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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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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
National Science Board
Director
Office of theInspector General
Office of Cyber-
Infrastructure
Polar andAntarcticPrograms
Directorate forBiologicalSciences
Directorate forGeosciences
Directorate forComputer and
InformationScience andEngineering
Directorate forMathematicaland Physical
Sciences
Directorate forSocial,
Behavioral,and Economic
Sciences
Directorate forEducation and
HumanResources
DirectorateFor
Engineering
Staff Offices
National Science Foundation
National Science Board
Director
Office of theInspector General
Office of Cyber-
Infrastructure
Polar andAntarcticPrograms
Directorate forBiologicalSciences
Directorate forGeosciences
Directorate forComputer and
InformationScience andEngineering
Directorate forMathematicaland Physical
Sciences
Directorate forSocial,
Behavioral,and Economic
Sciences
Directorate forEducation and
HumanResources
DirectorateFor
Engineering
Staff Offices
Directorate for Engineering
Office ofIndustrial Innovation
Office ofIndustrial Innovation
Chemical &TransportSystems
Chemical &TransportSystems
Office of theAssistant Director
Design &Manufacturing
Innovation
Civil & MechanicalSystems
Electrical &Communications
Systems
EngineeringEducation &
Centers
Bioengineering &Environmental
Systems
Senior Advisor:Nano-Technology
Directorate for Engineering
Office ofIndustrial Innovation
Office ofIndustrial Innovation
Chemical &TransportSystems
Chemical &TransportSystems
Office of theAssistant Director
Design &Manufacturing
Innovation
Civil & MechanicalSystems
Electrical &Communications
Systems
EngineeringEducation &
Centers
Bioengineering &Environmental
Systems
Senior Advisor:Nano-Technology
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. – 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:– Sensor networks– Design and control of complex systems– Multi-scale phenomena– Real-time computations
• Some Engineering investments:– 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
PUNCHgrid computing
middleware
• software• simulation services• educational resources
softwareapplications
computing resources
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on-line 24 hours/day since 1995~ 400,000 simulations since 2000
results
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
• Real-time
• Dynamic
• Multi-scale
• Robust
• Data driven
Outline
• National Science Foundation– Design & Manufacturing Innovation
• Cyber-Infrastructure– Accomplishments– Office of Cyber-Infrastructure
• Implications of Cyber-Infrastructure– Within Engineering– Funding Initiatives
Emerging Frontiers inResearch & Innovation
• One of this year’s topics: Auto-reconfigurable Engineered Systems Enabled by Cyber-Infrastructure
• Some relevant research topics:– Design methodologies
– Systems modeling
– Optimization
– Planning
– Simulation
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