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Geosciences and Cyberinfrastructure. Partial Overview Current Activities. Timothy L. Killeen Assistant Director for the Geosciences Directorate National Science Foundation Clifford A. Jacobs Division of Atmospheric Sciences National Science Foundation. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Geosciences and CyberinfrastructurePartial Overview Current Activities
Timothy L. Killeen Assistant Director for the Geosciences DirectorateNational Science FoundationClifford A. JacobsDivision of Atmospheric SciencesNational Science Foundation
GEO NCSA 2015 Strategic Planning Process April 21, 2010
Talk OutlineNew Outlook• Administration• Key players• Climate Research Program
NSF’s Climate Research•Special emphasis within NSF•Description of program
SEES – Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability
GEO Support for Cyberinfrastructure• Infrastructure• Planned
The President’s Initiatives
National investment in R&D to ≥ 3% of GDP
S&T in the stimulus/recovery package
FY2009 / FY2010/2011 budgets• NSF, NIH, DOE-science, NIST, NOAA, NASA, DoD basic research
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education • science labs, teacher training, clean energy ($1.5B over 5 yr)
Clean energy / climate• $150B over 10 yr for clean energy & efficiency; ARPA-E;
energy centers of excellence; climate science
Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation
White House Elevates Science & Environment
John Holdren, White House Science Advisor
Carol Browner, White House Climate and Energy Czar
Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator
Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator
Steven Chu
Secretary of Energy
Courtesy of April Burke, Lewis-Burke Associates
New Money for Science Agencies
EPA+38%
(ARRA $7.2 Billion)
NOAA+2.5%
(ARRA 830 Million)
DOE EERE+6.4%
(ARRA $16.8 Billion)
DOE OS+3.9%
(ARRA $1.6 Billion)
NSF+8.5%(ARRA $3
Billion)
NASA+5%
(ARRA $1 Billion)
FY 2010 President’s Request compared to FY 2009 enactedARRA = American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Courtesy of April Burke, Lewis-Burke Associates
FY 2010 Budget Request to Congress
Source: NSF FY2010 Budget Request to Congress
Energy-Climate-Sustainability Era
Presidential Priorities
• Protecting our nation from the serious economicand strategic risks associated with our relianceon foreign oil and the destabilizing effects of a changing climate
• Advancing energy and climate security via promoting economic recovery efforts, accelerating job creation, and driving clean energy manufacturing
Expanded Commitment Global Change Research FY 2011 Budget • Improve understanding of climate change and
its impacts• Mitigate US greenhouse gas emissions and
move toward clean energy economy• Adapt to climate change impacts
From presented by Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Environment, 1 February 2010
Climate Change Adaptation
(assessment & response)
Climate Change Mitigation
(mitigation & response)
Climate Change Science
(understanding & forecasting)
Climate Change Science Program
Expect that CCSP scope, composition and responsibilities will be revisited and reauthorized by Congress
All 21 of Synthesis and Assessment publications completed
Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
• Summarizes climate change science, current and future impacts, integrates those results from those around the world.
Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation
NRC Recommendations for Restructuring Federal Climate Research
Integrated scientific-societal issues
Interactions among the climate, human, and environmental systems
U.S. climate observing system including physical, biological, and social observations
Coupled Earth system models
Adaptation
Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation
NSF’s Climate ResearchSpecial Emphasis Area in the 2010 Budget
Strong Support by the Administration and Congress
FY 2010 Budget Request for NSF
NSF's FY 2010 Budget Request is $7.045 billion, an increase of $555
million (8.5 percent).
Focus on Climate Change:• New Climate Change Education Program
($10.0 million in FY 2009 and FY 2010);• Increase for NSF contribution to the Climate
Change Science Program (36.6 percent increase to $299.91 million); and
• New NSF-wide focus on Climate Research.
Climate Research: Special Emphasis Area in FY10 Budget
$197M in funding in FY10 across NSF
8 NSF Directorates involved in Climate Research
$10M for New Climate Change Education in FY09/FY10 (BIO, GEO, OPP and E&HR partnership)
Increase NSF contribution
to USGCRP (to $299.91M)
Modeling ofBasic Natural and Human Processes & their
interactions
Fundamental Research,Including
Experiments
EnvironmentalObservation
including changes from human
activities, adaptation, and
mitigation
Integrated Research Approach
Climate Research Principles
Must be interdisciplinary
Approaches are creative and high risk
Research involves problems that cannot be undertaken in the core programs
Research support is shared across multiple directorates
FY 2010 Climate Research Solicitations
Water: Sustainability and Climate (WSC)
• LOI received: 311; Full proposal deadline: 4/15
Ocean Acidification (OA)
• LOI received: 127; Full proposal deadline: 4/26
Climate Change Education Partnership, Phase 1 (CCEP-1)
• LOI deadline: 4/23; Full proposal deadline: 5/24
Dimensions of Biodiversity (DB)
• LOI deadline: 5/7; Full proposal deadline: 6/8
Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction Using Earth System Models (EaSM)• LOI deadline: 5/24; Full proposal deadline: 6/25
FY 2011 Budget Request
NSF FY 2011 Budget
TOTAL: $7.4 billion
Increase: 8 percent
GEO: The Big Picture
• American Recovery Act GEO investments: $601M
• FY2010: 10.2% increase over FY2009• Includes Agency-wide
climate initiative• FY2011: President’s
budget request includes a 7.4% increase for GEO
NSB Report: Building a Sustainable Energy Future
Priority Guidance: NSF should continue to increase emphasis on innovation in sustainable energy technologies and education as a top priority.
