Science Gateways

Community Institute

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

San Diego Supercomputer Center

wilkinsn@sdsc.edu

What is a science gateway?

• We use gateways (or web portals, apps)

throughout our daily lives

• Scientists use them too

• If designed well, they can be really enabling

science gateway /sī′ əns gāt′ wā′/ n.

1. an online community space for science and engineering research and

education.

2. a Web-based resource for accessing data, software, computing services,

and equipment specific to the needs of a science or engineering discipline.

• Increased complexity of – today’s esea ch uestio s

– hardware and software

– skills required

• Greater need for openness

and reproducibility

– Science increasingly driving

policy questions

• Opportunity to integrate

research with teaching

– Better workforce

preparation

Why are gateways important?

We need interfaces

that provide

broad access to

advanced resources

and

allow all to tackle

today’s challenging science questions.

Specialized Resources Percent

Data collections 75%

Data analysis tools, including visualization and mining 72%

Computational tools 72%

Tools for rapidly publishing and/or finding articles and data

specific to my domain 69%

Educational tools 67%

Platforms for fostering group or community collaboration 63%

Simplified interfaces that eliminate the need to learn coding 62%

Citizen science and other public engagement resources 47%

Workflows that automate or capture tasks or processes 42%

Scientific instruments, such as telescopes, microscopes, or sensors 39%

2014 survey of 5000 indicates how these are

being used by NSF PIs, CIOs, CTOs

n=4,004, or 88% of 4,538 researcher/educators. Percentage indicates

these esou ces a e so e hat o e y i po ta t to thei o k.

Gateways as cost-effective infrastructure Used to address today’s research challenges

Gateways increasingly used to access supercomputers Surpassed direct logins in in 2013

Gateways

Login

Source: David Hart, NCAR

Today, we see a proliferation of gateways These are some that use XSEDE supercomputers

57% of survey respondents also create

gateways

n of application types=7,805,

by 2,756 creators (out of 2,819);

mean=2.8 application types per

application creator

34%36%

20%17%

31%

26%

42%

16%

30%

18%

45% 44%

14% 15%

0%

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10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

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45%

50%

Usability

Consultant

Graphic

Designer

Community

Liaison/

Evangelist

Project

Manager

Professional

Software

Developer

Security

Expert

Quality

Assurance

and Testing

Expert

Wished we had this

Yes, we had this

But “it takes a village” to be successful

n=2,756 respondents or 98% of application creators

Gateways subject of recent NSF award 5 years + 5 more possible

• Diverse expertise on

demand

• Longer term support

engagements

• Software and visibility for

gateways

• Information exchange in a

community environment

• Student opportunities

and more stable

career paths

We’ve proposed the Science Gateways Community Institute Est. Aug, 2016

• US workshops

– Gateways 2016 at SDSC, Nov,

2016

– Gateway Computing Environments workshops since 2005

• European workshops

– International Workshop on Science Gateways since 2009

• Australian workshops

– IWSG-A since 2015

• Joint special issue journals combine submissions from all of the above

International collaborations to promote

research and exchange information

• Provide leadership on

future directions for

science gateways

• Facilitate awareness

and international,

regional and national

developments in

science gateways

• Identify and share best

practice in the field

• Science Gateways Community Institute (USA)

• NeCTAR (Australia)

• NESI (New Zealand)

• Sci-GaIA (Africa)

• Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center (Taiwan)

• Software Sustainability Institute (UK)

• VRE4E1C (Europe)

• IWSG (Europe)

• CANARIE (Canada)

• Research Data Canada (Canada)

• IEEE Technical Area on Science Gateways (International)

International Coalition on Science Gateways Just forming

http://www.icsciencegateways.org/

Early SGCI customers Name Institution Project

Michael Norman San Diego Supercomputer Center Renaissance Simulations Laboratory

Mark Perri Sonoma State University Chem Compute

Michael Cianfrocco UCSD COSMIC^2: Cryo-EM Open Source Multiplatform

Infrastructure for Cloud Computing

Greg Newman CitSci.org CitSci.org

Ann E. Stapleton UNC Wilmington CyVerse VALIDATE

Hamish Holewa Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual

Laboratory, Griffith University, Australia

Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory

Doug Jennewein University of South Dakota USD Science Gateway

Jack Smith Marshall University Aquavit

Bev Corwin OWASP Foundation OWASP Learning Gateway

M. Drew LaMar College of William and Mary QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education

and Synthesis)

Alain Domissy UCSD Yeo Lab Single Cell Transcriptomics

Sobhy Atalla Fayoum University,Egypt Establish a national center for computational science to

contribute considerably to the solution of scientific,

engineering and planning problems.

Lisa T. Eyler, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Brain Age Project

Thank you

• Questions? Opportunities to collaborate?

– I am happy to talk after the event

• Learn more

– www.sciencegateways.org, @sciencegateways

– Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, wilkinsn@sdsc.edu