National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NCSA 2015: Washington Meeting

Introduction – Process & Agenda

The Strategy Process for NCSA 2015

1. Mission 1. Mission

4. View of the World

4. View of the World

3. View of NCSA3. View of NCSA

6. Strategic Options

For NCSA

6. Strategic Options

For NCSA

5. Strategic Imperatives5. Strategic Imperatives

StrategicIntent

StrategicIntent

DecisionDecision StrategicArchitecture

StrategicArchitecture

STRATEGY

Implement-ation

Implement-ation

2.Issues &

Opportunities

2.Issues &

Opportunities

June MeetingApril Meeting

February Meeting

The Strategy Process 1.0 for NCSA 2015

1. Mission 1. Mission

4. View of the World

4. View of the World

3. View of NCSA3. View of NCSA

6. Strategic Options

For NCSA

6. Strategic Options

For NCSA

5. Strategic Imperatives5. Strategic Imperatives

StrategicIntent

StrategicIntent

DecisionDecision StrategicArchitecture

StrategicArchitecture

Implement-ation

Implement-ation

2.Issues &

Opportunities

2.Issues &

Opportunities

STRATEGY

0. Lessons

from

NCSA 2010

September MeetingApril Meeting

February Meeting

The Strategy Process 1.1 for NCSA 2015

0. Lessons

from

NCSA 2010

1. Mission 1. Mission

4. View of the World

4. View of the World

3. View of NCSA3. View of NCSA

6. Strategic Options

For NCSA

6. Strategic Options

For NCSA

5. Strategic Imperatives5. Strategic Imperatives

StrategicIntent

StrategicIntent

DecisionDecision StrategicArchitecture

StrategicArchitecture

Implement-ation

Implement-ation

2.Issues &

Opportunities

2.Issues &

Opportunities

STRATEGY

SC1 - April

View

of NCSA

SC1 - April

View

of NCSA

SC5 - August

Strategic

Options - 3

SC4 - July

Strategic

Options - 2

SC3 - June

Strategic

Options - 1

SC 6-8

Implementation

SC2 - May

Strategic

Imperatives

April 20: View of the World

Presentations from Access Center and from Urbana via video-link

8:00 Introduction to View of the World (VoW) sessions, R Levien & T Dunning

8:15 Cynthia McIntyre, Council on Competitiveness

8:45 David Dean, Dept. of Energy, Office of the Under Secretary of Science

9:15 – 12:45 Applications Sessions – Bob Wilhelmson, Team Leader

[15 ten min presentations, 1 twenty min presentation & 30 min of discussion]

1:00 Karin Remington, National Institutes of Health

1:30 Daniel Hitchcock, Dept. of Energy, Office of Science

2:00 - 5:45 Technology Sessions – Vlad Kindratenko, Team Leader

[10 ten min presentations, 2 fifteen min presentations & 80 min of discussion]

6:00 Speaker: Dan Reed, Microsoft Corporation

7:00 Dinner @ Arlington Hotel

April 21: View of the World - 2

All presentations from Access Center

9:00 Sampath Kannan: National Science Foundation

9:30 Eduardo Misawa & Clark Cooper, National Science Foundation

10:00 Break

10:15 Introduction to View of the World: R Levien

10:30 Discussion – Applications, 1 (45 min): R Levien

11:00 Elizabeth Grossman, Lewis & Burke -- the Washington scene

11:45 Lunch

12:15 Chris Greer, Office of Science and Technology Policy

1:00 Ed Seidel, National Science Foundation

1:30 Tim Killeen, National Science Foundation

2:00 Discussion – Applications, 2 (30 min): R Levien

2:30 Jose Munoz, National Science Foundation

3:00 Break

3:15 Discussion – Technologies (75 min): R Levien

4:30 Adjourn

5:30 Dinner @ Arlington Hotel

April 22: VoW, Strategic Imperatives & Options

Discussions in the Access Center, Arlington with some participants in Urbana

8:00 View of the World

Discussion – Washington Scene (60 min): R Levien

Discussion – Players (30 min): R Levien [from February Meeting]

9:30 Break

9:45 View of the World, cont’d

Discussion – Critical Assumptions (105 min): R Levien

11:30 Kelvin Droegemeier, National Science Board & University of Oklahoma

12:30 Lunch

1:00 Introduction to Setting Strategy: R Levien

1:15 Strategic Imperatives: What NCSA must do … R Levien

2:15 Break

2:30 Introduction to Strategic Options: R Levien

2:45 Strategic Options: What NCSA can do … R Levien

4:00 Closing Comments – Thom Dunning

4:15 Adjourn

Your Role in the Meeting

• View of the World Sessions, Tuesday and Wednesday• Listen, distill, and collect “key messages for NCSA” from each presentation, e.g.

(some hypothetical examples)• Cloud computing will be viable for many cutting edge computational science

and engineering applications• NSF will be unable to fund the next generation of HPC by itself due to

acquisition and operation costs• We will share, discuss, rank, and select the most important such assumptions in

discussion sessions on Wednesday & Thursday

• Strategy Imperatives and Options Sessions, Thursday• Prepare, in advance, your thoughts on what NCSA must do, e.g.

• NCSA must implement and test cloud computing• NCSA must find additional sources of funding for next-gen HPC

• Prepare, in advance, your thoughts on what NCSA can do, e.g.• New Principal Activity: Cloud Computing for Computational Science & Eng.• New Core Competence: Development of Alternative Funding Sources