NSB offers the following specific guidance to NSF:
• “Strengthen systems approaches in research programs.”
• “Develop and strengthen interdisciplinary systems approaches for research programs in the natural and social sciences that focus on environmental, social, and economic issues fundamental to the future energy economy.”
Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability
SEES will generate the discoveries in climate and energy science needed to inform societal actions for environmental and economic sustainability. • Emergence of new areas of research that help close key gaps in the
knowledge base.• Development of new models for research, specifically employing
integrative, systemic approaches.• Generation of new integrated understanding of the interplay of
environment, energy, and the economy.
SEES portfolio totals $765.5 million in 2011.
Climate, Energy, and Sustainability
Dear Colleague Letter signed by all NSF Assistant Directors and Office Heads issued in March 2010
SEES Web Site:www.nsf.gov/sees
Dynamic Earth$28M over two years for new research program emphasizing change and complexity in earth system processes
Goals:
• foster an inter-disciplinary and multi-scale understanding of Earth’s dynamic systems
• catalyze research in areas poised for a major advance in understanding
• improve observing networks and modeling capabilities to more realistically simulate complex earth systems and forecast disruptive events
• improve understanding of the resilience and sustainability of earth systems following disruptive events.
2011 Infrastructure Investments
OOI Operations and Management – 2011 brings a ramp-up in O&M support for the OOI
Regional Class Research Vessels – 2011 will see continued planning for the construction of up to three Regional Class Research Vessels starting in 2012.
NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer Center – 2011 sees the continuation of support for the construction of a new community supercomputer center.
NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center Project (NWSC)
This project encompasses the design and construction of a world class center for high performance scientific computing in the atmospheric and related geosciences.
NSF FY 2011 request includes an $11m augmentation for NCAR to cover increased support for climate change activities as well as preparation for the transition of computing operations to NWSC.
Questions and/or CommentsTimothy L. Killeen
Email: [email protected] A. Jacobs
Email: [email protected]
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=GEO
NSF: The Budget Picture
6.5 6.97.4 7.8
8.38.9
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10.9
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4
6
8
10
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
FISCAL YEAR (FY)
9.5
3.0 ARRA
Fiscal Year (FY)
President's Plan for Science and Innovation
Total NSF Funding(dollars in billions)
2011 Research ThemesScience, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES +$35M to $230M)
Follow-on to 2010 Climate Research activity
In 2011, GEO will support research to study regions that are highly susceptible to the impacts of environmental changes, such as:
Coastal areas subject to sea-level rise
The Arctic, where warming temperatures and waning ice cover challenges communities and ecosystems
GEO Investment in Infrastructure
NSF Requests $7B for FY 2010Improve American Competitiveness through investments in science and technology to foster economic growth; improve the quality of life; and strengthen our national security.
Support researchers at the beginning of their careers through NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship and Faculty Early Career Development programs.
Educate science and engineering technicians through the Advanced Technological Education program, which focuses on two-year colleges
Encourage promising high-risk research that could fundamentally alter our understanding of nature, revolutionize fields of science, and lead to radically new technologies.
Make climate change research and education a priority. To predict future environmental conditions and to develop strategies for responding to global environmental change. Establish a climate change education program to help develop the next generation of environmentally engaged scientists and engineers.
