Supporting Advanced Research Cyberinfrastructure Stefan A Robila Amy

Supporting Advanced Research Cyberinfrastructure Stefan A. Robila Amy Walton Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering National Science Foundation http: //www. nsf. gov

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National Science Foundation’s Mission “To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense. . . ” NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 3

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The NSF Big Ideas RESEARCH IDEAS Harnessing Data for 21 st Century Science and Engineering Windows on the Universe: Multimessenger Astrophysics Work at the Human. Technology Frontier: Shaping the Future Quantum Leap: Leading the Next Quantum Revolution Understandin g the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype Navigating the New Arctic PROCESS IDEAS Mid-scale Research Infrastructure NSF 2026 Growing Convergence Research at NSF INCLUDES: Enhancing STEM through Diversity and Inclusion “ … bold questions that will drive NSF's long‐term research agenda ‐‐ questions that will ensure future generations continue to reap the benefits of fundamental S&E research. ” Big Ideas => Big Cyberinfrastructure Challenges & Opportunities NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 5

Convergence Accelerators Accelerating Discovery through Convergence Research Motivation: Changing nature of science research ‐ research frontiers at intersection of existing disciplines HDR Convergence Accelerator FW-HTF Convergence Accelerator NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? SBE MPS GEO ENG EHR CISE Future accelerator(s) BIO § Time‐limited entities: accelerating impactful convergence research in areas of national importance § Innovating in organizational structure to better enable frontier research § Separate (from directorates) in leadership, budget, and programmatics; but aligned with, relying on, and building on foundational disciplinary research § Emphasis on translational research, partnerships 6

Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) “Engage NSF’s research community in the pursuit of fundamental research in data science and engineering, the development of a cohesive, federated, national-scale approach to research data infrastructure, and the development of a 21 st-century data-capable workforce. ” Research (across all NSF Directorates) Theoretical foundations Systems foundations data‐centric algorithms systems Educational pathways Innovations grounded in an education‐ research‐based framework Advanced cyberinfrastructure Data-intensive research Accelerating data‐intensive research. across all science & engineering 7

NSF’s Quantum Leap: Leading the Next Quantum Revolution Discovery and exploitation of quantum science and engineering to realize dramatic advances in devices, systems, and in science and engineering itself. • Exploiting quantum mechanics to observe, manipulate, and control the behavior of particles at atomic and subatomic scales; • enabling breakthrough discoveries in both naturally-occurring and in engineered quantum systems; and • developing next-generation quantum technologies and devices for sensing, information processing, communications, and computing NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 8

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CISE Organization Senior Advisor Howard Wactlar Senior Advisor Irene Qualters CISE Directorate Jim Kurose, AD Erwin Gianchandani, DAD Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) Manish Parashar, OH Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Rance Cleaveland, DD Data Algorithmic Foundations High Performance Computing Communication and Information Foundations Networking/ Cybersecurity Communication and Information Foundations Software Senior Advisor for Data Science Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Ken Calvert, DD Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Henry Kautz, DD Computer and Network Systems Cyber Human Systems CISE Research Infrastructure Information Integration and Informatics Robust Intelligence Education and Workforce Development Software and Hardware Foundations NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next?

CISE’s Economic and Societal Context • CISE is at the center of an ongoing societal transformation and will be for decades to come. • Advances in computing, communications and information technologies, and cyberinfrastructure: - accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation; and - are crucial to achieving national and societal priorities. NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next?

NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) Manish Parashar* Office Director Program Staff Computing Data * Amy Walton Ed Walker Stefan Robila * Vipin Chaudhary TBD * Bill Miller Science Advisor (On Detail) Learning & Workforce Development Networking & Cybersecurity Software Bob Chadduck Amy Friedlander Deputy Office Director Kevin Thompson Beth Plale * Science Advisor Public Access * Alejandro Suarez Cooperative Agreements Sushil Prasad * TBD Micah Beck Julie Stahlhut AAAS S&T Policy Fellow * IPA Appointment NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 12

Cyberinfrastructure § The support structure of an information focused research ecosystem: • • • Computing systems Networks and security Sensors Data Software and services People https: //www. merriam‐webster. com/dictionary/infrastructure NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 13

CISE/OAC Research Infrastructure Investments • Lead interagency effort to build and support an expansive CI ecosystem driven by research priorities and the scientific process • Leverage investments by universities, federal agencies, commercial sector • Establish viable path forward for HPC systems in post‐ Moore’s Law era; and • Increase capacity, capability, and sustainability • Support a diversity of computational resources to meet the growing demands of modern science and engineering • Align with the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 14

