• 5 Divisions
– Advanced Computational Infrastructure & Research
(ACIR)
– Advanced Networking Infrastructure & Research (ANIR)
– Computer-Communications Research (CCR)
– Experimental & Integrative Activities (EIA)
– Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)
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CISE/ANIR
• ANIR - The programs focus on the fundamental
science and technology needed to facilitate the
efficient, high-speed transfer of information through
networks and distributed systems. Projects funded
span the entire spectrum, from network design and
performance evaluation to middleware and software
frameworks in support of applications running on top
of networks and distributed systems.
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ANIR Programs in 2003
• Network Research (NR) Program
• Special Projects (SP) Program
• High Performance Network Connections for Science and
Engineering Research (HPNC)
• Network Research Testbeds (NRT)
• Experimental Infrastructure Networks (EIN)
• NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)
• Strategic Technologies for the Internet (STI)
• Other Cross Directorate
– ITR (Information Technology Research)
– REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
– Career
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Network Research Testbeds
• Characteristics
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Disruptive technologies and approaches
Hybrid and experimental designs
End-device research
Core technology development
New protocol research
Alternative network architectures
Testbed implementations
• $9M spent in 2003 funds
• 10 awards given (3 are collaborative)
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NRT Awards
• Collaborative Research: A Unified Experimental Environment
for Diverse Networks
– PI: Paul Barford (UWisc) and Jay Lapreau (Utah) for $4.6M
• Collaborative: Testing and Benchmarking Methodologies for
Future Network Security Mechanisms
– Pis: George Kesidis, Karl Levitt, Vern Paxson (ICSI), Catherine
Rosenburg (Purdue) for $5.3M
• Orbit: Open-Access Research Testbed for Next-Generation
Wireless Networks
– PI: Dipankar Raychaudt (Rutgers) for $5.8M
• Agile and Efficient Ultra-Wideband Wireless Network Testbed
for Challenged Environments
– PI: Moe Win (MIT) for $3.1M
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NRT Awards in 2003
• Heterogeneous Wireless Access Network Test Bed
– PI: Paul Kolodzy (Stevens) for $800k
• Scalable Testbed for Next-Generation Mobile Wireless
Networking Technologies
– PI: Ravive Bagrodia (UCLA) for $5.4M
• National Radio Networking Research Testbed (NRNRT)
– PI: Gary Minden (Kansa) for $1.8M
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Experimental Infrastructure
Networks (EIN)
• Complimentary program to NRT
• Characteristics
– Control/management of the infrastructure end-to-end
– End-to-end performance/support w/ dedicated
provisioning
– Pre-market technologies, experimental h/w, alpha
software
– Significant collaboration vertically and across sites
– Persistence, w/ repeatable network experiments and/or
reconfigurability
– Experimental protocols, configurations, and approaches
for high throughput, low latency, large bursts
• $10M spent in 2003 funds
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EIN Awards in 2003
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Collaborative Research: Dynamic Resource Allocation for GMPLS:
Optical Networks (DRAGON)
– PIs: Jerry Sobieski UMd), Herbert Schorr (Tom Lehman - ISI East), and
Bijan Jabbari (GMU) for $6.5M
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Collaborative Research: End-to-End Provisioned Optical Network
Tested for Large-Scale eScience Applications (CHEETAH)
– PIs: Malathi Veeraraghavan (UVA), John Blondin (NC St.), and
Nageswara Rao (ORNL) for $3.5M
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Collaborative Research: Cyber Defense Technology Experimental
Research Network (DETER)
– Pis: Shankar Sastry, and Clifford Neuman for $6M
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Collaborative Research: PlanetLab: An Overlay Testbed for
Disruptive Network Services
– Larry Peterson, David Culler and Thomas Anderson for $3.2M
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WAN-in-Lab: PI - Steven Low, Caltech,(co-funded w/ EIA) for $600k
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NSF Middleware Initiative
• Purpose - To design, develop, deploy and support
a set of reusable, expandable set of middleware
functions and services that benefit applications in a
networked environment
• Program created by Alan Blatecky
• 2003 marks the 3rd set of awards
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2003 NSF Middleware Initiative Program Awards
• 20 awards totaling $9M
– 10 “System Integrator” awards
• Focus – to further develop the integration and support
infrastructure of middleware for the longer term
• Themes - extending and deepening current activities,
and expanding into new areas
– 10 smaller awards focused on near-term
capabilities and tool development
• Focus – to encourage the development of additional
new middleware components and capabilities for the
NMI program
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NMI “SI” Awards in 2003
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Disseminating and Supporting Middleware Infrastructure:
Engaging and Expanding Scientific Grid Communities
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Designing and Building a National Middleware Infrastructure
(NMI-2)
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PI: Klingenstein (UCAID) for $1.8M
Instruments and Sensors as Network Services: Instruments as
First Class Members of the Grid
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PI: Miron Livny (U Wisc) for $1.8M
Extending Integrated Middleware to Collaborative
Environments in Research and Education
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PI: Carl Kesselman (USC/ISI) for $1.8M
An Integrative Testing Framework for Grid Middleware and Grid
Environments
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PI: Randy Butler (NCSA) for $1.8M
PI: Rick McMullen (Indiana) for $1.6M
Collaborative Proposal: Middleware for Grid Portal
Development
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Pis: Pierce (Indiana - Lead), Alameda, Severance, Thomas, and von Laszewski for $3M
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NMI - Looking Ahead
• There will be an NMI solicitation in 2004
• Exact funding level not set
• NMI program is expected to be a primary focus area
under CISE’s new division - Shared
Cyberinfrastructure
• October 23 Review at NSF for existing activities
among the Grids Center and EDIT teams
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Strategic Technologies for the
Internet (STI)
• Theme areas in 2003
– complex network monitoring, problem detection and
resolution mechanisms
– development of automated and advanced network tools
– networked applications tools or network-based
middleware
– creation of usable and widely deployable networking
applications that promote collaborative research and
information sharing.
