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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