National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Towards a Leadership. Class Computing Facility – Phase 1: § Acquisition and deployment of a high‐performance computing system § A system for all of S&E § Led by CISE/OAC High-performance computing Scalable Parallelism in the Extreme (SPX): § Collaborations among researchers representing all areas from the application layer down to the micro‐ architecture § All Divisions in CISE § Proposal deadline was Jan 9, 2018 Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software: Elements and Frameworks: § Supports the CI ecosystem, spanning all levels of the data and software stacks and scales. § CISE/OAC, BIO, EHR, ENG, GEO, MPS, and SBE § Proposal deadline was Apr 18, 2018 Data & Software Architecture NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 15

CISE/OAC – Transforming the Frontiers of Science & Society Foster a cyberinfrastructure ecosystem to transform computational- and data-intensive research across all of science and engineering • Cyberinfrastructure Research & Research Cyberinfrastructure Shared resources, capabilities & services across the scientific workflow NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 16

Emerging discovery pathways at scale: Architecture view Measurement Science Portals Applications, Frameworks HPC access, community Authentication Data Management International Private, commercial clouds … Discipline-specific Environments Research Facilities Integrative Services (“Middleware”) OSG Workflow Systems Campus, national resources Collaboration Platforms NSF-supported resources “Foundational” CI Resources National/International Research & Education Networks, Commercial Networks Discovery NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 17

Building on Community Input: Results of NSF CI 2030 Request for Information Common needs expressed across science and engineering domains: § Advanced computing. Growing need for on‐demand computing for steering large simulations, rapid data processing, experiments; comparing simulations and observation. § Data Science and management. Big Data and Machine Learning. Automated mining, analytics, visualization, provenance. Discoverability, accessibility, and reproducibility. § Multi-source streaming data. Processing and integrating data from the Internet of Things (IOT) and cyber‐physical systems at human, community, urban, and ecosystems scales. § Secure access, dynamic and high bandwidth workflows. Technologies & approaches that scale with performance demands; storage, identity management, cybersecurity. § Software. Porting, accelerating, validating algorithms and community codes. Software quality, reliability, validity, practices. § Training and workforce development. For researchers and computing professionals, diversity and inclusion. CS/CI experts who collaborate closely with domain researchers. All responses posted on CI 2030 Website: www. nsf. gov/cise/oac/ci 2030/ NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 18

NSF Workshop on Future Cyberinfrastructure: Rethinking NSF’s Computational Ecosystem for 21 st Century Science and Engineering (Alexandria, VA, May 30 - 31, 2018) https: //uiowa. edu/nsfcyberinfrastructure/article/workshop‐report Recommendations / Emerging Strategic Directions: § Delineate solicitations and investments in cyberinfrastructure innovation versus cyberinfrastructure operations, while recognizing the former ultimately informs the latter § Consider a funding model that requires collaborations to drive interoperability and sustainability across scientific instruments and domains Explore new and creative kinds of partnerships – public-private and interagency – as necessary to sustain national research competitiveness and NSF leadership § § Develop a clear, long-term strategy, derived from principles that are clearly articulated and understood • Make difficult, strategic choices – rather than investing in too many things, should focus limited resources on those things only it can do best NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 19

Realizing a Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem to Transform Science § Realize a holistic and integrated cyberinfrastructure ecosystem aimed at transforming science § Support the translational research continuum, from catalyzing core innovations, through fostering the community tools and frameworks, and enabling sustainable cyberinfrastructure services § Work closely with science and engineering communities, and other stakeholders to tightly couple the cycles of discovery and innovation NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 20

Computing Data Software Networking & Cybersecurity Learning & Workforce Devel Advanced resources and services at all scales – MRI (clusters); Innovative HPC; Leadership Class; XSEDE coordination and user services; Research Data Building Blocks (DIBBS) Program Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI 2) Scientific Innovation (CSSI) Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*), International Research Network Connections (IRNC), Cybersecurity Innovation for CI (CICI) Training‐based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (Cyber. Training), CAREER, CRII Emerging Opportunities OAC Core Research Program NSF 18‐ 567 CISE/OAC – Transforming the Frontiers of Science & Society Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER), Public Access NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 21

OAC Data Infrastructure: Accelerating Science, Building Community • Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs)/CSSI. Supports CI/discipline collaborations, cross‐‐‐disciplinary infrastructure, built on recognized capabilities, tangible products. • CC* Collaborations. Multi‐‐‐institution collaborations, cloud resources, sharing mechanisms, innovative storage. • Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS). An NSF cross‐cutting activity. • Earth. Cube. Collaboration with NSF GEO. Example topics: Building new communities, innovative interoperable solutions linking and integrating resources, new capabilities for data capture, discovery, access, processing and analysis. • Major Research Instrumentation (MRI). Examples include ‘Array of Things’ urban‐scale instrument for interdisciplinary research, novel platforms for data‐driven research. NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next?

Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software: Elements and Frameworks - NSF 18 -531 • Supports the development and deployment of robust, reliable and sustainable data and software cyberinfrastructure • Brings innovative capabilities towards sustained scientific innovation and discovery • Provides a cross‐directorate opportunity to advance common approaches to sustain and innovate research cyberinfrastructures. • Follows accepted data management and software development practices NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 23

CSSI: Integration of Data and Software • Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) integrates two major and long‐running NSF program solicitations: • Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs), and • Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI 2) • The integrated result is a useful way to: • Enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to evolving and emerging needs in integrated data and software cyberinfrastructure • Minimize multiple / overlapping / redundant submissions • Encourage integrated and science‐driven evaluations of submissions • Recognize disciplinary and interdisciplinary advances in software and data infrastructure under previous solicitations NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 24

CSSI Program Guiding Principles • Science-driven: Promotes science excellence, enabling fundamentally new scientific advances; benefits science and engineering communities beyond initial participants. • Innovative: Emphasizes unique NSF contributions; builds the capability, capacity, and cohesiveness of a national CI ecosystem; considers both human and technical aspects of the CI. • Collaborative: Fosters partnerships and community development; actively engages CI experts, specialists and scientists working in concert with the domain scientists who are users of CI. • Leveraged: Builds on existing, recognized capabilities. • Strategic: Includes management plans and metrics that encourage measurement of progress and sharing of results. • Sustained: Results in widely accessible long‐term community cyberinfrastructure. NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 25

FY 2018 Large community response to the solicitation 104 awards (including collaboratives) https: //www. nsf. gov/awards/award_visualization. jsp? org=NSF&pims_ id=505505&Prog. Ref. Code=077 Z Funding in collaboration with many of the NSF directorates ensures that the CI has strong impact in the disciplines NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 26

Challenges for you and for us § Sustainability • • Value of data vs. cost of data infrastructure over time Reusability of data infrastructure Incentives / business models Commercial/commodity infrastructure § Priority/emphasis on Research Dataflows and Workflows • Interoperability in a “multi‐cloud” ecosystem • Facilities and instruments § Robust and Reliable Science • Reproducibility is a small aspect • Credibility of analysis? § Incentives and career paths? NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 27

M a y 1 9 , 2 0 1 7 And where can we make strategic investments that will leverage local resources to build a national ecosystem to advance science and engineering? NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 28

OAC Core Research Program SOLICITATION NSF 18 -567 • Translational research (spanning design to practice) in all aspects of advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to transform science and engineering research • Multi‐disciplinary, extreme‐scale, driven by science and engineering research, end‐to‐end, or deployable as robust research CI • Research Areas • Architecture and middleware for extreme-scale systems • Scalable Algorithms and Applications • Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem • Research Communities: Multiple disciplinary areas supported spanning Computer as well as Computational and Data‐driven Science and Engineering • Part of CISE’s coordinated core program solicitations • • • Only Small proposals in FY’ 19 Funding amount $7. 5 M Max $500 K/award • Proposals due Nov 15, 2018 • • NSF/OAC Update PI’s strongly encouraged to send 1‐ page project summary for further guidance. Webinar in July/Aug OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 29

Join the conversation Get involved • OAC Webinar Series § § 3 rd • Thursday @ 2 PM ET • OAC Newsletter • Follow us on Twitter @NSF_CISE Stay informed § § Reviews proposals, serve on panels Visit NSF, get to know your programs and Program Officers Participate in NSF workshops and visioning activities Join NSF: serve as Program Officer, Division Director, or Science Advisor • Join the OAC, CISE Mailing Lists • Learn about NSF events, programs, webinars, etc. • Send email to: • oac‐announce@listserv. nsf. gov • cise‐announce‐subscribe‐ request@listserv. nsf. gov NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 30

The Next Big Ideas? Enter by October 26, 2018! • A mechanism to set the stage for breakthrough research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and STEM education through the nation’s 250 th anniversary in 2026 and beyond; • A competition to inform the U. S. agenda for fundamental science, engineering, and STEM education research by proposing new “Big Ideas” for future investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF); and • An opportunity to contribute to NSF’s mission to support basic research that drives the nation's economy, enhances its security, and advances knowledge to sustain U. S. global leadership in science and engineering. https: //www. nsf. gov/news/special_reports/nsf 2026 ideamachine/index. jsp NSF/OAC Update OAC and the Research CI What’s next? 31

Conclusion § Science and society are being transformed by compute and data – an integrated cyberinfrastructure ecosystem is essential. § Rapidly changing application requirements; resource and technology landscapes • Our cyberinfrastructure ecosystem must evolve in response § New science directions are enabled. § Lets build a holistic and integrated cyberinfrastructure ecosystem aimed at transforming science 32

Thank you! Stefan A. Robila, Ph. D. Program Director Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure National Science Foundation Phone: 703 -292 -2303 Fax: 703 -292 -9060 Email: srobila@nsf. gov 33