Major Components of NSF’s Climate Research
Foci
Modeling , scaling, complexity
Fundamental research
Environmental observation
Adaptation
Partnerships
Geosciences
Biological Sciences
Office of Polar Programs
Education and human Research
Supporting Cyber-infrastructureNSF’s Office Of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) and
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Partial List of Activities
Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)MISSION
Development of collaborative computational science
• Research and development of comprehensive CI• Application of CI to solve complex problems in
science and engineering
Provide stewardship for computational science at NSF, in strong collaborations with other offices, directorates, and agencies
Supports the preparation and training of current and future generations of researchers and educators to use Cyberinfrastructure to further research and education goals
BUDGET
CI Annual Expenditures within all of NSF: $865M
• CI Expenditures in Other Parts of NSF: $680M• OCI FY09 Budget: $199M+80M (ARRA)
OCI OTHER NSF
NSF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE EXPENDITURES
NSF Vision for Cyberinfrastructure“National-level, integrated system of hardware, software, data resources & services... to enable new paradigms of science”
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp
Learning & Work Force Needs & Opportunities
Virtual Organizations for Distributed CommunitiesHigh
Performance
Computing
Data & Visualizatio
n/ Interaction
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Shared Resource Environments
Text
Computers
Data services
Visualization services
People
Modeling and simulation
User support
Data analysis & visualization
Common user environments
Training
Tools for educators
Science Gateways
Courtesy of University of Indiana
2007-8 Track 2 – TACC2008-9 Track 2 – UTK2009-10 Track 2 – PSC2010-11 Track 2 – TBD2011 Track 1 – NCSA
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
High Performance Computing- Track 1
NSF seeks to deploy/support a world-class HPC machine of unprecedented capability to empower the U.S. academic research community
Machine is called “Blue Waters” and will be located at the NSCA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award of $207M effective October 1, 2007 for 5 years
Blue Waters will be completed/operational 2011
Available for use on “Grand Challenge” projects with users selected via a competitive process
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Blue Waters Petascale System (2011)
• Based on IBM PERCS• 1 petaflops sustained performance on real applications
Blue Waters General Characteristics
• > 200,000 cores using multicore POWER7 processors• > 32 gigabytes of main memory per SMP• > 10 petabytes of user disk storage• > 100 Gbps external connectivity (initial)• Fortran, Co-Array Fortran, C/C++, UPC, MPI/MPI2, OpenMP, Cactus, Charm++
Blue Waters System Characteristics
• POWER 5+ and POWER6 software and application development testbeds
Blue Waters Interim Systems at NCSA
Blue Waters System Training and Support
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
High Performance Computing- Track 2
NSF Solicitation to deploy/support HPC machines to a wide range of researchers nationwide
Two machines completed with two more planned
Systems are used in various research simulation & modeling projects
Machine operating costs/maintenance/user support $7.5M/yr-$9M/yr
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Track 2 - TACC
Fall 2006
$59 million award• $30 million system• 4 years of operating costs
Ranger• Peak performance of 579
teraflops• Over 60,000 processing cores• 125 TB memory• 1.7 PB
Available since Feb, 2008
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Track 2 - UTK
2007 • University of Tennessee at Knoxville
$65 million, 5-year project• Partners at ORNL, TACC, NCAR
Kraken• Cray XT5• 8256 compute nodes, 66,048 computational
cores• More than 100 terabytes of memory• 2,300 trillion bytes of disk space• Peak performance of more than 607 teraflopsFull production Feb 2009
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
TeraGrid Growth
684 850
>1500
>2010 2100
BlueWaters
TFL
OPS
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Exterior Rendering
44Image courtesy of g3D, Inc.
Proposed NCAR-University of WY Computer Center
Courtesy of National Center for Atmospheric Sciences
DataNet:Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and
Access Network Partners Program
Four primary goals:
• Provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science/engineering data over decades-long timeline
• Achieve long-term preservation and access capability in an environment of rapid technology advances
• Create systems and services that are economically and technologically sustainable
• Empower science-driven information integration capability on the foundation of a reliable data preservation network
Each project needed to develop a model for shared governance and the standards and protocols to enable interoperability
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Award: Data Conservancy
Redefine the role of University Libraries to include scientific data as special collections
Building on JHU Library success with Sloan Digital Sky Survey and National Virtual Observatory
Initial focus on observational data about astronomy, turbulence, biodiversity and environmental science
Especially suited to terabyte-scale data sets but with strong focus on “the long tail of small science.”
Project led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Award: DataNetONE (Observation Network for Earth)
Designed to enable long-term access to and use of preserved earth observation data• Projects will include: The spread of diseases, the impact of human
behavior on the oceans, relationships among human population density and greenhouse gas production
Will build using an evolutionary development process
Data are diverse and complex – multi-scale, multi-discipline, multi-national
Project led by the University of New Mexico
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
PetaApps
http://nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08592/nsf08592.pdf
Develop the future simulation, optimization and analysis tools that use emerging petascale computing
Will advance frontiers of research in science and engineering with a high likelihood of enabling transformative research
Areas examined include:
• -Climate Change• -Earthquake Dynamics• -Storm Surge Models• -Supernovae simulations
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
International Research Network Connections (IRNC)
Goals:• Provide network connections linking U.S.
research with peer networks in other parts of the world
• Stimulate the deployment and operational understanding of emerging network technology and standards in an international context
• Support science and engineering research and education applications
Proposals due Aug. 21, 2009• ~$40M over 5 years
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503382Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Select FY 2011 Interagency Activities
• Networking and Information Technology R&D Program: $1.17 billion
• U.S. Global Change Research Program: $370 million
• National Nanotechnology Initiative: $401 million
2011 BudgetThe 2011 Request represents an exciting opportunity for GEO to make advances on several important fronts:
Research: new thrusts
Infrastructure: advancement and renewal
Education: expansion of programs
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
ARRA allowed NSF to make 4,599 competitive awards and will support the construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel (renamed: Sikuliaq “New Ice suitable for walking on”)
An Imperative: Sustainability
Environment
Energy
Economics
Education