CyberinfrastructureA Status Report

Deborah Crawford, Ph.D.

Interim Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure

National Science Foundation

Schumpeter on Innovation

Gales of Creative Destruction

On Innovation equilibrium destructioninnovators as social leaders

New for Old technical sociological

Two-wave Cycledevelopmentexploitation

“The opportunity is here to create cyberinfrastructure that enables more ubiquitous, comprehensive knowledge environments that become functionally complete .. in terms of people, data, information, tools, and instruments and that include unprecedented capacity for computation, storage, and communication.”

Cyberinfrastructure “can serve individuals, teams and organizations in ways that revolutionize what they do, how they do it, and who can participate.”

Report of the NSF Advisory Committee On Cyberinfrastructure, February 2003

“Clearly, it is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real-time, with more people, on more kinds of work, from more corners of the planet, and on a more equal footing, than at any previous time in the history of the world.”

Thomas L. Friedman

The World is Flat, 2005

NSF Governance of Cyberinfrastructure

• Cyberinfrastructure Council (CIC) created• CIC responsible for shared stewardship and ownership of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Portfolio • SCI to OCI Realignment

• Budget transferred• Ongoing projects transferred

• OCI focused on “production-quality” CI for research and education• CISE remains focused on basic research and education mission, future generations of CI technologies/capabilities• Strategic Planning Process Underway

Learning & Workforce Development

Data,Data Analysis &

Visualization

Collaboratories, Observatories,

& Virtual Organizations

Cyberinfrastructure Components

High PerformanceComputing

High PerformanceComputing

Digital Data &Data Stewardship

Collaboratories, Observatories,& Virtual Organizations

All CI Things Created Equal?

Distributed Computing

Learning &Workforce Development

High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force, 2004“Issues of technology, resources and governance threaten to limit the potential contributions of high-end computing to vital national interests.”

NAS Report on the Future of Supercomputing, 2005 “Current U.S. investments in supercomputing and current

plans are not sufficient to provide the supercomputing capabilities that our country will need.”

PITAC Report on Computational Science, 2005 “A dangerous consequence of our current complacency is

that we have not marshaled and focused our efforts to elevate computational science and the computing infrastructure to their appropriate status as a long-term strategic national priority.”

HPC – A National Imperative

Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing Draft issued for public comment September 30, 2005

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

Digital Data &Data Stewardship

All CI Things Created Equal

Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization

Private Sector

Agency Partners

Content-ManagementOrganizations

Global S&ECommunity

International System of Data Collections

CommunityGovernance And Policies

Common Tools and Services

Cyberinfrastructure Vision document

Publicly Available

Call to Action Sept. 30, 2005

Strategic Plan for High Performance Computing Sept. 30, 2005

Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis & Visualization January 15, 2006 (est.)

Strategic Plan for Collaboratories, Observatories March 15, 2006 (est.)& Virtual Organizations

Strategic Plan for Learning & Workforce Development March 15, 2006 (est.)

NSF Finalizes Cyberinfrastructure Vision Document early Summer, 2006

--Thomas Kuhn

From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“[Science is] a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions . . .[in which] . . . one conceptual world view is

replaced by another.”

Revolutionizing Science and Engineering