Cyberinfrastructure: Initiatives at the
US National Science Foundation
Stephen Nash
Program Director, Operations Research
U.S. National Science Foundation
Outline
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
– Accomplishments
– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
– Within Engineering
– Funding Initiatives
NSF Funding in the
U.S. Federal Context
NSF's Role in Federal R&D Funding
Other Federal R&D Funding
NSF Funding
NSF is 4% of Overall Federal R&D Budget
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Follow the Money, Technology Review, March 2005, 36-45.
NSF Role in U.S. Academic Research
• 13% of all federal support for basic research
• 80% of budget goes to colleges and
universities
• 40% of non-life-science basic research at
U.S. academic institutions.
Taken from NSF’s Strategic Planning Document
http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf04201
Outline
• National Science Foundation
– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
– Accomplishments
– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
– Within Engineering
– Funding Initiatives
National Science Foundation
Office of the
Inspector General
National Science Board
Director
Staff Offices
Office of
CyberInfrastructure
Directorate for
Biological
Sciences
Polar and
Antarctic
Programs
Directorate for
Computer and
Information
Science and
Engineering
Directorate for
Geosciences
Directorate for
Education and
Human
Resources
Directorate for
Mathematical
and Physical
Sciences
Directorate
For
Engineering
Directorate for
Social,
Behavioral,
and Economic
Sciences
National Science Foundation
Office of the
Inspector General
National Science Board
Director
Staff Offices
Office of
CyberInfrastructure
Directorate for
Biological
Sciences
Polar and
Antarctic
Programs
Directorate for
Computer and
Information
Science and
Engineering
Directorate for
Geosciences
Directorate for
Education and
Human
Resources
Directorate for
Mathematical
and Physical
Sciences
Directorate
For
Engineering
Directorate for
Social,
Behavioral,
and Economic
Sciences
Directorate for Engineering
Office of the
Assistant Director
Bioengineering &
Environmental
Systems
Office of
Industrial Innovation
Civil & Mechanical
Systems
Design &
Manufacturing
Innovation
Senior Advisor:
Nano-Technology
Chemical &Transport
Systems
Electrical &
Communications
Systems
Engineering
Education &
Centers
Directorate for Engineering
Office of the
Assistant Director
Bioengineering &
Environmental
Systems
Office of
Industrial Innovation
Civil & Mechanical
Systems
Design &
Manufacturing
Innovation
Senior Advisor:
Nano-Technology
Chemical &Transport
Systems
Electrical &
Communications
Systems
Engineering
Education &
Centers
About Design &
Manufacturing Innovation
• Support fundamental research to define the frontiers of
design, manufacturing, and service
– create the enterprises of tomorrow
– assure future competitiveness and productivity of today’s
enterprises
• Integrate education and research to develop a diverse,
globally-competitive engineering workforce
•
In FY 04:
– received 1077 proposals and made 210 awards,
– Mean annual award: $111,500
– Mean duration of awards: 2.8 years
Division of Design &
Manufacturing Innovation
Academic Research Programs:
• Manufacturing Processes and Equipment Systems
Cluster
– Materials Processing & Manufacturing
– Manufacturing Machines and Equipment
– Nanomanufacturing
• Engineering Decision Systems Cluster
– Engineering Design
– Manufacturing Enterprise Systems
– Service Enterprise Systems
– Operations Research
Division of Design &
Manufacturing Innovation
Academic Research Programs:
• Manufacturing Processes and Equipment Systems
Cluster
– Materials Processing & Manufacturing
– Manufacturing Machines and Equipment
– Nanomanufacturing
• Engineering Decision Systems Cluster
– Engineering Design
– Manufacturing Enterprise Systems
– Service Enterprise Systems
– Operations Research
• Quantitative tools for decision making
Outline
• National Science Foundation
– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
– Accomplishments
– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
– Within Engineering
– Funding Initiatives
Mapping One Million Atoms
of a Complete Virus
• Visualize the atomic
structure of the satellite
tobacco mosaic virus
• 1,000,000 atoms
interacting every
femtosecond (10-15
second)
• 50 nanosecond simulation
(100-day computation –
35 years on a desktop)
– Led by Klaus Schulten
(University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)
– Press Release 06-049,
March 23, 2006
Modeling Turbulent
Fluid Flow
• Vortex models of
turbulent air flow
• 1,000,000 vortices
• Solution of nonlinear
PDEs
• Team headed by Peter
Bernard (University
of Maryland)
Outline
• National Science Foundation
– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
– Accomplishments
– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
– Within Engineering
– Funding Initiatives
Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Acquisition, development, and provision of state-of-the-art
cyberinfrastructure resources, tools, and services.
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Supercomputers
High-capacity mass-storage systems
Data repositories and data management systems
Visualization tools
Programming environments
Software libraries
Networks
• Training of researchers and educators to use
cyberinfrastructure for research and education
Office of Cyber-Infrastructure:
Mission
• Provide the science and engineering
communities with:
– high performance computing
– data, data analysis, and visualization
– collaboratories, observatories, and virtual
organizations
– education and workforce development
Drivers & Opportunities
• How does a protein fold?
• What happens to space-time when two
black holes collide?
• What are the key factors that drive climate
change?
• Can we create an individualized model of
each human being for targeted healthcare
delivery?
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf
Outline
• National Science Foundation
– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
– Accomplishments
– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
– Within Engineering
– Funding Initiatives
CI & Engineering
• Some distinctive topics:
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Sensor networks
Design and control of complex systems
Multi-scale phenomena
Real-time computations
• Some Engineering investments:
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NCN: Nanoscale Computational Network
NNIN: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
NEES: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
CLEANER/WatERS Network: Collaborative Large-scale
Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research / Water
and Environmental Research Systems
NCN: Nanoscale
Computational Network
• software
• simulation services
• educational resources
1)
software
applications
on-line 24 hours/day since 1995
~ 400,000 simulations since 2000
PUNCH
grid computing
middleware
3) results
2)
computing
resources
Linux cluster
NEES: Network for Earthquake
Engineering Simulation
• A network of 15 experimental sites featuring advanced
tools:
– Shake tables
– Centrifuges that simulate earthquake effects
– A tsunami wave basin
• Linked to a centralized data pool and earthquake
simulation software
• NEESgrid, a communications web
that uses collaborative tools and
tele-presence technologies, allows
off-site real-time interactions
• http://www.nees.org.
Cyber-Infrastructure &
Research Projects in DMI
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Real-time
Dynamic
Multi-scale
Robust
Data driven
Another side of CI:
www.nanoHUB.org
Outline
• National Science Foundation
– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
– Accomplishments
– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
– Within Engineering
– Funding Initiatives
Emerging Frontiers in
Research & Innovation
• One of this year’s topics:
Auto-reconfigurable Engineered Systems
Enabled by Cyber-Infrastructure
• Some relevant research topics:
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Design methodologies
Systems modeling
Optimization
Planning
Simulation
CI Experiences for
Graduate Students
• Under consideration for 2007
Information and Intelligent
Systems (NSF 06-572)
• Advancing Human-Centered Computing,
Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust
Intelligence
– Creativity, discovery, and reasoning by human beings and
machines
– How can computational systems perform tasks
autonomously, robustly, and flexibly?
– Globalization of communications and commerce
– Problem-solving in distributed environments
– Multi-agent systems that solve complex problems, in
domains such as disaster response and e-commerce
Summary
• National Science Foundation
– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure
– Accomplishments
– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure
– Within Engineering
– Funding Initiatives
Questions?
Stephen Nash
Program Director, Operations Research
U.S. National Science Foundation
snash@nsf.gov