– innovative access network technologies
• $5.2M in FY 2003 funds
• 14 awards
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STI Awards in 2003
• A Security Architecture for IP Telephony
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PI: Dipak Ghosal (UC Davis) for $160k
• Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
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PI: Joanne Hugi (Oregon) for $385k
• Plethora: A Wide-Area Read-Write Object Repository for the
Internet
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PI: Suresh Jagganath (Purdue) for $550k
• Marist Grid Collaboration in Support of Advanced Internet and
Research Applications
• PI: Kamran Khan (Marist) for $500k
• Implementation of a Handle/DNS Server
• PI: Robert Khan (CNRI) for $500k
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STI Awards in 2003
• Effective Diagnostic Strategies for Wide Area Networks
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PI: Matt Mathis (CMU) for $900k
• Development of an Infrastructure for Real-Time Super Media
over the Internet
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PI: Mathew Mutka (Michigan St.) for $750k
• Viable Network Defense for Scientific Research Institutions
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PI: Vern Paxson (ICSI) for $900k
• The Strategic Technology Astronomy Research Team
(START) Collaboratory: Broadening Participation in Authentic
Astronomy Research
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PI: Morteza Rahimi (NWU) for $600k
• Network Measurement, Monitoring and Analysis in Cluster
Computing
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PI: Tony Rimovsky (UIUC) for $800k
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STI Awards in 2003
• Towards more Secure Inter-Domain Routing
• PI: Aviel Rubin (JHU) for $615k
• XCP Development
• Aaron Falk (ISI) for $640k
• Media Aware Congestion Control
• Herbert Schorr (USC) for $710k
• Self-Organizing Spectrum Allocation
• David Staelin (MIT) for $520k
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$10 M TeraGrid Extensions Program
FY 2003
• Open to all academic institutions and FFRDCs
• Provide connection to one of the TeraGrid Hubs
– Hardware for connection including router hardware for
hubs, router hardware for institution and fiber
connection to Los Angeles or Chicago
• 13 Proposals received on June 9
• Proposals panel review on June 26, 27
• 3 Awards announced on October 29
– Additional hub placed in Atlanta
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FY 2003 Terascale Extension Awards
• $3.9 M to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to establish a
10-Gbps network connection through a new ETF network hub to
be located in Atlanta.
– connecting ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor and Spallation Neutron Source
instruments, as well as Center for Computational Sciences that houses
leading edge high-end computing and storage resources
• $3 M to Indiana University and Purdue University to build a 20gigabit-per-second connection from those institutions through
Indianapolis to the existing ETF hub in Chicago.
– 6.26 teraflops of computing capability; 400 terabytes of data storage
capacity; visualization resources; specialized instrumentation including the
Purdue Terrestrial Observatory and a number of life science data sets.
• $3.2 M to The University of Texas, the Texas Advanced
Computing Center (TACC) to establish a 10-gigabit-per-second
through the new ETF hub in Atlanta.
– access to high-end computers capable of 6.2 teraflops, its new terascale
visualization system, the center's 2.8-petabyte mass storage system and
geoscience data collections.
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Extensible Terascale Facility 2003
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Finally, a words on the CISE
Reorganization
• Drivers - CISE’s growing importance
• Enormous impact of IT on all areas of NSF
• National leader in computer, information science and
engineering
• Critical to success of cybertrust, cyberscience,
national and homeland defense, and continued
economic growth
• Conceptual Drivers
• Atkins report: “CISE must be deeply involved as a
technology user and as a technology leader for the
overall [CI] program”.
• CISE Advisory Committee: “CISE organization
structure should promote intellectual integrity and
cohesiveness, should be flexible and fundamental
enough to last 10 years”.
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Reorg Objectives
• Capitalize on emerging scientific opportunities
• Build on CISE’s and NSF’s organizational successes
• Ensure integration of education with research in all CISE
activities
• Sharpen programmatic focus and enhance budget flexibility
• Enhance intellectual coherence in CISE cross-cutting,
thematic areas
• Increase research and education opportunities that will
broaden participation in CISE activities
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Additional Objectives
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Decrease the number of CISE programs
thereby combating the tendency to reductionism in programmatic
activity while promoting more integration
Encourage the growth of cohesive scientific communities in
important or emerging sub-disciplines
Provide for more flexibility in defining and redefining cross-cutting
priorities and emerging priorities of national and/or societal
interest
Empower CISE staff with the organizational, budget, and
management support necessary to remain focused on key
programmatic activities and goals
Improve effectiveness and efficiency of CISE business practices by
reducing program overlap and enhancing program synergy
Position the Directorate for continued, strong budgetary growth and
programmatic evolution.
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Proposed Divisions and Areas of
Responsibility
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Division of Computing & Communication Foundations (CCF)
– Formal and mathematical foundations
– Foundations of computing processes and artifacts
– Emerging models for technology and computation
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Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
– Computer systems
– Networks
– Computing research infrastructure
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Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
– Systems in context
– Understanding, inference, & data
– Data-driven science
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Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure (SCI)
– Infrastructure planning, constructing, commissioning, & operations
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Timeline - sometime between now and end-of-year
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For more info on NSF awards
Fastlane.nsf.gov
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